{"id":2820,"date":"2011-01-19T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2011-01-19T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:39:14","slug":"team-handball-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/team-handball-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Handball World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Sweden\u2019s most popular sports is in the midst of a World Championship.\u00a0 And it\u2019s in Sweden.\u00a0 And it seems that a majority of the rest of the world could care less.\u00a0 The US included.\u00a0 It\u2019s Team Handball of course! The tournament started on January 13<sup>th<\/sup> and will continue until January 30<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the American variant of hitting a ball against a wall with your hand.\u00a0 Hence the team at the front of the name in the US.\u00a0 Team handball is played with seven people from each team on the court at the same time and is played on a court about the size of an indoor soccer court.\u00a0 There are two halves of 30 minutes each, and the object is a simple one: get the ball past the opposing goalie and bury it in the net.\u00a0 I\u2019ve often heard team handball described as some sort of basketball\/hockey\/indoor soccer hybrid.\u00a0 And it is.\u00a0 Kind of.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t really do the sport justice.<\/p>\n<p>Team handball is a fast paced sport and quite popular in the Nordic countries, possibly because the Nordic countries tend to be pretty good at it.\u00a0 That being said, it\u2019s been a few years since Sweden medaled in the Olympics or World Championships, although the country does hold the overall historical lead in medal count at the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were wondering, the United States is not involved, although they are making a push in the handball world and focusing on a national team hoping to find a place at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in following the action, check out the official website for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handball2011.com\/\">22<sup>nd<\/sup> Men\u2019s Handball World Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Sweden\u2019s most popular sports is in the midst of a World Championship.\u00a0 And it\u2019s in Sweden.\u00a0 And it seems that a majority of the rest of the world could care less.\u00a0 The US included.\u00a0 It\u2019s Team Handball of course! The tournament started on January 13th and will continue until January 30th. This is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/team-handball-world-championship\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}