The South and
Central American qualification for the 2019 IHF Men’s Junior (U21) World
Championship throws off in Palmira, Colombia on Wednesday April 3, with six
teams competing for three places at the final tournament. Argentina, Paraguay,
Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela will play a round-robin competition from
Wednesday through till Sunday April 7, when the top three teams will secure
their berths at the World Championship in Spain this coming July.
The qualification
event will be played on a round-robin basis after Uruguay
withdrew from the competition, with the hosts opening the five-day tournament
against Chile on Wednesday at 16:00 local time (UTC -5).
As finalists of all
Pan American Men’s Junior Championship editions, Argentina and Brazil are hot
favourites for the title, but all teams are highly motivated to claim a ticket
to Spain 2019 and join the participants already qualified from the North
American and the Caribbean region – the USA, who booked their place at Spain
2019 through the Continental Phase of the IHF Trophy, which served as the
qualification event for the North American and Caribbean region.
The 2019 Men’s
Junior World Championship will be played in Spain (Vigo and Pontevedro) from
July 16 to 28. The hosts are also the reigning champions, having claimed their
first ever Junior world title at the previous edition in Algeria in 2017. No
team from the South and Central American region has ever won a medal at the
event – the best result of a nation from this region was Brazil’s sixth place
in 2013.
All matches will be streamed live on the YouTube
channel of the Colombian Handball Federation.
MATCH
SCHEDULE
All times
local
Participants: Argentina (ARG), Brazil
(BRA), Chile (CHI), Colombia (COL), Paraguay (PAR) and Venezuela (VEN)
3
April 2019
16:00 CHI vs COL
18:00 BRA vs PAR
20:00 ARG vs VEN
4
April 2019
16:00 COL vs BRA
18:00 PAR vs ARG
20:00 VEN vs CHI
5
April 2019
16:00 PAR vs COL
18:00 ARG vs CHI
20:00 BRA vs VEN
6
April 2019
16:00 ARG vs COL
18:00 VEN vs PAR
20:00 CHI vs BRA
7
April 2019
16:00 COL vs VEN
18:00 CHI vs PAR
20:00 BRA vs ARG