World Handball Championship : Difficult Training Conditions For Lionesses

Less than one month to the competition, the players are training in open air at the Mateco stadium and are not yet in a closed door training camp.

It is 8:40 a.m. on Friday November 5, 2021 at the Mateco stadium in the campus of the University of Yaounde 1 where the Lionesses are squatting to train ahead of the 2021 World Handball Championship which begins in less than one month. Just a handful of players are present. In reality, the Lionesses are expected to begin training on daily basis as from 8:30 am to 10 a.m. 10 minutes after time, some players are seen joining the squad and the coaches present frown at their late coming. Late coming, is just one of the major challenges faced by the Lionesses as they prepare for the World championship which begins on December 2, 2021. On that same morning, the sun rose very early. The players who had answered present are seen covering their foreheads with their palms to prevent the scorching sun from hurting them. The scorching sun, just like the rains has been major hitches to the training of the Lionesses given that they are preparing in open air. 
On Tuesday November 2, 2021 when we first visited the squad, rain had perturbed training for that day. At about 4:30 p.m. when we got to the Mateco stadium, it was looking very empty. Meanwhile, the team had agreed to meet at that venue at 4 p.m. Standing water littered in the court made training impossible. This unfortunate incident was just a continuation of what had begun in the morning hours that day. We gathered that the normal morning training session had been moved to the evening. This is because some stakeholders had come to the pitch earlier and predicted that it may rain in the morning hours due to the nature of the sky and decided to push the training to 4 p.m. It did not rain in the morning but rather rained at the time the training had been reprogrammed. Thus, annulling training for that...

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