Egypt is well-known when it comes to news about football, squash and hand-ball, however, many other sports which Egyptians athletes tend to excel at, get lost along the way. One of these sports, which is surprisingly gaining momentum and becoming more popular, is dodge-ball. Egypt has an official dodge-ball team which is heading to New York at the end of July to participate in the 2018 Dodgeball World Cup . The competition will take place at Madison Square Garden, the world’s most famous arena, and will feature top teams from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. In 2017, the Egyptian national team qualified for the World Cup after a victory against South Africa. A budding federation still, it is composed of members from 16 to 33 year-olds; the team had previously entered the 2016 World Cup in Manchester but quickly lost. It was the first Arab and African country to participate based on invitation. Prior to this experience, the Egyptian team had been at amateur level: they had been following different rules and using different balls than the official ones. ”Before this experience, we didn’t know dodge-ball could be…
