World Handball Championship – News:
It’s not a secret that referee like to favor home team. One of the biggest “favor” for home side was in soccer World Cup that held in Japan and Korea 2002. South Korea is outsider in world of soccer and on World Cup 2002 they were in Group D with United States, Portugal and Poland. They miracle won the Group D with two wins (Poland 2-0; Portugal 1-0) and one draw (United States 1-1). In eight-finals they beat Italy (World Cup winner 2006) 2-1 after extra times and in quarterfinals they kick out Spain 5-3 (World Cup winner 2010) after penalty shootout. Finally in Semifinals they were beaten by Germany (World Cup winner 2014) 1-0 and in match for 3rd place they lost against Turkey 3-2.
Why are we talking about soccer? Well something similar is happening in Qatar now. Best rank for Qatar team in World Handball Championships was 16th place, two years ago in Spain they took 20th place from 24 contestants, and now that same Qatar is in finals and will battle against France for Championship gold.
After their semifinal win against Poland (31-29) there was a lot of talk about referee in Qatar games. Piotr Chrapkowski said that everyone sees what referee did and that this is a big shame for handball. Chrapkowski said that they (referee) should be suspended and banned from handball for life. Chrapkowski for end added that it’s impossible to beat Qatar and that the winner of this game was known before the game even started.
It’s not first time that fans (or players) are pointing fingers toward Qatar win. Qatar was in Group A and first surprise they made was in third round when they beat Slovenia 31-29, after the game internet was full of hatred toward Denmark referees Hansen and Gjeding. In fourth round Qatar lost against Spain but again it was a hard game in which Spain manage to get the victory in last quarter of the game. In last round of group stage Qatar beat Belarus with 26-22 after being behind 5 goals on the halftime and again after the game internet was calling Czech referees Novotny and Horacek saying that home side bought them. In quarterfinals Qatar beat Germany 26-24 and again Germany officials said that there was no way that Germany could beat Qatar in that game and again they suggest that Qatar might influence on the Macedonian referee couple.
In world of sports it’s not strange that one team is angry on referee after losing the game (after all we are all humans) but this is starting to be strange. Now you know why we talked about soccer World Cup in Japan and Korea. There is still a question in every Italian and Spain fans how did they manage to lose against South Korea? Similar question is probably in each Germany and Poland fan, how?
We don’t know what to expect in the final game between Qatar and France. France is handball giant in both club terms and national terms, but then again so were Slovenia, Germany and Poland. Smart people would say where there is a smoke there is a fire.
WHC News: Qatar in 2015 similar to South Korea in World Cup 2002
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