During the second day of the U19 JWC 2010, Portugal surprisingly made it to the crossfinales, competing for place 1 - 4, and not Catalonia.

 

In the deciding match against their Iberian neighbors, Portugal had a narrow escape by a win of 13 - 12. In group A Belgium, as expected, didn't lose a game. Spain became third before England and South Africa. Romania couldn't win a game.

In the other group the Dutch and Chinese Taipei treated the audience to a spectacular match. The Asian korfball players felt behind in score by 12 - 9 but changed it to a 12 - 14 lead. A sensation was about to happen, but within six minutes the Dutch team set things right taking a lead of 18 - 14, in the end winning by 20-16. Germany took the third place before the Czech and Polish team. The Polish team just won with 13 - 11 from Hungary, who ended with no points.

 

 

The match schedule for the final day, Sunday april 4, is as follows:

9:30	Crossmatches for the places 9 till 12: South Africa - Hungary en Poland-Romania
10:30	Crossmatches for places 5 till 8: Catalonia - Czech Republic and Germany - England
11:30	Crossmatches for places 1 till 4: Belgium - Chinese Taipei and Netherlands - Portugal
	Followed by the different matches for ranking

De small final for the third and fourth place of the tournament is at 15:30. the big final for the U19 Junior World Cup is at 16:30.