14th AFRICAN MEN'S NATIONS
CHAMPIONSHIP-FINAL
TUNIS DEFEATED EGYPT AND WON THE 8th TITLE
Tunisia continued its marvelous career in the African Nations
championship for the eighth time in 14 competitions after
defeating the host Egypt in the final 3-0 (25-19, 26-24, 27-25).
Tunisia will represent Africa in the World Cup in Japan next
November. Cameroon came third defeating Algeria also 3-0 (25-20,
25-17, 25-23). Morocco clinched a straight set victory over RD
Congo, 25-18, 25-11, 27-25 to get the fifth place leaving the
sixth place for Congo . South Africa got the seventh position
yesterday defeating Rwanda which came in the eighth and last
position. Dr Amr Elwani, CAVB President and Talaat Guineedy the
president of sports sector in the Ministry of Youth gave the
trophy to Tunisian players and the individual prizes to the best
players in the competition in presence of about 3500 spectators
in the Police Hall which hosted the championship in Cairo .
TUNISIA- EGYPT
The final was very exciting as the Tunisian team played with a
high spirit to overcome losing the opening match against Egypt
in the preliminary Group A 3-1. They were more fighters than the
Egyptian all through the match so they lead the match from the
first set using the talented stars specially the spiker
Noureddine Hfaiedh who was chosen as the best player in the
competition and Ghazi Guidara the best setter. Egypt team aided
by the energetic spectators led the first few points of the
match till 4-1 when Tunisia started leading till the end of the
set 25-19 due to the activity of Noureddine and the perfect
blocker Chaker Ghazal. In the second set, the Egyptian coach
used the line up which defeated Cameroon in the semifinal after
the low performance of the Ayman Roshdy and the setter Ashraf
Aboul Hassan. Egypt led again 8-7 in the first technical
time-out by the activity of the best spiker in the championship
Hamdy El-Safy, But again the Tunisian players were in their
optimum performance to win the set narrowly 26-24. Egyptian
players felt the danger late and tried to save their hope in the
third set to lead 8-7 then Tunisia draw 17-17 and continued
their balanced attacking and defense to win the set 27-25 and
the match to gain the cup.
In the third place match between the last champions, Cameroon
and Algeria it was easy for Cameroon to overcome the depressed
Algerian team after the good performance of their spiker Nanga
Guy and the blocker Ndaki Mboulet as well as the pefect libero
Fossi Kamto.
INDIVIDUAL PRIZES:
· Best scorer: Noureddine Hfaiedh ( Tunisia ).
· Best attack: Hamdy El-Safy ( Egypt ).
· Best Block: Ndaki Mboulet ( Cameroon ).
· Best Serve: Nanga Guy ( Cameroon ).
· Best Dig: Wael Alaydy ( Egypt ).
· Best set: Ghazi Guidara ( Tunisia ).
· Best Reception: Dif Hassan ( Algeria ).
CGI
