Czech Republic withdraws from World Cup, Northern Macedonia Enters

As a result of some positive results following mandatory COVID-19 tests before leaving Egypt, the Czech Republic, after more than a dozen positive ones, has officially announced it will withdraw its participation in the World Men's Handball Championship, which will be held from January 13th to January 31, 2021 in Egypt. [...]
As a result of some positive results following mandatory COVID-19 tests before leaving Egypt, the Czech Republic, after more than a dozen positive ones, has officially announced it will withdraw its participation in the World Men's Handball Championship, which will be held from January 13th to January 31, 2021 in Egypt.
In line with COVID-19 regulations for the 2021 Men's Championships IHF in Egypt, the first national reserve, replaces the attractive national.
The list of alternative nations was created according to the performance criteria for the qualifying event of the world's ruling champion continent, Europe.
Northern Macedonia has been nominated as first substitute country because of their 15th country in EHF EURO 2020 for men.
Macedonian team announced on Tuesday morning that all its players have passed The PCR and they were negative, so they had their entire expedition ready to travel to Egypt.
In fact, there is no place in the World Championship, but as the first reserve site of this 32 squad tournament, this indicates that it is aware of the situation, such as Switzerland, the second in reserve of the IHF.












