The Morning Club - 15 May: World Championship qualifiers update, John Ryan in Iowa for the North American tournament

About this episode

The episode discusses the World Championship qualifiers and features an interview with John Ryan about the North American tournament in Iowa.

It's national team week for the men with places at next January's World Championship in Germany on the line. Plenty of intrigue among the 10 European play-offs, while it comes down to USA vs Greenland in Iowa on Saturday. Team Handball News' John Ryan joins us to chat about the tournament, how Team USA is shaping up and the new residency project players in action at this weekend's club championship in the same location. For access to all our Morning Club episodes, join us on patreon.com/handballhour

People in this episode

Guest: John Ryan

Topics covered

• World Championship qualifiers
• North American tournament
• Team USA
• European play-offs
• club championship

Keywords

• handball
• World Championship
• qualifiers
• North American tournament
• Team USA
• Iowa
• John Ryan

Mentioned in this episode

Places: USA, Greenland, Iowa, Germany

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