Iran’s national volleyball team has a tough fight with Italy after the expediency shock – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr news agency, the men’s Olympic volleyball competition will be held from October 8 to 16, 1402, hosted by Brazil, China and Japan.
The Iranian national volleyball team, which is in the first group of this tournament with the teams of Brazil (host), Italy, Cuba, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Germany and Qatar, will face Italy from 20:00 on Friday, October 14, in their fifth match in this competition. . Although the Iranian team no longer hopes to get a quota from Brazil, the match against Italy will be the most difficult match for Iran, because Italy needs a win for the Iranian volleyball team to advance to the Olympics.
With three wins and one loss, after three days of being the leader, the Lajurdi-poshan ranked third in the group, and this is a proof of the difficulty of this match for Iranian volleyball men, who enter this field with one win and three losses. Especially after the defeat against the Czech Republic, one of the reasons for which was refereeing mistakes against the Iranian team.
Due to the resignation of Behrouz Atai, the head coach of Iran’s national volleyball team last night, Alireza Tolokian will be leading our country’s national team in the match against Italy, and this match will be Tolokian’s first official test in this position. Of course, in the third week of the League of Nations 2023, when America did not give full visa to the Iranian team, he led the national team in the Anaheim tournament with Tolokian, but the match between Iran and Italy is the first official test of this international Iranian volleyball coach as the head coach of the Iranian national volleyball team.
The relative superiority of the opponent in history is a proof for this claim that the Iranian team is playing against a strong opponent, the representative of the land of Chakmeh has won 18 in 26 previous matches with the Iranian national volleyball team, and the volleyball men of our country managed to defeat this team in only eight matches. became
The last meeting between the two teams was held in 2023 in the framework of the preliminary stage of the League of Nations, when the Italian volleyball team won 3-0.
The Italian volleyball players participated in the Olympic Games for the first time in 1976 (47 years ago) and so far they have experienced 12 participations in this important world event. Runner-up in 1996, 2004 and 2016 is one of the honors of the Italian volleyball team in the Olympic Games. This team also has three third places and an Olympic bronze medal in its honors.
Italian volleyball men have participated in 18 men’s world championships and won the championship in 1990, 1994, 1998 and 2022. In 1978, this team became the runner-up in the world championship.
Ferdinando Degiorgi is leading the Italian national volleyball team in the Olympic qualifiers, and Simone Giannelli, Riccardo Sbertoli, Gianluca Galassi, Lorenzo Cortecia, Leandro Mosca, Giovanni Sanguinetti, Yuri Romano, Alessandro Buolenta, Alessandro Micheletto, Daniele Lavia, Tommaso Rinaldi, Mattia Bottolo , Fabio Balasso and Leonardo Scanfarella are the 14 players of this team in this tournament.
The history and results of official meetings between Iran and Italy are as follows:
1970 (world championship): Iran (0) – Italy (3)
2006 (World Championship): Iran (1) – Italy (3)
2008 (Olympic qualifiers): Iran (0) – Italy (3)
2010 (World Championship): Iran (2) – Italy (3)
2011 (World Cup): Iran (1) – Italy (3)
2013 (World League): Iran (3) – Italy (1)
2013 (World League): Iran (2) – Italy (3)
2013 (Champions Cup): Iran (3) – Italy (2)
2014 (World League): Iran (0) – Italy (3)
2014 (World League): Iran (0) – Italy (3)
2014 (World League): Iran (3) – Italy (1)
2014 (World League): Iran (3) – Italy (zero)
2014 (World League): Iran (0) – Italy (3)
2014 (world championship): Iran (3) – Italy (1)
2015 (World Cup): Iran (0) – Italy (3)
2016 (World League): Iran (0) – Italy (3)
2016 (Olympics): Iran (0) – Italy (3)
2017 (World League): Iran (0) – Italy (3)
2017 (Champions Cup): Iran (3) – Italy (2)
2018 (League of Nations): Iran (0) – Italy (3)
2019 (League of Nations): Iran (3) – Italy (1)
2019 (World Cup): Iran (2) – Italy (3)
2021 (League of Nations): Iran (3) – Italy (1)
2021 (Olympics): Iran (1) – Italy (3)
2022 (League of Nations): Iran (1) – Italy (3)
2023 (League of Nations): Iran 0 – Italy (3)