8th BOYS
U-19 AFRICAN NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP- Day two
EGYPT NEAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SPOT
Durban, South Africa September 30-: Egypt became near a World
Championship spot after defeating their archrivals; Tunisia in a
very exciting match 3-2 (25-19, 24-26, 25-20, 22-25, 15-12) in
112 minutes of fantastic volleyball skills in the 8th Boys U-19
African Nations Championship in Durban, South Africa.
The organizers, South Africa had a valuable victory over Algeria
in another exciting match ended also in a tiebreaker (25-20,
25-23, 18-25, 18-25, 17-15).
Two African teams will qualify to the 2005 Boys U-19 World
Championship with another vacancy for the possible organizer,
Algeria.
In the first match it was a real battle between the two big
African forces Egypt and Tunisia where the solid block of the
Egyptians helped their team to have an important victory in a
match thought to be an early final for the competition.
In the second match the Algerian players had better skills than
their compatriot South Africa but due to the better
concentration and motivation of the organizers supported by
their spectators they had a very impressing victory after a five
setters match.
CGI
