AHF Magazine

ASIAN HANDBALL - October 2013 1

Many achievements during the past four years since the election for the Council of Asian Handball Federation in the year 2009 until the Congress is held in 2013 to elect a new council. There is a big development in all the activities of AHF Commissions due to the guidance of H.E. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad, President of AHF, all the respected Council Members with the co-operation of the Chairmen of Commissions and the AHF Member Federa-tions, the IHF and its counterpart AHF. With the financial and spiritual sup-port from the government of the State of Kuwait and with the unity which Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad tried to achieve also which had a big effect in the achievements and developments to boom the level of Asian Handball in the Continental and International levels. In this period of the Council, the Amendments and Developments in By-laws and Regulations of AHF to go with the Bylaws and Regulations of IHF were made, also the number of participants from AHF Member Federa-tions is increased in all the Championships, after the Council’s attention towards Under Developed Countries of Handball by providing the Finan-cial, Material and Spiritual support which contributed in developing, host-ing and participating in some of the Asian and International Qualifications and Championships.Due to the Courses for Referees the level of Refereeing in Asia improved technically and the quantity of Continental and International Young Refer-ees increased whom they participated in Asian and International Champi-onships, because the Referees are one of the Basic Pillars to develop Asian Handball.Also due to the development of the level of game in Asia many of the Spon-sors are willing to sponsor the championships, especially the TV Broad-casting companies and Molten Company who extended the contract with AHF until 2020, also they provided balls for AHF Championships and to the Under Developed countries of Handball, the 361 Company provided

all kind of uniforms for Technical Committee and Referees during all Qualifications and Asian Championships.In this occasion I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart, all the Member Federations who are hosting the Qualifications

and Asian Championships which have a big effect in the success of AHF, also I would like to congratulate all the Federations who are repre-senting Asia in the Worlds Championships in all categories, also the Clubs representing Asia in the Super Globe.Finally, I would like to thank the President of AHF, the Council Members, Executive Committee Members, all the staffs and the Secretaries of AHF for cooperating towards succeeding the activities of AHF during this period. I wish all the success for the new council.

The Council achieved their goal… Thanks

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Dr. Ahmad Abu Al-Lail

Women Teams of

Thailand and Taipei

in the Beach Handball

World Championship

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Korea and Japan

in the World

Championship 2014

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Qatar is the

Representative of

Asia in the Youth

Olympics 2014

22

Asian Championship .... 04

World championship .. 12

Refereeing ..................... 40

Technical Corner ..... 46

Medical Corner .......... 54

Korea Representative of

Asia in Youth Olympic

Games 2014

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ASIAN HANDBALL - October 20134

After their win in the Final against Al-Ahli UAE

Al-Rayyan from Qatar is theAsian Club League Champion

Sheikh Jooaan Bin Hamad handing over the Trophy to the God Father of Al-Rayyan

Asian Championship


Al-Kuwait Club from Kuwait achieved third position to take the Bronze Medal af-ter winning against Al-Noor Club of Saudi Arabia with the score of 26-25 during an exciting match in which they snatched the victory 12 seconds before the end of the game. The Goal-keeper of Al-Noor club Mohamed Salem was the culprit in his team’s loss when he tried to save a goal from the Goal-

keeper of Al-Kuwait club who came rushing from his goal area but the goal-keeper of Al-Kuwait got the possession of the ball and counterattacked and car-ried the ball to Abdullah Al-Khamis who scored the pre-cious goal which got their team the third position.The Championship was held in the capital of Qa-tar, Doha during 2-15 No-vember 2012. 13 teams

participated which were divided into 3 Groups and Group A included Al-Ahli (UAE), Al-Kuwait (KUW), Al-Sadd (LIB) & Al-Jaish (QAT). Group B: Al-Rayyan (QAT), Al-Noor (KSA), Al-Jazeera (UAE), Muscat (OMA). Group C: Thamin Al-Hojaj (IRI), Mudhar (KSA), Al-Ahli (BRN), Al-Arabi (KUW) & Jing Su (CHN).After the Final match Sheikh Jooaan Bin Hamad Al-Thani

In a new achievement for Qatar Sport Al-Rayyan Club was crowned as the Champion of 15th Asian Club League Championship after their win against Al-Ahli UAE with the score of 26-25 in the Final which was held in Al-Gharafa Club Hall to attain that Asian Title for the first time in their History and became the second Club from Qatar to achieve this honor in the Asian Championship after Al-Sadd Club from Qatar who had achieved this honor 5 times previously.

Al-Ahli UAE the Silver Medalist and Al-Kuwait from Kuwait wins Bronze

Gharaballi the best player…. and Zaki the Best Scorer

The Champions in a memorial clip


handed the championship trophy to the Captain of Al-Rayyan Club Mohamed Wa-leed and the Gold Medals were distributed by Dr. Has-san Moustafa, President of IHF and Mr. Bader Al-They-ab, Treasurer of AHF and a cash prize of 200 Thousand US Dollars was distributed to the Winner.Mr. Ahmad Al-sha’bi, Presi-dent of Qatar Handball As-sociation and Dr. Ahmad Abu Al-Lail, Executive Direc-tor of AHF handed over the Runners’ Silver Cup and the Medals to Al-Ahli Club of UAE with the prize money of 150 Thousand US Dollars for the second ranked team.

The Organizer, Al-Jaish Club’s President and the Supervisor of the Champi-onship Mr. Naser Al-Ali and the Technical Director of AHF Mr. Jasem M. Al-They-ab handed over the Bronze Medals and the Prize money of 100 Thousand US Dollars for the third ranked team Al-Kuwait Club of Kuwait.

Best Player of the Championship

Mohamed Gharaballi from Kuwait received the best player of the championship Award and Hussain Zaki from Al-Ahli Club of UAE received the Best Scorer

Award and Branimir Boucek of Al-Rayyan Club from Qa-tar received the Best Goal-keeper award also every one of them received a cash prize of 5 thousand US Dol-lars.

Al-Rayyan deserved the Title

In the final match Al-Rayyan Club from Qatar deserved its victory in the light of its good technical level they produced. Especially in the first half they imposed their advantage and finished with difference of 5 goals as 15-10. Despite a decline in the performance in the second

half which gave Al-Ahli Club of UAE a chance to return in the match and equal the points but the Rayyan held the upper hand and became the winner in the end.

Eqab: All praise be to Allah

The Algerian coach of Al-Rayyan Club Kamal Eqab expressed his satisfaction on winning the champion-ship and ensured that the victory came only after a tough competition. Also he mentioned that “All praise be to Allah on win-ning the championship also the credit goes to the

Al-Rayyan Club ce-mented their place in the Super Globe 2013 after crowning as Asian Champions. Also Al-Jaish Club From Qatar will take part in the Super Globe. Both these teams already have the experience of participating in the Super Globe which is considered as one of the strongest cham-pionships of the world in the view of the participation of the strongest clubs of the world in this championship.

Al-Rayyan and Al-Jaish in the world cup

Al-Ahli Club from UAE is the Silver Medalist

Al-Kuwait Club from Kuwait received the Bronze Medal

Asian Championship


players who played like a champion with all their strength. If they didn’t had their determination to win this championship it would be impossible for us. Also I praise Allah for registering the name of Al-Rayyan in the Continental Golden Record which came under my guidance”.

2309 Goals

Totally 2309 goals were scored by the teams in 44 Matches during the cham-pionship which means 52 goals in each match were scored which is a reason-able and balanced percent-age between attack and defense. In the Preliminary Round 315 Goals were scored; in Group 2 teams scored 307 goals; in Group 3, 494 goals were scored which is 1116 goals in total during 22 matches which means 50 goals in each match. In the Main Round, the teams of Group 1 scored 117 goals; in Group 2 teams scored 165 goals; in the con-solation matches Group 1 scored 178 Goals and Group 2 scored 168 Goals unlike the Semi-Finals to decide the first 4 places.

Technical Committee

The AHF formed the Tech-nical Committee with the

Chairmanship of Mr. Ameen Al-Barwani from Oman and the Members are: Dawud Tawakoli (IRI) Saleh Ash-our (UAE) Khalaf Al-Enazi (KUW) Li Zhiwen (CHN) Issa Al-Jabri (OMA) Alireza Soleimani (IRI) Yousuf Al-Hail (QAT) and Peng Ning (CHN).8 Couples for the matchesAHF selected 8 couples for refereeing the matches who are: Ahmad Al-Mutawa / Jasem Al-Suwailam (KUW), Li gang / Wang Ke (CHN), Nasr Hirzallah / Moutasem Hani (JOR), Moammar Al-Watani / Mohamed Qam-bar (BRN), Saleh Bamatref / Mansour Al-Suwaidi (QAT), Majid Kolahdouzan / Alir-eza Mousavian (IRI), Omar Al-Marzooqi / Mohamed Al-Nuaimi (UAE) and To-mokazu Ikabuchi / Kiyoshi Hizaki (JPN).Al-Sha’bi: Al-Rayyan en-tered the HistoryThe President of Qatar Handball Association Mr. Ahmad Al-Sha’bi attributed this success to the support and guidance of Sheikh Jooaan Bin Hamad Al-Thani and to the governance of Sheikh Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Thani, President of Al-Rayyan Club and the Council Members. At the same time he assured that Sheikh Jooaan had a big impression in the success of the championship. A

The Organizing committee of the championship allocated 465 Thousand US Dol-lars for the champions. 200 Thousand US Dollars for the winners, 150 Thousand US Dollars for the Runners and 100 Thousand US Dollars for the third ranked team. 5 thousand US Dollars each for the Best Player, Best Scorer and Best Goal-keeper. This is the biggest prize money in the history of Asian Club League Championship.

465 US Dollars for the Champions

The Best Goal-keeper (Branimer Bosik) of Al-Rayyan (QAT)

Mohamed Gharaballi The Best Player of AL-Kuwait (KUW)

Hussein Zaki The Best Scorer of Al-Ahli (UAE)


wonderful center of excel-lence from Al-Jaish Club’s responsibilities pleased all the participants. Also he said: Al-Rayyan deserved the title after showing a great competition in the Final match, and win the final against Al-Ahli (UAE) also their players, coaches and officials deserved the congratulations for this achievement which will be added to the achievements of Qatar Handball.The president to Qatar Handball Association also explained that the Asian Title to Al-Rayyan club is a history for this generation which is fighting to save the position of Qatar Handball in Asia. This achievement didn’t come by luck, but it came after the knowledge

learnt and hard work. So the Rayyan Club entered the big door of history.

