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2005 Youth Boys'
Under 19 World Championship
Algiers & Oran,
24 August – 1 September 2005
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Egypt team head to Algeria
Algiers, Algeria, August 20- Egypt boys U-19 will head on
Monday August 22 to the capital of Algeria to battle on the
9th Boys U- 19 World Championship due to start in Algiers
and Oran 24 August to 1 September after the short
preparation programme in the last six weeks. Egypt will
compete in Pool A with the organizers, Algeria, South Korea
and Slovakia aiming to repeat their best performance in the
competition when they were ranked fourth in the competition
they organized in 2001.
The preparation programme was delayed due to involvement of
the majority of the players in the end year's exams so it
started since 15th June for the big event under supervision
of the head coach, Sherif Elshemerly who led the team to the
most prestigious position in 2001. the coach announced the
final line up of twelve players for the competition as he
selected Hosm Yousef, Mohamed moustafa, Karim Farag
(setters), Ahmed Hassan (opposite), Mohamed Abdelmoneim,
Ahmed Aly, Mohamed Hassan (centre Block), Rami Samir,
Mohamed Daabosy, Ahmed Elmahy, Ahmed Yousef (wing spikers).
The team was composed for the first time in 2003 to compete
in the U-19 African Nations Championship in 2004 in South
Africa where they won the title to qualify to 2005 World
Championship. The team started preparation to the World
Championship in February 2005 when they camped in Poland for
10 days playing five matches against Poland and a match
against Italy.
The final preparation restarted after the school exams in
the mid June and the team was completed in the first days of
July playing in Egypt four matches against France when they
won once 3-2 and lost three times 1-3, 1-3 and 0-3. They
played another four matches against Poland where they won
also once 3-2 and lost three times 0-3, 0-3, and 2-3.
"We will do our best to repeat our big victories in 2001
especially because we had now a powerful group of players
most of them more than two meters height" Said Egypt Coach,
Sherif Elshemerly. "We are looking forwards to qualify to
the semifinal, but the way will not be easy" He added.
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