Sunday, August 09, 2009

Volleyball News
At 2009 FIVB Men's Junior Volleyball World Championship, Pune, India

Bronze Medal match
India l Argentina 19-25 16-25 22-25

Gold Medal Match
Brazil bt Cuba 30-28 21-25 25-22 23-25 15-8

Final Standing
1 Brazil
2 Cuba
3 Argentina
4 India
5 Russia
6 Belgium
7 Iran
8 USA
9 Poland
10 France
11 China
12 Canada
13 Egypt
14 Tunisia
15 Belarus
16 Greece

After yesterday's high energy match today our boys played tentatively and somewhat dejectedly ... Frankly it was very difficult for them to come out from yesterday's match, they were looking drained out ... They take their loss against Brazil very seriously, few players were crying and nobody was in mood of talking to media after their match against Brazil.

So after seeing their body language I was expecting this result but this bad match doesn't lessen their achievement and performance in this u-21 World Championship.

In the final Brazil defeated fellow South American Cuba in tightly contested match but this time again Brazilian side dominated 5th set showing their mastery in close matches ... So Brazilian successfully defended title which they won in last edition.

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