Iran qualifies for FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championships 2014
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Iran clinched a spot at the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championships 2014 |
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Lausanne, Switzerland, September
15, 2013 – Iran clinched a spot at the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World
Championships 2014 after sweeping Bahrain in three sets at the Asian Men’s
Qualification Tournament Final pool B on Friday.
Julio
Velasco’s team beat Bahrain in 3-0 (25–16, 25–17, 25–14) in Tehran’s Azadi
Hall.
Iran also defeated
Pakistan and Indonesia in the
pool.
“We want to
be the top team and achieve the ticket of world championship,” Mehdi Mahdavi,
Iran’s captain said prior to the match.
The 2014
FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship will be held in Poland from September
3 to 21. Finals host Poland, three-time defending champion Brazil, Argentina,
Australia and Korea are already confirmed for the 2014 FIVB Men’s World
Championships, thus far.
The first World Championships were
organised in 1949 for Men and 1952 for Women. Both gender events have remained
the biggest events in volleyball, along with the Olympic Games since 1964. In
the event's long history, the former USSR and Czechoslovakia have seen the most
success, although recent years have been dominated by Brazil - champions three
times running in 2002, 2006, and the last Men’s World Championship in Italy in
2010.
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