Hassan Moustafa: Ex-cellent Championship

The President of IHF as-sured that the champion-ship is a great success in the view of organizing and

technical in the level of yel-low continent (Asia). This championship is a great col-lection of continent during two weeks. And he praised the soul of all teams from the beginning of the cham-pionship. This soul helped in the collection of conti-nent in an excellent cham-pionship. The president

also thanked the AHF, the commissions, Qatar Hand-ball Association and the organizer of the champion-ship Al-Jaish Club. Also he congratulated Al-Rayyan Club for achieving this title, Al-Ahli (UAE) for becoming the runners and Al-Kuwait (KUW) for achieving the Bronze Medal.

The list of Honor of Al-Rayyan Club, the Champion of Asian Championship includes: Mr. Ahmad Batthi, Head Delegate, Mr. Mohamed Abdullah Al-Yazeedi, Team Manager, Mr. Kamal Eqab, Head Coach from Algeria, Mr. Ala Merghani, Asst. coach, Mr. Waleed Mohamed Atiyya, Physiotherapist and the Players: Hussain Morad, Seleem Al-Hidwi, Ameen Zakkar, Ali Al-weeri. Mohamed Ghazal, Omar Al-Safdi, Nas-ruddeen Al-Shathli, Abdur Razzaq Morad, Thomas Chresso, Basil Al-Rayees, Hamad Al-Hajri, Al-Sahbi Bin Azeezah, Anas Al-Suwaidan, Mohamed Al-Hajri, Branimir Boucek and Abdul Kareem Khidr Al-Hello.

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List of the Gold Winners


Standings after the Preliminary RoundGroup A

Group B

Teams Played Win Draw LooseGoals

Points RankFor Against

Ahli (UAE) 3 2 1 - 85 78 5 1st

Al-Kuwait (KUW) 3 1 1 1 75 74 3 2nd

Al-Jaish (QAT) 3 1 - 2 79 87 2 3rd

Al-Sadd (LIB) 3 1 - 2 76 76 2 4th



Al-Rayyan (QAT) 3 3 - - 72 68 6 1st

Al-Noor (KSA) 3 2 - 1 81 72 4 2nd

Al-Jazeera(UAE) 3 1 - 2 79 81 2 3rd

Muscat (OMA) 3 - - 3 75 86 - 4th


Group C

Standings after the Main Round

Standings after the Placement Round

Group 1

Group 1

Group 2

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Thamen (IRI) 4 3 1 - 98 89 7 1st

Mudhar (KSA) 4 3 - 1 103 95 6 2nd

Jing Su (CHN) 4 2 - 2 98 101 4 3rd

Ahli (BRN) 4 1 - 3 89 95 2 4th

Al-Arabi (KUW) 4 - 1 3 97 105 1 5th



Al-Noor (KSA) 2 1 1 - 46 37 3 1st

Al-Ahli (UAE) 2 - 2 - 36 36 2 2nd

Thamen (IRI) 2 - 1 1 35 44 1 3rd



Al-Kuwait (KUW) 2 2 - - 60 53 4 1st

Al-Rayyan (QAT) 2 1 - 1 55 54 2 2nd

Mudhar (KSA) 2 - - 2 50 58 - 3rd



Al-Jaish (QAT) 2 2 - - 69 48 4 1st

Jing Su (CHN) 2 1 - 1 58 65 2 2nd

Muscat (OMA) 2 - - 2 51 65 - 3rd


Semi-Final Results

Results of the final Matches

Results of the Placement Matches

Group 2

Team VS Team Results

Al-Rayyan (QAT) X Al-Noor (KSA) 30 - 26

Al-Ahli (UAE) X Al-Kuwait (KUW) 35 - 27

Team VS Team Results Rankings

Thamen (IRI) X Mudhar (KSA) 30 – 25 5 – 6

Al-Jaish (QAT) X Al-Ahli (BRN) 33 – 28 7 – 8

Jing Su (CHN) X Al-Sadd (LIB) 28 – 26 9 - 10

Muscat (OMA) X Al-Jazeera (UAE) 38 - 26 11 – 12

Al-Arabi (KUW) 13


Al-Rayyan (QAT)X

Al-Ahli (UAE) 26 – 24 1 – 2

Al-Kuwait (KUW)X

Al-Noor (KSA)26 – 25 3 – 4



Al-Ahli (BRN) 2 2 - - 58 50 4 1st

Al-Sadd (LIB) 2 1 - 1 52 57 2 2nd

Al-Jazeera (UAE) 2 - - 2 58 61 - 3rd


With the Participation of 12 Teams in the Qualification for World Championship of Yellow Continent

Korea the Asian Women’s Champion and China the RunnersJapan snatch the bronze medal

from Kazakhstan

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With the merit and they de-served, the South Korean team achieved the title of 14th Asian Women Cham-pionship, Qualification for Women’s World Cham-pionship in Serbia 2013, which was held in Indone-sia during 7-16 December 2012 after winning the final match against China by 40 – 22 and the Looser China became the Run-ner. Japan team achieved the third place and Bronze Medal after defeating Ka-zakhstan by 21-20 after an exciting match until the last moment. The loser Ka-zakhstan held the fourth place.In this Qualification 12 teams participated and distributed in two groups. The first group included of South Korea, Chinese Tai-pei, Iran, Indonesia, North Korea and China. The Sec-ond Group included of: Ja-pan, Kazakhstan, Uzbeki-stan, Kuwait, Turkmenistan and India. South Korea and China from First Group and Japan and Kazakh-stan from Second Group qualified for the Semi-Fi-nal. South Korea reached the Final with the victory against Kazakhstan by 34 – 21 and China qualified for the Finals by defeat-ing Japan 28-25. After the Final Match, Mr. Dawud Tawakoli, the Chairman of the Technical Committee, Mrs. Gulnara, President of Kazakhstan Handball Federation, Mr. Khalaf Al-Enazi, the Lecturer of PRC/AHF, distributed the Med-als to the winners of first three places.

Tawakoli praised

The chairman of the Tech-nical Committee and the Representative of AHF Mr. Dawud Tawakoli said: Participation of 12 teams in this championship is

unprecedented before. The Federations are inter-ested to participate the women teams and this is a good step for this catego-ry assuring that when we have more teams we will see more competitions

which will be positive re-turn for the Asian Hand-ball.Mr. Tawakoli was excited for the level of most of the teams participating in this championship and he congratulated Korea,

Japan snatch the bronze medal

from Kazakhstan

Chinese women team is the silver medalist

Japan women team is Bronze Medalist


China and Japan for win-ning the first three places and wished good luck to the other teams in next championship.

Technical Committee

AHF formed the Technical

Committee with the Chairmanship of Mr. Dawud Tawakoli and the committee included: Mr. Khalaf Al-Enazi (KUW), Mr. Zuhair Samha (SYR), Mr. Nakada (JPN), Mr. Peng Ning (CHN), Mr. Mohamed Taleb (BRN)

and Mr. Mustafa Mashyur (INA).

6 Couples forthe matches

AHF selected 6 couples for the matches: Jasem Al-Su-wailam / Ahmad Al-Mutawa

(KUW), Alireza / Majid Kolah-douzan (IRI), Seok lee / Bon ok koo (KOR) Shihab Juma / Mohamed Naser (UAE), Hus-sain Mawt / Sameer Mar-hoon (BRN) and Shota Hon-da / Mota Ekabuchi (JPN)Results of the Preliminary Round

Results of Preliminary Round Matches

M. No. Team vs Team Results

1 South Korea x Chinese Taipei 40 - 7

2 Iran x Indonesia 53 - 4

3 China x North Korea 29 - 20

4 China x Chinese Taipei 31 - 14

5 North Korea x Iran 36 – 20

6 South Korea x Indonesia 63 – 3

7 China x Indonesia 66 – 2

8 South Korea x Iran 41 – 16

9 North Korea x Chinese Taipei 41 – 23

10 China x Iran 37 – 15

11 Chinese Taipei x Indonesia 44 – 4

12 South Korea x North Korea 33 – 18

13 Chinese Taipei x Iran 29 - 25

14 North Korea x Indonesia 73 – 2

15 South Korea x China 30 - 28

M. No. Team vs Team Results

1 Turkmenistan x Uzbekistan 32 – 16

2 Kazakhstan x India 42 – 17

3 Japan x Kuwait 69 – 1

4 Kazakhstan x Kuwait 70 – 1

5 India x Turkmenistan 26 – 25

6 Japan x Uzbekistan 31 – 27

7 Kazakhstan x Turkmenistan 34 – 15

8 Japan x India 48 – 18

9 Uzbekistan x Kuwait 64 – 7

10 Japan x Turkmenistan 37 – 8

11 Kazakhstan x Uzbekistan 39 – 30

12 Uzbekistan x India 36 – 23

13 Turkmenistan x Kuwait 42 – 5

14 Japan x Kazakhstan 27 – 23

15 India x Kuwait 63 - 6

Group A Group B

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Standings after the Preliminary Round

Standings of Group B in the Preliminary Round

Semi-Final Results

Results of the Placement Matches

Results of the final Matches

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South Korea x China 40 -22 1 – 2

Japan x Kazakhstan 20 - 21 3 – 4


North Korea x Uzbekistan 41 – 28 5 – 6

Chinese Taipei x India 40 – 24 7 – 8

Iran x Turkmenistan 23 – 18 9 - 10

Indonesia x Kuwait 26 - 21 11 – 12



South Korea 5 5 - - 207 72 10 1st

China 5 4 - 1 191 71 8 2nd

North Korea 5 3 - 2 188 107 6 3rd

Chinese Taipei 5 2 - 3 107 141 4 4th

Iran 5 1 - 4 129 147 2 5th

Indonesia 5 - - 5 15 299 - 6th



Japan 5 5 - - 212 77 10 1st

Kazakhstan 5 4 - 1 208 90 8 2nd

Turkmenistan 5 2 - 3 122 118 4 3rd

Uzbekistan 5 2 - 3 173 132 4 4th

India 5 1 - 4 147 157 4 5th

Kuwait 5 - - 5 20 308 - 6th


South Korea X Kazakhstan 34 - 21

China X Japan 28 - 25


Due to winning the first and second ranking

Qatar and Oman Men’s

Teams in the Beach World Championship

Qatar Men’s Team won the title of 4th Asian Beach Handball Championship (Quali-fication for World Championship) held in Hong Kong during 8-16 May 2013. They won the Gold Medal with merit and they deserved it, hence they didn’t lose any match of the championship and they took full mark by scoring 10 points. Oman team achieved the second place by scoring 8 points. Both teams qualified for the beach world championship in 2014 as the Represen-tatives of Asia. Meanwhile, Bahrain achieved the third place by scoring 6 points.6 teams from Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Thailand, Hong Kong and Vietnam participated in this Asian Qualifica-tion and they competed in 1 group. From the statistics observed after the matches the participating teams scored 1002 Goals in 15 Matches with an average of 66 Goals per Match. The Oman Team (Runner) came in the first place with the attack scoring 204 Goals and the winner Qatar team scored 199 goals and the third placed team Bahrain scored 197 goals. Also the Oman

team was strong in defense and they entered the goal area 135 times with the difference of 1 goal from Qatar team. Bahrain team achieved third position with entering the goal area 149 times. The Hong Kong team was the weakest in attack and scored 117 goals, the next was Vietnam who scored 123 goals which was also weak in defense and 202 goals were scored against them. This is the only team who allowed more than 200 goals.

