Winning over Belgium at the end of an extremely hard match, Italy is the qualified number 10 for the play-off series that will decide the 5 national teams to take part to the World Championship in Chinese Taipei, to be played in November-December 2004.

All results and standings of Uefa Qualifiers here!

Hall: Pala Mazzocco, Montesilvano (Italy)

Attendance: 2000

ITALY: Angelini, Grana, Pellegrini An., Bertoni R., Zaffiro, Bertoni E., Bacaro, Vicentini, Ippoliti, Foglia, Morgado, Ripesi.
Coach: Alessandro Nuccorini

BELGIUM: Vandecaetsbeek, Sababti, Michiels, Bachar, El Haoual, Toukouki, Plompen, Neuckermans, Rotsaert, Vergauwen, Papanicolau, Cragnaz.
Coach: Benny Meurs

Scorers:

37'50 Foglia (1-0)
38'27 Foglia (2-0)

Referees: Török (Hun) and Cardoso (Por)

Yellow card: Bachar

All scorers of Group 2

Morgado (ITA) 5 goals
Bertoni E. (ITA) 4
Bacaro (ITA) 3
El Haoual (BEL) 3
Foglia (ITA) 3
Grana (ITA) 2
De Nichile (ITA) 2
Bertoni R. (ITA) 2
Pirhonen (FIN) 2
Basson (FRA) 2
Ippoliti (ITA) 1
Hakasalo (FIN) 1
Modig (FIN) 1
Vergauwen (BEL) 1
Bachar (BEL) 1
El Yahiaoui (BEL) 1
Michiels (BEL) 1
Markovic (FIN) 1