Atai: We forget the victory against Germany – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr news agency and quoted from the public relations of the volleyball federation, the second week of the League of Nations 2023 The men’s group started today (Tuesday, June 30) hosted by Rotterdam, Holland and Orleans, France, and will continue with 32 games until July 4th. Today, Iran’s national volleyball team faced Germany in the first match in Rotterdam and defeated this team 3-0 to get its second win in the League of Nations. 2023 achieve and get seven points.
After this victory, Behrouz Atai said: Usually, the conditions are difficult at the beginning of the week, and to reach the goals, the teams must have a good start. Fortunately, Iran presented an acceptable show today. Of course, I still believe that the potential of the team is more, but in general I am happy with this victory.
He went on to emphasize: The game was very close in the first and second set and the substitute players also had a great performance and helped Iran a lot in winning. In the third set, the team played with a very high quality and was able to finish the game with a great distance. We will forget this match and the victory in it because tomorrow we have a tough match against Italy, which I hope will be a good match.
The head coach of the national team noted: We try to provide players with accurate information in every match. Sometimes the quality of the opponent is so high that it does not allow us to present our desired performance or the team itself does not do its job well. There is no doubt that we as coaches are limited by the abilities of the players. During the game, we convey new information to the players, and during breaks, we convey peace to the team.
Atai added: Today, Iran’s players used the information given to them well, especially in critical situations. Three or four German players play in good European teams. They are a young and quality team, but I think Iran performed better today.
He stated about the match against the Iranian national team: Italy has entered the tournament with the composition of the world champion team. All the players who played for Italy in the World Cup are present this week. We don’t have any information about their new game and we tried to review the individual information of the Italian players. During the game, if we receive different information, we will provide it to the players.
Regarding the criticisms raised in the first week of the national team’s performance, Atai added: Basically, we are used to paying more attention to strangers. The pundits analyzed our games in the first week and it was interesting to me that since I became the head coach, they seem to know more about the opposing teams than Iran. No one said that the Iranian team has lost some players of its past quality. Some of them said goodbye and others were injured. Iran does not have seven players compared to the team that played in the Olympics. Apart from this issue, some players who can be with the team are not present. No one passed on this. Milad Ebadipour and Ali Asghar Meghrad, two quality players of Iran, are not with the team, and Maysham Salehi has not reached full fitness.
In the end, the head coach of Iran’s national volleyball team said: Actually, Iran has lost 50% of its power inside the court. In the event that when Iran plays against Poland, if a player is not an opponent, they will mention it. I think the players are being neglected but we are doing our best. We use all the potential of Iranian volleyball and we hope to achieve results that will bring happiness to the people.
The Iranian national volleyball team will face the Italian team in their second match in the second week of the League of Nations at 14:30 tomorrow (Wednesday, June 31).