The Uruguayan team is positioned as one of the great powers for the next Recife 2022 South and Central American Handball Tournament, which will be held between January 25 and 29 at the renovated Geraldo Magalhaes Gymnasium.
Since November, the light blue team has been preparing to once again face the challenge of a qualifying tournament. This time, the squad led by Nicolás Guerra hopes to repeat the feat of Maringá 2020, where they achieved third place and a historic qualification to the IHF World Cup Egypt 2021.
“We are going (to Recife) for a place in the World Cup, and then we will try to go for a medal again”, assures the new coach of the Uruguayan team who will face his first great challenge. “As a new coaching staff, we set ourselves short goals of going game by game to see how far we can go”, he added.
Like other coaches, Guerra believes that Recife “is going to be a very contested and very competitive tournament,” since the level of the teams begins to be increasingly higher as the players begin to gain greater exposure abroad. , something that has happened in Uruguay after its participation in the World Cup.
Thus, the celestials hope to consolidate themselves as one of the great powers of the continent in the championship that hosts Brazil.
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