Atai: We had a training match against Nepal / I didn’t tire my players – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news

According to Mehr news agency, the 19th Asian Games volleyball tournament Hangzhou It started yesterday (Tuesday, 28 September) in China, and Iran’s national volleyball team won 3-0 against Nepal in its first match in this competition.

Behrouz Atai, the head coach of Iran’s national volleyball team, said after winning this victory: “We had a training match against Nepal and the players did not tolerate the pressure.” We finished the first set with a big point gap and in the second set we replaced five players from the beginning.

He added: “It is natural that in this situation, when the players face a team like Nepal, they don’t have enough motivation to play under pressure and play easily. Of course, our mistakes sometimes made them score points, and we gave them half of the opponent’s points with a service error. We presented

Emphasizing that the match was not high-pressure, Atai clarified: We gave the players in the first set and the following sets the opportunity to maintain their preparation for tomorrow’s match, which is more important. Because after tomorrow’s match, we have less time against our opponent in the playoff stage, which will probably be Thailand. We tried not to tire the players and prepare for the next matches.

In the end, he said: The meeting with Nepal was a practice and I hope the next match will have good conditions and we will see a good game from the Iranian team.