Rafael: Handball needs the experience of European preparatory games

According to the reporter of Mehr, the Iranian men's national handball team succeeded in defeating the Iraqi national team in a preparatory match this evening, Thursday, January 20, in continuation of its preparatory camp in Tehran.

At the end of the friendly match of our country's national handball team against Iraq and the victory in this match, Rafael Castillo said to reporters: “Today was a good day for us to measure the players in the international competition.” We were able to test all the things that were important to us in the game. I must say that I was satisfied with the result and the players. I did everything I asked the players to do.

The head coach of our country's national handball team said about the presence of the legionnaires: The legionnaires were good in this game, they are part of our weapon. It is important for me to design a system for the team and for the players to know how to play and to understand that in the future we want to have a group game and not an individual game. We can certainly make good progress with the dynamic presence of Noroozi, Saeed Bakhshari, Mohammad Siavashi and Rahnama.

Regarding how much they believe that the conditions of this sport have changed in our country after participating in Iran handball again, he said: the conditions have become completely different and international games have been played with different methods and I like modern and new methods for Iranian handball. I will define and introduce them to it both in the national team and in the league. Of course, it was different then and I can't say that it has improved, but I can say that the situation is better now.

Regarding the plan for friendly matches with other countries, Rafael Castillo said: I would like to have friendly matches with other countries. We definitely need the experience of playing with European teams because they have a different style. Now we would like to play with Arab countries because our competitors are in Asia.