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MEDIA GUIDE Men’s Tournament 18th November to 2nd December 2007

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Table of contents

Message from FIVB President 3 General Organisation 5 Qualification Tournaments 6 Competition System 9 FIVB World Ranking 10 Competition Schedules 12 Participants 14 2007 World Cup Host cities 17 Argentina 22 Australia 26 Brazil 30 Bulgaria 34 Egypt 38 Spain 42 Japan 46 Korea, Republic of 50 Puerto Rico 54 Russia 58 Tunisia 62 U.S.A. 66 Men’s World Cup Honours 70 2003 History 71 List of officials 72

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 2 MEN FIVB World Cup 2007: the challenge for Beijing 2008 begins

One year after the huge success of the FIVB World Championships played in Japan, the Volleyball family was looking forward to coming back here for the FIVB World Cup 2007. Months before the event I had the feeling that something really exciting was going to happen: the FIVB wants a World Cup even more successful than the 2003 edition, which is still a record breaker event. Japan Volleyball Association and Fuji Television Network Inc. are leading the FIVB team to have the best World Cup ever. All the Japanese fans are ready to give their full support to the best players of the planet, gathered in Japan to go for the gold medals and to get a chance to compete at the Olympic Games next year. Six teams will celebrate on the podiums and they will conquer the first places for Beijing. I never forget the last player, who always sits off the court but is one of the most important: it’s the world of Media. I would like to thank personally all the journalists, from press, radio and TV stations, who will give their support to our event. Two different websites, with the FIVB and the organizers’ special pages, will offer a huge feed of information and materials to every journalist all over the world, with live scoring, statistics, news and free pictures shot by the best Volleyball photographers. This Media Guide, produced by the FIVB in two versions for the Women and Men’s tournaments, is another big support that I’m sure will help all the media to give the best coverage to the World Cup. My special wishes to all the accredited press which will work directly here in Japan: they are going to travel as the teams, from city to city, to live the World Cup as a great sport adventure. I’m sure that they will enjoy every day spent with the Volleyball family, thanks to the hospitality of the Japanese people. 13 cities, 15 different venues, 24 teams, 6 entries for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. These numbers are the starting figures of the 2007 World Cup. Now we need soul, touching sport stories, exciting reports.

