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2005 Youth Boys'
Under 19 World Championship
Algiers & Oran,
24 August – 1 September 2005
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Brazil, Iran, Russia and
Italy expected to contest title -
Fascinating clash between
Algeria and Egypt on opening day
Algiers, Algeria, August 23, 2005 - Sixteen teams will start
Wednesday the competition to win the trophy of the ninth
Boys U-19 World Championship due to start in Algiers and
Oran cities of Algeria but with Brazil, Russia, Iran and
Italy as the big favorites.
The competition will show all the big forces in this age
category including all the previous winners of the trophy
since the start of the competition in 1989 starting from the
defending champions Brazil the winner of this competition
six times out of eight, Russia the winner in 1999 and Italy
the champions in 1997. The competition will show also many
big forces like Poland, the European champions, Iran - the
silver medalists in 2001 and bronze medalists in 2003 - and
Korea who won bronze in 1991 and 1993.
This championship also includes plenty of stars as many
senior teams, like Brazil, Russia and Iran, and Egypt depend
on the under age group level for their future heroes
The sixteen teams participating in the competition are
divided into four pools each of four teams; pool A includes
Algeria, Korea, Egypt and Slovakia, pool B Brazil,
Argentina, Bulgaria and Mexico, pool C Italy, Poland, Canada
and India and pool D Russia, France, Tunisia and Iran. The
teams of each pool will play a round robin system to
determine the ranking where the teams ranked fourth will
depart after the preliminary round while the top teams
qualify to the quarterfinal and play the seeding group
matches, while teams ranked second and third will play in
the elimination play off to determine the qualifiers to the
quarterfinal where the matches go after that in a knock out
system till the final.
Day one on Wednesday will feature eight matches across the
four pools. Pool A will start with a fascinating clash
between hosts Algeria and the near African neighbours Egypt,
while Korea will meet Slovakia. Pool B sees defending
champions Brazil play their neighbours Argentina and Mexico
meets Bulgaria. In pool C playing in Oran, the European
champions Poland play India and Italy meet Canada. Pool D
shows an Afro-European clash between France and Tunisia and
another strong match between the Asian champions Iran and
one of the big favorites Russia.
Brazil head Coach, Oncken Percy expressed his hopes to win
the title for the seventh time in history and the third time
in row. "We came here for the trophy but our way will not be
easy in presence of the big forces specially Russia, Poland
Italy," said Percy. "We will do our best to make this year
of a pure Brazilian Volleyball after our big success in the
other competitions."
Iran coming with a full power team hopes to repeat the great
performance in the last two editions but with more progress
towards the trophy this time. "We are looking forwards to
compete for the title but we have to concentrate against the
big teams specially Brazil and Russia," said Iran head coach
Ahmad Poorkashiyan after the friendly match against Algeria
in Harcha hall four days ago. "I think we have to work hard
to achieve our goals." |
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