Iran and Ukraine; Atai’s students thinking about the first victory – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr news agency, the 2024 Paris Olympics selection volleyball competition in the men’s group will be held from October 8 to 16, 1402, hosted by three countries, Brazil, China and Japan.
Iran’s national volleyball team, which will face its opponents in the first group of the Olympic qualifiers in Brazil, will face Ukraine in its second match on Monday, October 10th at 3:00 a.m. Tehran time. A fight that will be held for the first time in history between two teams and this team will appear on the field as the 60th opponent of Iranian men.
The national team of our country, who lost 3-1 against Germany in their first match, will make a double effort against their 61st opponent to hope for better results in the Olympic qualifiers with a victory against Ukraine.
Iran’s national volleyball team played a preparatory match against Ukraine on August 25, 1401, and in this match, which was held in the Mosir Hall of Radom, Behrouz Atai’s students won with a score of 3-1 and with scores of 29-27, 26-28, 37-35. And they lost 25 to 19 results to the opponent.
On September 14 last year, the Ukrainian national volleyball team defeated the Netherlands in the round of 16 of the World Men’s Championship and won the surprising title of this competition. This team finally won the 7th place in the 2022 World Men’s Championship, which is considered the best performance of Ukrainian men’s volleyball in this tournament.
Ukraine, which has twice participated in the World Men’s Championship, participated in this competition for the first time in 1998 and placed 10th.
This team has not won an Olympic quota so far, and this year it is facing opponents to win its first quota in history, and it has a very difficult task ahead of it. Ukrainian volleyball men are ranked 15th in the World Volleyball Federation ranking with 193.73 points.
Iranian men’s national volleyball team has played in 14 important events, including the Olympic Games, World Championship, World Cup, Great Champions Cup, World League, League of Nations, Asian Games, Asian Men’s Championship, Asian Confederation Cup, Solidarity Games of Islamic Countries, Olympic Qualifiers, The selection of the world league has the selection of the world championship and the Wagner Cup, and as mentioned at the beginning of this report, the Ukrainian national volleyball team is considered the 62nd opponent in the history of Iranian men’s volleyball in the world, and the list of 60 other countries based on the continents and regions of the world volleyball is is below:
Asia continent (34): China, South Korea, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Pakistan, Chinese Taipei, Sri Lanka, Qatar, India, Singapore, Yemen, Iraq, Kuwait, New Zealand, UAE, Philippines, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan , Afghanistan, Lebanon, Maldives, Turkmenistan, Bahrain, Macao, Mongolia, Cambodia, Palestine, the occupation regime of Quds (when it was Asian), Oman and Nepal
European continent (14): Poland, Russia, Italy, France, Serbia, Germany, Bulgaria, Finland, Portugal, Netherlands, Slovenia, Belgium, Azerbaijan and Czech Republic
African continent (4): Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Guinea
Norska region (4): America, Cuba, Canada and Puerto Rico