Nigeria U-18 boys resume camp ahead IHF tourney
The Nigeria’s U-18 male handball team have resumed an intensive camp in Lagos ahead of next month’s IHF Inter-continental Championship in Costa Rica in preparation for the tournament.
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The IHF Trophy Intercontinental 2023 will hold in San Jose, Costa Rica from March 6 to 11 and it will be the fifth edition of the championship organised by the International Handball Federation.
Head coach, Emeka Nnamani, invited 17 players who are presently undergoing preparation ahead of the championship.
The players consist largely of those who played in the Africa Zone 3 and the continental phase of the championship as well as new players.
Nigeria, who are the Africa champions in the U-18 male category, are participating in the championship for the second time after they finished second in the 2019 edition in Pristina, Kosovo with Nigeria losing to Chinese Taipei 27-26 in the final.
The U-18 boys will be playing in a round-robin competition against Georgia, Guadoloupe, Nicaragua and Tahiti, with the first match on March 8 against Nicaragua.
Nigeria had qualified for the IHF Trophy Intercontinental 2023 after defeating Guinea 37-36 in the final of the IHF Trophy Continental Phase held in Brazzaville, Congo earlier in the year.
Before then they played in the Africa Zone 3 tournament of the competition in Ivory Coast, winning all their games and remain unbeaten in the championship since losing to Chinese Taipei in the 2019 edition of the Intercontinental championship in Kosovo.
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