Technical Committee

AHF formed the Technical Committee with the Chair-manship of Mr. Muhammad Shafiq from Pakistan and the committee included: Mr. Khalaf Al-Enazi (KUW),

Oman Team receives the Silver Medal

Ahmad Al-Shabi is excited with the cup

Asian Championship



Due to winning the first and second ranking

Qatar and Oman Men’s

Teams in the Beach World Championship

Mr. Zuhair Samha (SYR), Mr. Nakada (JPN), Mr. Issa Al-Jabri (OMA) and Mrs. Nico Chiang (TPE).

Referees of the championship

5 couples for the matches: Fadhil Baqer / Ismail Salem (UAE), Ziad Mansour / Qasim Mouqashar (LIB), Nasir Tanje / Yahya Al-Ayedi (SYR) Hsing Yao WEI / Pi Chu WANG (TPE).

Standings after the Men’s Beach Handball Team Matches

Teams Played Win Loose GoalsPoints Rank

For Against

Qatar 5

5-

199 13610

1st

Oman 5

41

204 1358

2nd

Bahrain 5

32

197 1496

3rd

Thailand 5

23

162 1914

4th

Hong Kong5

14

117 1892

5th

Vietnam 5-

5 123 102-

6th

Results of Men’s Matches


Oman x Vietnam 2 – 0

Bahrain x Hong Kong 2 – 0

Qatar x Thailand 2 – 0

Oman x Thailand 2 – 0

Qatar x Bahrain 2 – 0

Hong Kong x Vietnam 2 – 1

Qatar x Vietnam 2 – 0

Oman x Hong Kong 2 – 0

Bahrain x Thailand 2 – 0

Thailand x Vietnam 2 – 0

Qatar x Hong Kong 2 – 0

Oman x Bahrain 2 – 1

Thailand x Hong Kong 2 – 0

Bahrain x Vietnam 2 – 0

Qatar x Oman 2 – 0

Mr. Khalaf Al-Enazi distributing the Bronze Medals to Bahrain Team

Qatar team on the victory podium



Korean Women Junior team won the title of 12th Asian Women Junior Champion-ship (Qualification for Wom-en Junior World Champion-ship 2014 in Croatia) held in Kazakhstan during 23 – 29 June 2013. The Korean team achieved the first rank and the Gold Medal which they deserved. The only team who never lose any of the matches and scored all the 8 points. The Japanese team secured second place and the Silver Medal with 6 points. Chinese achieved third rank and the Bronze Medal with 4 points. Mean-while, Kazakhstan team didn’t get the chance to stand in the podium in spite of being the host and achieved fourth place with the only victory against Uzbekistan and gained 2 points. Uzbekistan team got the fifth place without scor-ing any points.All the 5 participants scored 573 goals in 10 matches in the championship with an average of 57 goals per match. This is high in per-centage which shows the lack of interest of most of the teams in defensive method considering the logo of Handball is ‘Defense

With the victory in Asian Women Junior Championship

Korea and Japan in the World Championship 2014China achieved Bronze

Defense gave the Giant Korea the Title

Top officials with the best players of the championship

Korean team the Asian Gold Medalist

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is the best of Attack’. This was the proved by the giant Korean teams by winning the title.The Gold Medalist Korea achieved the first rank with defense of 84 goals against them in 4 matches they played. In defensive strength Japanese and Chinese teams are next with 99 Goals each against them. Uzbekistan team was the weakest in defense with a total of 178 goals were scored against them with an average of 44 goals per match. Japanese team achieved first rank in attack and they scored 153 goals for them in 4 matches with an average of 38 goals per match. Ko-rean team held the second

place in attack which scored 143 goals for them with an average of 35 goals per match. Meanwhile, Uzbeki-stan team held the last place in attack by scoring 68 goals in 4 matches with an aver-age of 17 goals per match. Due to achieving the last places in attack and defense Uzbek team came last in the points table.The match between China and Kazakhstan for third place and Bronze Medal was exciting until the last minute in which the Chinese team won by 20 – 18 with the dif-ference of 2 goals. The re-maining matches were one sided with the difference of huge margins in number of Goals.

Final Standings after the Matches

Results of the Matches


Korea x Japan 27 – 18

Kazakhstan x Uzbekistan 33 – 22

Korea x Uzbekistan 48 – 14

Japan x China 35 – 24

Japan x Uzbekistan 60 – 14

China x Kazakhstan 20 – 18

China x Uzbekistan 37 - 18

Korea x Kazakhstan 31 – 15

Korea x China 37 – 28

Japan X Kazakhstan 40 - 34

Japanese team the Silver Medalist Chinese team the Bronze Medalist



South Korea 4 4 - - 143 84 8 1st

Japan 4 3 - 1 153 99 6 2nd

China 4 2 - 2 109 99 4 3rd

Kazakhstan 4 1 - 3 100 113 2 4th

Uzbekistan 4 - - 4 68 178 - 5th


Due to achieving the First and Second places in the Asian Championship

Women Teams of Thailandand Taipei in the Beach Handball World Championship

The Women’s Champion Thailand Team

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Thailand Women’s team won the 4th Asian Women’s Cham-pionship (Qualification for world championship) held in Hong Kong during 8-16 May 2013. The Winner took full mark by scoring 10 points hence, winning all their matches. Chinese Taipei team achieved the second place by scoring 6 points because of losing two matches. Both teams quali-fied for the beach world championship in 2014. Meanwhile, China achieved the third place and the Bronze Medal.6 teams from Thailand, Chinese Taipei, China, Qatar, Hong Kong and Vietnam participated and they competed in 1 group. The participating teams scored 840 Goals in 15 Matches with an average of 56 Goals per Match. The Thai-land Team came in the first place with the attack and de-fense scoring 168 Goals and the Chinese team came next with the Difference of two goals. Thailand team achieved first position with strong defense and 123 goals were scored against them. The Chinese team came in second place and 124 goals were scored against them. Vietnam became third and 132 goals were scored against them. The Qatar team was the weakest in attack and defense, hence they scored 82 Goals and 182 Goals were scored against them.

Results of Women’s Matches

Standings after the Women’s Beach Handball Team Matches


Thailand x Taipei 2 – 0

Hong Kong x Qatar 2 – 0

China x Vietnam 2 – 1

China x Qatar 2 – 0

Taipei x Vietnam 2 – 1

Thailand x Hong Kong 2 – 0

Vietnam x Qatar 2 – 0

Taipei x Hong Kong 2 – 0

Thailand x China 2 – 1

Thailand x Vietnam 2 – 0

Taipei x Qatar 2 – 0

China x Hong Kong 2 – 0

Hong Kong x Vietnam 2 – 1

Thailand x Qatar 2 – 0

Taipei x China 2 – 1

Chinese Team with Bronze Medals

Chinese Taipei Team with Silver Medals

Teams Played Win LooseGoals


Thailand 5 5 - 168 123 10 1st

Taipei 5 3 2 166 139 6 2nd

China 5 3 2 154 124 6 3rd

Vietnam 5 2 3 154 132 4 4th

Hong Kong 5 2 3 116 140 4 5th

Qatar 5 - 5 82 182 - 6th


The Qatar team reserved their seat for Youth Olympics 2014 to be hosted by China as the only representative of Asian Continent after they are crowned with Gold medal in the Asian Youth Games which was held for the age category of the play-ers born in 1996 and above. The activities began in the

city of Nanjing during 13 – 23 August 2013. After their victory against South Korea in the Final Match with the points of 28 – 21 having the difference of 7 points even though they were trailing by 3 points during the Half-Time with the scores of 11-14, they totally deserved this victory.

Bahrain team snatched the Bronze Medal by winning their opponent Saudi Ara-bia by 22 – 21 in the place-ment match for 3rd and 4th places. 16 Handball Teams participated in the 2nd Asian Youth Games and divide into 4 groups. Group A: QA-TAR, IRAN, PAKISTAN, VIET-NAM. Group B: KSA, IRAQ,

CHINA, MONGOLIA. Group C: BAHRAIN, KUWAIT, TAIPEI, THAILAND. Group D: KOREA, SYRIA, KAZAKHSTAN, HONG KONG.From Group A, Qatar and Iran qualified for the Main Round, From Group B, KSA and Iraq, From Group C, Bah-rain and Kuwait, From Group D, Korea and Syria were the

After winning against Korea in the Final of 2nd Asian Youth Games

Qatar is the Representative of Asia in the Youth Olympics 2014

Qatar team the Champions of Asian Youth Games

Bahrain snatched Bronze Medal 2547 Goals in 50 Matches

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other qualifiers to the Main Round.Qatar and Bahrain from Group 1, KSA and Korea from Group 2 in the Main Round Qualified for the Semi-Finals. This round was played by cross and Qatar won the match against KSA and Korea against Bahrain to play in the Finals. Qatar won the Final against Korea and the two losers of the Semi-Final played for the 3rd and 4th Places and Bahrain won the match and grabbed the Bronze Medal.

Exciting Final

The Final was very strong and exciting from the begin-ning of the match; Korean team controlled the first half with the play and the result by their unusual defense. They had 6-0 positive be-tween 6 and 9 meters, the Korean team left the usual 3-3 defense; this made the Qatar team irritating, so Ko-rean team finished the first half with the difference of 3 goals.In the beginning of the sec-ond half Qatar team came back to the match very strong with the smartness of the Algerian coach Mr. Shuaib Kafi when he moved the wings to inside and he made the player to shoot surprisingly, especially the wing Abdul Aziz Bu Hindi which helped to rise the spirit of the players to tie the game with the Koreans 16-16 in the 10th Minute of sec-ond half after they imposed the method of attack and defensive play which they controlled totally for the rest of the match.

