President Sisi congratulates Egyptian handball team for winning African Cup of Nations for 8th time in history

CAIRO – 19 July 2022: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi congratulates Egyptian handball team for winning the African Cup of Nations for the 8th time in its history.

I congratulate the Egyptian handball team for winning the African Cup of Nations for the 8th time in its history. I would like to commend the heroic and brave performance of all the team members throughout the championship. I also commend the distinguished leadership of the technical coaching staff, thanks to which the Egyptian handball team has made many successive sports achievements for Egypt and pleased the Egyptian fans with their performance and determination, winning many competitions and becoming one of the world's top teams in the game.

The Egyptian handball team won the African Nations Cup for Handball for the eighth time in its history, by defeating Cape Verde with a score of 37/25 at the end of the 25th edition, which was held in Cairo and among Egyptian fans at Hassan Mostafa Hall on the 6th of October.

The first half ended with a score of 24/12 in favor of the Pharaohs, in a half that witnessed the brilliance of both players, the brilliant goalkeeper Karim Hendawy, who saved the balls for the opponent, and with him the duo Akram Yousry and Omar Al-Wakeel Bakkar amid an organized offensive focus.

While the second half witnessed the continued brilliance of the Pharaohs in attack, amid attempts by Cape Verde to reduce the difference in points.

Egypt's handball team succeeded in qualifying for the final of the African Nations Cup after defeating Tunisia with a score of 29/27 in the semi-finals of the tournament.

The Pharaohs team was able to make the fans happy at home after the failure of winning the gold medal in the Mediterranean Games in Algeria, and contenting itself with winning the silver by losing from Spain in the final by a single goal difference of 28/27.

Egypt achieved the largest victory in the history of the African Nations Handball Finals, 12 goals behind Cape Verde.

Parrondo Garcia, the technical coach of the Pharaohs in this tournament, included a list of 22 players, where the tournament list allows the selection of 18 players while allowing the replacement of 5 players.

Left winger: Omar Al-Wakeel Bakkar - Ahmed Moamen - Ahmed Hisham Cisse, left back: Ali Zain - Yahya Al-Dara' - Hassan Walid Qaddah - Abdul Rahman Faisal, playmaker: Ahmed Khairy - Saif Al-Dara, right back: Ahmed Al-Ahmar - Yahya Khaled - Mohsen Ramadan Mohab Saeed, right wing: Muhammad Sanad - Akram Yousry.

Constituency: Muhammad Mamdouh Hashem - Ibrahim Al-Masry - Ahmed Adel - Shadi Khalil.