City of October 6 (Egypt) (AFP)

French handball players, six-fold world champions (1995, 2001, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017), qualified for the semi-finals of the 2021 World Cup, winning in overtime against Hungary 35 to 32 in quarterfinals. final, Wednesday evening in Egypt.

A year after the Euro-2020 fiasco and elimination in the first round, the French will face Sweden on Friday night and will try to access for the eighth time in their history a final of a World Championship.

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