As of: March 14, 2024, 4:27 p.m
By: Patrick Mayer
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Germany's handball players are fighting for Olympic qualification.
For national coach Alfred Gislason, it's about his job.
Follow the first game here in the live ticker from 5:45 p.m.
Handball Olympic qualification: Germany - Algeria -:- (-:-), today, 5.45 p.m
National coach plays for job: If he fails, Alfred Gislason has to leave.
This live ticker for the game is continuously updated.
Germany - Algeria -:- (-:-), today, 5:45 p.m
Hanover - There's a lot at stake, a lot, for the German handball players.
The 2024 Olympics in Paris is the big goal of the DHB team, which will complete its qualifying tournament for the Summer Games in the ZAG arena in Hanover between March 14th and 17th.
Germany will face Algeria this Thursday (from 5:45 p.m.), on Saturday it will face the top nation Croatia (2:30 p.m.), before a neighborhood duel with Austria in Lower Saxony on Sunday (2:10 p.m.).
National coach plays for job: If he fails, Alfred Gislason has to leave
Just in time for the qualifying tournament in Hanover, the German Handball Association (DHB) extended the contract with national coach Alfred Gislason until the end of February 2027 - i.e. until after the home World Cup.
The Icelander, who previously celebrated great successes with THW Kiel, has been in office since March 2020.
But: As
Bild
reports, he has to qualify for the Olympics, otherwise his contract will end this year.
National coach since March 2020: Icelandic Alfred Gislason.
© IMAGO/Laci Perenyi
There are a total of three qualifying tournaments in which four national teams compete and two tickets for the Summer Olympic Games in the French metropolis on the Seine are awarded.
This means: First and second place qualify at the end.
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And the DHB team's program has it all.
Algeria only finished 31st and second to last at the 2023 Handball World Cup.
But at the 2024 African Championships, the Algerian national team made it to the final and ultimately came second behind hosts Egypt (21:29), who have already qualified for the 2024 Olympics by winning the final.
Who will follow at the qualifying tournament in Hanover?
Follow the Olympic qualifying game between the German handball players and Algeria here in the live ticker from 5:45
p.m.
(pm)