Short characterization ARGENTINA

General remarks

Average height starting six: 198 cm.
High level of team performance in blocking, digging and setting.
Tactically developed players in reading the game.
Technical adaptation in playing actions.
Good understanding of team psyche.
Athletic players, able to anticipate and react effectively and quickly in unexpected situations.
High level of of universal playing abilities and individual coordination and strength.
Ability to change style of playing, bringing the strongest opponent in great trouble (in final against Russia the team of Argentina lost the 5^th set 15-12).

Serve

In teams ranking of total tournament Argentina is in 7^th place.
No players in top 10 individual ranking.
Precise and tactical efficiency adapted to opponent.
Good balance between risk full and safe serve (tactical floats).
Three players of the first line-up performed the jump spin, two players jump float and one player standing float.
The main objective is to disturb opponents complex 1 play.

Reception

Argentina is in 5^th place in the team ranking of reception.
Two players are in Top 10 best receivers: Agustin Ramonda (5^th in ranking and 38.17% exc. / 7 faults) and libero Tomas Ruiz (7^thin ranking and 36.25% exc./10 faults).

Reception is often secure, but sometimes instable (34.54 % exc./26 faults).
Flexibly adapted reception formations: 3 players and 2+1-players or 2+2-players-formation as alternatives; Ramonda and Ruiz as main receivers.
Receivers are deeper on the court in case of jump spin and more forward when opponent serves (jump-) floats.
Jump serve by opponent: receivers move well behind the ball and now and then perform different techniques when the ball is played (rolling, falling and diving sideways, now and then applying 3-point-reception).
Backline floats and jump floats: as well as traditional underhand as a lot of overhand reception is applied, standing or jumping: hands go up quickly in front of the forehead; positioning the hands slightly closer than when setting; ball contact by spread fingers to make wider surface.

Set/Attack - Complex I and Complex II

In teams ranking in setting Argentina is in 2nd place.
Juan Ignacio Finoli (number 3 in individual ranking) is technical-tactical a very good setter; he stays calm under psychological pressure situations and plays attractive and extremely efficient.
Easy and efficient steps from starting position to target.
Adjustment by short steps from target to playing position.
Mostly jumping setting techniques: with takeoff (taking the ball as high as possible) and landing with both feet, sometimes running through actions.
Active wrist impulse and finger actions, sometimes 1-handed sets and dump/attack.
Simply structured attacks in Complex 1: effective set-distribution, with high percent-tage sets to pos. 4; 1st tempo in the middle of the net, and to player in position 2, now and then from pos. 1.
Quick and precise sets from nearly all the positions in the court; application of secure underhand sets by all players.
The spikers score regularly with block out techniques (off speeds) and tips and drive shots.
In best 8 teams ranking of spikers Argentina is only on 8^th place.
The team shows a very level in coverage of attack.

Block and defense

In teams ranking Argentina is in 2^nd place in blocking.
In individual ranking of best blockers Ivan Castellani is in 6^th place.
High level of block performance: kill blocks (99) and rebounds (205).
Efficiency and organization of blocking.
Different step combinations and blocking positions adapted to the play situation.
In teams ranking “best diggers” Argentina is in 1st place in defense.
High level of performance in covering block.