AMMAN: Kuwait’s youth handball team lost to Bahrain’s peers 14-18 in a match held on Saturday in Al-Hussein Youth City in the Jordanian capital Amman.

The match was part of the second and decisive round of the 18th Asian Championship, which is qualifying for the 2025 World Cup in Poland. Head of the Kuwaiti delegation to the championship Qaed Al-Adwani said, in a statement to KUNA, that the team management is aware of the difficulty of this match on the physical and psychological levels for the players and appreciates everything that the team have done in this Championship.

Al-Adwani stressed that the Kuwait Handball Association stands behind the players who have always made the Kuwaiti fans happy in previous matches, noting that the technical team has begun preparing for the upcoming game against the South Korean team. — KUNA