Doha 29 March 2015- Valero Rivera López, the coach of Qatar’s successful men’s national handball team, paid a work visit to Aspetar on Sunday 29th March. Coach Rivera was welcomed by Mr Ibrahim Al Darwish, Aspetar’s Chief Operating Officer and Prof. Nebojsa Popovic, Acting Chief Medical Officer. The coach, who is originally from Spain and has a long history of handball coaching success there, met with several Aspetar senior staff to discuss the further collaboration of Qatar Handball Association with Aspetar and the preparation of the Qatar national teams for both the 2015 IHF Men's Junior World Championship in August this year and the RIO 2016 Olympic Games. Mr Valero thanked Aspetar for the excellent services provided to Qatar’s men’s handball national team during the 24th Men’s Handball World Championship in January. He highlighted the importance of the medical services provided by Aspetar for the success of the Qatar team at the Championship. He also congratulated Aspetar to the overall provision of medical services at the event which were praised by all participating teams and formed part of the success of the tournament. In return, Prof. Popovic, himself an Olympic Gold medal winner with the Yugoslavian national handball team in 1972, congratulated the national team coach for the outstanding work done when leading the "Annabi" to win the silver medal in the 2015 Championship, the best Arab and Asian achievement in the history of handball.