Dr. Rubén Acosta H. FIVB President

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General Organisation

National Organisation Committee National Operations Committee NOC Function Family Name First Name NOP Function Family Name First Name Honorary President Matsudaira Yasutaka Executive Tournament Manager Wakao Katsumi Honorary Vice President Shiga Toshiyuki Executive Director Yamagishi Norio Honorary Member Asano Shigetaro Deputy Executive Directors Shimoyama Takashi Presidents Tachiki Masao Suzuki Kenji Hieda Hisashi Secretary General Kojima Kazuyuki Vice Presidents Hashizume Shizuo Project Managers Funaki Masanari Nakano Taizaburo Oomae Kazuhiko Maruyama Makoto Project Coordinator Kawaguchi Tetsuo Yamagishi Norio Competition Director Wakao Katsumi Toyoda Kou Referee Manger Shimoyama Takashi Members Hagiwara Hideo Court Manager Ukechi Masanari Narita Akihiko Technical Manager Odagiri Takashi Shimoyama Takashi Administration Director Sakota Yoshito Furou Koji Finance Manager Igarashi Mitsuo Iwamitsu Kazuomi Transportation & Accommodation Manager Ota Kiyotaka Sumida Nagayoshi Team Liaison & Interpreter Manger Ota Kiyotaka Isohara Hiroshi Security & Accreditation Manager Tanaka Akihiko Yokoi Ryosuke Facilities Director Tomita Mitsuru Ohta Hideaki Telecommunication Manager Hainishi Katsuhiro Obitsu Masami City & Venue Decoration Manager Hainishi Katsuhiro Horiguchi Juichi Press Director Takeuchi Hiroshi Kobayashi Yutaka VIS Manager Endo Toshiro Endo Ryunosuke Medical Services Director Kawanoue Yutaka Suzuki Katsuaki Protocol, Ceremony & Entertainment Director Wakiyama Hisachika Nayuki Masao Promotion & Marketing Directors Saito Akimi Nagashima Takahiro Minegishi Jun Saito Tsutomu Ticket Sales Director Yamagishi Norio Takeda Yoshio Ticket Sales Manager Fujiyama Taichiro Miyamoto Koichi TV Production Director Kondo Norihiko Uesawa Koji Local Executive Directors Konya Masao Utsumi Takashi Onodera Futao Takeuchi Tsuguya Murai Tsuneo Aizawa Takashi Otsuka Keijiro Yamamoto Souichi Takahashi Yoshio Nukazawa Syuichi Nishikawa Tomoyuki Murayama Minoru Tsuchiya Shinji Aizaki Yoshimatsu Kameyama Hiromi Sone Masahiro Yamamoto Akio Ueda Munehiko Fukumoto Kazuhiro Takaba Kunihiro Shimomura Eiji Mitsuno Minoru Goto Shonosuke Asano Sekiya Hirata Itsuo Kataoka Masashi Members Kikuchi Akihiro Arisawa Kan Goto Seiichi Miyauchi Masaki Kobayashi Shinichi Nagano Masao Takagawa Hideaki Hirai Nobuyuki Ohashi Makoto Itoyama Kenichirou Kimura Takashi Terasaki Kazuo Yamamura Shinya Hirayama Kouzou Hanafusa Takamitsu Kaneko Genkichi Takakubo Kenji Motomatsu Masaru Sase Yoichi Yuuki Nobutaka Motomatsu Masaru Watanabe Michinori Kawai Jitsunosuke Yamamoto Tsuyoshi Mori Youichi Kinjou Junichirou Inaki Kouji Controller Okazaki Shouzou Omori Shizuo Ishikawa Junichi Maeda Kazuya Nishibuchi Kenji Kishimoto Ichiro Nakamura Yoshiaki Nakao Yoshinobu Uemura Yoshikatsu Murakoso Kiyoshi Muta Natsuhiko

