Volleyball star wars in Urmia/Which team is the winner of the 45th battle? – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
Mehr News Agency – Provinces Group: The 22nd edition of Asian Men’s Volleyball Championship, which started on Saturday, August 28, hosted by Urmia, will end tonight, Saturday, the 4th of Shahrivar, with the unveiling of the champion team.
Meanwhile, Iran’s national volleyball team will play its fifth match in the 2023 Asian Men’s Championship against Japan starting at 18:00 today, which is the 45th match between the two teams in history.
In the last 45 battles between the two Asian powers, the Japanese have won 26 and the Iranian national team has won 18.
In the previous 44 matches between the two teams, Japan won 93 sets and our country’s national team won 70 sets, and the first eight battles between the two teams during the era of Japan’s power display ended 3-0, and between 2011 and 2013, our country’s national team won seven games by three. Safar won and compensated.
The teams of Iran and Japan have faced each other 13 times in the Asian Men’s Championship so far, with five wins for Iran and eight for the Samurai, and today’s fight between the two teams is the 14th match in the history of this important tournament of the old continent.
The two powerhouses of Asian volleyball are holding a traditional battle while the last two games of the two teams ended in favor of Japan, and the national team of our country will step on the field today to make up for them and win the title of Asian champion.
The two teams have held four matches in the Twenty2 Cup, winning all of them and giving only one set to their opponents, which was the lost set of Iran against Iraq and Japan against Qatar.
The two teams have faced each other in the finals three times in the last 21 seasons, and Japan won twice and the Iranian national team won once, and the most interesting thing about these battles was Japan’s 3-1 victory in the 2005 final in Tehran and our country’s 3-0 win. It was in Chiba, Japan in 2021, and today the national team has a chance to equalize the statistics in the fourth final match between the two teams.
Jae Chiu Hui from South Korea and Ibrahim Mahmoud from Qatar will be the judges of this battle. They will be sensitive that Iran will rise to the second place in the history of the Asian Championship with a possible championship higher than South Korea.
We have to wait and see what will be the result of Behrouz Atai and French Philippe Blain’s volleyball chess game and will Japan be the opponent of Iran’s 6th army plus 8,000 men or not?
The history of meetings between Iran and Japan is as follows:
World meetings between Iran and Japan since the beginning
1958 (Asian Games): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
1966 (Asian Games): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
1966 (Asian Games): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
1970 (Asian Games): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
1974 (Asian Games): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
1993 (Asian Championship): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
1995 (Asian Championship): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
1997 (Asian Championship): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
1999 (Asian Championship): Iran (1) – Japan (3)
2001 (Asian Championship): Iran (2) – Japan (3)
2003 (Asian Championship): Iran (1) – Japan (3)
2004 (Olympic selection): Iran (3) – Japan (2)
2005 (Asian Championship): Iran (3) – Japan (2)
2006 (Asian Games): Iran (2) – Japan (3)
2007 (Asian Championship): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
2008 (Asian Confederation Cup): Iran (3) – Japan (1)
2008 (Olympic qualifier): Iran (1) – Japan (3)
2009 (Asian Championship): Iran (1) – Japan (3)
2009 (qualifying for the World Championship): Iran (1) – Japan (3)
2009 (Champions Cup): Iran (2) – Japan (3)
2010 (Asian Confederation Cup): Iran (3) – Japan (0)
2010 (World Championship): Iran (3) – Japan (1)
2010 (Asian Games): Iran (1) – Japan (3)
2011 (Asian Championship): Iran (3) – Japan (0)
2011 (World Cup): Iran (3) – Japan (1)
2012 (Olympic qualifiers): Iran (3) – Japan (zero)
2012 (world league selection): Iran (3) – Japan (0)
2012 (world league selection): Iran (3) – Japan (0)
2013 (Asian Championship): Iran (3) – Japan (zero)
2013 (Champions Cup): Iran (3) – Japan (zero)
2014 (Asian Games): Iran (3) – Japan (1)
2015 (Wagner Cup): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
2015 (Asian Championship): Iran (1) – Japan (3)
2015 (World Cup): Iran (3) – Japan (2)
2016 (Olympic qualifiers): Iran (3) – Japan (1)
2017 (Champions Cup): Iran (3) – Japan (1)
2018 (League of Nations): Iran (1) – Japan (3)
2019 (League of Nations): Iran (3) – Japan (zero)
2019 (World Cup): Iran (1) – Japan (3)
2021 (League of Nations): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
2021 (Olympics): Iran (2) – Japan (3)
2021 (Asian Championship): Iran (3) – Japan (zero)
2022 (League of Nations): Iran (0) – Japan (3)
2023 (League of Nations): Iran zero – Japan (3)