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^ Qatar will buy all the Cuban banned players, Simon, Leon, Leal, Hierrezuelo  olympic champions 2020

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Serbia is always good in WL, but bad or average in important championships.

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hace 9 minutos, amiry2j said:

still sucks.

these teams should improve themselves in the world league not during the olympic.

 

fair qualification is sth like handball qualification, really nothing is wrong with that qualification

 if it's up to me. i get rid of fivb world cup as soon as possible but i knew they want to hold tournament more and more.

 

 

 

I didn't say I liked that or that it was the best. I was just suggesting how it could improve from the point of view of FIVB, who doesn't want too many european teams.

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Ok, so...

 

A -      

B -       

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What I mean is, if the intercontinental tournament would be, instead of Mexico, Chile, Tunisia and Algeria, let's say... Australia, Venezuela, Canada and Tunisia it wouldn't be that bad, right?

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It's obvious that the intercontinental qualifier has an ideologic motive behind: to increase non-european representation at the olympics. I don't think that's bad per se, but I see two fatal flaws in it: a) that they send the 3rd, not the 2nd teams from N. & S. America b) that Asia has no access to it whatsoever. Asian teams have only two chances for olympics (world cup and asian qualifier) while every other continent is having 3.

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This Canadian team really sucks at dealing with pressure in every important game the same happens to them.

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Mexico won 3-1.

 

Now with 2 sets vs Tunisia they go to olympics.

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Well, Chile won a set against Brazil A team last year and I have seen both Chile and Tunisia play vs Argentina recently and to me Chile was stronger. They have two good attacking players (Gevert and Bonacic) that neither Tunisia or Mexico seem to have. Still, Mexico is favorite at home.

 

Edit: Though Gevert seems to be injured for this tournament.

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Well, France can't affect the outcome of the qualifiers. The focus should be in Poland instead. I think Iran will beat them easily today, and I wonder what they will do vs Australia tomorrow. That's the most important match of all.

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Carroll did well, but in the last set he couldn't make a serve without fault to save his life...

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lol Australia every year the same, they never improve.

 

 

I'm so angry they got easy schedule for world league this year while we got F***ed with it.

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There was literally no reason for the second point given to Japan.

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This was a robbery.

 

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I can't believe the level Peru just played vs Dominican R. they even scored block points!

 

I hope they can challenge Thailand and Korea for qualification.

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Argentina squad for World League (and sort of long squad for olympics):

Setters: Luciano de Cecco, Nicolás Uriarte, Demian Gonzalez

Opposites: Bruno Lima, Javier Vega, Cristian Poglajen

OH: Facundo Conte, Rodrigo Quiroga, Ezequiel Palacios, Lisandro Zanotti, Nicolás Bruno, Jan Martínez, Nicolás Lazo

Middle Blockers: Sebastián Solé, Martin Ramos, Pablo Crer, Facundo Imhoff, Joaquin Gallego

Liberos: Alexis Gonzalez, Facundo Santucci, Sebastian Closter

 

 

SO happy to see many players from junior/youth teams and not the usual weak old people

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The problem (at least with the volleyball uniforms) is that they look like training clothes rather than actual match uniforms.

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WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT

Qualified Nations:

• Argentina
• Brazil
•  Cameroon
•  China
• Italy
• Japan
• Netherlands
• Puerto Rico
•  Russia
•  Serbia
• South Korea
•  United States

 

Total Athletes Qualified  144

Total Nations Qualified  12

 

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MEN'S TOURNAMENT

Qualified Nations:

• Argentina
• Brazil
• Canada
•  Cuba
•  Egypt
• France
• Iran
•  Italy
• Mexico
• Poland
•  Russia
•  United States

 

Total Athletes Qualified  144

Total Nations Qualified  12

 

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Volleyball Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016

 

Qualifying Timeline - Men