Nigeria U19 boys’ team lost to Bahrain 36-28 in their debut at the IHF Youth World Championship Skopje, North Macedonia despite putting up a spirited performance in the game on Tuesday.
Despite an eight-goal loss against Bahrain, they had plenty of positives to take from their first match at this level. Bahrain did enough throughout the 60 minutes but will face tougher challenges ahead as Group C.Faruk Yusuf will go down in NigBoris Trajkovski Arena, Skopjeerian handball history as their first-ever player to score in an IHF men’s or women’s youth world championship, but his side will have to wait for their first point, or win, after a defeat against the Asian continental youth champions, Bahrain.
Bahrain was never behind in the whole match as Nigeria, with just 14 squad players, kept in touch with just a two-goal deficit for nearly 40 minutes, but the fourth-placed African continental youth side could fell off in the last third of the match as Bahrain comfortably took the two points, leading by 10 in the final moments (35:25) before two late Nigerian goals made the scoreline a little bit more respectable.
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