True global feel to the best players of
the Intercontinental Round
 Lausanne,
Switzerland, July 5, 2005 – Serbia and
Montenegro, Brazil, Cuba and Poland may
have reached the Final Round of the 2005
World League but four other teams -
Venezuela, Greece, Portugal, Bulgaria -
will also walk away with their heads
held high after the Best Player
categories were split across all eight
teams at the end of the Intercontinental
Round.
Cuba’s Romero Raydel Poey, 23, will be
walking tallest having finished the
Intercontinental Round as
Best Scorer with 217 points,
including a massive 175 points from
spikes alone, but in terms of actual
prizes, the statistics will all be set
back to zero for the Final Round and
tournament awards will be handed to the
Best Scorer, Best Spiker, Best Blocker
and Best Server to those teams only
competing in the Final Round.
Nonetheless, there were some impressive
performances during the six weeks of
Intercontinental Round action,
especially Poey, who is playing in his
fifth World League competition.
Pic: Cuba’s Romero Raydel Poey was an
awesome sight on attack
The
Best Spiker was Poland’s Piotr
Gruszka with a success rate of 54.85
percent, just ahead of Venezuela’s Luis
Diaz at 54.15 percent, while, not
surprisingly, the
Best Blocker was Joao Jose from
Portugal, one of the best in the
business, who averaged .80 per set, with
Italy’s Luigi Mastrangelo averaging .79.
Serving is a key part of the game
and Nikolaos Roumeliotis was
instrumental in helping Greece to five
victories with an impressive serving
average of .59 per set. This included an
incredible 27 aces throughout the 12
matches.
Bulgaria’s Teodor Salparov, 22, was the
Best Digger with an average of 2.08
successful digs per set while Brazilian
skipper Ricardo Garcia remains as
arguably the
best setter in the world with an
average of 7.29 per set.
The final statistic saw Venezuela’s
Gustavo Valderrama just beat his team
mate Carlos Lunaas as the
Best Receiver with a 71.77 percent
efficiency rate. |
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