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Qualification Tournaments

Teams Set Result per set (points) Ranking Code Country Pts Matches Sets Points 1 2 3 4 5 Won Lost Won Lost Ratio Won Lost Ratio Africa POOL A - Durban, South Africa / 16-19 September 2007 RSA-MOZ 3-0 25-16 25-17 25-14 1 CMR Cameroon 6 3 9 2 4.500 263 209 1.258 RWA-CMR 2-3 16-25 30-28 23-25 25-20 11-15 2 RWA Rwanda 4 1 2 7 6 1.167 284 279 1.018 CMR-MOZ 3-0 25-22 25-12 25-11 3 MOZ Mozambique 4 1 2 3 6 0.500 176 197 0.893 RWA-RSA 2-3 19-25 25-22 22-25 25-23 13-15 4 RSA South Africa 4 1 2 3 8 0.375 216 254 0.850 MOZ-RWA 0-3 19-25 22-25 15-25 RSA-CMR 0-3 18-25 22-25 19-25 POOL B - Durban, South Africa / 16-20 September 2007 BOT-KEN 1-3 21-25 20-25 25-16 19-25 1 TUN Tunisia 8 4 12 MAX 304 229 1.328 ZIM-EGY 0-3 17-25 13-25 11-25 2 EGY Egypt 7 3 1 9 3 3.000 297 230 1.291 ZIM-TUN 0-3 17-25 20-25 12-25 3 KEN Kenya 6 2 2 6 8 0.750 306 316 0.968 KEN-EGY 0-3 24-26 12-25 19-25 4 BOT Botswana 5 1 3 4 10 0.400 292 323 0.904 TUN-KEN 3-0 25-20 25-23 25-19 5 ZIM Zimbabwe 4 4 2 12 0.167 252 353 0.714 EGY-BOT 3-0 25-23 25-10 25-22 ZIM-KEN 1-3 19-25 17-25 25-23 19-25 TUN-BOT 3-0 25-22 25-14 25-11 ZIM-BOT 1-3 14-25 32-30 13-25 23-25 TUN-EGY 3-0 25-21 29-27 25-23 SEMI-FINALS - Durban, South Africa / 22 September 2007 CMR-EGY 0-3 22-25 22-25 18-25 TUN-RSA 3-0 25-14 25-19 25-20 FINALS - Durban, South Africa / 23 September 2007 CMR-RSA 3-0 25-19 26-24 25-17 1 EGY Egypt EGY-TUN 3-2 15-25 25-27 25-22 25-22 15-9 2 TUN Tunisia 3 CMR Cameroon 4 RSA South Africa Asia GROUP MATCHES - Jakarta, Indonesia / 31 August-2 September IRI-VIE 3-1 25-17 25-16 23-25 25-14 QAT-TPE 1-3 19-25 30-28 24-26 21-25 THA-SRI 3-0 25-17 25-17 25-21 AUS-IND 3-1 22-25 25-19 25-18 25-23 KUW-KAZ 0-3 19-25 16-25 25-27 MDV-QAT 0-3 15-25 15-25 14-25 PAK-IRI 1-3 18-25 25-20 22-25 21-25 KSA-THA 1-3 25-22 21-25 16-25 16-25 IND-KAZ 3-2 25-20 24-26 25-20 25-27 18-16 AUS-KUW 3-0 25-11 25-15 25-11 VIE-PAK 2-3 20-25 25-21 28-26 21-25 8-15 SRI-KSA 0-3 14-25 11-25 23-25 TPE-MDV 3-0 25-13 25-15 25-10 KUW-IND 0-3 19-25 22-25 17-25 KAZ-AUS 0-3 14-25 20-25 14-25 QUARTER FINALS - Jakarta, Indonesia / 3-9 September INA-THA 3-2 25-23 22-25 25-18 22-25 15-12 CHN-TPE 3-1 25-15 20-25 25-18 25-21 JPN-AUS 2-3 21-25 25-19 25-20 20-25 9-15 KOR-IRI 3-0 27-25 28-26 25-21 IND-VIE 3-0 27-25 28-26 25-21 PAK-KUW 3-0 25-18 25-13 31-29 INA-TPE 2-3 17-25 25-17 31-33 25-21 16-18 CHN-THA 3-2 25-18 18-25 25-23 19-25 19-17 JPN-IRI 3-0 25-22 28-26 25-14 KOR-AUS 2-3 25-20 22-25 25-20 21-25 18-20 QAT-SRI 3-0 25-17 25-9 29-27 KSA-MDV 3-0 25-13 25-11 25-21 KAZ-PAK 3-0 25-19 25-22 25-15 VIE-KUW 3-0 25-20 25-15 25-21 JPN-KOR 3-1 25-16 26-24 21-25 25-19 INA-CHN 2-3 16-25 15-25 25-21 25-23 10-15 TPE-THA 2-3 18-25 25-23 25-23 22-25 11-15 IRI-AUS 2-3 23-25 25-17 16-25 25-22 13-15 MDV-SRI 1-3 20-25 12-25 26-24 17-25 QAT-KSA 3-0 25-23 25-17 25-23 VIE-KAZ 1-3 18-25 17-25 25-23 18-25 CHN-IRI 3-0 26-24 25-22 25-20 AUS-TPE 3-0 25-15 25-20 25-21 THA-KOR 0-3 21-25 20-25 21-25 JPN-INA 3-0 25-18 25-21 25-16 SRI-VIE 3-2 11-25 13-25 25-21 26-24 15-13 PAK-MDV 3-0 25-11 25-13 25-16 QAT-KAZ 1-3 21-25 25-18 16-25 20-25 IND-KSA 3-0 25-22 25-22 25-19 1 AUS Australia THA-IRI 2-3 20-25 25-22 16-25 25-22 11-15 2 JPN Japan JPN-TPE 3-0 25-13 25-14 25-15 3 KOR Korea AUS-INA 3-0 25-30 36-34 27-25 4 CHN China CHN-KOR 0-3 20-25 17-25 21-25 5 IRI Iran IND-QAT 3-2 27-25 21-25 25-21 18-25 15-10 6 THA Thailand KAZ-KSA 3-0 25-23 25-19 25-22 7 INA Indonesia PAK-SRI 3-0 26-24 25-18 25-18 8 TPE Chinese Taipei VIE-MDV 3-0 25-18 25-23 25-18 9 IND India AUS-THA 3-0 25-21 25-20 25-19 10 KAZ Kazakhstan CHN-JPN 0-3 20-25 22-25 21-25 11 QAT Qatar INA-IRI 0-3 22-25 24-26 16-25 12 KSA Saudi Arabia KOR-TPE 3-0 25-22 25-21 25-17 13 PAK Pakistan AUS-CHN 2-3 25-21 24-26 25-21 23-25 12-15 14 SRI Sri Lanka THA-JPN 3-0 25-20 25-20 25-23 15 VIE Vietnam INA-KOR 0-3 17-25 17-25 21-25 16 MDV Maldives IRI-TPE 3-2 25-20 30-32 24-26 25-19 15-8 17 KUW Kuwait

