At the 2007 World Junior Championship in Morocco, expectations were high for Argentina, but for the 2009 edition in India, the expectations are even higher.

The Argentine Junior Men's Team will travel to Asia with the challenge of bettering their fifth-place performance at the last Junior World Championship, and after many positive results, the players believe their dreams can become a reality.

As with prior Junior teams, many of the players have come up through the Youth team. Nearly all of the players who finished fourth at the Youth World Championship in Mexico in 2007 belong to the 19-member strong Junior squad that will compete in India.

The team also includes many players who wrote a new page in the history of Argentine volleyball history at the 2008 South American Junior and Youth Championships in Brazil, where the teams both won gold.

There is more than enough proof already that the squad has gone from a group of players to watch in the future to players to watch right now. Nicolás Uriarte and Facundo Conte made their debuts with the Argentine Men's Team in the 2009 World League, the world's elite annual tournament for national teams organized by the FIVB. Sebastián Solé did not play at the tournament but did take part in training with the senior team.

The Junior players' club careers have also been taking off. Conte has proved himself in the strong Italian A2 League with Catania, which is coached by his father. Uriarte became one of the stars of the Argentine League's Mendoza Voley, where he played his second season with Nicolás Bruno, another Junior Team member. Also playing in the nation's most important club competition are captain Juan Ignacio Macció, Cristian Poglajen (Belgrano de Córdoba), Pablo Hruby, Ricardo Ferreiro (Chubut Volley), Pablo Crer, Solé (Rosario Sonder), Germán Galdón (Gigantes del Sur).

Meanwhile, Rodrigo Aschemacher, Facundo Imhoff and Sebastián Closter were part of the great Bolívar team, which for three consecutive years were crowned champion. The boys proved themselves against some of the greats in Argentine Volleyball, giving the Junior Team and its fans even more cause to celebrate.

In addition to all this, the Argentine Junior Team as been preparing for the World Championship at a myriad of national and international events, including:

- In 2008, prior to historical South American victories, the Argentine Junior Men's Team traveled to Europe to face powerhouses such as Russia, Italy and Poland, and obtained great results.

- At the end of the Argentine League, the Junior Team started training at the Cenard facilities, and at their first 2009 event, they faced the powerful Cuban National Men's Team in three friendly matches in Buenos Aires Province.

- In June, the team traveled together with the Argentine Youth Boys Team to Brazil, where 30 players trained at Sequarema and played on several occasions against the host team.  The Argentine Junior Men's Team again obtained several victories against its long-time rival Brazil.

Argentina's best showing at a U-21 World Championship was in 1993 in Rosario, Argentina, when they placed fourth.  But with all the preparation, hard work and typical Argentine perseverance, Argentina now wants to go further than it did in Morocco in 2007. That will be the team's main goal of this tournament.