The wait is definitely over. Today we received the news that the IHF Council in a meeting on November 6, decided to accept the proposal of the South and Central American Handball Confederation due to the impossibility of being able to carry out the playoff called The Last Chance Uruguay 2020 derived from the infections by COVID-19 and not obtaining authorization to leave their countries of the national teams of Colombia and Paraguay respectively.
Faced with this delicate situation, the SCAHC Council met in an urgent and extraordinary manner for October 29 to send a request to the IHF Council in order to assign the fourth place in dispute directly to the selected one with the best updated ranking in South and Central America, in this case Chile, due to the results obtained in the Maringá Qualifier, to which was added the silver medal at the Pan American Games in Lima 20219, its position obtained in the last IHF Senior Men’s World Cup and having classified continuously and uninterruptedly to these Tournaments since 2011.
For all these reasons, the IHF Council decided to take up the SCAHC proposal, which is why on January 13 the eyes of the entire Handball Planet will finally be on the Chilean team when the 2021 Egypt Senior Men’s IHF World Cup opens. facing the local, Egypt, where all America will support our fourth representative as well as those selected from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, wishing everyone the best possible result.