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE =Team qualified 6 MEN Teams Set Result per set (points) Ranking Code Country Pts Matches Sets Points 1 2 3 4 5 Won Lost Won Lost Ratio Won Lost Ratio Europe POOL A - St. Petersbourg, Russia / 6-9 September 2007 NED-SRB 0-3 23-25 21-25 18-25 1 SRB Serbia 5 2 1 7 4 1.750 257 253 1.016 GRE-NED 3-2 25-20 22-25 19-25 25-19 15-13 2 GER Germany 5 2 1 6 4 1.500 230 210 1.095 SRB-GER 1-3 25-22 21-25 20-25 17-25 3 NED Netherlands 4 1 2 5 6 0.833 240 239 1.004 GER-GRE 3-0 25-17 25-19 25-15 4 GRE Greece 4 1 2 4 8 0.500 251 276 0.909 GER-NED 0-3 15-25 24-26 19-25 SRB-GRE 3-1 25-23 25-23 24-26 25-22 POOL B - Moscow, Russia / 6-9 September 2007 BEL-RUS 0-3 17-25 20-25 22-25 1 RUS Russia 6 3 9 MAX 225 173 1.301 POL-BEL 1-3 22-25 25-23 14-25 24-26 2 BEL Belgium 5 2 1 6 6 1.000 275 274 1.004 RUS-TUR 3-0 25-20 25-17 25-18 3 POL Poland 4 1 2 4 7 0.571 239 248 0.964 TUR-POL 1-3 25-20 18-25 20-25 11-25 4 TUR Turkey 3 3 3 9 0.333 243 287 0.847 TUR-BEL 2-3 27-25 25-21 29-31 23-25 10-15 RUS-POL 3-0 25-22 25-23 25-14 POOL C - St. Petersbourg, Russia / 6-9 September 2007 SLO-ESP 1-3 25-16 20-25 21-25 18-25 1 ESP Spain 6 3 9 1 9.000 241 202 1.193 SVK-FRA 1-3 23-25 23-25 26-24 15-25 2 FRA France 5 2 1 6 4 1.500 241 210 1.148 SVL-SLO 3-1 21-25 25-21 34-32 27-25 3 SVK Slovakia 4 1 2 4 7 0.571 245 277 0.884 ESP-SVK 3-0 25-15 25-16 25-20 4 SLO Slovenia 3 3 2 9 0.222 235 273 0.861 FRA-SLO 3-0 25-17 25-18 25-13 ESP-FRA 3-0 25-22 25-23 25-22 POOL D - Moscow, Russia / 6-9 September 2007 CRO-BUL 2-3 26-24 25-23 12-25 20-25 10-15 1 FIN Finland 5 2 1 8 4 2.000 284 269 1.056 FIN-ITA 2-3 21-25 18-25 25-21 25-22 13-15 2 BUL Bulgaria 5 2 1 6 5 1.200 258 230 1.122 CRO-FIN 1-3 22-25 26-28 28-26 14-25 3 ITA Italy 5 2 1 6 6 1.000 266 267 0.996 BUL-FIN 0-3 22-25 26-28 23-25 4 CRO Croatia 3 3 4 9 0.444 273 315 0.867 ITA-CRO 3-1 26-24 23-25 25-23 25-18 ITA-BUL 0-3 20-25 18-25 21-25 POOL E - St. Petersbourg, Russia / 6-13 September 2007 NED-SRB 0-3 23-25 21-25 18-25 1 ESP Spain 10 5 15 4 3.750 449 406 1.106 