Egypt hopes to finish their
World League carrier with a victory against Cuba
 Cairo,
Egypt, June 30, 2007-: Egypt men’s volleyball team seeks the
first victory in their World League carrier in the final match
of the 2007 edition against Cuba on Sunday in their second
m,atch of the sith and final weekend of the intercontinental
round Pool C at Cairo Stadium complex hall in Cairo, Egypt. The
match will be more important for the Cuban team who succeeded
with their well known effective block to secure a straight sets
victory in the first match on Friday.
Wants to obscure his disappointment of losing all the
competition matches till now, the Egyptian coach Ahmed Zakaria,
who took over the responsibility only before the last weekend
following the polish coach Grzegorz Rys, insisted that the most
important value of the World League matches is to use it as a
preparation to the condensed African season in 2007. “We can’t
have better than this preparation with these world class teams
like Russia, Cuna and Serbia before defending our gold Medal in
All Africa Games in Algeria after two weeks and also defending
our title in the African Nations Championship achieved in 2005,”
Said Zakaria. “Unfortunately my team started to enter the top
form by the end of the preliminary round because we started the
preparations very late, but we will try to bring our first ever
victory over Cuba in the last match because it will be
psychologically very important for us before the African
competitions.” He added.
The Cuba head coach Orlando Samuel finds the match as a very
important game as he seeks a victory that allow his team to end
the pool matches in the second position following Russia and
ahead of their big competitors Serbia. “We want to use our solid
block again in the second match as a big weapon for the
victory.” Samuel said.
Cuba is ranked second one match before the end of the
preliminary round in Pool C with 17 points with a win – Loss
ratio of 6-5, while Egypt comes at the bottom of the pool with
11 points from 0-11 ratio.
Photo Caption
Salah of Egypt spiking agaginst double block of Simon and Camejo
of Cuba
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