Luanda – The friendly match that was supposed to oppose the Angolan women’s junior handball team to its United States of American counterpart, in Hungary, was today, Thursday, cancelled due to suspected cases of Covid-19 on the opponent’s side.
The national seven is serving a training camp in the city of Budapest, aiming for the World Championship, to be held in Slovenia from 23 of the current to 2 July.
According to the national team head coach, José Shuma, the American delegation informed the event and the game scheduled for tonight is without effect, forcing the Angolan team to perform only a correctional training.
On Wednesday, the Angolan women defeated Alba FCK of Slovenia by 32-20.
Earlier on, Angola lost 19-29 to Korea, 19-27 to Hungary and 21-22 against Romania.
The African champions close their preparations on Sunday, with a duel against Chile.
Angola is in group E with the Czech Republic, Romania and Latvia.
Source: Angola Press News Agency