The Romanian women’s handball team plays against Chile in the first match of Group E of the Women’s World Handball Championship. Live broadcast of the match on Digi Sport 2, Prima Sport 2 and LiveBlog on HotNews.ro.

National women’s handball team of RomaniaPhoto: Petr Stoyanovsky / Panorama / Panorama / Profimedia

Romania – Chile, in Group E of the 2023 Women’s Handball World Cup

Cristina Nyagu will miss the debut match of the Romanian national team at the World Cup due to a knee injury.

lot of Romania: Diana Chuke, Julia Dumanska, Daciana Josu, Nicoleta Dinka, Alexandra Dindiligan, Bianca Bazaliou, Christina Nyagu, Claudia Paskan, Diana Lixendrau, Eliza Bucheski, Christina Laszlo, Andrea Popa, Daria Bukur, Alicia Gohirle, Alexandra Badea, Sonia Seraficanou, Nicoleta Balog, Lorena Ostase, Krina Pintea.

Matches of the day at the Women’s Hadball World Cup

South Korea – Greenland

Croatia – Senegal

Kazakhstan – Brazil

Romania – Chile

Austria – Norway

Denmark – Serbia

Spain – Ukraine

Sweden – China

Know:

  • Romania is the only country in the world that participated in all editions of the World Championship, this is the 26th appearance.
  • The only head-to-head match between Romania and Chile was at the 2009 World Cup, when the tricolors won 51-17.
  • Chile qualified for the 2023 World Cup after finishing 2nd at the 2023 Central American Championship (17-31 in the final against Paraguay).
  • The most important players from Chile: Valeska Lovera, Gabriela Muller, Catalina Galves.

The World Cup is being held for the first time in three countries, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, from November 29 to December 17, with 32 national teams taking part. Europe has 16 places allocated to the World Cup, and three of them have been taken directly by the host teams. They were joined by Montenegro, France and the Netherlands after the EC 2022 ranking.