{"id":49617,"date":"2017-01-18T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joma-sport.com\/blog\/croatia-face-european-champions-in-mens-world-handball-championships\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:00:00","slug":"croatia-face-european-champions-in-mens-world-handball-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joma-sport.com\/blog\/en\/croatia-face-european-champions-in-mens-world-handball-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia face European Champions in Men\u2019s World Handball Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Croatian nation handball team<\/strong> will face current European Champions <strong>Germany<\/strong> on the last day of the <strong>25th IHF Men&rsquo;s World Handball Championship being held in France<\/strong>. The winners will top <strong>Group C<\/strong> of the preliminary round and head into the finals stage with great confidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Croatia<\/strong> go into tomorrows exciting clash on the back of some impressive victories after defeating Saudi Arabia 28-23, Hungary 31-28 and yesterday overcoming a strong Chile team in a quite compelling match 37-22. The performance of<strong> goalkeeper Ivan Stevaovi<\/strong>c ensured the Chileans goalscorers were kept at bay while <strong>Croatian marksman Lovro Mihic<\/strong> was on target on no fewer than eight occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Germany v <strong>Croatia<\/strong> starts at 17:45 at the Kindarena, Rouen tomorrow &#8211; 20th January 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joma team play Germany to decide group leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117],"tags":[128,120,119],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Croatia face European Champions in Men\u2019s World Handball Championships - Joma World<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joma-sport.com\/blog\/en\/croatia-face-european-champions-in-mens-world-handball-championships\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Croatia face European Champions in Men\u2019s World Handball Championships - 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