There's a lot of work in japanese handball, if Japan should make a strong men's teams for the OLYMPICS on home soil in Tokyo about a year and a half.
With a 29-32 defeat to Angola in the Royal Arena, lost to Japan for the seventh time in as many match at the WORLD cup, and thus must the team go home with a position as number 24 and last in the tournament.
Japan was at the WORLD championships on a wildcard from The International Håndboldforbund (IHF), because the japanese had not managed to conquer one of the four asian kvalifikationspladser to the tournament.
At the WORLD cup two years ago joined Japan as number 22, and its håndboldforbund hired then the two Dagur Sigurdsson to lead the team towards the Tokyo olympics.
Sigurdsson was at the time one of håndboldverdenens hottest trænernavne, after he had done a underdog German national team to the european champion in 2016, and then led the team to the OLYMPICS-bronze in Rio.
Despite the rankings and the sheer defeat of Japan got rid of the very violent swipe at the WORLD cup. The team lost "only" with four goals to both Spain and Iceland, and the biggest defeat was 29-38 against Macedonia.
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