Bravo Referees!

The Japanese Referees To-mokazo Ikebuchi and Ki-yoshi Hizaki whistled the final match with efficiency and the Referees received the applause of the specta-tors and the Technical Offi-cials and both winner and loser were satisfied about the whistling. The Algerian coach Shuaib Kafi said, that he is very happy about the achievement of his team

and he said after the match, facing the Korean team was very difficult but, all the praise to Allah, the players played according to our be-lief especially in the second half in displaying the in-structions during the match and they gave me more than I asked with the fight-ing spirit and real desire to snatch the Gold Medal and represent the Yellow Conti-nent in the Youth Olympic Games in China 2014.

The Coach Kafi said: From the beginning of the Games we were betting for the Gold Medal and we handled each match as a final match and this is the secret of dominating. Also he thanked the Play-ers, Officials, the Federa-tion with the leadership of Mr. Ahmad Al-Shaabi and the Council Members for unlimited cooperation and support for the national team.

Korean team achieved the Silver Medal

Bahrain team achieved the Bronze Medal


Unprecedented achievement

The Official of the Delega-tion Mr. Eisa Ali Ghanim con-sidered this as an unprec-edented achievement in the level of Qatar Sport. Also he was very happy about the fighting spirit of the players and their firmness to achieve this impressive success and

he thanked the Technical and Official staffs for their pure dedication in their work and create a good at-mosphere for the players to achieve this big goal for the Sport of Qatar.

The RevealingStatistics

According to the Statistics

recorded by the Techni-cal Committee the teams has recorded 2547 goals in 50 Matches with an aver-age of 50 Goals per match. In the Preliminary Round 1377 Goals were scored; the Group A scored 319 goals, Group B 379 Goals, Group C 328 Goals and Group D 351 Goals. In the Main Round, 602 Goals were scored; Group 1 Scored 289 Goals, Group 2 Scored 313 Goals.Qatar team was considered as the best team in attack from group A in the Prelimi-nary Round, they scored 128 Goals and Iran the best team in defense, the number of goals against them is 41. Saudi Arabia was the best attacking team in group B, they scored 141 Goals also they are the best team in defense; the number of goals scored against them is 60. Bahrain was the best attacking team in group C, they scored 93 Goals also they are the best team in de-fense; the number of goals scored against them is 70. Saudi Arabia was the best attacking team in group B, they scored 141 Goals also they are the best team in de-fense; the number of goals scored against them is 60. South Korea was the best attacking team in group D, they scored 128 Goals also they are the best team in de-fense; the number of goals scored against them is 45.In the Main Round, Bahrain Team was the best attack-ing team in Group 1, they scored 86 Goals and the Qa-tar team was the best in de-fense, the number of goals scored against them is 52. Korean Team was the best in

attack and defense in Group 2, they scored 86 Goals and the number of goals scored against them is 71.

The Technical Com-mittee with the Lead-ership of Abu Al-Lail

The Technical Committee of the 2nd Asian Youth Games was formed with the leader-ship of Dr. Ahmad Abu Al-Lail, the Executive Director of AHF. The Committee was formed by Hilmi Cheaib, (LIB), Shizou Sakamoto (JPN), Jasem Al-Theyab (KUW), Alireza Soleimani (IRI), Khalaf Al-Enezi (KUW), Saleh Ashour (UAE), Minoru Nakada (JPN), Zuhir Samha (SYR), Peng Ning (CHN), Li Zhiwen (CHN), Gyu Ha Lim (KOR), Farida Al-Sebani (OMA), Gulnara (KAZ) and AHF Secretaries, Mr. Marwan Mazen and Mr. Mohamed Nizamudeen.

11 Referee Couples for the Tournament

The Commission of PRC ap-pointed 11 couples for the 2nd Asian Youth Games, the Names as follows: Mansour Al-Suwaidi / Saleh Bamatref (QAT), Tomokazo Ikebuchi / Kiyoshi Hizaki (JPN), Umar Al-Marzooqi / Mohammad Al-Nuaimi (UAE), Nader Al-Dossari / Saad Al-Marri (KSA), Ye Xiaoxue / Geng Zhang (CHN), Zhaomeng Li / Jian-peng Liu (CHN), Mujahed El-haj / Yehya Al-Zaghameem (JOR), Mahmonir Sadeghi / Leila Shafaei (IRI), Khalid Hussein / Fadhil Imran (IRQ), Seyed Hasan Muhafdeh / Ali Mohamed (BRN), Hwa Jin Kim / Myong Chol Sin (PRK).

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The President of Qatar Handball Association an-nounced that the team of Maroon qualified for the Olympic Games which wasn’t by luck or by chance but it was the result of hard work according to the basic knowledge. This achievement became true with fully deserved. The Qatar team is the only team didn’t taste any loss or any draw, so they take the full mark also I think the players and the technical and official staffs are extraordinary champions. Al-Shaabi added: the preparation for Asian Youth Games was very hard work from all the persons without any exception, we got the benefits of these efforts and now we have the hope and dream to compete in the Olympic Games in China 2014. Also he added, after the end of Asian Youth Games the Council of the Federation requested the Technical Staffs to prepare a plan for the Olympic Games 2014. He appreciated the Technical Staffs with the leadership of Algerian Mr. Shuaib Kafi and the of-ficial staffs with the leadership of Mr. Eisa Ali Ghanim and he thanked all the players for their efforts and the responsibility towards the beloved nation Qatar also I repeat my thanks to all the players especially the Captain of the National Team Abdul Aziz Bu Hindi he took the responsibility with Brave heart with his colleagues. In the end of his interview to the Asian Magazine, he praised the role of the Technical Com-mittee with the leadership of Dr. Ahmad Abu Al-Lail and the Referees of the Asian Youth Games who were at the top of the level, so the Technical Committee didn’t received any comments, also the championship had more success for the high level of Organization and Administration.

Ahmad Al-Shaabi: Extraordinary achievement


Results of the Preliminary Round

Results of Main Round

Group A

Group DGroup B

Group 1 Group 2

Group C

Teams Results

IRI X PAK 55 – 12

QAT X VIE 44 – 10

QAT X PAK 61 – 7

IRI X VIE 43 – 6

PAK X VIE 21 – 16

QAT X IRI 23 – 21

Teams Results

SYR X KAZ 32 – 29

KOR X HKG 46 – 11

KOR X KAZ 49 – 16

SYR X HKG 39 – 26

KAZ X HKG 26 – 26

KOR X SYR 33 - 18

Teams Results

KSA X MGL 75 – 7

IRQ X CHN 27 – 25

KSA X CHN 38 – 26

IRQ X MGL 50 – 8

CHN X MGL 57 – 11

KSA X IRQ 28 - 27

Teams Results

QAT X IRQ 36 – 23

BRN X SYR 35 – 26

QAT X SYR 19 – 10

BRN X IRQ 26 - 25

QAT X BRN 25 – 19

IRQ X SYR 22 - 17

Teams Results

KSA X KUW 29 – 27

KOR X IRI 29 – 24

KSA X IRI 27 – 22

KOR X KUW 30 – 25

KOR X KSA 27 – 25

KUW X IRI 27 - 24

Teams Results

KUW X THA 37 – 22

BRN X TPE 34 – 28

BRN X THA 32 – 23

KUW X TPE 31 – 25

TPE X THA 27 – 23

BRN X KUW 27 - 19


Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Teams Standings after the Preliminary Round

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QATAR 3 3 - - 128 38 6 1st

IRAN 3 2 - 1 119 41 4 2nd

PAKISTAN 3 1 - 2 40 132 2 3rd

VIETNAM 3 - - 3 32 108 - 4th



KSA 3 3 - - 141 60 6 1st

IRAQ 3 2 - 1 104 61 4 2nd

CHINA 3 1 - 2 108 76 2 3rd

MONGOLIA 3 - - 3 26 182 - 4th



BAHRAIN 3 3 - - 93 70 6 1st

KUWAIT 3 2 - 1 87 74 4 2nd

CHINESE TAIPEI 3 1 - 2 80 88 2 3rd

THAILAND 3 - - 3 68 96 - 4th



KOREA 3 3 - - 128 45 6 1st

SYRIA 3 2 - 1 89 88 4 2nd

KAZAKHSTAN 3 - 1 2 71 107 1 3rd

HONG KONG 3 - 1 2 63 111 - 4th


Group 1 of Main Round

Group 2 of Main Round

Final Results of the Placement Matches

Teams Results Places

QAT X KOR 28 – 21 1 – 2

BRN X KSA 22 - 21 3 - 4

KUW X IRQ 35 – 30 5 – 6

IRI X SYR 42 – 26 7 – 8

TPE X CHN 38 – 30 9 - 10

KAZ X PAK 32 – 25 11 – 12

THA X HKG 32 – 25 13 – 14

VIE X MGL 29 - 14 15 - 16

Group Standings after the Main Round



QATAR 3 3 - - 80 52 6 1st

BAHRAIN 3 2 - 1 86 70 4 2nd

IRAQ 3 1 - 2 70 79 2 3rd

SYRIA 3 - - 3 53 76 - 4th



KOREA 3 3 - - 86 71 6 1st

KSA 3 2 - 1 78 76 4 2nd

KUWAIT 3 1 - 2 79 83 2 3rd

IRAN 3 - - 3 70 83 - 4th

A Clipping from the match between Qatar and Korea


Kazakhstan Snatch Silver and China Bronze Medal

Korea Representative of Asia in Youth Olympic Games 2014

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South Korea crowned as the champi-on of 2nd Asian Youth Games to repre-sent Asia in Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China 2014. They earned the full points; they won all the matches and collected 10 points from 5 match-es. So, they achieved the Gold Medal and they deserve it, the Kazakhstan team snatched the Silver medal and the runner-up title. They collected 8 points from 5 matches; the Chinese team achieved the third ranking by earning 6 points.The Handball Competition of 2nd Asian Youth Games was held in Nan-jing city during 13 – 23 August 2013. Six countries from South Korea,

Kazakhstan, China, Thailand, Viet-nam and Mongolia participated in women youth category, all of them played in one group. The match be-tween Korea and Kazakhstan for 1st and 2nd Places to achieve the champi-onship was very interesting; because of the enthusiasm of the players they showed in the starting of the match. But, the speed of the Korean Giants took control of the match after the third minute itself and started to in-crease the goals gradually with their high skills, fitness and the profession-alism of the coach Mr. Ooh-Ha SIL in controlling the match. The Play-ers’ execution of some of the tactics

brought the applause of the specta-tors, especially the strong defense to end the first half by 24 – 12. The Coach Mr. SIL involved all the substitute players in different peri-ods, these changes gave rest to the main players and exhausted the op-ponent players of Kazakhstan team which showed the lack of fitness in the second half. So, the Korean team ended the match 45 – 25 with the difference of 20 goals and this re-sult showed that the Korean team is stronger than the Kazakhstan team.The teams scored 745 goals in 15 matches with an average of 49 goals in each match; the Korean team was


in the first rank in attacking and de-fense. They scored 213 goals in 5 matches with an average of 43 goals in each match, and the number of goals against them is 92 in five matches with an average of 18 goals in each match. The Thailand team is in the second rank in attack, they scored 147 goals with the difference between Korea and Thailand was 66 goals. The Chinese team is in the second ranking in defense, hence, the number of goals against them is 100 with the difference between

Korea and China was 8 goals.

