By Sports Reporter/Doha

Valero Rivera López, the coach of Qatar’s successful men’s national handball team, paid a work visit to Aspetar yesterday. Coach Rivera was welcomed by Ibrahim al-Darwish, Aspetar’s Chief Operating Officer and Prof Nebojsa Popovic, Acting Chief Medical Officer.
The coach, who is originally from Spain and has a long history of handball coaching success there, met with several  Aspetar senior staff to discuss the  further collaboration of Qatar Handball Association with Aspetar and the preparation of the Qatar national teams for both the 2015 IHF Men’s Junior World Championship in August this year and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Valero thanked Aspetar for the excellent services provided to  Qatar’s men’s handball national team during the 24th Men’s Handball World Championship.
He highlighted the importance of the medical services provided by Aspetar for the success of the Qatar team at the championship. He also congratulated Aspetar to the overall provision of medical services at the event which were praised by all participating teams.
In return, Prof Popovic, himself an Olympic Gold medal winner with the Yugoslavian national handball team in 1972, congratulated the national team coach for the outstanding work done when leading the Annabi to win the silver medal in the 2015 Championship, the best Arab and Asian achievement in the history of handball.

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