The National U18 Men’s handball team will, today, take on their Nicaraguan counterparts in their opening game of the International Handball Federation (IHF) Trophy Intercontinental championship holding in Costa Rica.
Matches will be played at the BN Arena in San Jose, with winners of the event automatically qualifying for the World Championships. Nigeria, finalists at the 2019 edition in Kosovo, where they lost narrowly to Chinese Taipei, are the African champions. It is their second time at the IHF world championship.
Team Nigeria, which left the country at the weekend, is made up of mostly players that participated and won the Africa Zone 3 tournament in Cote d’Ivoire and the continental tournament in Congo Brazzaville.
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