For the first time in its history, Qatar’s national team has taken the semi-finals and will compete in the finals on Sunday during the 24th Men’s Handball World Championship.
Final result#Qatar 31-29 #Poland
فوز منتخب #قطر بنتيجة 31 مقابل 29 لمنتخب #بولندا#LiveitWinit#العنابي_انت_قدها pic.twitter.com/cKYT8VtaTU— Qatar Handball 2015 (@2015Handball) January 30, 2015
Qatar beat Poland 29-31, in front of a packed crowd at Lusail Multipurpose Hall.
Congratulations are already pouring in for the team, including from the nation’s top leaders:
The Emir of #Qatar delighted #Qatar2015 handball team through to the final of the world championship. pic.twitter.com/gEYwNnpll0
— #ቀይአሻራ (@Abetee) January 30, 2015
الف مبرووووك ماقصرتوااا ياشباب pic.twitter.com/OZR23tN7Lh
— حسن الساعي (@Hassan_alsai) January 30, 2015
جماهير غفيرة خلف #العنابي و بإذن الله #الكأس_مايطلع_من_قطر ومايخيب ظنهم في أبطالنا ❤️#مرسال_قطر #قطر2015 pic.twitter.com/krZMDahxwx
— مرسال قطر (@Marsalqatar) January 30, 2015
OH.MY.GOD.QATAR IN FINAL OF @2015Handball after beating Poland 31-29. Pandemonium here. @dohanews @iloveqatar @qatarliving @DohaTweetups
— Greeker (@Greeeker) January 30, 2015
According to spectators, organizers ensured that paid ticket-holders made it to their seats tonight, after hundreds complained about being turned away from the semi-finals on Wednesday.
Qatar will face off against France in two day’s time.
Following Sunday’s finals, star performers Kylie Minogue and Taio Cruz will close out the tournament with a concert at the Lusail Hall.
Tickets to the finals can be bought online here and range in price from QR75 to QR500 a seat.
Who’s going? Thoughts?
Judges have sold the game for Qatar!!cheated!!
what?
Hope that Spain will win in the end
Not happening now. It is the land of sand vs land of charlie hebdo..
no no no they are very good they have a history of playing well but not in the handball cup in other matches
camel racing 😛
Simple …. Judges supporting hosts
n o p e
this is qatar team? pfff funny shame on u qatar
Just some goatlovers without honour.
Buying players, referees and supporters – ridiculous.
goatlovers?
All you can do is resort to insults because you’re jealous?
(btw where is moderators ?)
You’re the one who left you’re home country to work for “goatlovers” what does that say about you? You’re a goat’s piece of $h!t is what it says.
2.5 million people live in Qatar, most of whom are not Qatari but are thrilled that the home team is through to the finals. Not through money, through determination in this nation to be the best. It’s not buying , it’s investment. You can’t see that through your racist bigoted spectacles.
Goatlover? Is that it? You’re bad even in insulting! If you won’t consider investing in a game is not fair, consider it as a good entertainment and get over it.
F…k your money qatar and you know that you are islam country.Jeusi Charlie.France is not for sale.Polish fun and one more f you.
who took the jam out of your Donut? You need help, mate..
r u ok ?? i think u need some help how about a psychologist u have some issues dude.
sports psychologist perhaps?
we win hahahaha
LOL! Looney…
No, not everyone actually were able to get to their seats they bought tickets for… heard it from several sides…
Which side was it?
Polish supporters ware not able to buy tickets for lower sectors. Instead camp people support Qatar. Pity…
Welcome to Doha..
At least they supported Qatar and had a good time 😛
Defeats??? WHAT??? Only money its not a sport $$$
I feel like all of these comments are from one sore polish loser. German, polish supporter, anonymous and the other ‘new’ people I think it’s quite obvious. Deal with it mate, Qatar won fair and square.
U made a gramma mistake, bruh.
unfair*
grammar*, bruh.
So there you go, wannabe Qataris: If you want naturalization, learn to play Handball. Simples 🙂
Damn it, I play rugby 🙁
National poker team?
Why handball? There are many sports out there with “new” Qataris.
Haters… Gonna hate hahaha this is very entertaining! 😛 Please note I do not mean to offend I just find it funny people are getting so touchy over a game of handball 😀
I smell bad losers …. Qatar has won and this is something you will have to accept. They playr well and won. All this talk about refrees, money is all non sense.
Buying players from European and South America countries is non sense? Yea, it is.
Buying referees is non sense too? No, it’s cheating.
Buying supporters is also non sense, I admit.
