Iran Drawn with Italy, France, Belgium in FIVB World Championship


Iran Drawn with Italy, France, Belgium in FIVB World Championship

TEHRAN (Tasnim)– The Iranian volleyball team has been drawn in the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship pool D with Italy, France and Belgium.

Iran (WR12) is joined with three time champions Italy NORCECA 1, France (WR16), NORCECA 4 and Belgium (WR37) in Pool D.

A total of 24 countries were drawn across four pools for the first round of the 18th edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship, which will be held across six different cities (Katowice, Lodz, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Bydgoszcz, Krakow) in Poland from August 30-September 21.

Three time defending world champions and world No. 1 Brazil will take on Germany (WR10), Korea (WR21) and Finland (WR30) in addition to the second ranked NORCECA team and the top ranked CAVB side (NORCECA and CAVB host their qualification events in May and February respectively) in Group B.

The top 12 teams in the world ranking as of January 2014 were placed across the four pools in accordance with the serpentine system. Hosts Poland (world ranking 5) was placed in position 1 before the remaining 11 teams followed.

Olympic champions and world No. 2 Russia lead Pool C alongside Bulgaria (WR6) and NORCECA 3 and the drawn CAVB 2, China (WR18) and NORCECA 5.

Pools for the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship Poland 2014

Pool A - Poland, Argentina, Serbia, Australia, CAVB 3, Venezuela
Pool B - Brazil, NORCECA 2, Germany, CAVB 1, Korea, Finland
Pool C - Russia, Bulgaria, NORCECA 3, CAVB 2, China, NORCECA 5
Pool D – Italy, NORCECA 1, Iran, France, NORCECA 4, Belgium

The Draw was carried out in the presence of FIVB President Dr. Ary S. Graça F and Poland’s Minister of Sport and Tourism Andrzej Biernat.

A record number of 279 teams participated in the qualification process for the 2014 FIVB Volleyball World Championships. This total, coming from 166 national federations across the five FIVB confederations, represents an increase of 65 teams from the previous best of 214 teams from 119 federations for the 2010 World Championships (compared with 102 in 2006, 72 in 2002 and 63 in 1998).

There were 148 teams that have played in the qualification process for the Men’s World Championship.

Brazil sealed their third straight FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship title in Italy in 2010 after beating Cuba in the final. Serbia completed the podium after beating the home side in the bronze medal match.

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