Men's Volleyball FIVB World Championship 2018

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Men's Volleyball FIVB World Championship 2018

 

Various Cities (BUL/ITA) - 9 September 2018 - 30 September 2018

 

 

Totallympics Results Thread

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AVC Draw for 2018 World Championships qualification, top two teams from each group qualify

 

Iran and Australia as top seeds will host the groups but seriously we got the toughest possible draw. missing the WCh is not impossible now considering the fact we have a new coach in Igor Kolakovic.

 

Group A

Iran

China

South Korea

Qatar

Central Asia

 

 

Group B

Australia

Japan

Chinese Taipei

Thailand

New Zealand

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Second Round European Qualification to the World Championships

 

 

MEN

 

GROUP A

 - FRANCE - CEV RANK 1 (Hosts)

- GERMANY - CEV RANK 4

- TURKEY - CEV RANK 14

- UKRAINE - CEV RANK 23 

- AZERBAIJAN - CEV RANK 33

- ICELAND - CEV RANK 41

 

GROUP B

- NETHERLANDS - CEV RANK 10 (hosts)

- SLOVAKIA - CEV RANK 11

- GREECE - CEV RANK 18

- AUSTRIA - CEV RANK 28

- LUXEMBOURG - CEV RANK 31

- MOLDOVA - CEV RANK 35

 

GROUP C

 - SLOVENIA - CEV RANK 11 (hosts)

- BELGIUM - CEV RANK 9

- PORTUGAL - CEV RANK 15

- LATVIA - CEV RANK 25

- ISRAEL - CEV RANK 29 

- GEORGIA - CEV RANK 41

 

GROUP D

- ESTONIA - CEV RANK 14 (hosts)

- RUSSIA - CEV RANK 1

- MONTENEGRO - CEV RANK 21

- ROMANIA - CEV RANK 26 

- HUNGARY - CEV RANK 30

- KOSOVO - CEV RANK N/A (FIRST TIME PARTICIPANT)

 

GROUP E

- CROATIA - CEV RANK 20 (hosts)

- SERBIA - CEV RANK 6 

- BELARUS - CEV RANK 20

- DENMARK - CEV RANK 24

- SWITZERLAND - CEV RANK 34

- NORWAY - CEV RANK 36

 

GROUP F

  - CZECH REPUBLIC - CEV RANK 13

- FINLAND - CEV RANK 8 

- SPAIN - CEV RANK 17

- SWEDEN - CEV RANK 27

- CYPRUS - CEV RANK 31

- NORTHERN IRELAND - CEV RANK 43

 

WOMEN 

 

GROUP A

- CROATIA - CEV RANK 8 (host)

- RUSSIA - CEV RANK 1

- HUNGARY - CEV RANK 17

- GREECE - CEV RANK 23

- AUSTRIA - CEV RANK 25 

- GEORGIA - CEV RANK 38

 

GROUP B

- POLAND - CEV RANK 9 (host)

- SERBIA - CEV RANK 2

- CZECH REPUBLIC - CEV RANK 11

- SLOVAKIA - CEV RANK 15

- CYPRUS - CEV RANK 31

- ICELAND - CEV RANK 42

 

GROUP C

- BULGARIA - CEV RANK 10 (host)

- TURKEY - CEV RANK 5 (host)

- ROMANIA - CEV RANK 16

- SWITZERLAND - CEV RANK 20

- MONTENEGRO - CEV RANK 25

- KOSOVO - CEV RANK N/A - FIRST TIME PARTICIPANT

 

GROUP D

- BELGIUM - CEV RANK 7 (host)

- ITALY - CEV RANK 4

- BELARUS - CEV RANK 13

- SPAIN - CEV RANK 18

- LATVIA - CEV RANK 28 

- BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - CEV RANK 33

 

GROUP E

- AZERBAIJAN - CEV RANK 12 (host)

- NETHERLANDS - CEV RANK 5 

- UKRAINE - CEV RANK 19

- ISRAEL - CEV RANK 21

- DENMARK - CEV RANK 29

- NORWAY - CEV RANK 36

 

GROUP F

- PORTUGAL - CEV RANK 27 (host)

- GERMANY - CEV RANK 3

- FRANCE - CEV RANK 14

- SLOVENIA - CEV RANK 21

- FINLAND - CEV RANK 24

- ESTONIA - CEV RANK 32

 

In both cases, only the group winner qualifies. The second placed teams will have to compete in an additional round - another six team group. In the men's case, only the winner of 3rd stage group will qualify to WCH, but in the women's tournament top 2 teams will qualify.

