{"id":50747,"date":"2023-12-01T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/?p=50747"},"modified":"2023-12-01T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:07:01","slug":"angola-loses-in-the-handball-world-championship-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/angola-loses-in-the-handball-world-championship-debut","title":{"rendered":"Angola loses in the handball world championship debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Angola. <\/strong><\/span><b>The National Senior Women&#8217;s Handball Team lost, this Thursday, against France, by 29-30, in a game of the 1st round, group D, of the World Championship, organized jointly between Norway, Denmark and Sweden .<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The African champions were not intimidated by the defending runners-up, trailing at half-time by just three goals (15-18), in a match in which they began to win until the 17th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Angola lost the game in detail. With possession of the ball in the last seconds, and an unfavorable score of 29-30, Isabel Guialo shot towards the side post, missing the equalizer which would have been the fairest result.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three losses of the ball, successive technical errors, at alternate moments of the match, contributed to the narrow defeat of the team, whose performance bewildered the opponent, initially seen as the clear favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Angolan Azenaide Carlos was elected the most valuable player of the match (MVP), while Isabel Guialo, the captain of the national team, was the top scorer, with six goals.<\/p>\n<p>The national seven evolves again on Saturday, against Slovenia, for the 2nd round of the competition, which for the first time takes place in three countries, namely Denmark, Norway and Sweden, with 32 competing teams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\">Angola<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Angola. The National Senior Women&#8217;s Handball Team lost, this Thursday, against France, by 29-30, in a game of the 1st round, group D, of the World Championship, organized jointly between Norway, Denmark and Sweden . The African champions were not intimidated by the defending runners-up, trailing at half-time by just three goals (15-18), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":50746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[233,337,329],"class_list":["post-50747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-angola","tag-angola"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Angola loses in the handball world championship debut - Angola<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Senior Women&#039;s Handball Team lost, this Thursday, against France, by 29-30, in a game of the 1st round, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/angola-loses-in-the-handball-world-championship-debut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Angola loses in the handball world championship debut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Senior Women&#039;s Handball Team lost, this Thursday, against France, by 29-30, in a game of the 1st round, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/angola-loses-in-the-handball-world-championship-debut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Angola\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-01T17:53:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2023\/12\/sm_1701434072.527871.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/angola-loses-in-the-handball-world-championship-debut#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/angola-loses-in-the-handball-world-championship-debut\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Angola loses in the handball world championship debut\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-12-01T17:53:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/angola-loses-in-the-handball-world-championship-debut\"},\"wordCount\":219,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/angola-loses-in-the-handball-world-championship-debut#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2023\/12\/sm_1701434072.527871.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Angola\",\"Angola\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/angola-loses-in-the-handball-world-championship-debut#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/angola-loses-in-the-handball-world-championship-debut\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/angola-loses-in-the-handball-world-championship-debut\",\"name\":\"Angola loses in the handball world championship debut - 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