The first IJF comp of 2025 with the new rules happened last weekend in Casablanca
That means the YUKO score is back! This significantly cut many golden-score matches.
UAE first place overall with 3 gold medals all of which Russian origin judoka.
Tokas u63 beat P.Gneto who recently moved up to the u63kg category from u57kg.
Highest ranked judoka of the competition Iraoui (wrl 22) lost to Baba Matia who has moved up to wrl 50. (u52kg)
Medals for
Yesterday results:
Group III:
VS 28-24, good game from but the experience and quality of is much higher and secured another 2 points for them
VS 37-37, great game, is doing a great tournament so far, the match was going goal by goal most of the time against the giant , handball fans would enjoy re-watching this game for sure
VS 25-24, till the last 13 minutes the score was 22-19 for and the next 8 minutes was showing 5 consecutive goals from the home team securing 2 goal difference till the end of the game in a great comeback.
Group IV:
VS 34-23 , very easy game for for dominating the game from the start till the end
VS 24-44, another easy game for this time.
VS 24-27, brilliant result for the Scandinavian side who dominated the game from the first minute, the first goal for was after 7 and half minutes, credit goes to GK Hallgrimsson who did more than 60% savings in the first half , one of the best keepers in the world with special technic and style.
Both groups are still open for big teams to qualify to the QF.
Group standings:
Group III
5 PTS
4 PTS
4 PTS
3 PTS
2 PTS
0 PTS
Group IV
6 PTS
4 PTS
4 PTS
4 PTS
0 PTS
0 PTS
Speaking for myself, it is a bit daunting to think of nominations from nothing. Some kind of "long list" suggestion would be nice, but the work to come up with something like 30-50 options for each category would be quite onerous on the host/committee.
Before the last round only two teams are secured to play in round of 16: Liverpool and Barcelona
Already qualified at least at second round (playoff or R16):
Arsenal, Aston Villa, Atalanta, Atleti, Bayern, Brest, Celtic, Dortmund, Feyenoord, Inter, Juventus, Leverkusen, Lille, Milan, Monaco, Real Madrid
There are nine teams with an elimination confirmed:
Bologna, Crvena Zvezda, Girona, Leipzig, Salzburg, Slovan Bratislava, Sparta Praha, Sturm Graz, Young Boys
Last round next week
There were also a few other medal opportunities that ultimately didn't pan out for Bulgaria, but it was fun to see their athletes mixing it up for the medals
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