News archive for February 2010

Melker Andersson officiell VM-kock

Tue Feb 23 2010

Melker Andersson, internationellt prisbelönt kock med engagemang i ett flertal kända restauranger, blir officiell kock och matinspiratör för VM i handboll i Sverige 2011. Tillsammans med hotellkedjan Choice – där alla spelare kommer att bo under turneringen – blir det här en stor satsning på maten under evenemanget.
– Målet är att turneringen ska bli omtalat för sin matglädje, säger Melker Andersson.

Som officiell VM-kock ska Melker Andersson fungera som matinspiratör för VM-hotellen, vara med och utforma menyer för lagen och kunna hjälpa landslagsledningen med kosten för det svenska laget.

Melker har också ett speciellt intresse för handboll. Han har stått i mål för Umeå IK i ”Norrlandsserien”, men karriären kom aldrig så långt som till landslaget.

– Jag nådde tyvärr inte ända fram som spelare. Nu är det extra roligt att få närma mig handbollens värld igen, säger Melker Andersson.

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African Championship: Gold for Tunisia and Angola

Mon Feb 22 2010

Angola’s women and Tunisia’s men stood on top of the podium at the 19th African Championships in Egypt. As it was the tenth African Nations title for Angola, Tunisia won Gold for the eight time.

Angola beat Tunisia in a high tensioned women’s final which was decided only ten seconds before the end, 31:30. Tunisia won against the men’s team of host nation Egypt 24:21. As those four teams had been qualified for the next World Championships before, the men from Algeria and the women from Ivory Coast snatched the last tickets to Sweden (men) and Brazil (women) and took the Bronze medals. Algeria had no problems in winning against DR Congo 30:22, Ivory Coast finished the hopes of the Algerian women to qualify for WCH’s with both national teams by winning 32:28.

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The road to Sweden

Thu Feb 11 2010

Eleven teams are qualified for Men's Handball World Championship 2011 in Sweden:

France, as reigning champions; Sweden, as host nation and Iceland, Poland and Croatia from EURO 2010 in Austria.

By February 19 three more tickets were played out. Top three teams of the Asian Championship; Korea, Bahrain and Japan qualified.

The day after, February 20, the medal winners from the African Championship: Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria got their tickets to Sweden.

The rest of the European qualification will take place in June (12/13 and 19/20), with knockout games as following:

  • Austria-Netherlands
  • Norway-Lithuania
  • Slovenia-Hungary
  • Germany-Greece
  • Slovakia-Ukraine
  • Serbia-Czech Republik
  • Romania-Russia
  • Denmark-Switzerland
  • Portugal-Spain

The winners will make it to Sweden.

At the same time the Pan-American continent will play their qualification matches.

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