Lazoko: assured of winning

After the matches of 2nd Asian Youth Games the Asst. coach of Korea said: I was very assured of my team will win the title and represent Asia in the Youth Olympic Games. I had an idea about the chances of the participat-ing teams, so there was no second thought about the winner of the championship. The nearest competi-tor was the Kazakhstan team and we

won them with the difference of 20 goals.Lazoko assured that we have the desire of honoring the Asian continent in the Youth Olympic Games in China 2014, and we will start to make programs to achieve good ranking in Youth Olym-pic Games. These programs will be included of practice matches with Eu-rope National Teams who have excel-lent technics and fitness. In the end, he thanked all the players for their ef-forts during the matches in 2nd Asian Youth Games.

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Final Standings after the Matches

Teams Results

KAZ X VIE 25 – 12

KOR X THA 41 – 18

CHN X MGL 10 – 0

KAZ X THA 31 – 29

KOR X MGL 45 – 16

CHN X VIE 33 – 11

KOR X VIE 40 – 13

KAZ X CHN 23 – 22

THA X MGL 51 – 4

THA X VIE 25 – 12

KAZ X MGL 37 – 5

KOR X CHN 42 – 20

VIE X MGL 37 – 14

CHN x THA 35 – 24

KOR X KAZ 45 - 25



South Korea 5 5 - - 213 92 10 1st

Kazakhstan 5 4 - 1 141 113 8 2nd

China 5 3 - 2 120 100 6 3rd

Thailand 5 2 - 3 147 123 4 4th

Vienam 5 1 - 4 85 137 2 5th

Mongolia 5 0 - 5 39 180 - 6th


After Korea and Japan teams were awarded 2 places from Asian Conti-nent due to their achievement of en-tering the first ten Rankings in the pre-vious world championship. 5 teams qualified for the world championship to be held in Macedonia during 2014 due to their achievement in the 5th Asian Women Youth Championship held in Thailand during 7-15 Septem-ber 2013. The 5 teams which will rep-resent Asia in the 2014 World champi-onship are: Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and China. The Korean team won the cham-pionship held in Thailand well and deserved. The only team who never

lose any of the matches and took full marks and scored all the 12 points. The Japanese team secured second place with 10 points. Kazakhstan achieved third rank and the Bronze Medal with 8 points. Uzbekistan team got the fourth place with 4 points. China had the same number of points but they lost the match against Uzbekistan and secured fifth place. 7 teams participat-ed in this Asian Qualification for World Championship to be held in Macedo-nia: Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan, Uzbeki-stan, China, Thailand and Iran. All the participating teams scored 1242 goals in 21 matches in the cham-pionship with an average of 59 goals

per match. This is high in percentage which shows the lack of interest of most of the teams in defensive meth-od especially Uzbekistan, Iran, China and Thailand teams. Due to the lake of defense Iranian team attained the last position with 224 Goals against them.The Champion Korean Team was the strongest in defense and attack with 108 goals against them and 253 Goals for them. Japanese team came next as Runner-up with 139 Goals against them and 249 Goals for them. The Ka-zakhstan Team was the third with 178 Goals against them and 193 Goals for them. All these three teams achieved the first three Rankings.

After two places were awarded to Korea and Japan

5 Teams qualified for the World Championship 2014 in Macedonia

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Results of the Matches

Rankings of the Participating Teams

Korean Team is the Asian Women Youth Champion

M. NO TEAM VS TEAM Full Time

1 JPN X IRI 49-15

2 KAZ X KOR 79-41

3 THA X UZB 24-21

4 KAZ X UZB 34-21

5 JPN X THA 42-22

6 IRI X CHN 27-38

7 KOR X UZB 49-16

8 THA X CHN 19-23

9 JPN X KAZ 39-34

10 THA X KAZ 22-32

11 CHN X KOR 15-35

12 UZB X IRI 33-24

13 IRI X KOR 14-39

14 UZB X JPN 07-47

15 CHN X KAZ 27-38

16 CHN X JPN 22-43

17 KAZ X IRI 36-28

18 KOR X THA 50-15

19 UZB X CHN 33-29

20 IRI X THA 23-29

21 KOR X JPN 39-29



KOREA 6 6 - - 253 108 12 1st

JAPAN 6 5 - 1 249 139 10 2nd

KAZAKHSTAN 6 4 - 2 193 178 8 3rd

UZBEKISTAN 6 2 - 5 131 207 4 4th

CHINA 6 2 - 5 154 195 4 5th

THAILAND 6 2 - 5 131 191 4 6th

IRAN 6 - - 6 131 224 - 7th

Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad, the President of Olympic Council of Asia, praised the excellent results achieved in 2nd Asian Youth Games in Nanjing 2013 with the hope of these youth teams standing in the victory podium of Youth Olympic Games to be held in China 2014.Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad said after the clos-ing ceremony of Asian Games, that 45 Coun-tries participation is a big achievement and a good result for the Asian Champion to stand in the victory podium of next Youth Olympic Games.And he added: the same Asian Players will represent their country in the next year in Olympic Games, this is very important for the National Olympic Committee and the Coun-try for participating in Olympic Games 2014.He spoke about the results of Arab Countries in Nanjing, “the Arab countries will have ex-cellent results in the Youth Olympic Games and I’m very happy for most of the Arab Coun-tries participating in Nanjing successfully to achieve the Medals.8 Arab Countries entered the Schedule of Medals with the total of 13 Medals of them 4 Gold, 3 Silver and 6 Bronze.Al-Fahad added that the level of Arab coun-tries in Group Games especially in Handball was very excellent, there are 3 countries from gulf reached the Semi-Final then the Gold Medal was won by Qatar team. Compared to Football I think the Arab countries should have more importance for the basic levels, because the same scenario is repeated when their teams didn’t reach the Final.Also he explained, the Arab countries should concentrate more on the basic levels this is the signal for the future, because Iran and Iraq with East Asian teams achieved good results.In the end he said that the Olympic Council of Asia is ready to support any National Olym-pic Committee to achieve the good results by their players by preparing practical programs as a gift, especially for Single games.

Gulf Handball achieved the Breakthrough and three teams in the Final round


After the closing ceremony of Asian Youth Games

Al-Fahad: 45 Countries’ participation is a big achievement

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Dr. Hassan Moustafa the President of International Handball Federation praised the rapid improvement the game sees in Qa-tar, especially under the shadows of the Youth, Junior and Men teams reaching the finals of world championship during the year 2013, at the same time he described his strong optimism of Qatar having the strength to host the 2015 World Champion-ship for Men in a very good manner.Also Moustafa said in his statements during the closing of World Championship for Men Youth in Hungary, “the level and the re-sults shown by the Qatar National Teams in most of their inter-national participations is assuring that the game is in a quan-tum leap…. instructing that the Qatar Handball Association has succeeded in developing the game in a form of becoming one of the 16 best Men Youth teams in the world”.Also he explained that the great interest of the responsibilities in Qatar generally in sports especially in Handball is the main influence in achieving this development. Further he said that, the recent achievements have transformed from just a dream before many years to a significant reality along with that the Handball has become the first group game in terms of results in Qatar After the outcome of its sovereignty over the Asian level.The President of International Handball Federation expected that the Men’s World Championship which will be hosted by Qa-tar in 2015 will be the best among the previous championships in terms of organization assuring that Qatar will not be afraid to spend anything to provide all the opportunities to succeed any championship.Also he pointed that all the facilities promised by the Govern-ment of Qatar will exceed the requirements of IHF, that makes IHF feel more comfortable towards the procedure for preparing to the big international event, especially this will be an expo-sure for sports for the government of Qatar, especially this is the first time they organize a big event in this level of Handball, With the participating of 24 teams from all continents.The President of IHF said, I hope Qatar team will qualify to the final round in Men’s World Championship 2015; this will enrich the championship from all side.Moustafa said About the Congress of IHF which will be held in Doha during October 2013: Hosting the Congress in Doha is assuring the trust that IHF has in Qatar Handball Association, explaining that during the meeting the Election will be held for only three seats of the Council Members after deciding the big positions of President, Vice-President and Treasurer without any election.

تسهيالت الدوحة تفوق متطالبات االتحاد الدولي


Closing of World Handball Championship for Men Youth in Hungary

Dr. Moustafa: The World Championship in Qatar 2015 will be the best


The Host Spain won the world Cham-pionship for Men held during 11-27 January 2013 in Spain with the vic-tory against Denmark in the Finals by 35 – 19. The result itself is the witness for the domination of Spain. Croatia secured third place and the Bronze Medal with the victory against Slo-venia by 31 – 26 in placement match for 3rd and 4th places. 24 teams par-ticipated in the championship which was divided into four groups. From the First Group following teams quali-fied for the Main Round: G e r m a n y ,

France, Brazil and Tunisia. From the Second Group, Denmark, Russia, Ice-land and Macedonia were qualified. From the Third Group, Slovenia, Po-land, Serbia and Belarus were quali-fied. From the Fourth Group, Croatia, Spain, Hungary and Egypt were quali-fied. None of the Asian Teams were qualified for the Main Round. Because Qa-tar Occupied the fifth place in

second group, KSA and South Korea occupied the fifth and sixth places re-spectively in the third group.Qatar team secured two points in the Preliminary Round by winning against Chile 31 – 23 and KSA won against its counterpart South Korea by 24 – 22.