SRB-GER 1-3 25-22 21-25 20-25 17-25 2 SRB Serbia 8 3 2 12 8 1.500 457 453 1.009 GER-NED 0-3 15-25 24-26 19-25 3 GER Germany 8 3 2 10 7 1.429 397 362 1.097 SVK-FRA 1-3 23-25 23-25 26-24 15-25 4 NED Netherlands 8 3 2 10 9 1.111 438 412 1.063 ESP-SVK 3-0 25-15 25-16 25-20 5 FRA France 6 1 4 7 13 0.538 437 463 0.944 ESP-FRA 3-0 25-22 25-23 25-22 6 SVK Slovakia 5 5 2 15 0.133 344 426 0.808 NED-ESP 1-3 23-25 25-20 22-25 22-25 SRB-FRA 3-2 25-23 22-25 25-23 33-35 15-12 GER-SVK 3-0 25-23 25-15 25-16 NED-FRA 3-2 25-11 25-23 21-25 20-25 15-12 GER-ESP 1-3 19-25 25-15 24-26 24-26 SRB-SVK 3-0 25-18 25-23 25-23 GER-FRA 3-0 25-14 25-22 25-21 SRB-ESP 2-3 24-26 19-25 26-24 25-22 10-15 NED-SVK 3-1 30-28 22-25 25-18 25-17 POOL F - Moscow, Russia / 6-13 September 2007 BEL-RUS 0-3 17-25 20-25 22-25 1 RUS Russia 10 5 15 4 3.750 441 375 1.176 POL-BEL 1-3 22-25 25-23 14-25 24-26 2 FIN Finland 8 3 2 13 7 1.857 455 445 1.022 RUS-POL 3-0 25-22 25-23 25-14 3 ITA Italy 8 3 2 11 10 1.100 449 455 0.987 FIN-ITA 2-3 21-25 18-25 25-21 25-22 13-15 4 BUL Bulgaria 8 3 2 9 9 1.000 407 407 1.000 BUL-FIN 0-3 22-25 26-28 23-25 5 BEL Belgium 6 1 4 5 13 0.385 398 428 0.930 ITA-BUL 0-3 20-25 18-25 21-25 6 POL Poland 5 5 5 15 0.333 427 467 0.914 POL-FIN 0-3 20-25 27-29 21-25 BEL-ITA 0-3 22-25 21-25 23-25 RUS-BUL 3-0 25-22 25-18 25-21 BEL-FIN 1-3 25-21 17-25 23-25 21-25 POL-BUL 2-3 20-25 25-16 24-26 25-21 13-15 RUS-ITA 3-2 25-21 25-15 20-25 19-25 15-10 BEL-BUL 1-3 25-22 23-25 23-25 17-25 POL-ITA 2-3 23-25 23-25 28-26 25-20 9-15 RUS-FIN 3-2 22-25 28-26 22-25 25-16 15-8 SEMI-FINALS - Moscow, Russia / 15 September 2007 ESP-FIN 3-2 25-23 19-25 22-25 26-24 15-10 RUS-SRB 3-0 27-25 25-22 25-15 CLASSIFICATION 3/4 - Moscow, Russia / 16 September 2007 FIN-SRB 1-3 18-25 25-23 21-25 16-25 FINAL - Moscow, Russia / 16 September 2007 ESP-RUS 3-2 25-18 20-25 24-26 30-28 16-14 1 ESP Spain 2 RUS Russia 3 SRB Serbia 4-16 FIN, GER, ITA, NED, BUL, FRA, BEL, POL, SVK, GRE, CRO, TUR, SLO =Team qualified OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE MEN 7 www.fivb.org

