Al Jazeera defies Esperance in “handball”

Reda Saleem (Dubai)

Al-Jazira and Tunisia’s Esperance will launch the first matches of the 36th Prince Faisal bin Fahd Arab League for Handball Champions Clubs, which starts tomorrow “Sunday” in Hammamet, Tunisia, and will continue until next November 2, as part of the second group, and will meet in the second match in the same group Al-Gharafa and Makarim Al-Mahdiyya. Skikda misses the first round.
Al Ain will meet with the Hammamet Association, the owner of the land and the host of the tournament in the last match of the first day, which is preceded by the official opening ceremony of the tournament, while it will meet in the penultimate match of the first day, Al-Wakra and Raja Agadir.
Al-Jazira and Al-Ain will miss the second round of the first round in their group the next day, and the “leader” will return to the confrontations against Qatar’s Al-Wakra on Tuesday, while Al-Jazira will meet with Qatar’s Al-Gharafa, then Al-Ain will meet in its third match against the Algerian youth Al-Saoura, while Al-Jazeera plays with Al-Gharafa. Amal Skikda, and on the last day of the first round, Al-Ain meets Raja Agadir and Al-Jazeera meets Makarim Al-Mahdiyya.
According to the tournament system, the first of the first group meets the fourth of the second, the first of the second with the fourth of the first, the second of the first with the third of the second, and the second of the second with the third of the first. In the two groups, they placed ninth and tenth in the championship standings.
On the other hand, Nasser Al Hammadi, Secretary-General of the Hand Federation, left the country for Tunisia to participate in the membership of the technical committee of the tournament, where he was recently chosen as part of the tournament’s team.