The Egyptian national handball team U19 will meet Portugal today at 5:30 in the semi-final of the 2019 IHF Men’s Youth (U19) World Championship held in Macedonia from 6th to 18th of August 2019.

Our national team managed to reach the semi finals by defeating Iceland 35-31, while Portugal's national handball team U19 beat France 31-26 in the quarter-final stage of the World Championships.

Egypt’s team qualified for the quarter-final after beating Slovenia 30-23. While Iceland won over Japan 39-34 in the round of 16.

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.