FIVB Volleyball Men’s Nations League 2019

[Iran_19]

Ghafour joins Italian side, the European Champion, Cucine Lube Civitanova.

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Iran's World Rankings for various age groups:

MEN: 8th
U23 MEN: 6th
U21 MEN: 5th
U19 MEN: 1st

WOMEN: 39th
U23 WOMEN: 29th
U21 WOMEN: 32nd
U19 WOMEN: 36th

The women are actually doing better than I would have thought (I didn't even know we had women's volleyball teams...I've never seen them play).

[Abtin]

Ghafour joins Italian side, the European Champion, Cucine Lube Civitanova.

https://www.lubevolley.it/news/2019-06-05-lopposto-iraniano-amir-ghafour-e-della-cucine-lube-civitanova/

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Brazil – Iran (June 7, 2019)
Head-to-Head
• Brazil and Iran have met 14 times at world level major tournaments. Brazil won 11 times, Iran won three.
• World level major tournaments are: FIVB Volleyball Nations League, Olympic Games, World Championship, World Cup, World League and Grand Champions Cup.
• Brazil have won each of their last five matches against Iran at world level major tournaments. They never won six in a row against them.
• Iran's last victory over Brazil in a world level major tournament was a 3-1 win in the 2014 World League group stage.
• The last encounter between these teams was almost a year ago. On 9 June 2018, these teams played a five-setter at the VNL, with Brazil prevailing after five sets. Douglas Souza scored 22 points for Brazil. Saber Kazemi (15) was Iran's top scorer in that match.

Brazil
• Brazil started their 2019 Volleyball Nations League with three consecutive victories. France and Iran have also won their first three matches.
• The last time Brazil started a world level major tournament with four consecutive wins was the 2015 World League (first four).
• Wallace De Souza is the top scorer for Brazil in the 2019 VNL on 49 points. He is in fourth place of the tournament's top scorers list in 2019.
• Last year, Wallace De Souza scored a 216 points in the preliminary round of the Volleybal Nations League, second-most of all players behind China's Chuan Jiang (274).
• Fernando Kreling (2.83 avg) is in the top-10 in the Best Setter category of the 2019 VNL.

Iran
• Iran started their 2019 Volleyball Nations League with three consecutive victories. Only France and Brazil have also won their first three matches.
• Iran conceded only one set so far this tournament (3-1 against Italy).
• Iran have won their last seven VNL matches, including their last two in straight sets.
• Iran could win three successive world level matches in straight sets for the first time since three in a row in the 2015 World League.
• Amir Ghafour has scored a team-high 48 points in the 2019 VNL, ranking him fifth among all players in the tournament.
• Mir Saeid Marouflakrani is the best setter in the 2019 tournament with an average of 13 per set.

[Karimi_1]

23 - 25
25 - 16
21 - 25
33 - 31
15 - 10

We lost to Brazil today. 3-2 in sets

[Abtin]

Very intense game today, our boys lost it in 4th set unfortunately

[Abtin]

Wow, Japan beat Argentina 3-0 today!

[diz]

Iran-Brazil match highlights below. Very good game overall for both teams, could have gone either way today. Valiant effort by Iran, who now sit in 3rd place (but with same points as Brazil):

http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/media/video?id=201921458

[_Navid_]

We could have easily got 3 points today. Very unfortunate. That point at 21-18 was decider. Bad miss.

[Irannn]

at 28-27 we had the match point and the ref called that a foul on Mousavi's set. I watched that so many times. to me that was no foul. I have to say we got robbed a win. the watch was over without that call.

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[Abtin]

Argentina - Iran live stream link: https://www.telewebion.com/live/tv3

[euphory]

Iran won 3-1 from Argentina, with the last set winning 34-32!! great game!

[_Navid_]

Great win today. Well done to the boys.