The pulse of Asian volleyball beats in Urmia/ attack on South Korea with the defeat of Japan – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr’s reporter, Iran’s national volleyball team will play its old and traditional opponent Japan in the final match of the Asian Volleyball Championship starting at 6:00 p.m. this Saturday in the 6,000-seat hall of Urmia.
Iran’s national volleyball team, having won four gold medals in 2011, 2013, 2019 and 2021, two runner-up titles in 2009 and 2015, and a bronze medal in 2003, is in the third place and the most proud Asian champion team, after Japan and South Korea. is located and is considered as a fierce competitor of other teams.
If Atai’s students win a gold medal in this period, they will take the place of South Korea in the list of medalists.
In the preliminary stage of this competition, Iran’s national volleyball team played against Hong Kong and Iraq in Group A and advanced to the next round by winning against these two teams. Of course, in the meeting with Iraq, the volleyball national team lost the first set against expectations, but they made up for this failure in the next three sets.
Iran’s top players lined up against Pakistan in the knockout stage, and finally managed to defeat this team with a score of 3-0 to advance to the semi-final stage and face China. In the semi-final stage, Atai’s students were able to break down the wall of China and make their way to the final stage and a tough confrontation with the Japanese national volleyball team.
The Japanese national volleyball team has won 9 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 3 bronze medals in the Asian Championship. Japan made history in the 2023 League of Nations with a surprise and defeat of the volleyball superpowers, and in the ranking match, after defeating Italy, it was able to take the third place and win the bronze medal of this tournament for the first time.
In the Asian Championship hosted by Urmia, the Samurais were grouped together with Thailand and Uzbekistan in Group B of the tournament and were able to defeat these two teams with a score of 3-0 in both games and win. After advancing to the elimination stage, the Samurais played against Bahrain and won this match with authority. They played against Qatar in the semi-final stage and after losing the first set, they won the other three sets to reach the finals, just like Iran.
Now, Iran and Japan will face each other in the final today, these two teams have played against each other 47 times, and Iran’s share has been 22 victories and Samurai’s share has been 25 victories. Iran’s national volleyball team won against Japan in the final stage of the previous Asian Championship in 2021 and won the gold medal of this tournament. will get
The Japanese national volleyball team in the city of Urmia, volleyball lovers, must face Iran, the unceasing cheering of the spectators has made the situation difficult for Japan, so that in the semi-final stage of their fight with Qatar, the head coach of the Japanese team complained about the loud noise of the spectators. And he said that this noise in the hall made us not enjoy watching the game. According to these conditions, it seems that the victory of Attai’s students and their gold in the final stage is not far from reach.
From 2010 to 2018, Iran’s national volleyball team defeated Japan’s volleyball 14 times in 15 games and lost only once, but in the last 5 years and in 7 games played between these two teams, Iran’s national volleyball team succeeded in They have won 2 matches against Japan and lost 5 times to this stubborn opponent.
The history of the confrontation between Iran and Japan is as follows:
Iran 0-3 Japan 1958 Asian Games
Iran 0-3 Japan 1966 Asian Games
Iran 0-3 Japan 1966 Asian Games
Iran 0-3 Japan 1970 Asian Games
Iran 0-3 Japan 1974 Asian Games
Iran 0-3 Japan, 1993 Asian Championship
Iran 0-3 Japan, 1994 World Championship Qualifier
Iran 0-3 Japan, 1995 Asian Championship
Iran 0-3 Japan, 1997 Asian Championship
Iran 1-3 Japan 1999 Asian Championship
Iran 2-3 Japan Asian Championship 2001
Iran 3-1 Japan 2003 Asian Championship
Iran 3-2 Japan, qualifier for the 2004 Olympic Games
Iran 3-2 Japan 2005 Asian Championship
Iran 2-3 Japan Asian Games 2006
Iran 0-3 Japan, 2007 Asian Championship
Iran 1-3 Japan, 2008 Olympic Games Qualifier
Iran 3-1 Japan, Asian Cup 2008
Iran 1-3 Japan 2010 World Championship Qualifiers
Iran 1-3 Japan 2009 Asian Championship
Iran 2-3 Japan 2009 World Champions Cup
Iran 3-0 Japan, Asian Cup 2010
Iran 3-1 Japan 2010 World Championship
Iran 1-3 Japan 2010 Asian Games
Iran 3-0 Japan, Asian Championship 2011
Iran 3-1 Japan World Cup 2011
Iran 3-0 Japan qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games
Iran 3-0 Japan World League Qualifier 2013
Iran 3-0 Japan World League Qualifier 2013
Iran 3-0 Japan 2013 Asian Championship
Iran 3-0 Japan World Champions Cup 2013
Iran 3-0 Japan Asian Cup 2014
Iran 3-1 Japan 2014 Asian Games
Iran 1-3 Japan, 2015 Asian Championship
Iran 3-2 Japan World Cup 2015
Iran 3-1 Japan qualifiers for the 2016 Olympic Games
Iran 3-0 Japan Asian Cup 2016
Iran 3-2 Japan, Asian Cup 2016
Iran 3-1 Japan World Champions Cup 2017
Iran 1-3 Japan League of Nations 2018
Iran 3-0 Japan League of Nations 2019
Iran 1-3 Japan World Cup 2019
Iran 0-3 Japan League of Nations 2021
Iran 2-3 Japan 2020 Olympic Games
Iran 3-0 Japan 2021 Asian Championship
Iran 0-3 Japan League of Nations 2022
Iran 0-3 Japan League of Nations 2023