{"id":143528,"date":"2024-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?guid=4f8b0d0ce09aab45fd1de1772e6e430e"},"modified":"2024-04-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T00:00:00","slug":"kuwait-handball-team-wins-opening-match-at-gcc-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/kuwait-handball-team-wins-opening-match-at-gcc-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait handball team wins opening match at GCC games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nKuwait&#8217;s national handball squad defeated Qatar&#8217;s 27-20 in the opening match of the First Youth GCC Games, being hosted by the UAE, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The win will give strong impetus to the Blue team in the coming game against Bahrain, said head of Kuwait mission Abdullah Al-Thiab.<\/p>\n<p>The First Youth GCC Games opened on Tuesday, April 16, and continues until May 2 with 3,500 players from the GCC member states vying in 19 competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait&#8217;s national handball squad defeated Qatar&#8217;s 27-20 in the opening match of the First Youth GCC Games, being hosted by the UAE, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The win will give strong impetus to the Blue team in the coming game against Bahrain, said head of Kuwait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1882],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kuwait handball team wins opening match at GCC games - Lebanon News Gazette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/kuwait-handball-team-wins-opening-match-at-gcc-games\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kuwait handball team wins opening match at GCC games - Lebanon News Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kuwait&#039;s national handball squad defeated Qatar&#039;s 27-20 in the opening match of the First Youth GCC Games, being hosted by the UAE, on Saturday. 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