Dear handball friends in Argentina and all over the world,The Argentine Handball Federation will be the host of the IV Men’s Junior World Championship this August. It will be the second IHF World Championship in Argentina after the Men’s Junior World Championship in 1995. And it will be a great pleasure for the International Handball Family to be in South America. Argentina nowadays is in the focus of international handball, not only after the Men’s World Championship in Sweden, when the Argentine team played an outstanding tournament, finished twelfth as best Non-European team and beat host Sweden in an amazing game. Now a new generation of Argentine and international handball youngster will compete at the IX Youth World Championship. 20 teams from all over the world go for Gold, Silver and Bronze I wish all participating teams the very best of luck in the tournament and a good time ahead.