 

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We are again with Turkey and Romania, jeez it's like a club league matches with them the last couple of years. 

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Swedish men claim two straight wins over Hungary en route to World Champs qualifier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Örebro, Sweden, May 8, 2017. The Swedish men’s national team is currently preparing for the upcoming qualification round to the 2018 FIVB Volleyball World Championship. On Friday evening, the Swedes took on Hungary in a friendly match, which the hosts eventually claimed by 3-0 in front of an ecstatic home crowd.

Team captain Erik Sundberg received the award for the Most Valuable Player of the match after putting up an impressive performance, blocking down his opponents and unleashing some devastating spikes. 

“I am pleased with our performance. This is something we can build on. I am especially happy that we were able to put up such a show at home in front of our fans and the coming generations of Swedish Volleyball players,” Sweden head coach Johan Isacsson said after the match. 

The friendly, which represented the opening ceremony of the so-called Mikasa Challenge, Sweden’s largest Volleyball youth tournament, gathered a crowd of about 1,800, thereby creating a fantastic atmosphere in the fully packed Idrottshuset arena in Örebro.

The two national teams challenged each other again Sunday late afternoon in Linköping, and this resulted in another 3-0 victory for the Swedes. 

Since last weekend, the Swedish team has been in a training camp, working on the team spirit, going through tactics and studying the upcoming opponents. Coach Isacsson is satisfied with what the team has shown since his players have come together: “I believe in this team. We have a lot of interesting players with great potential and character.”

 

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Serbian team for qualification in Zagreb

 

SETTERS

Nikola Jovovic

Maksim Buculjevic

 

RECEIVERS

Uros Kovacevic

Nemanja Petric

Marko Ivovic

Milan Katic

 

MIDDLE BLOCKERS

Dragan Stankovic

Marko Podrascanin

Srecno Lisinac

Aleksandar Okolic

 

 

ATTACKERS

Aleksandar Atanasijevic

Drazen Luburic

 

LIBEROS

Nikola Rosic

Neven Majstorovic

 

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Well, this is our best team right now. We will play without Stankovic and Rosic in world league.

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No official broadcasters for most of the qualifying matches in the internet Oh, CEV... why is it, that almost every basketball competition, even Junior Continental Cup, gets uploaded on FIBA's official channel in quality similar to standard TV broadcast, while in volleyball either there is no broadcast, or the quality is crappy with just one camera placed so noone can see anything and streamed on some unknown websites like laola1 instead of youtube?

However all games of FIVB women's world championship qualifiers in Warsaw will be broadcast by our channel Polsat Sport, so if there is anybody interested, and doesn't mind constant commercials here is working stream.

http://mytvlive.me/polsat-sport-online-stream-polsat-sport-hd-telewizja-za-darmo-na-zywo/


First match to be played at 15:30 today. (Czech Republic vs Slovakia) followed by other matches at 18:00 at 20:30 and this schedule will continue for the rest of the competition with the exception of 26 may where no matches will be played

 

 

 

 

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First set in men's qualifier played and already huge surprise - Austria beat Slovakia 27:25 

 

2-0 for  AUSTRIA!!! 

WOW, we also have a surprise in first set of women's qualification as Slovakia beat Czech Republic 25:18 

Edited May 23, 2017 by VolleyRuller96

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 AUSTRIA - SLOVAKIA 3:1  

 

HUGE shocker in the first match of men's qualifier - Austria only scored 1 point in Euro Championship qualification tournament a few months ago, while Slovakia dreamed of qualifying to World Championships for the first time ever - with the matches with Greece and Netherlands still upcoming their dream may already be over

 

Edited May 23, 2017 by VolleyRuller96

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WHAT THE HELL!!! 
 

: MOLDOVA 1-0  Greece

 

i am loving this qualification tournament