Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan teams yesterday close the group stage of the African Champion Clubs’ Cup, unconcerned about their opponents in the quarter-finals scheduled for the Tunisian cities of Hammamet and Nabeul. Armored in the lead, 1º de Agosto faces, at 17:00, the “friends” of DGSP from the Republic of Congo at Bir Challouf de Nabeul for the B series and Petro de Luanda goes down, at 19:30, to the floor of Fadusi Sahli, in Hammamet, to play with FAP Cameroon in the A series.
The soldiers from Rio Seco scored 93 goals, conceded 61 and have a positive balance of 32. The loss of leadership is a chimera. The remaining opponents of group B present worrying indicators. Tunisian Moknine occupies the second position of the group with four points, two less than 1º de Agosto, scored 84 goals and conceded 81. The positive balance of three can be undone in today’s match and change the position.
In third place is DGSP, from Congo, with four points and a positive balance of four goals, resulting from 101 goals scored and 97 conceded. Congo’s “military” team faces its Angolan counterpart with a mix of uncertainties, after the invitation of 1º de Agosto to train at Cidade Desportiva in Luanda as part of the preparation for this championship.
It is unlikely that the Agostina team will take friendly ties so seriously that they will allow themselves to be lost on the field. Friend, friend! Business aside! Winning is a matter of honor for José Terça Chuma’s men.
In another game of the series, Moknine from Tunisia has the task of escaping the “dangerous” place in the confrontation with TKC. The loser can meet Petro de Luanda in the quarter-finals. With the exception of 1º de Agosto, all other clubs, who lose, are likely to take fourth place.
In Serie A, Petro de Luanda’s leadership is not in question. The pride of finishing the first phase “without pimples” spearheads the will of Vivaldo Eduardo’s team. Petro and FAP of Cameroon secured the first two places, regardless of the result of today’s game.
In other group games, Habitat from Côte d’Ivoire plays as a favorite against Flowers from Benin, a team that doesn’t know the diagrams to win a game. The Ivorians can keep third place.
In the game between El Biar from Algeria and USG from Guinea, both with three points each, the result matters for the stage pass.
The African champions (1º de Agosto) and vice-champions (Petro de Luanda) lead the series with the consent of all inherent rights. The two teams guaranteed “gaol average” (goal differences) able to guarantee them the front places.
The regulations of the 43rd edition of the Handball Champion Clubs’ Cup establish crosses between the teams in the quarter-finals. The first classified face the rooms of the opposing groups. The leader of Group-B, 1º de Agosto, will play with the fourth in the B series. Petro de Luanda awaits the definition of the fourth classified in the A series. These are “the prizes” dedicated to the best of the first phase.
CAHB trains coaches in Tunisia
The African Handball Confederation (CAHB) has held, in Hammamet the course to obtain the ‘C’ license from the International Handball Federation (IHF) without any Angolan coach registered among the more than forty (40) trainees.
All the coaches are from Maghreb, despite being an open, face-to-face and intensive training action. Egyptians, Algerians, Moroccans and the majority of Tunisians (the protocol allows the host country to register up to 60 percent of the number of admissions) are the ones that embody the event, which is lectured by Frenchman Paul Andoré.
No coach of the teams registered in the Champions Clubs’ Cup is participating, due to the face-to-face training regime with classes in the morning, afternoon and evening.
CAHB had already carried out a training of the kind in Egypt, during the dispute of the African Cup of Nations in male seniors, which also did not count with the participation of any Angolan.
The holding of the event is justified by the recent change to the rules of handball, which also changes the behavior of athletes on the field.
Our report heard Edgar Neto, president of the Angolan Handball Coaches Association, who is in Hammamet as an assistant to Vivaldo Eduardo, at Petro de Luanda. The person in charge reassures national affiliates.
“Yesterday, we met with the president of the Methods and Training Commission of the CAHB. Fortunately, we managed to resolve this issue. I believe that the participation of Angolan coaches in these actions under the aegis of the CAHB is safeguarded. First, we are going to deal with the administrative aspects and, later, we are going to make sure what we are doing”, he said.
The next training action under the aegis of CAHB is scheduled for March 2023, in Algiers. It should be noted that the Angolan technician, Vivaldo Eduardo, is a member of the CAHB Methods and Training Commission.
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