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Here's a report from the African semi-finals, that made clear two of three participants in Sweden 2011. Once again thanks to Björn Pazen:

It was a hard struggle, but in the end the host nation has reached the men’s final of the 19th African championships: Egypt beat Algeria in a very close semifinal 26:24. Algeria was ahead most of the first half and led 13:11 at the break. After the 15:14 for Algeria the second half remained completely equal – and the host had to fight hard to control the match. But five minutes before the end, the sensation was very close, as Algeria led 24:22 – but then they lacked power and concentration.

Egypt, supported by their frenetic spectators in Cairo, scored four consecutive goals in the final stage and secured the qualification for the final – and the direct qualification for the World Championship 2011 in Sweden like Tunisia before.

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Time to welcome another two teams to Men's Handball World Championship in Sweden in 2011:

Bahrain and Korea.

Both teams have made it to the final in the Asian Championships, and are therefore qualified as two of three Asian teams. The winner of the bronze match (Japan vs. Saudi Arabia) will be the third one.

The last seconds of the semi-final between Bahrain was sensational. Saudi was playing 6-4 and had the ball with seven seconds to go. They took at shot with four seconds left and you have to look at the attached video to belive what happend...

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Got an short article from Björn Pazen about the first matches of the African Championship, that is qualification for Sweden 2011 as well. Here you are:

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This is, if we understand it right, pretty much as it have been during the WCh in China so far. 200 norwegians – or some danes or germans – but hardly noone else if you don't count the players and the staff. Impressing by the norwegians, though. It's a long way to China.

But when it was time for the semi finals there were more people: 16 people from France during the first match and about 50 from Russia during the second. And a lot of Chinese pupils from different schools, that had been asked to come.

The fast food cantine. Someting to learn from?

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