Sunday, March 12, 2023 What you need to know: Winners of the round robin competitions involving Kenya, South Africa, Egypt and Zimbabwe will advance to the 2023 FIH Junior Hockey World Cup scheduled for December 5-16 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (men) and December 6-17 in Santiago, Chile (women). It was a bad day in office for Kenyan teams at the Hockey Junior African Cup as they lost their opening matches on Sunday in Ismailia, Egypt. Kenya women’s U-21 hockey team begun their campaign after losing 2-0 against hosts Egypt in Ismailia on Sunday. Coach Meshack Senge’s side, which travelled to Egypt on Saturday night, trailed by two goals at halftime after Solaiman Rowan and Elfatiri Sama scored in the first quarter. Kenya squandered a penalty corner in the fourth minute before falling behind after Rowan gave the home side the lead by converting a penalty corner on seven minutes. Sama put Egypt 2-0 up with a field goal on 12 minutes. The Kenyans showed a lot of improvement in the last three quarters. They put pressure on the hosts, but could not convert the few chances they had due to poor finishing. Back in the tournament for the first time since 2012, Kenya also suffered a blow late in the game when Nichole Odhiambo was sin-binned on 57 minutes. Kenyan ladies will face Zimbabwe in their next match on Monday. Kenyan men succumbed to a solitary goal against Egypt. Coach Michael Malungu’s charges threw away the chance of getting a point after defender Allan Munene blasted a penalty flick in the 48th minute. The East Africans let in an early goal from Adel Ziad after conceding a penalty corner in the first minute and never found the way back into the match. They suffered a blow on 25 minutes when Oscar Kibet picked a yellow card as Egypt went into the halftime break 1-0 up. Egypt, too, were one man down after Taha Saber got yellow-carded at the beginning of the third quarter but again Kibet picked another warning two minutes later. In the tournament’s opening match, South Africa humbled Zimbabwe 3-0 after scoring field goals through Kock Tamlyn, Le Roux Mikkela and Mokoena Ntsopa in the first three quarters respectively. The South Africans could have scored more had they utilised the 11 penalty corners they got. South Africa went into the fixture buoyed by a 100 percent winning record against Zimbabwe. They thrashed Zimbabwe 7-0 on March 24 and 10-0 on March 28 during the 2016 Junior African Cup. Winners of the round robin competitions involving Kenya, South Africa, Egypt and Zimbabwe will advance to the 2023 FIH Junior Hockey World Cup scheduled for December 5-16 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (men) and December 6-17 in Santiago, Chile (women). Source: nation.africa/kenya

The South African U21 Men and Women began their journey to qualify for the FIH Hockey Junior World Cups in December in Ismailia in Egypt on Sunday. Both teams opened their campaigns against Southern African neighbors Zimbabwe. The SA Under 21 Women were looking to continue on the brilliance of the team that finished 7th the 2022 Junior World Cup, facing off against fellow World cup participants Zimbabwe. An exciting opening for both teams but it was largely one way traffic. South Africa won 11 penalty corners to zero for the Zimbabweans, but the South Africans failed to convert any of the 11. Their dominance would count though with field goals by Tamlyn Kock, Mikkela le Roux and internationally capped Ntsopa Mokoena. A 3-0 victory would settle the nerves but with room for improvement there is great excitement for the team in the remainder of the tournament. #JAC2023 pic.twitter.com/wFhZU531aH — African Hockey Federation (AfHF) (@AfrHockey) March 12, 2023 The SA U21 Men saw debutant James Flint bag a hat-trick of penalty corners, reminiscent of what he did to Namibia U18 little under a year ago. There were also goals from Viwe Mbata (A thumping finish into the bottom left), Calvin Davis and Tebogo Maseko as they galloped to a 6-0 victory. #JAC2023 pic.twitter.com/OyQ6WAAKIU — African Hockey Federation (AfHF) (@AfrHockey) March 12, 2023 On Monday, the South African women will take on the Kenyan Women, while the SA Men play the much-anticipated derby battle with Egypt. All games can be seen live on the Egypt Hockey Facebook page here https://web.facebook.com/watch/egyhockey2013/

10 March 2023 Lausanne, Switzerland: From 12-16 March 2023, the best young hockey teams, in both men’s and women’s category, from Africa will compete in the Junior Africa Cup at Ismailia, Egypt with two spots, in each gender, up for grabs in the upcoming FIH Junior World Cups 2023. Hosts Egypt will be joined by South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe in both men’s and women’s competition. The women’s competition will get underway in the morning of 12 March as South Africa take on Zimbabwe in the first match, with men’s action starting on the same afternoon with hosts Egypt taking on Kenya in the first encounter. Each team in the cup will face all the other 3 teams in the group stage. Teams that finish in the bottom two positions will play in the third place match, while the top two teams at the end of the group stage will qualify for the finals which will be played on 16 March. The two finalists in each gender will also qualify for the corresponding FIH Junior Hockey World Cup 2023. For further information about the Junior Africa Cup 2023, click here. The FIH Junior Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 will be played in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 5-16 December 2023. Malaysia have qualified as the hosts of the competition. Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands and Spain have qualified from Europe as the teams that were classified in the top-5 at the EuroHockey Junior Championship 2022. Australia and New Zealand have also qualified through the Oceania Junior World Cup Qualifiers 2022. Apart from the two qualifiers from Africa, there will be three teams that will qualify from the Junior Pan American Championship 2023 and three more from the Junior Asia Cup 2023, both of which are scheduled to be played later in the year. The FIH Junior Hockey Women’s World Cup 2023 will be played in Santiago, Chile from 6-17 December 2023. Chile have qualified as the hosts of the competition. Belgium, England, Germany, Netherlands and Spain have qualified from Europe as the teams that were classified in the top-5 at the EuroHockey Junior Championship 2022. Australia and New Zealand have also qualified through the Oceania Junior World Cup Qualifiers 2022. Apart from the two qualifiers from Africa, there will be three teams that will qualify from the Junior Pan American Championship 2023 and three more from the Junior Asia Cup 2023, both of which are scheduled to be played later in the year. For more information about FIH and hockey in general, please download the Watch.Hockey app or follow the FIH social media channels – Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – and website. #HockeyEquals #HockeyInvites

Junior Africa Cup [JAC] 2023 (Men/Women) – Technical Panels – Updated

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Participating Teams U21 – Updated Participating Teams: Junior Africa Cup [JAC] 2023 (M/W) | 12-16 March 2023 Ismailia, Egypt 🇪🇬 (due to late withdrawal of GHANA 🇬🇭 & NIGERIA 🇳🇬 teams) Men South Africa Egypt Zimbabwe Kenya     Women South Africa Kenya Egypt Zimbabwe   #AfricaHockeyNews #HockeyInvites #JAC2023 #Egypt