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2005 Youth Boys'
Under 19 World Championship
Algiers & Oran,
24 August – 1 September 2005
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Brazil, Italy, Slovakia and France top the pools
 Algiers,
Algeria, August 26, 2005 - Only three teams posted unbeaten
records in the preliminary round of the ninth Boys U-19
World Championship here in Algiers and Oran on Friday as
Slovakia in pool A, Brazil in pool B and France in pool D
collected their third successive victories on day three to
lead their pools with Italy who lead pool C on points ratio
although they lost to India in the competition’s biggest
surprise result.
The leaders of each of the pools qualified for the
quarterfinals and will play in the seeding play offs as
Slovakia meet Brazil on Sunday, while Italy play their
neighbours France. The play off elimination round will
feature Bulgaria vs. Russia and Poland vs. Egypt in Oran and
India vs. Argentina, Korea vs. Iran in Algiers.
Pic: India pulled off a huge upset beating Italy
In a fantastic five-set thriller Slovakia used all their
skills to beat Egypt 3-2 (18-25, 25-23, 25-22, 15-12). The
Egyptian team put on their best performance in the
competition and went close to victory in the tiebreak when
they lead 8-5. But finally Slovakia led by Jakub Musil and
Miroslav Jacobov ended the marathon in their side’s favour.
The highly physical Korean team made it three defeats for
the organizers when they defeated Algeria 3-0 (25-19, 31-29,
25-19). The victory put Korea into second position of the
pool ahead of Egypt in third.
Brazil, using some of their substitutes, beat outsiders
Mexico in straight sets (25-20, 25-16, 25-19) in their final
match of pool B. "It was an easy match for us but I'm not
satisfied with my team’s performance,” Brazil coach Oncken
Percy said. “In the second round we will change our style
and strategy as we will meet stronger teams like Russia,
France, Italy and Slovakia and after these India and Iran."
Mexico coach Carlos Nova said; "We played in the hardest
pool with very strong teams so we had a psychological hurdle
even before the competition started."
Argentina dominated the block to clinch a considerable
victory over the strong Bulgaria team in straight sets
(25-23, 25-20, 25-17) in 64 minutes. Bulgaria suffered from
the big effort they did in their previous match against
Brazil, so they appeared in a completely different frame of
mind. Argentina ended pool B in the second position ahead of
Bulgaria in third.
The emerging Indian team caused the biggest upset of the
competition in pool C when they rebounded from an early set
back to post a surprise victory over Italy, one of the
favorites 3-1 (14-25, 25-17, 25-23, 25-21). Guttikonda
Pradeep scored 24 points - one third of India’s team points.
In the same pool Poland beat Canada 3-0 (25-11, 26-24,
25-18) however Italy finished first on points ratio followed
by Poland and India in third.
France again proved that they came to Algeria as one of the
big favorites as they had another surprise, defeating Russia
3-1 (25-21, 25-19, 20-25, 25-22) in a match full of
Volleyball skill and entertainment. For the third time the
French superstar Nicolas Marechal was the top scorer with 17
points. In the same pool Iran defeated Tunisia in another
five set match 18-25, 26-24, 19-25, 25-14, 15-13. |
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