Egypt played its third match of the 2017 IHF Handball World Men’s Championship on Monday against Bahrain. Egypt won by 31-29, of which six goals were scored by Egypt’s Yehia El-Deraa who won the Best Player of the Match award. As the Pharaohs are placed in group D, they will be facing Argentina on 18 January and Sweden on 20 January. Sweden’s national men’s handball team won this championship four times, the last of which was in 1999. At the 2016 Rio’s Summer Olympics, celebrated in August, Sweden reached the quarterfinals of the men’s competition.

Source: Daily News Egypt January 17, 2017 15:50 UTC