With the victory against Denmark in the Finals

Spain is Men’s World Champion

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Results of the Asian National Teams

Team VS Team Results Serbia x Korea 31 – 22

Slovenia x Saudi Arabia 32 – 22

Denmark x Qatar 41 – 27

Macedonia x Qatar 30 – 34

Slovenia x Korea 34 – 27

Poland x Saudi Arabia 28 – 14

Russia x Korea 29 - 20

Serbia x Saudi Arabia 30 – 20

Qatar x Chile 31 – 23

Saudi Arabia X Korea 24 – 22

Iceland x Qatar 39 – 29

Russia x Saudi Arabia 33 – 15

Korea x Poland 33 – 25

Russia x Qatar 29 - 22



The Delegates from IHF with the chairmanship of Dr. Hassan Moustafa conducted a meeting with the President of Qatar Handball Association and the Executive Director of world championship Doha 2015 Mr. Ahmad Al-Shabi and the General Secretary of QHA Mr. Mohamed Jaber.During the meeting the organizational matters of world championship Doha 2015 were discussed apart from that the final preparations were ana-lyzed to make sure of the strength of QHA in host-ing a biggest sport event in a perfect picture.Sheikh Jooaan Bin Hamad the chief of the top orga-nizing committee for world championship assured that Doha is ready to organize the world champi-onship and it will be the best championship in the History of World Championships with our good guidance. He pointed out that the World champi-onship in Doha 2015 will be a Quantum Leap in the History of World championships. Also he assured that the Organizing Committee will finish all the venues for world championship and the matters related to hosting before the deadline. Also he pointed out towards the vision of the Or-ganizing committee which was submitted to the Chairman and the Members of the Executive Office of IHF.Further, Sheikh Jooaan said that the readiness of Doha to host the world championship will be con-sidered as a clear message to IHF that the specta-tors will enjoy the exceptional world championship in the land of Qatar. Also he pointed out towards the Representatives of IHF and its President and assured of the organizational matters again in the view of the good fortune for Qatar Sport in general and for Handball in particular the importance and support they have from our leadership.

Jooaan:World Championship Doha 2015 is a Quantum Leap

Sheikh Jooaan Bin Hamad

World championship

اليد لكرة اآلسيوي االتحاد لبطوالت الحصري الناقل


1 If 1 or 2 points are credited when a goal is scored (Rules 9, 14:4, Clarification No.

1), then the court referee must indicated this by displaying 1 or 2 fingers. When 2 points are awarded, the goal referee does a full vertical arm swing additionally.

2 Hand Signal 12: The referee indicates the rule violation and points to the offend-

ing player. A bent arm, grabbed at the wrist by the other arm, indicates a suspension.

3 The referee uses a red card to indicate an “immediate” disqualification.

4 Disqualifications must be clearly con-firmed by a red card being held in the air

by the scorekeeper.

5 When a free-throw or throw-in is called, the referees must show immediately

the direction for the throw that is to fol-low (Hand Signals 7 or 9). Thereafter, as ap-plicable, the appropriate obligatory Hand Signal(s) should be given, to indicate any personal punishment (Hand Signals 12-14). If it seems that it would also be useful to ex-plain the reason for a free-throw or 6-meter throw decision, then the applicable one of Hand Signals 1-6 could be given for the sake of information.

6 Hand Signals 11, 15 and 16 are mandato-ry in those situations where they apply.

7 Hand Signals 8, 10 and 17 are used as deemed necessary by the referees.

InternationalSigns for Beach Handball Referees

List of

International

Hand

Signals1- Entering the goal area

2- Double Dribble

Prepared by: TheInternational LecturerMr. Khalaf Al-Enezi

Refereeing



4- Restraining, holding or 3- Traveling or holding the ball more than three seconds

5- Hitting 6- Offensive foul

8- Goal-keeper throw 9- Free throw direction 10- Keep the distance of 1 7- Throw-in direction

12- Gaining 2 points 13- Suspension 14- Disqualification 11- Gaining 1 point

16- Time-out 17- Permission for two persons who are entitled to participate to enter the court during time-out

18- Forewarning signal for passive play

15- Exclusion



He is not only an ordinary person because he is the President of Bahrain Handball Federation but he is also intelligent am-bitious administrative talent who works silent refuse the gray colours. So a discus-sion with Mr. Ali Eisa Ishaqi features that he is standing in the base of Knowledge and speech. And he goes far from prais-ing in front of him but he goes directly into the problems, he is a man of opinion and situations which you go with him or against, but you like to hear what he say when he is exhibiting the methods with the reasons.The meeting with the President Mr. Ali Eisa was in all directions and we ask him:

Mr. Ali Eisa the President of Bahrain Handball Federation

The foresight of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad is behind the Asian Success

Meeting


Are you satisfied with your period in Bahrain Handball Association since 2005 as the vice-president?Until most of the period I felt comfortable but I resigned and went back to my origi-nal club Al-Ahli as a trea-surer and in charge of the Handball since 2009. In this year I won the election as a President for Bahrain Hand-ball Association and I got 9 votes from 12 and I won the chairmanship.

Why you resigned from the Association and re-turned back again?In this period Al-Ahli Club needed me because I was afraid that the club will lose its achievements espe-cially Handball and the club promised me that they will give me a choice between club and Association in the next period.

What you achieve when you are the President of Bahrain Handball Associa-tion?I achieved a lot of things in this small period; it’s enough for me that I won the elec-tion in the next congress without any opposition. I think this is a certificate of recognition for me during my service in the Associa-tion.

Are you satisfied of your achievement? We started the steps to-wards reformation and we feel good but not in the level of ambitions we want. But we put a strong base-ment and now we have a better administration still

not enough. We cannot re-duce the service of the pre-vious council because they have a good impression in the game during their hard work and now we continue in the same way towards achieving.

Why the improvement is not 100 percent?You should know that we as an association put the view and strategy to achieve but some of the executional matters are objecting. This is the situation for any founda-tion needs to improve and this happens in all levels in the Arab countries.

Did you think that the problem of Handball is just administration?No. this is mixed between administration and tech-nical corners; hence, we organized many courses for some commissions to activate to be part of the system, we formed a com-mission called Disciplinary Commission to prepare the Bylaws and Regulations for Penalties arising during the matches. And this is a small step to solve the problems.

How you formed this Dis-ciplinary Commission?The important thing when we formed this commis-sion is that each club will have a representative in this commission and the Repre-sentative will accept these regulations for penalties hence, they can’t overlook these regulations in any situation. And the decision is effective but there is a right for the club to appeal

I’m honored to work with the Organization of Fahad

Established Handball Academy andthe Results will be soon

Bader Al-Theyab an unknown soldier

Privatization guarantee the independence

Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad


about the decision and this mechanism is developed for flexibility and freedom of thought in the sports activi-ties.

What is the big challenge you faced in this field?I don’t think this as a chal-lenge but patient to suc-cess, when I became the president, I had many sta-tions in front of me which is not hidden for you that whoever accept this respon-sibility should be connected with everybody, and solve the problems with the In-ternational, Continental and Arab Federations. It is dif-ficult to work alone, luckily we achieved this goal.

Is that mean that there was some problems be-tween your Association and other Federations es-pecially AHF?

Actually there is no work without problems espe-cially with AHF and we got support from Sheikh Eisa Bin Rashid the Hon. Presi-dent of Olympic Committee of Bahrain during his con-nection with Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad, President of AHF and we visited Kuwait and we solved all the problems. The Treasurer of AHF Mr. Bader Al-Theyab he played a good roll in solving all the problems, because he has a good view.

What is the connection of Bader Al-Theyab in this problem?He hasn’t any connection but this person I recognize him as an unknown soldier in AHF and he prefer to work in good atmosphere. So he took part in solving this problem.

What is this problem?I don’t like to speak in this matter but the important thing is that we solved it. We should know that the stabil-ity is the important thing in any Foundation. This was the foresight of Sheikh Ah-mad Al-Fahad and Bader Al-Theyab.

What is the meaning in nominating you for the Council Member of AHF?I was honored to work in this successful Federation during the previous small period but I’ll not accept being a non-active member even though this is a posi-tion of Bahrain Kingdom. I nominate myself because I feel that most of the Fed-erations in the continent especially Kuwait the Head Quarters of AHF want me as a council member. I should be working in a place where I’m wanted.

How you see the matters?Everything is feeling good, the connection between the continental federation and Bahrain Handball As-sociation is excellent. They awarded us the organization of Asian Men Youth Champi-onship and we put the plan for all Gulf countries and it brought the benefits.

What is your achievement in this small period?First time the Men’s team achieved the second place in Asian Men’s Champi-onship 2010 and Youth achieved the third place and Men Beach Handball Team achieved the Silver Medal in the same year in Asian Beach Games 2012 in China, and this is achieve-ment Unprecedented dur-ing one year.

This is your achievements in the technical corner, what about the achieve-ments in the administra-tive field?There is lot. The important one is founding a Handball Academy since 8 months for the persons born between 2001 until 2004. And we made a contract with the international coaches, be-cause all the big clubs in the world have an academy to produce good players.But the Academy needs fi-nancial support?After we provided the proj-ect we got the approval of Bahrain Olympic Com-mittee with the President Sheikh Nasar Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa. After the Olympic Committee is satisfied they allowed increasing the Bud-get for the success of the Academy including the Na-tional Teams, Referees and Coaches.

Which school the Academy targets?The Leader of this Acad-emy is Mr. Drusto Boha from Serbia and Goal-keeper coach from Macedonia with three national coaches and Sheikh Eisa Bin Rashid

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a coach for Women from Croatia and Physiotherapist from Serbia.

What are the executive plans followed to start to work in the Academy?We popularized the game in Bahrain 80 percent and we made exams in seven schools and we chose 4000 students after that we fil-tered 392 students and then we chose 149 students and finalized to 79 players.

What are the measures for choosing?Height, Fit and reading the genes and we concentrate in the players who is left handed because they are not found more in the field. Then we participate with these players as a team in Youth league.

Bahrain Handball Associa-tion has just one Hall, how the Academy is manag-ing?Good question. Due to the non-availability of Halls we ask the support for the halls of Ministry of Education. Of course we need halls, so we provided a project which is under study.

This is a professional job but incomplete?Of course, the Handball should be independent that means the Federation should be independent from the government and should be free in taking de-cisions, and in political.

How?To nobody misunderstand me… nobody should

interfere in the work and be self-dependent of the incomes and don’t need the support of government. I mean, as a private company has independent budget but this in general difficult to do it in Arab countries.

