Iran’s 20th battle with the world’s volleyball giant/ Passing the fourth “impossible”? – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr news agency, the preliminary stage of the 2022 World Men’s Volleyball Championship, which started on Friday the 4th of September with the participation of 24 teams in six groups in Poland and Slovenia, ended on Wednesday the 9th of September.
One of the features of the formula of this round of world championships was that the opponent of the next stage was not known until the end of the preliminary stage, and for this reason, the teams went to the field against their opponents with all their strength, and we witnessed very interesting matches in these competitions.
At the end of this stage, the teams of Poland, Slovenia, Italy, Serbia, Brazil, France, Netherlands, America, Turkey, Ukraine, Japan, Iran, Argentina, Cuba, Germany and Tunisia were ranked first to sixteenth and advanced to the round of 16. they did
The first elimination round of the World Men’s Volleyball Championship will begin today, September 12, and will be followed for four days with eight matches in two countries, Poland and Slovenia, and Behrouz Atai’s students will play in the last match of this stage from 23:30 on Tuesday, September 15. They will face Brazil.
Iran’s national volleyball team, which with two wins and five points was ranked second in Group F of the preliminary stage and ranked 12th in the overall table (24 teams) of this tournament, faces a very difficult task in its fourth match in this competition because it has to face Brazil, the most proud team. face the world
In the total of 19 world men’s volleyball championships held, the Brazilian men’s national volleyball team is considered the most proud team in these competitions with three championships and two runners-up. Of course, Russia has more honors than Brazil, but the Russians are not present in this tournament.
Brazilian men’s volleyball has also participated in this important world sports event 14 times since 1964, when it participated in the Olympic Games for the first time.
The Brazilian national men’s volleyball team has three Olympic silver medals in its collection of honors, which shows that it has participated in the Olympic finals six times, a precious experience that volleyball in many countries longs for.
With 10 championships, seven runner-up titles and four bronze medals and third place, Brazil’s yellow team has been on the podium 21 times in the World League and League of Nations.
At the end of the group stage of the 2022 World Men’s Championship, Brazil was at the top of the group table with three wins and 8 points and ranked fifth in the 24-team table of this competition, so that the opponent of the Iranian volleyball team was eliminated in the first stage.
The two teams of Iran and Brazil have faced each other 19 times in history, and Iran has won only three times and has been defeated by this team in 16 matches.
The last confrontation between the two national teams of Iran and Brazil dates back to the second week of the League of Nations 2022, when the students of Behrouz Atai were defeated by this team 3-0 on the third of July this year, and the meeting on 15 September is a good opportunity to make up for this defeat for the Iranian national team after 74 days. Is.
The full results of the matches between Iran and Brazil are as follows:
1991 (World Cup): Iran (0) – Brazil (3)
2009 (Champions Cup): Iran (1) – Brazil (3)
2011 (World Cup): Iran (0) – Brazil (3)
2013 (Champions Cup): Iran (1) – Brazil (3)
2014 (World League): Iran (2) – Brazil (3)
2014 (World League): Iran (3) – Brazil (0)
2014 (World League): Iran (3) – Brazil (2)
2014 (World League): Iran (2) – Brazil (3)
2014 (World League): Iran (3) – Brazil (1)
2016 (World League): Iran (0) – Brazil (3)
2016 (World League): Iran (1) – Brazil (3)
2017 (World League): Iran (1) – Brazil (3)
2017 (Champions Cup): Iran (0) – Brazil (3)
2018 (League of Nations): Iran (2) – Brazil (3)
2019 (League of Nations): Iran (2) – Brazil (3)
2019 (League of Nations): Iran (2) – Brazil (3)
2019 (World Cup): Iran (1) – Brazil (3)
2021 (League of Nations): Iran (1) – Brazil (3)
2022 (League of Nations): Iran (zero) – Brazil (3)
2022 (world championship): Iran (???) – Brazil (???)