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Cuba Defeated Egypt for the
second time in Straight sets
 Cairo,
Egypt, July 1, 2007-: Cuba used all their weapons in blocking
and spiking to clinch their second victory over Egypt in
straight sets 25-23, 25-17, 25-22 in the sixth and last weekend
of the intercontinental round pool C at Cairo Stadium Complex in
Cairo, Egypt on Sunday. Cuba dominated the net through the tall
middle blocker, who were superior in all actions and controlled
completely the Egyptian attackers. For the second time Egyptian
players couldn’t go through the match except some time in the
first set and the end of the third set as most of the key
players were out of form. Cuba raised their points to 19 points
form a win loss ratio of 7-5 at the end of the intercontinental
round, while Egypt kept their position at the bottom of the pool
with 12 points.
The Egyptian coach changed some players in the starting line up
as he pushed Mohamed Abdel Moniem as a wing spiker with the team
captain Hamdy El Safi while Mohamed Gabal started in the
opposite position instead of Ahmed Salah who appeared in bad
performance in the first match on Friday with the Italian based
professional setter Abdalla Abdel Salam, the middle blockers
Mohamed El Sayed and Hossam Shaarawy, and the libero Wael El
Aidy. Cuba coach also changed some of the outstanding player and
started with line up including the libero Keibir Gutierrez who
was as usual one of the match stars, the setter Tomas Aldazabal
with Michael Sanchez, Roberlandy Simon, Rolando Jurquin, Pedro
Iznaga and Pavel Pimienta. |
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.
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Cuba Defeated Egypt in
Straight sets |
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Egypt faces Cuba in the last
intercontinental round weekend |
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Serbia
clinched the second victory over Egypt
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Egypt
and Serbia meet in their second match in Cairo. |
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Egypt
faces Serbia with a National coach |
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Russia
defeated the Fighting Egypt 3-1 |
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Russia
defeated Egypt easily in straight sets |
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Egypt
meets the star studded Russian team with the return back of all
outstanding players |
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Egypt
ready to achieve a surprise against Russia
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Russia
defeated Egypt for the second time 3-0 (25-19, 25-22, 25-22) |
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Russia
defeated Egypt in straight sets |
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Egypt
Coach Happy although he lost the match
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Egypt
full squad in the third weekend against Russia |
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Egypt
showed good performance but lost against Serbia |
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Egypt
lost against Serbia but enjoyed the spectators |
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Egypt
added two players to face Serbia in the second weekend |
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Cuba
defeated Egypt in straight sets |
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Egypt
won a set in their first match against Cuba
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Egypt head to Cuba to start
their 2007 World League programme |
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Egypt selected the squad to
face Cuba without three stars |
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Competition
Formula |
By Tarek Aladwar
National Press Director |