That means… you want privatization of the Fed-eration?Yes… because this will guar-antee an independent fed-eration but this will not hap-pen in one night but it will take a long period of transi-tion. Because we still live in an amateur period.

Do you think that Arab countries are in the wrong way in moving the sport?Of course… they are in the wrong way everybody should learn and accept the changes. I agree this is diffi-cult but not impossible.

Then… the difference in the administration be-tween us and the Europe is big?The difference is very big; we can’t measure by the num-bers of years, because the improvement in the level of Handball is connected with the improvement of behav-ior in the lifestyle.

What is your opinion about the level of Gulf National teams, they are improving or decreasing?Actually these national teams are always improving and nobody can deny that. There is improvement in the national teams of Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, but the level is decreasing

in national teams of Kuwait and we don’t know why.

How you see the level of Arabs?I’m a member of Executive office of Arab Federation, there is a clear decreasing. Even some of the achieve-ments in the world level is by luck. The Federation needs exploitations of skills which is already there but not exploited.

What if your opinion of AHF?The reason for nominating me for AHF is they have a professional job in the pre-vious little years. There is a big job and professional in the commissions of Or-ganizing and Competition, Playing Rules and Referees commission. Everybody will agree about this job but it needs Marketing Media to get the financial income to help AHF to support the Un-der Developed Countries. All these things will be pos-sible when the Marketing Commission is active.

Why this development in AHF?I think the stability and no favors in the relations; all these are due to the plans of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad, President of AHF. He enjoy in mixing the brilliance of sport and the leadership of sport and he has the im-pression of history in con-tinental and international. And he added and assured that Mr. Bader Al-Theyab, Treasurer of AHF is a veter-an and a person who is like in all Federations in Yellow continent because he has the attitude and solves all the problems in the begin-ning. And I repeat he is an unknown soldier and he work silent for the success of the Political of AHF.

I think you are impressed very much by Mr. Bader Al-Theyab?This is of course; this is not my opinion the opinion of all responsibilities of all federations of Asian con-tinent, I think you agree with me.

•AliEisa(45Years)• PresidentofBahrainHandballAssociation• Executive CommitteeMember of Arab Fed-

eration• PlayerofAl-Ahli,Bahrain•Quitplayingin1997•Administration•MemberofAl-AhliCouncil1998• InchargeofHandballin2003•Vice-Presidentin2005•HeadofTechnicalinAl-AhliClub• President of association since 2009 till now

without opposed• Executive CommitteeMember of Arab Fed-

eration 2010

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Nobody can deny that the Nor-wegian Women team is the New Olympic Champion. They applied the fastest game in Beijing Olym-pics as a best team and they scored 12 goals in a blitz in the Olympics Final against Russia. (The score was 7:1 after 7 minutes and 13:3 after 15 minutes) Their attacks were killing fast and they had the game in total control in the early stages itself and the game was one sided. 65 goals scored totally in 8 games

was the contribution of counter-attack (i.e. equals to 26.2 % of total goals.) in gaining the first place of Norwegian team in the statistics. If we take into account the percent-age of fast game through counter-attack in the first half or second half or in the throw-offs it will be more than that. (because the statistics are not available) So, it’s clear that the fast game in Women’s Handball of higher level is similar to Men’s Hand-ball.

The way of play for Norwe-gians is counter-attack

For sure, a successful game with counter-attack also an evidence of good defense. For Norwegians 6:0 defense method was the best for them in the Olympics. The first picture is a clear example of how the Norwegians made their counter-attack. But, also there is a risk of defense. Both the attacking players against the wings started

Counter-attack is Women’s feature in Olympics

Norway captured Gold with high-speed 65 Goals by counter-attack

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The first counter-attack (Right Wing, Left Wing and the Court Player) and the Second Counter-attack from behind are balanced right and left.


running in the counter-attack in the early stage itself, even though the ball was not in the complete posses-sion. This early start is an evidence of reading the situation clearly in search of different chances to pos-sess the ball. Because, the counter-attack from both sides is basically a productive one; while the opponent lose the ball both wing players will start running on the side line very fast to establish a counter-attack. The second picture is clearly show-ing a counter-attack from the court player and the two wings players

and the player behind her and it’s very cleared that the counter-attack of Norwegians how they invested excellently field of play.The goal keeper or the player who started the play is having a long ex-ercise towards the wings players. The first circle is explaining this counter-attack which includes a long exer-cise; meanwhile, according to the stand the coach player is third player who joins the first counter-attack.The second option is activating the first counter-attack by a pass from one of the center player, hence the

other center players immediately taking their places inside the defense area towards the wing to be available to receive the short pass from the goal keeper. After receiving the ball they are eager to have the chance of passing the ball to the player who is in front with the counter-attack. The second circle shows that after receiv-ing the ball from the Norwegians de-fense (6:0) in the circle.The first and second picture shows another typical scene of Norwegians behavior during the first counter-attack.

Both the wing players risk in starting early despite the fact that the ball has not yet been possessed


Picture 1: cutting the defense of ball(Final between Norway vs. Russia)

The right wing giving a disguising pass to the right back (RB). But, she can’t Because of the predicted defending. So, she is forced to play a long pass to the left back (LB). The third defense is interfering in the middle from the right side and giving the pass immediately to the right wing (RW) who is moving in the counter-attack.

Picture 2: long pass towards the goal area in the counter-attack(Final between Norway vs. Russia)

The goal keeper is giving a small pass to the left back who pass the ball towards the field player who is giving a long pass in the counter-attack.

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1. Development in the qualities of the characters (Physi-cal and mental capacity of each age category).

2. Focus on success in the sense of the players.3. Developing the spirit of community.4. Developing the desire to ensure the regular atten-

dance.5. Focus on the art of performance for the age categories,

so, its easy to execute the basic skills of Handball game which leads towards their self believe and confidence if victory.

6. Installing the desire in the players; this stands on the preparation of the coach of a training module and he should consider the following:

a. In the beginning he should start with simple and easy trainings for the players to achieve the small and fast victories. This will create a desire in them to continue

the training.b. The players should be divided into different groups

appropriately and according to their strengths. It is not important to have same training modules for all. Be-cause, sometimes it will be hard for a group and easy for another group.

c. In most of the times the desire of a player in training and executing will go down if the training goes in a single frequency and boring…. So, different kind of training, practice and art of executing is necessary.

For example during warm-up:The coach should make it as a small game in sometimes another time it should be dribbling the ball and conver-sation third time handling the ball and fitness exercises. The propagation of making combined competitions and

The important things which needs exposure during the planning of the appropriate program to train the young Handball playersPrepared by:

The International Lecturer Mr. Effat Rashad

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trainings should be taken in to account with monitoring the time measurement during the execution, like:a. Dribbling the ball continuously with running until 20

meters with left hand.b. Dribbling the ball continuously with running until 20

meters with right hand.c. Passing the ball to another player standing in the left

side of the player who is a right hand player and vice versa.

d. Receiving the ball in motion.e. Shooting in to the Goal.

In the Play:It is necessary to complete the game in each training module. In the beginning no need to be like a handball match which have two goal posts but it is enough to be like a beginners match or like groups plying with one ball and a goal post. After spending some time in training, it is important to have some handball sport practice for 15-20 minutes of practice time at least. If there is more than two teams the time will increase to 45 minutes.How is it possible for a coach to improve the team spirit of a team?The team spirit will improve according to the improve-ment of attitude in the view of training and with combin-ing both. It is hard to explain the stages of improvement; hence, those things are mixed with each other, however this improvement in general will come as follows:1. The coach will manage the team without any limita-

tions and the requirements of the team members would be in his total control which they have to fulfill.

2. A positive nucleus which consists automatically be-tween the players will create a positive character which will help during the matches to execute the plans. That nucleus will reflect in the other players also.

3. This collective effort will specify the duties of the co-players of the team personally.

It is necessary to start from the first hour itself to create the team spirit as per the following steps:The first step to create the team spirit for a team:The coach should give instructions to the team and he will explain to the players his executive proposals which they can implement if they execute his previous instruc-tions. Also he should make the previous instructions as a character slowly and he should have thinked about it deeply. Now we will give some examples of that:a. Punctuality in attending the training and the matches.b. If there is ample reason should ask excuse for skipping

the training or the matches.c. Clean sportswear and wearing according to the rules

and regulations.d. Maintaining the system properly in taking their places

of everyone. e. Behaving as a role model towards the referees, co-

players, juries and the opponent teams.f. Not criticizing the referees’ decisions.If the players didn’t follow these basic instructions, a warning or a temporary suspension from the training and from the competitions or excluding them from the team for a certain period is necessary. Otherwise, the team spirit will be missing from the team. This should be followed to the players of good levels and excellent skills also. Sometimes excluding a good player from the team may weaken the team in the beginning but the end re-sult will be good for the improvement of the team and that is the main aim in making as one group. The coach should not face any interference in those basic instructions. All these should be with a fun atmosphere in the beginning and this fun atmosphere will be created by following things:a. Happiness which comes before the next training pe-

riod and in waiting for that.b. Participating in tournaments and championships.c. Improving the level of physical abilities in the perfor-

mance (which will show in the fundamental training results)

Second step to improvethe team spirit of a team:

Achieving the second step to improve the team spirit will stand on the individual attitudes that have the positive spirit and he can lead the co-players by following the


instructions of the coach exactly. These kinds of players should be given different kind of tasks like taking care of the Balls and captaining the team. When these persons complete their tasks, the coach will assist them without interfering in their powers in front of others.With that we can overcome a lot of difficulties, because each team will try to safeguard their high position which they achieved in handball. This position should be achieved by improving the team spirit of the team.

Practical examples to improve the team spirit in the team:1. If any player has their own idea which is against the

team, it is necessary to explain him about his wrong exercise and importantly they should understand that consistent victory will be succeeded only with the team play.

If the beginners have many attempts to reach to shoot at the goal by dribbling the ball continuously and didn’t succeed, meanwhile it is necessary to prevent the whole team from dribbling the ball that means compelling them to dribble the ball just once. If the instruction of the coach isn’t followed the offending team will be punished by giving a free through in favor of the other team.To begin with, all the players should be taught to drib-ble the ball continuously or just once with a break to the game. To prove this, we can guess the time taken by the flight of the ball during the training and comparing the time with the time consumed by the player to pass the same distance with dribbling. By holding this simple comparison it will be clear for the players that the ad-vice of the coach and his thinking is correct. Dribbling the ball is not allowed unless there is a co-player in an unattended position or the way towards the goal is free from the opponents. Apart from this dribbling will not be permitted to the team.2. We must explain the players that passing the ball to

a fellow player who is in a great position to score is better than scoring the goal by shooting himself di-rectly; therefore they imagine that the person who scores the goal is the hero, here we have to change this mentality. This is an important thing for a coach to take care of that.

