Before their eight-final matches on Monday (21 January) Serbia, Croatia and Egypt have replaced players.

Egyptian Mohamed Amer was replaced by Mostafa Khalil before their match against Slovenia in Barcelona, Serbian Nemanja Ilic was replaced by Marko Krsmancic before their eight-final against host Spain in Zaragoza. And the Croats had to replace their wing player Manuel Strlek by Ivan Nincevic, as Strlek broke his hand during the match against Spain.

Four teams additionally replaced five players for their today’s President’s Cup opening matches: Argentina replaced Diego Simonet by Agustin Wisse, Saudi-Arabia replaced Mohamed Alzaer by Ali Alsaihati, Qatar replaced Eldar Memisevic by Mustafa Alsaltialkrad and Chile replaced Diego Diaz Castello and Rene Oliva Cifuentes by Cristian Moll and Lucas Pacheco.