2008 WUC Handball: Day 2
July 6th, 2008
Women's Competition: Hungary Beats Brazil
Hungary flies. In its debut in the 19th World University Handball Championship the team trained by Josef Varga wins easily versus Brazil (39-28). The team arrived second at the World Championship in Danzica, after what we have seen yesterday in Oderzo, seems to be a group able to gain a good position also in this edition of the Championship. The most important particular? Hungary is a team that can react, that can have moments of distraction but, that can immediately, and they knows how well they can do it, set itself on the right track. Against Brazil, indeed, the Hungarian at the starting seemed to be in difficulties, so much that the South-Americans after no more than 6 minutes unexpectedly lead the match 6-2. Well, it was enough that during the time out Vargas calls on order his girls for making the music change. Quick actions, clear physical superiority respect their challengers, first-class technique: these are the weapons thanks to what Hungary had right of Brazil, reaching in the final phase of the second half even a maximum advantage of + 15 (38-23).
Men's Competition
During the two matches of this morning the attention was for the teams playing in Group C, it has been a big success for Japan who won against Azerbaijan winning for 36-32 it hasn't been so easy at the beginning for Japan but at the end during the second half they found their victory. We have to indicate the fact that during the match Iwanaga scored 11 goals. The second match between Georgia and Serbia has been less balanced: the Balkans won 31-22. Serbia has always conduit, passing from 4-1 at beginning, to 13-7 during the interval, then they increased until +13 (29-16) of 24'; only during the last stage the Georgians have reduced the disadvantage from Serbia.