3. Shouting and scolding should be prevented seriously even one of the players is clearly responsible for los-ing the ball or wasted an absolute chance to score. Because these kind of attitude will demoralize a team as a whole.

4. All the players should behave in a sportive manner. If anyone opposes these basics he should be suspend-ed temporarily or permanently from the game. The

coach should extend this suspension in the matches also, even if the referee didn’t order against a player when he is behaving against the team spirit.

5. The players should be educated the virtue of self-con-trol, that’s where they avenge themselves from the opponent player during rough play which results in out of play and leads to a sharp decline in the effec-tiveness of the team.

6. All the players should follow the technical instructions in defense to prevent the rival player from scoring goals and also in the attack.

7. The coaching should be given on collective assistance during the non training period.

How is it possible to grow the habit of desire inside the players?Growing the habit of desire needs a lot of effort in this way, so, the players should be faced obstacles similar to those situations where they must make the effort to keep control of those obstacles and hardships.Some of the examples to grow the habit of desire inside the players:1. Continuous play always even the team lost the hope of

winning the match until the end of the match without

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leaving the efforts involved.2. Continuous training during the coaching especially

those trainings which are demonstrated as low inter-ested from other trainings.

3. Organized escalation of the duties required from a player to do.

4. Abide by the factor of time while passing the coach-ing ring for example.

5. Abide by the factor of time while combined coach-ing.

6. Considering the facing of the targeted player seriously that is when standing like a bulwark.

7. Coaching the shooting with fall then with an oppo-nent player in the next step.

8. Playing in the bad weather (windy – rainy – extreme heat)

9. Assigning the player to complete the organized home work.

10. Coaching to control him inside the playing hall.

Training periods: one to two times weekly.Aim: to be a nice game and to grow the desire of the game by following materials:

1. Basic idea of Handball2. Explaining how to play as a team3. Explaining the content of the game through the

rules.4. Explaining the importance of fair play.5. A nice game before the results. (the performance not

the result)6. Instructing the system.7. Showing the talents:Following the way of teaching of the game by following five steps:First: Display “Model Performance”Second: Explanation “explaining”Third: Coaching “repeating”Fourth: Duties noteFifth: Correcting the mistakesThe connection between the coach and the player should be:55% look (observation)38% listening7% word

Like a Chinese proverb says:“I can forget what I heard but I can’t forget what I saw”(Some ideas for youth handball)1. No need for plans and high technical performance in

this age2. Leave the players to improve their natural skills to

show their gifted talents during the practice and play.

3. While practicing and playing matches the player should take in to his account the simple rules and fol-low the technical aspects of the game.

4. Make him love the game without forcing him to be regular and playing for more than 2 – 3 hours in a week during his school age.

5. Holding exhibitions or Sports day in the weekend holi-days by inviting the families, coaches and the teachers to provide the safety and encouraging them.

6. Enjoying the game is important to produce the results and focusing on fair play is most important which should be given first preference.

Rules of the game:1. Overlook the rules of keeping the ball and passing it.2. Taking care of not entering the goal area and not mov-

ing with the ball more than 3 steps.3. When a player is suspended only the player should

be punished not the team that means the concerned player should exit and a substitute player should en-ter hence, the game should move with all the players.

4. Not focusing on the rules of entering or exiting of the players without any punishment.


Dr. Mulla Abdul Aziz explained that the therapeutic strengthening exer-cises will improve the functional lev-el of knee arthritis disease through alleviating the stiffness in the knee and increasing the surrounding muscle strength of the knee joint and improving the motor run, flex-ible joint and increasing the general durability of the patient more and faster than the Therapeutic electri-cal appliances. Also it increases du-rability of the patient and his gen-eral strength which will lead to the flexibility in moving and give huge support in easing the pain and im-proving the life-style and the perfor-mance in different activities of life.The best and the successful of strengthening exercises for the treatment of knee arthritis, he said, is keeping a roll or a pillow under the feet with tightening the ankle

joint and repeating this for 10 times or By taking the status of the knee at a 45 degree angle and keeping some weight under the feet and lift-ing gradually and bringing down gradually 10-50 times according to the instructions of the physiothera-pist.In addition to that lifting the leg up

45 degree with the knee still and in-creasing the weight gradually and doing this 10-50 times as per the instruction of the physiotherapist. Side by side with the flexion exercise straightening the knee joint with the use of medical latch for 5-10 min-utes to increase the flexibility and the motor run of the knee joint. The patient can do these exercises more than once in a day. It is also recommended walking programs that would prefer to be part of a group involved with them in the performance of therapeutic exercis-es and strengthening exercises and the walking program to ensure the preservation and maintenance of performance which should ensure continuity.Referred to as the inflammation of the knee joint is a disease caused by injury or as a result of the sur-gery in the knee or injuries resulting from overuse of the knee, habits and wrong postures resulting from in-correct practices in everyday life like sitting position or wrong action etc. sometimes this pain will be the re-sult of injuries for muscles, ligament and cartilages of the knee joint.

Strengthening ismore effective in thetreatment of knee painDr. Jawwad Abdul AzizChief of Orthopedic unit in the Physical Therapy division of Salmania Medical Center in the Kingdom of Bahrain Dr. Jawwad Mulla Abdul Aziz ensured that strengthening exercise is more effective than Therapeutic electrical appliances in easing or treating the joint pain.

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The Shoulder joint is the most flexible joint between the joints of the human body and also the joint with wide range of movement. Because it allows the greatest possible degree of movement in the human body and because of its unique composition is similar in shape of a ball moving on a platter.However, the flexible movement of the shoulder joint is at the expense of the stability of the joint is also more prone to dislocation, especially in athletes, and this happens when the head of the bone moves spherical shape due to the thickness of the upper arm due to the cavity, which lie therein, and may be either hap-pen in front which is the most common result of falling on the shoulder or on the arm which is rare and either backward due to exposure to the impact from the front which causes - if severe - torn muscles or ligaments or the hamstrings supporting the shoulder.For that to be imaginable, the anatomical configura-tion of the shoulder joint consists of 3 different joints: the front side, the back side and the wraps around the shoulder joint muscles which is responsible for the stability of the joint and movement. The group com-prises the muscles surrounding the hinge shoulder of 4 muscles stretching from the scapula to the humerus: the muscle above the spinal and muscle under spinal and muscle teres minor and muscle under the tablet is

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working these muscles to stabilize the shoulder joint in addition to rotate the humerus, and in the case of im-paired function of one of these muscles, it will affect the shoulder movement and function clearly.Perhaps the most important causes of shoulder pain is due to the weakness of the deep neck muscles and slipped disc in the spine of the back of the neck; what causes muscle weakness which is responsible for the sta-bility or for the movement of the shoulder joint, along with cramps, which may also affect the muscles of the top shoulder and neck or dislocation of the shoulder joint through injury directly, like the injury to the hu-meral. Sometimes the dislocation in these cases may be involuntary, which means that the patient can take off the joint and return it by some certain movements, and without pain or with a low degree of pain, in addition to this there are two more reasons, which are repeated dis-location of front shoulder joint involuntarily, because it results in the injury and cause a lot of pain, particularly in the movement of the joint erosion or joint infections as a result of the age factor or work load of the joints.And can be identified by the shoulder joint pain through symptoms including upper rear shoulder muscles and shoulder muscles rear oblique and deep neck muscles and muscles of the shoulder joint background. For the prevention of mother of the shoulder joint should be a joint exercise to move circular movements and simpli-fied front and rear.


When considering Handball play-ers we often meet a player who has all the requirements of this sport; the super speed, physical strength, flexibility and balance. Also we find that he is to derail and highlight all the attributes of the physical capa-bilities and skills very well through training. But once exposed to the pressured situations such as crucial games we find him not enjoying all these abilities and skills, but has become a burden on the teams who plays him.

Thus, such a player does not need to have further physical training or skills, because he has it already in himself, but in fact he needs a spe-cialized program to train mental skills and psychological works. By providing what is missing from these skills to be able to confront psycho-logically during the games and com-petitions he becomes able to cope with these pressures imposed by dif-ferent variables of the tournament as well as the ability to focus and to create goals that evoke a challenge.

But realistically, this will come through mastering the mental skills and basic psychological skills (such as mental perception- the focus of attention - self-confidence -facing the stress). There is a common belief that psychological preparation and mental skills training is for players of higher levels, or at the very least, it specializes on the players of adult age. On the contrary, the most im-portant and most dangerous stages that make up the player psycho-logically to serve his sports career

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and even his public life, is the early stages of the sports activity. There is a general rule explains that training the mental and psychological skills at an early age is better whenever possible.There is a lot of emerging talents who disconnected the Practice of sporting activity and exposed to psychological combustion as a re-sult of their inability to confront anxiety and different stresses caused by the sport that they prac-tice and their lack of mental and psychological skills to face such pressures and they don’t have a guide to support them to overcome these pressures. Many of the psy-chological features like self-control, self-confidence and strained nerves and fear has played an important role in resolving the results of the matches. The matches of twenty-third World Championship for men in Spain illustrated these things and

it was so evident in the final game between the Spanish team and the Danish team. The Spain coach VALERO RIERA explained that, ap-propriate psychological readiness was the main factor in the superior-ity of the team in an unprecedented way in the final game. Unlike Den-mark Coach ULRIK WILBEK showed his bewilderment and surprise of the decline and fall of the level of the players in the final while offer-ing condolences to the loss of focus and attention.All of these results were resolved in favor of the teams which enjoy psychological traits such as self-restraint, no stress and self-confi-dence i.e. the balance of the whole team. On the basis of evolution of handball, which reflected in the per-formance levels of the players and teams during the games and the development in showing their skills and tactics has emerged clearly the

role of psychological preparation of the players and the team. Thus, the psychological preparation and the physical preparation of skills and tactics became the part of the pro-cess of learning and training of play-ers and groomed.The psychological preparation for handball players will pass a basic five stages, which are:Phase I: create a positive environ-mentPhase II: Control emotionsPhase III: Control of attentionPhase IV: Develop strategies before and during competitionsPhase V: the application of mental skills in training and competitionsThe first stage of psychological preparation of a handball player is to create a positive environment, which represent the main base of the mental preparation for a hand-ball player and can be summarized in the following picture:


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