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2007 Men’s Junior World Championship
Casablanca & Rabat,
Morocco
7 – 15 July 2007
Day 3
Egypt achieved the
first African victory, Brazil stopped USA
 Casablanca,
Morocco, July 9, 2007 – Egypt Volleyball Junior team
clinched the first African victory at the fourteenth
Men’s Junior World Championship here at Casablanca and
Rabat, Morocco in the third day of the preliminary
round. The highly performed Egyptian players swept
Argentina 3-1 in their pool B match. The host team
Morocco suffered their third defeat against Italy in
straight sets.
In Pool B, Egypt got it right this time and played an
excellent game to score an upset victory 3-1 (25-16,
25-23, 24-26, 23-25) over Argentina and World Champion
Russia beat Slovenia 3-0 (25-19, 25-20, 25-22).
Other results on Monday saw Bulgaria beat Japan 3-2
(24-26, 25-19, 25-16, 21-25, 15-12) and Italy beat hosts
Morocco 3-0 (25-22, 25-16, 25-13) in Pool A. Morocco got
the third successive defeat and is at the bottom of Pool
A.
Brazil proved their favoritism after they stopped USA
3-1 (25-22, 20-25, 25-18, 25-19) in a match played in
Rabat in Pool B on Monday. Brazil's big guns Wallace De
Souza and Tiago Barth put on an exhilarating attacking
display to penetrate the solid American block as Brazil
wrapped up the match in 1h40. The South American
champions were quick to gain an upper hand in the game,
taking an early lead which brought them to set-point at
24-18. However, the USA, which had upset the defending
champions Russia the previous evening, was not giving up
without a fight. American William Price was the best
scorer of the match with 21 points.
In Pool A in Casablanca, Cuba won their first match in
the Junior World Championship against Iran with a
dynamic 3-2 (23-25, 25-17, 21-25, 25-23, 15-13). Because
of the injury of spiker Yadier Sanchez, Cuba began with
their new trio Raydel Delgado, Leonar Moreno and Ismael
Fernandez to make a good work by the net blocking and
spiking.
With a 2-1 record, Brazil, Russia and USA are fighting
for the first and second position in Pool B, while in
Pool A Iran, Japan, Italy and Bulgaria are also with a
2-1 record and still on the run for the next round.
Tuesday's matches see Japan take on Iran, Bulgaria play
Italy and Morocco up against Cuba in Pool A and Brazil
playing Egypt, Russia against Argentina and USA against
Slovenia in Pool B.
The first round composed by two pools of six teams each,
which is being played in a Round Robin system to
determine the ranking. The teams will be classified from
1-6. The teams ranked first and second advance to Semi
Finals. The Semi Finals and play offs rounds consists of
a total of 6 matches: two Semi Final matches for the
rankings 1 – 4, two matches for the classification 5 – 8
and two matches for the classification 9 – 12. The
Finals and play offs consists of a total of 6 matches:
the winners of the Semi Finals will play the final, 1st
– 2nd position. The losers of the Semi Finals will play
for the 3rd and 4th rank position. The winners of the
play off or the 5th – 6th position and the losers of the
play off 5 -8 will play for the 7th – 8th position. The
same will be applied for the position from 9 to 12.
The final will be played on Sunday July 15th in
Casablanca.
Photo Caption
Egyptians El Mahy Ahmed and
Afifi Ahmed celebrate victory over Argentina
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