Is Atai’s students thinking of revenge against the check/second win? – 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, from 16:30 on Wednesday, the 12th of Mehr, in their fourth match in this competition. He will face the Czech Republic.
Iran’s men’s volleyball team played against the Czech Republic only once before, which was in the group stage of the 2006 World Men’s Championship, and the Iranian team, led by Milorad Kijach, lost 3-0 to this team.
Behrouz Atai’s students will face the Czech Republic with two goals, the first goal is to avenge the 2006 defeat against this team. The second goal is to get the second victory in the qualifying matches and increase the motivation of the players to continue the competitions.
The national volleyball team of the Czech Republic has gained only one point in its last three games, but the performance of this team against Brazil and Italy indicates the emergence of a new phenomenon in European volleyball. On the other hand, with the defeat of this team, Iranian volleyball men can have a very good motivation to continue the competition and fight with the two contending teams, Brazil and Italy.
The Czech national volleyball team is currently ranked 21st in the world with 160 points, and the Iranian national volleyball team is ranked 10th with 227.70 points.
The Czech Republic was created on January 1, 1993, following the division of Czechoslovak Republic, but Iran’s volleyball in the past (Czechoslovakia) had a brilliant history in the world, including five appearances in the Olympic Games and winning the runner-up position in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. And the bronze medal and the third place in the 1968 Mexico Olympics.
16 times participating in the men’s world championships and winning two of these competitions in 1956 and 1966 and being the runner-up in four times of the men’s world championships are other honors of Czechoslovak volleyball.
Jiri Novak leads the Czech Republic national volleyball team and Jakub Janoch, Jiri Serbin, Joseph Polak, Petr Shpolak, Lukasz Trojanovic, Adam Zajicek, Jan Hadrava, Mark Sotola, Jan Galabov, Martin Liček, Jan Svoboda, Lukas Vasina, Milan Monik and Daniel Pfeffer are 14 players of this team in the Olympic qualifiers.