Hope u will lose football world championship coz u don’t deserve this.
Buying referees? Where did you get that from. Is there proof? If there is i’d like to see it.
Just wait after finals.
Everything will turn out, goaty goat.
Maybe you have got money, but it doesn’t make you untouchable =)
what does that even mean..
They even bought people like you to reply to messages !!! Lol money talks
An Egyptian talking about buying people !! What a Joke ! This is desertCard everyone
Deleting personal attacks.
They won’t. They already started to pull the same trick for footbal WM. They organize “young talent academies”, where they pool heaps of young players from all over the world (mostly, South America, but also even from Europe) and filter the best ones. Current rule (just slightly less ridiculous than in handball) says that player has to be in the country for 5 years. So, sheikhs still have until 2017 to poach foreign players 🙂 and get the best out of them, China olympic camp-style. 2022 football WM will be EXACTLY as the current one.
It’s called professional sport. It gives young talented sportsmen and women a fantastic opportunity. Get over it.
Prior, Trott, Balance, Pietersen, Morgan, Kieswetter, Stokes, Pietersen etc – all current ‘England’ cricket Internationals? Check out where they were born. Qatar Handball has complied with the rules and has simply done what other countries and other sports have been doing for years – however, apparently more successfully! Good luck to Qatar in the final.
Even if you get players from outside, they still have to be coached and gelled as a team. Move on. Its just a game….
Yes that would be true if you are talking about individual team NOT a national team lol. Brainless!
Hope you return back to where you came from, because we have enough uneducated trash in Qatar as it.
You guys are actually the losers but you don’t feel it! Very unfortunate you have this type of brain
You’re a hater but you don’t feel it! Very unfortunate you have this type of brain.
Agreed haha
It is Qatar vs France in the finals !!!!
Rest of the world vs France
2 of the French squad were not born in France = maybe they should be banned?
So using your logic, most “Americans” are not Americans because they are from “the rest of the world” as opposed to being native to the land…dumb a$$
No, Americans are Americans because they lived there for a number of years, took a test, earned the right, and will be American and proud of it for the rest of their life. Is this the same in Qatar? If it is then I have no complaints with the team and congratulations.
Who makes the rules? What is a “number of years”? Is someone “less” American if they die one day before the date they become eligible for applying for citizenship? Are my cousins who can’t even speak proper English but carry American passports because they were born there, more “American” than someone who is in the process of attaining citizenship after having lived there for a significant number of years? Who determines the rigidity of the tests? Are immigrants to Canada for instance less “Canadian” if their tests are not as tough as the ones for “new” Americans?
In a sentence what I am telling you is these rules are all made by men, not by nature.
Point taken. So Danijel Šarić is just as Qatari as the Emir.
Yes, just as American laws would consider Hillary Clinton to be as American as the people who were indigenous to the Americas, and consider her to be as American as my two cousins, both of whom have not been back to America since the eighties, and both most likely are unaware of what the “Star-spangled banner” is, let alone know the lyrics to it.
Current Americans are “Americans” because they murdered the natives.
This is Qatar?
Bought players who sold for 30 pieces of silver for another country.
Players not only money won.
I smell bad losers …. Qatar has won and this is something you will have to accept. They playr well and won. All this talk about refrees, money is all non sense.
That wasn’t Qatar team.
It was “Rest of the world” team and you have to accept.It’s not your victory.
You also have to accept that victorious or not, most Qataris don’t give a flying hoot about handball, you on the other hand are bothered by the fact that you are trash and can’t enjoy privileges reserved for Qataris.
Seriously, does anyone know, is there a single Qatari in that team?
Yes there is, can’t accept the fact that Qatar reached the finals? I am disgusted by all the comments. If Qatar loses, how can Qatar host a world tournament and can’t even reach the first round or whatever. When Qatar wins, ohh they’re not even Qataris.
Zarko Markovic – Montenegrian
Hassan Mabrouk – Egyptian
Bertrand Roiné – French
Rafael Da Costa Capote – Cuban
Danijel Šarić – Bosnian
Eldar Memisevic – Bosnian
Goran Stojanović – Montenegrian
Borja Vidal – Spanish
Jovo Damjanovic – Montenegrin
Youssef Benali – Tunisian
That’s the fact.
so?
I wonder what language they use.
So how many native Americans or Australians play in their national teams? I guess your fine with invading other countries and genociding their population.
You clowns call Qataris racist if they talk about “pure” Qataris or not, then you turn around and do the same thing when it comes to things like this. Who are you dumb a$$es to claim what is “cheating” or not? Are you a member of a body that regulates the sport? If so then charge Qatar with cheating and state the charge, if not, then stfu.
