Worrying about the coordination of several volleyball national teams/conditions are different from the past – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr News Agency, the 2023 Volleyball Nations League in the men’s group will start on June 16 and will end on August 1 with the introduction of the top teams. The Iranian national team will experience its fifth appearance in this competition, and Mahmoud Afshardoust and Alireza Tolokian are working as coaches in this team to accompany the head coach of the national team, Behrouz Atai, in the difficult road ahead.
Mahmoud Afshardoust said about the current condition of the players present in the national volleyball team camp: The condition of the team is not bad and we started our camp on 27th of Farudin after a 40-day break when the players were not training enough. At the beginning, as in all camps, there were different exercises and heavy physical work and low jump ball exercises. Over time, the pressure of weight work and ball exercises has increased.
Referring to the presence of some good players of the national team in the Shohdab Yazd squad to participate in the Asian Men’s Club Championship, he added: the players present in the national team camp are very energetic and at the disposal of the coaches, they pass the training, but considering that the players Those present in the Asian men’s club tournament will join the camp after the preparatory camp in Turkey. I hope that with their addition, we will start the first week of the League of Nations well because they only have one week to train with the team. I hope they can analyze the demands of the technical staff in a week and reach a good harmony with the players in the camp.
Afshardoust, in response to the question that you were in the technical staff of Iran’s national volleyball team during the time of Zindayad Hossein Mandari’s head coach, and now you are on the bench next to Behrouz Atai, what changes have Iran’s volleyball and national team made in these years? He said: Good memory of dear Hossein. In 1987, when my professional volleyball was over, I was added to the technical staff of the national team along with Hossein Mandari and Behrouz Atai. We were the 6th team in Asia and finally we finished our work by receiving the runner-up title in Asia and after that Velasco came to Iran to start a new season in Iranian volleyball.
He stated that during those years his job and education conditions have led him to management work, he said: This year I returned to coaching at the request of Atai, although I was not far from the coaching environment during this time and I have been a member of the Asian Coaches Committee since 2015. I have always been in contact with the coaches of the national teams in Asia, and teaching at the World Federation and attending various seminars and watching various Asian and European competitions by being in the hall have been part of my activities, so I was never far from the world of coaching and was somehow involved in it.
The global volleyball instructor noted: Perhaps from the point of view of people who watch volleyball on TV, there has not been much change in the techniques of three hits, serves, spikes, etc. that exist in volleyball since 40 years ago, but Different strategies and tactics have been created for the teams in the game, and the games of recent years cannot be compared to the past in any way. Even the speed of games has changed compared to 1990.
Emphasizing that the higher height for the game and the speed make up the differences between the teams, he said: Maybe many of the exercises, such as the side-out attack, etc., are similar to the past, but the type of analysis and philosophy that the coach wants from the exercises is different from 10 It is the previous year and they take into account finer points in the exercises. A correct analysis that a more complete team will be present in the matches.
Afshardost continued: In five sets, the coaches use different tactics for the game and the variety of passing, position, receiving, etc., all change. It is the same in defense and there are differences due to the abilities of the teams.
In the end, he emphasized: The big teams in the world pay special attention to trivial matters that we sometimes forget, such as defending the attacker, where we are weaker, and the best teams in the world do it 100%. The effort of the technical staff of the Iranian national volleyball team is to leave these small points among the players so that the volleyball of the national team becomes modern, beautiful and faster.
Iran’s national volleyball team has started its preparatory exercises from April 27 at the volleyball federation hall for a worthy participation in the League of Nations 2023, which will begin on June 16. Iran’s volleyball men will participate in the Asian Men’s Championship, the Chinese Asian Games and the Olympic qualifiers in the rest of 1402.