Qualification Tournaments

Teams Set Result per set (points) Ranking Code Country Pts Matches Sets Points 1 2 3 4 5 Won Lost Won Lost Ratio Won Lost Ratio Norceca POOL A - PRELIMINARY ROUND - Anaheim, USA / 16-18 September 2007 PUR-BAR 3-0 25-16 25-17 25-16 USA-MEX 3-0 25-11 25-15 25-20 PUR-MEX 3-0 25-15 25-18 25-20 USA-BAR 3-0 25-13 25-13 25-4 MEX-BAR 3-1 25-14 25-18 18-25 25-22 PUR-USA 3-0 25-19 27-25 25-18

POOL B - PRELIMINARY ROUND - Anaheim, USA / 16-18 September 2007 CUB-TRI 3-0 25-13 25-16 25-19 CAN-DOM 3-0 25-21 25-23 25-20 CAN-TRI 3-0 25-14 25-14 25-10 CUB-DOM 3-0 25-13 25-17 25-17 DOM-TRI 3-0 25-15 25-20 25-16 CAN-CUB 3-1 25-22 22-25 25-23 25-18

QUARTERFINALS - Anaheim, USA / 19 September 2007 PUR-DOM 3-0 25-18 25-19 25-15 CAN-MEX 3-0 25-19 25-17 25-21

CLASSIFICATION ROUND 5 THROUGH 8 - Anaheim, USA / 20 September 2007 DOM-TRI 3-1 21-25 25-14 25-21 25-19 MEX-BAR 3-2 25-23 22-25 19-25 25-18 17-25

SEMIFINALS - Anaheim, USA / 20 September 2007 CUB-PUR 3-2 26-24 11-22 22-25 26-24 15-11 USA-CAN 3-1 32-30 19-25 25-19 26-24

CLASSIFICATION 7/8 - Anaheim, USA / 21 September 2007 TRI-MEX 0-3 22-25 16-25 25-27

CLASSIFICATION 5/6 - Anaheim, USA / 21 September 2007 DOM-BAR 3-0 25-13 25-18 25-16

FINALS - Anaheim, USA / 21 September 2007 CUB-CAN 3-0 38-36 25-21 25-22 1 USA Usa USA-PUR 3-1 25-20 23-25 25-22 25-23 2 PUR Puerto Rico 3 CUB Cuba 4 CAN Canada 5 DOM Dominican Republic 6 BAR Barbados 7 MEX Mexico 8 TRI Trinidad & Tobago South America Santiago de Chile, Chile / 5-9 September 2007 COL-VEN 0-3 14-25 23-25 20-25 PAR-ARG 2-3 25-23 14-25 25-20 18-25 6-15 BRA-URU 3-0 25-14 25-23 25-20 CHI-PER 3-0 25-18 25-13 25-16 URU-VEN 0-3 20-25 17-25 15-25 ARG-PER 3-0 25-17 25-16 25-16 COL-BRA 0-3 15-25 19-25 19-25 CHI-PAR 3-1 25-13 26-24 24-26 25-21 BRA-VEN 3-0 25-21 25-18 26-24 PAR-PER 3-1 25-20 25-12 25-27 25-18 COL-URU 3-0 25-12 25-21 25-20 CHI-ARG 0-3 15-25 16-25 20-25 COL-PER 3-1 25-17 25-17 22-25 25-21 1 BRA Brazil BRA-CHI 3-0 25-17 25-22 25-17 2 ARG Argentina PAR-URU 3-0 25-23 25-21 25-21 3 VEN Venezuela ARG-VEN 3-2 21-25 25-21 25-23 22-25 15-13 4 CHI Chile PER-URU 2-3 22-25 22-25 16-25 19-25 15-17 5 PAR Paraguay CHI-VEN 1-3 23-25 25-17 20-25 19-25 6 COL Colombia COL-PAR 1-3 25-23 18-25 22-25 21-25 7 URU Uruguay BRA-ARG 3-0 25-15 25-17 39-37 8 PER Peru

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OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 8 MEN Competition System

Qualification Olympic Games

12 Men’s and 12 Women’s teams will participate: •• The Organising country: Japan. •• The five 2007 Continental Champions: Asia, Africa, Europe, Norceca and South America. •• The four 2007 best Continental Vice-Champions, according to the FIVB World Ranking (January 1st, 2007). •• Two Wild Cards; the FIVB and the Organising Committee have chosen the remaining two teams under the condition that they took part in the corresponding The top three teams in the 2007 World Cups for Men & Continental championship and have enrolled for Olympic Women (not yet qualified) will be qualified to participate in Qualification for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. name of the teams chosen to receive a wild card has been released after the last Continental Championship.