Players not only money won.
This is sure not the first nor last round of cheating in sports. Heck, just remember how Germans got to the finals 🙂
But that’s certainly a world’s first where literally *everything* was paid for: a) rights for tournament b) national team c) “fans” d) referees, all at the same time and without even pretending otherwise… Dear Qataris, you are world champions indeed. Just not in handball.
I guess lot many people here cant digest the fact that Qatar has reached the finals. They expected Qatar to lose much earlier and unfortunately things haven’t gone their way. You can criticise Qatar as much as you want but when they win give them credit rather than acting as sore losers.
No, actually, expected them to get to semi-finals and end up 3rd. That was usual practice for such cheats in the past, to at least leave “some” “credibility”. Well, not that you huys ever cared about it, so…
You can’t even spell correctly, so how can anyone trust your “research” or understanding of what is “usual practice”? Go back to 5th grade fool.
okay Qatar may not be good at other sports but handball they are very good at it and i assure you they didnt cheat
I understand that your TV is censored and you haven’t seen all referees mistakes (kinda 11-0 for Qatar), but you have Internet and I think you should watch this match again, without “cuts” =)
I’m 50% of Montenegro-Bosnian origin.
So Qatar must be my team too 🙂
But that team sucks!
Anyway I’m happy for the Balkan people living there that can make an excellent money coaching -not so worldwide popular sports-, as players, as physiotherapists or inexperienced and/or (below) average doctors.
I’m sure Qatar will get tired of this old toy (handball) and would move to something else.
LOL, Comments will be amazing if Qatar won the tournament… 😉
And if they don’t they should have spent more money!
Congrats to Qatar National Handball Team for beating Poland 31:29 today and reaching the final! Although Poland won 29:1 with pure Qataris 🙂
Referees made at least 5 big mistakes in favour of Quatar. None in favour of Poland. Very often one mistake counts for 2 goals (goal not scored plus goal lost). The game was fixed in the same way as Quatar’s games against Austria and Germany. Scandal!!! Nothing to do with sport! People that do not see this lack honour…
This game was a farse. 30 against 5 in referee decisions favoring the Qataris against Poland
Normally they won,Serbs were judges
Congrats Qatar, I hope you will lift the trophy!!
I was there for all of Qatar’s matches and yes, they were subtly helped by the referees at some point of time. But that is understandable for any host nation.
About naturalisation, yes, the Qatar team is made up mostly of ‘imported’ players. But this has been going on for ever at other European nations as well. Talant Dujshebaev of Russia, and then Spain, is a good example. Qatar has been doing it on a larger scale, that’s the only difference. Saying “it’s ok we’re doing it because it’s just one or two players” is plain hypocrisy.
Qatar haven’t broken any rules. They are within IHF regulations. Unless the world body doesn’t change rules, one cannot complain if a country with the means to do so naturalise players. Handball is an almost exclusively European sport. That Qatar is the FIRST non-European side to feature in the final since the competition started in 1938 speaks volumes about the sport’s niche market.
I think it’s just knee-jerk reaction about a non-European team’s success that’s got everyone angry. Handball is a dying sport everywhere other than Europe. One should really be thankful that there’s a country ready to invest so much money into the sport’s promotion. Who knows, the Qataris may just have saved the sport from extinction.
So dear European nay-sayers, it’s good for a non-European country to win once in a while too. Get over it.
Hope qatar wins finals and make all you guys piss
Apparently the final score will be QAT 35 – FRA 32
Why do most citizens of Communazi countries have such debilitating inferiority complexes that they need to reflect it as nationalism? There was zero bribing of the referees or the bidding rights. Qatar is not anywhere near as corrupt as the radical right neo-Nazi regime in Poland.
Well done Qatar, proud of the team. Most national teams are made up of people born elsewhere, it’ immaterial. It used to be the case, certainly in football, that players came from the town or city they played for. We live in a global village these days, and sportsmen and women are free to play where they choose. Astute team management, forget the detractors,
I can see there is a lot of hatred going on in the comments thread. We all agree that naturalizing players for few months just to play the World Cup is nonsense, but Qatar is not the only country that did it. The only thing is that Qatar is doing it on a massive scale, as nearly 75% of the team is non-Qatari, whereas other teams might naturalize one, two or three players maximum. Anyway congratulations Qatar and let’s hope they win the WC. Sorry France, I am supporting Qatar 🙂
Closing this thread because it’s devolving into bitterness and racism 🙁