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Egypt and Tunisia carry African dreams of a second round slot |
Mohamed Elsayed of Egypt blocking in the 2006 World League match |
The African dreams of picking a second round ticket become more realistic now when the two African representatives Egypt and Tunisia start their way in the 2006 Volleyball World Championship in Japan. Egypt will compete in Pool A playing in Saitama with the organizers Japan, Poland, China, Argentina and Puerto Rico, while Tunisia play in what is described by the coaches as the competition weakest pool as they are involved in Pool D scheduled in Sendai with Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro and Korea.
The history mentioned that no African team passed the first round in a World Senior Championships, although Egypt had its best recorded result in the junior championship when they were semifinalists in the 2001 Boys under 19 World Championship in their homelands.
The Egyptian volleyball lives golden moments since 2005 as they had a couple of victories in all standards starting from getting the golden medal in the Mediterranean Games in Spain being the first international non African competition to be won by an African team defeating the home team in the final, then their victory in the 2005 African Nations Championship which qualified them to the 2005 Grand Champions cup here in Japan as the first African team ever in the history of the competition, where they had the fifth position ahead of the Asian champions China. 2006 showed another progress for Egypt being selected by the World volleyball governing body, FIVB as the African legends. But at the senior level they didn’t pass the first round in their previous five time qualifications to the World Championships.
“We had now to think of big world level victory to continue our progress,” Said Egypt Men’s Under 21 team Coach who accompanied the team as a decision of the Egyptian volleyball federation following his victory in the African championship of this age category early this year. “We are happy to be in this prestigious competition, but we have now to think only for victories specially after the team stars like Ahmed Salah, Saleh Fathy and the team captain Hamdy El Safy returned back from long term injuries.” Added the coach, who led Egypt three times to the continental junior championships. Egypt had to win at least two matches in their pool to secure a second round vacancy.
On the other hand Tunisia is considered the African pioneers at the international level since they had eight continental Nations championships titles to their names out of fifteen competitions. They had also the most titles of any team sport in Tunisia. They have qualified to the World Cup six times but the last was the best in 2003 when they defeated the home team Japan in front of their full house.
The experience d Italian head coach of Tunisia Antonio Jiacobbe thought that it is time to pass the first round and not to consider the qualification as an achievement.
The Tunisian team was updated with some youngsters in the framework of the head coach objective to inject new blood to the team with the already excited experience players like the wing spiker Nour Eddine Hfaiedh and the setter and team captain Ghazi Guidara. The promising youngsters like Hicham Kaabi and Skander Ben Tara were added to the team experiences. The technical staff sees that they have to win Kazakhstan and Korea in their pool to pass to the second round.
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