The Algerian handball team left the 2025 World Cup in Denmark on tiptoe. With three defeats in as many matches, the Greens suffered a historic humiliation.
The national handball team suffered two heavy defeats against Denmark (47-22) on Tuesday January 14 and Italy (33-18) on Thursday January 16, before losing to Tunisia (26-25) on Saturday. January 18 in Herning.
The Greens packed their bags to return to Algeria, after one of their worst participations in a handball world championship.
Handball: the Minister of Sports “furious” after the Greens’ debacle at the 2025 World Cup
A debacle which infuriated the Minister of Sports and will undoubtedly not remain without consequences. Heads will roll. First, the president of the Algerian Handball Federation (FAHB) Karima Taleb who is in an ejection seat.
She bears, in the eyes of the authorities and the public, a heavy responsibility in this humiliation of the National Seven while Algeria is a major handball country.
According to our sources, she will not run for a new term at the head of the FAHB.
She is accused in particular of being at the origin of the organizational problems which marred the preparation of the national handball team for the 2025 World Cup, her inability to mobilize sponsors to at least settle the federation’s debts.
“Even the players’ visas for Denmark were not obtained on time, which is unacceptable,” says a source in the file.
-The president of the FAHB did not appear particularly alarmed by the low level of the Algerian handball team at the 2025 World Cup.
Debacle of the Handball team at the 2025 World Cup: the president of the FAHB defends her record
“The national handball team was not able to pass the first round of the World Cup when it was at its best,” she said in an interview with Ennahar TV. “Our goal was to return to the African level, and we had been vice-champions of Africa,” she added.
But his future at the head of the Algerian Handball Federation seems definitively sealed. In this context and in order to stop the descent into hell of Algerian handball, the Minister of Sports Walid Sadi decided to take the matter of this discipline in hand, according to our sources.
First by ensuring a renewal of the management of the Algerian Handball Federation, and then by making the necessary means available to the new team which will be responsible for relaunching this discipline.
The minister was very “furious” after the performance of the national team at the 2025 World Cup, according to our sources. He decided to invest in allowing this discipline to return to the forefront.
“In Algeria, there is football which is the most popular sport, but it is handball which has given the country more title,” maintains our source.
In the 1980s, the Greens dominated Africa, with 5 continental championship titles won in 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987 and 1989. Algeria won two other titles in 1996 and 2014. But for ten years, it is famine, and even the descent into hell.
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