Remark: in case Japan is continental champion or vice- Order of Matches champion, the third ranked team from the continental and Organiser’s rights championship will participate. Only teams not yet qualified for the Olympic Games can compete in the World Cup The order of matches in Sites A and B in the rounds 1 2007. and 2 is assigned in accordance with the Berger Table. The Organiser has the right to chose two matches in each site A and B. The order of matches in the round 3 and 4 is decided by the Competition System Organiser after approval of FIVB. The daily timetable of matches is fixed by the FIVB The competition system of the 2007 World Cups for Men & considering a proposal by the Organiser. Women is the single Round-Robin system. Each team plays The Organiser has the right to change the timetable and once against each of the 11 remaining teams. Points are order of the matches for TV broadcasting needs and with accumulated during the whole tournament, and the final the approval of the FIVB Control Committee. Each team ranking is determined by the total points gained. must be informed of the timetable changes at least 24 Rounds 1 + 2 (30 matches, 5 days): 12 participating teams hours before the competition. will be divided in 2 groups (Site A & Site B).

Rounds 3 + 4 (36 matches, 6 days): teams continue to play against the remaining teams of the other groups. Distribution of Points

Winner = 2 points Loser = 1 point Forfeit = 0 point

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FIVB World Ranking Ranking at January 1st, 2007

R. PR. Teams Total World Ch. World League Cont.Ch. OG 2006 2006 2005 2004 100% 100% 50% 50% R. Pts. R. Pts. R. Pts. R. Pts. 1 (1) Brazil 195.00 1 100 1 30 1 15 1 50 2 (2) Italy 132.00 5 62 6 10 1 15 2 45 3 (3) Russia 125.00 7 50 3 22 2 13 3 40 4 (8) Poland 124.50 2 90 7 5 5 7 5 22.5 5 (4) Serbia 117.50 4 70 5 14 3 11 5 22.5 6 (18) Bulgaria 99.00 3 80 4 18 cq2 1 7 (6) France 92.00 6 56 2 26 7 2.5 9 7.5 8 (5) USA 89.00 10 36 10 3 1 15 4 35 9 (7) Argentina 67.50 13 27 7 5 2 13 5 22.5 10 (10) Japan 62.50 8 45 13 2 1 15 wq4 0.5 11 (9) Greece 48.50 17 21 6 5 5 22.5 12 (12) Canada 45.00 11 33 3 11 wq2 1 13 (16) Cuba 43.50 15 24 7 5 2 13 wq1 1.5 14 (32) Germany 41.50 9 40 cq1 1.5 15 (17) Tunisia 39.50 15 24 2 13 11 2.5 16 (14) China 37.50 17 21 13 2 2 13 wq1 1.5 16 (23) Puerto Rico 37.50 12 30 5 7 cq3 0.5 18 (15) Egypt 36.50 21 18 13 2 1 15 cq1 1.5 19 (11) Korea 35.50 17 21 10 3 3 11 wq5 0.5 20 (13) Venezuela 33.50 17 21 3 11 wq1 1.5 21 (27) Czech Republic 27.50 13 27 9 0.5 22 (26) Iran 23.50 21 18 6 5 wq3 0.5 23 (24) Australia 23.00 21 18 8 2.5 11 2.5 24 (19) Netherlands 22.00 EU-PO3 14 11 0.5 9 7.5 24 (20) Spain 22.00 EU-I4 12 4 9 wq2 1 26 (22) Cameroon 21.50 AF-D2 10 3 11 wq3 0.5 27 (25) India 19.00 AS-PO3 10 4 9 28 (33) Kazakhstan 18.50 21 18 wq3 0.5 28 (21) Portugal 18.50 EU-PO2 15 13 2 10 0.5 wq2 1 30 (27) Morocco 17.00 AF-C4 8 4 9 31 (30) Mexico 16.50 NO-D3 11 6 5 cq4 0.5 32 (29) Colombia 16.00 SA-B2 7 4 9 33 (35) Finland 15.50 EU-K4 12 10 3 cq1 0.5 34 (30) Thailand 15.00 AS-E4 8 5 7 35 (38) Panama 13.50 NO-E3 11 7 2.5 35 (41) Ukraine 13.50 EU-PO4 13 12 0.5 37 (38) South Africa 13.00 AF-C2 10 8 2.5 cq3 0.5 38 (47) Estonia 12.00 EU-L4 12 38 (46) Turkey 12.00 EU-J4 12 40 (42) Barbados 11.50 NO-D5 9 8 2.5 40 (44) Congo 11.50 AF-D3 9 7 2.5 40 (36) Croatia 11.50 EU-H4 9 8 2.5 40 (43) Qatar 11.50 AS-F3 9 7 2.5 44 (38) Paraguay 11.00 SA-A2 6 6 5 45 (48) Algeria 10.00 AF-C3 9 cq2 1 45 (49) Denmark 10.00 EU-F3 10 45 (58) Guatemala 10.00 NO-D4 10 45 (51) Latvia 10.00 EU-G3 10 45 (54) Romania 10.00 EU-E3 10 45 (54) Slovenia 10.00 EU-H3 10 45 (58) Trinidad & Tobago 10.00 NO-E4 10 52 (51) Chinese Taipei 9.50 AS-D3 9 13 0.5 52 (49) Indonesia 9.50 AS-E3 9 11 0.5 54 (54) Austria 9.00 EU-G4 9 54 (61) Costa Rica 9.00 NO-E5 9

