A great achievement for Israel's goalball team, which advanced to the finals of the European Championship in the second tier, thus securing its place in the senior tier and will be able to compete for its place in the Paralympic Games in Paris 2024.
The team consisting of Doron Hodda, Mahmoud Makhanja, Or Ben David, Michael Rosin, Ricardo Perez and Niv Ben Ish beat Great Britain in a close match 6:7.
When you have to remember, that the opposing team had not lost in the tournament until that moment.
The game was close and ended at halftime with a score of 2:3 for Israel, at the beginning of the half Israel managed to escape to 2:5, but the British reduced it to 6:6, when the winning goal was scored by Hodda with a penalty. Scorers for Israel: Doron Hodda 4 goals and Mahmoud Mahanj The 3 goals.
The promotion of the men's team to Tier A in goalball for the first time since 1997 places essentially all of the Israeli Paralympic team teams in Tier A, along with the women's team in goalball, the wheelchair rugby team that moved up to Tier A this year, and the men's wheelchair basketball team.
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