The Egyptian national handball team U19, led by Magdy Abu El Majd, wrote its name in gold letters as they reached the semi-final of the 2019 IHF Men’s Youth (U19) World Championship held in Macedonia from 6th to 18th of August 2019.

This qualification is the first for Egypt in its history For a nation junior Handball team to reach the semi finals of a World Championship since its inception.

Our national team managed to reach the semi finals by defeating Iceland 35-31 in their games at the quarter-final stage, and will face Portugal at the semi finals.

Egypt’s Champions came in the first place of their Group B with 8 points as they won 4 matches over Sweden, Chinese Taipei, Canada and Hungary while they lost one game against France, before they won the game over Slovenia 30-23 at the round of 16.