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Egypt nearly wrote the history of handball in 1997 by acceding to the World Cup Golden Square as the first non-European team to achieve this feat.
In the early hours of January, the Egyptians continued the quarterfinals between Japan and Egypt between France and Egypt. Two minutes before the end, the result indicated the progress of the roosters by a single goal.
The ball was signed by Ahmed Al-Attar, the star of the Egyptian team at the time, to reverse the score and lose Egypt in the closest match of the day. 39, entry into the adult box by three goals of the French roosters.
Two years later, in the middle of a crowded audience of 25,000, and in a version presented by Egypt, the pharaohs did not realize the dream and the quarter-finals were again Aqaba.
The Egyptian team bowed to the Russian giant, who made in the first minutes of 6/0, a match in which the Bear Ahlam Egypt to go to the match became the second game of the country, the Egyptians think that the Node of the quarterfinals and the team had five copies in The major tournaments between the Olympics and the World Cup will not be solved.
However, the same year and in Qatar, was held the World Junior Football Championship in which participated the missing piece of the Pharaohs, the Egyptian Concorde Hussein Zaki. Egypt was moving away in front of a mad crowd and was barely losing in the semifinals before winning the third and fourth matches against a French team led by Daniel Narcisse is a player who will later become one. the most important parts of the historical and expert generation of France.
Egypt, which won the World Youth Champions title in 1993 in Cairo and gave birth to a generation led by such personalities as Hamada Al-Rubi, Hamada Al-Naqib, Ashraf, Hazem Awwad, Jawhar Nabil, Sherif Mo's men, Majdi Abu Al-Majd and Mahmoud Hussein, have managed to integrate the generation into titles like that of Love. Marwan Rajab, Amr El-Geoushy, Saber Hussein, Ahmed Bilal, Ayman Salah and finally Hussein Zaki to draw the traits of a generation that is the most important in the history of Egyptian handball.
France 2001 Last chance for the generation of a boat to end and the most important journey in the history of all team sports in Egypt, Egypt belongs to a group including the champions of Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Iceland, Portugal and Morocco.
Egypt, led by Yugoslav fox Zoran The group begins with a comfortable victory over Morocco 28/19, before drawing 26-26 with the Czech Republic, beating Portugal 23/19 and l & # 39; Iceland 24/22 to hit Sweden at the end of the group, but easily lose by 6 goals.
In the same night as the Egyptians at the height of grief, but for another reason, a draw against Morocco 0/0 in the qualifiers of the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Cairo after a flood of missed opportunities, especially with Tariq Al Saïd, delighted to see Ben Zekri empty.
Egypt finishes the second group and faces another Arab team in the prize of the final is the third group of Algeria and in a difficult match, Egypt will win in 24/21 to make an appointment with Russia in quarterfinal.
At the time, Russia was champion of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and the 1999 FIFA World Cup in Egypt. Talking about an Egyptian surprise was therefore a fantasy. On February 1, 2001, it was the most important day in the history of Egyptian handball. Goalkeeper Andrey Lafarov's goal of becoming the first non-European team in history to qualify for the semi-finals of the world championship and lift ambition in the sky before facing France in half-time. Finals in one of the most controversial games in history and in the middle of accusations so reluctant to want to bias the owner of the field and deliberately to hit the giant Ham Roui. Faced with Egypt The secret in the epic game 24/21.
This happens despite the fact that the Pharaohs ended the first period with two goals against a team that won the title later to end the dreams of the Egyptians and who failed 16 years later in eight copies, despite their participation. to full access even to the quarter-finals.
Germany, Denmark and Germany will start their World Cup matches on Friday against Sweden in a group including Hungary, Qatar, Angola and Argentina. Will Egypt be about to renew its matches or complete its 18 years of play without a trace?
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