Iceland played Sweden tonight in a friendly game as preparation for the World Men's Handball Championship. that starts next Friday. Iceland was leading the game to begin with and was 7 goals ahead at some point. Sweden then came back, evened the score and even won the game by two goals.

When about 10 minutes were finished of Iceland's game against Chile in the preliminary round at the 2013 Handball Championship in Spain, a player from Chile hit Icelandic shooter, Asgeir Orn Hallgrímsson, in the face.

First points for Iceland

Iceland easily defeated Chile at the 2013 Men's Handball World Championship. Final score was 38-22. The game seemed easy from minute one and coach Aron Kristjansson therefore let some of the younger, less experienced players exert themselves.

Iceland put an end to Macedonia's dreams

Iceland had a solid victory against Macedonia at the 23rd Men's Handball World Championship. Final score was 23-19.

Denmark versus their alter ego

The only two Scandinavian nations at the 23rd Men's Handball World Championship, Iceland and Denmark had their 4th, and second last, match in the preliminary round tonight. The final score was Iceland 28-36 Denmark.

Between both sides there are more similarities than differences. Fast breaks, combination game, fluent and fast attacks and effective wings as a great offensive resource are some of the points in common between both teams. But this time Iceland was somehow off and didn't seem to stand a chance against Denmark's superb offense. Mikkel Hansen and Hand Lindberg hardly ever had a problem scoring through or over the Icelandic defense.

Denmark's shot efficiency was 72% but Iceland's only 57%. Anders Eggert and Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson, both teams' left wings, are the top scorers of Denmark and Iceland, both with 22 goals.

Iceland put themselves to the final 16 after beating Qatar just now. The final score was Iceland 39-29 Qatar.

Iceland's participation in the 23rd Men's Handball World Championship 2013 is now over.

Iceland faced France in their final sixteen game tonight. They barely lost 28-30 after a very exciting game. The outcome was not clear until just about 1 minute before the game was out.