A lot of friendly matches have been played all around Europe, six days before the offcial start of the World Championship 2013 in Spain. Serbia beat Macedonia 26:25 (13:13) with 4:0 series in the last few minutes in front of 4.000 fans in Nis.
SERBIA – MACEDONIA 26:25 (13:13)
SERBIA: Stanić 10 saves, Gajić 8 SAVES, Dragaš 1, Šešum 2, Vujin 2, Nikčević 4, Krsmančić, Toskić 4, Ilić M 4, Radivojević 3, Prodanović 1, N. Ilić 1, Vučković 3, Mitrović, Zelenović, Stanković, P. Nenadić 1, D. Nenadić, Marsenić
MACEDONIA: Mitrevski 6 SAVES, M Stoilov, D. Manaskov 5, S. Stoilov 2, Kiril Lazarov 11(7), Jonovski, Angelovski, Temelkov, Mirkulovski 1, Markoski, Z. Mojsoski, Ristovski 4 saves, Markoski , Mojsovski 1, Dimovski 1, Georgijevski 2, F.Lazarov 1, Ojleski, Levov 1, Daskaloski
RESULTS: 3:0 (5.) 6:5 (9.) 9:6 (15.) 10:9 (20.) 11:12 (29.) 13:14 (33.) 18:15 (40.) 19:19 (45.) 20:22 (51.) 21:23 (54.) 25:23 (59.)
MoM: Momir Ilić (SERBIA) / Kiril Lazarov (MaCedona)
Denmark beat Montenegro 38:21. Hans Lindberg was topscorer with 8 goals.
In the second match of the tournament, Slovenia has no problem with Tunisia 28:23.
Slovenia: Prošt, Škof, Bombač, Bilbija 2, Dobelšek 3, Kavtičnik 4, Bezjak 2, Dolenec 4, Skube, Bundalo 2, M. Žvižej 1, L. Žvižej, Gaber 3, Zorman, Marguč 4, Razgor, Gajić 3.
Tunisia: Sfar, Hedui 2, Tumi 1, Garbi 1, Tej 2, Tuati 2, Susi, Banur 1, Aluini, Magaiez, Helal, Jaluz 1, Maref 2, Sanai 2, Ben Salah 1, Bughanmi 5, Hosni 2, Čuiref 1.