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Competition Schedules

1st Round: Site A, Saitama (Saitama Super Arena) Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 18 Nov. (Sun.) 01 13:05 AUS - KOR ------02 15:35 ARG - RUS ------03 18:30 JPN - TUN ------19 Nov. (Mon.) 07 12:35 AUS - RUS ------08 15:05 ARG - TUN ------09 18:00 JPN - KOR ------20 Nov. (Tue.) 13 12:35 RUS - TUN ------14 15:05 ARG - KOR ------15 18:00 JPN - AUS ------

1st Round: Site B, Matsumoto (Matsumoto City General Gymnasium) Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 18 Nov. (Sun.) 04 12:35 EGY - PUR ------05 15:05 BUL - ESP ------06 18:05 BRA - USA ------19 Nov. (Mon.) 10 13:05 BUL - EGY ------11 15:35 PUR - USA ------12 18:35 BRA - ESP ------20 Nov. (Tue.) 16 13:05 BUL - PUR ------17 15:35 ESP - USA ------18 18:35 BRA - EGY ------

2nd Round: Site A, Hiroshima (Hiroshima Green Arena) Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 22 Nov. (Thu.) 19 12:35 KOR - RUS ------20 15:05 AUS - TUN ------21 18:00 JPN - ARG ------23 Nov. (Fri.) 25 12:35 KOR - TUN ------26 15:05 ARG - AUS ------27 18:00 JPN - RUS ------

2nd Round: Site B, Toyama (Toyama City General Gymnasium) Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 22 Nov. (Thu.) 22 13:35 EGY - ESP ------23 15:35 BRA - PUR ------24 18:35 BUL - USA ------23 Nov. (Fri.) 28 12:05 ESP - PUR ------29 15:05 BRA - BUL ------30 18:05 EGY - USA ------

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 12 MEN 3rd Round: Site A, Fukuoka (Marine Messe Fukuoka) Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 25 Nov. (Sun.) 31 12:35 ARG - PUR ------32 15:05 ESP - RUS ------33 18:00 JPN - EGY ------26 Nov. (Mon.) 37 12:35 ARG - ESP ------38 15:05 EGY - RUS ------39 18:00 JPN - PUR ------27 Nov. (Tue.) 43 12:35 ARG - EGY ------44 15:05 PUR - RUS ------45 18:00 JPN - ESP ------

3rd Round: Site B, Okayama (Momotaro Arena) Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 25 Nov. (Sun.) 34 12:35 TUN - USA ------35 15:05 BUL - KOR ------36 18:05 BRA - AUS ------26 Nov. (Mon.) 40 13:05 KOR - USA ------41 15:35 AUS - BUL ------42 18:35 BRA - TUN ------27 Nov. (Tue.) 46 13:05 AUS - USA ------47 15:35 BUL - TUN ------48 18:35 BRA - KOR ------

4th Round: Site A, Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium) Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 30 Nov. (Fri.) 49 14:05 ARG - BRA ------50 16:35 BUL - RUS ------51 19:30 JPN - USA ------1 Dec. (Sat.) 55 14:05 ARG - USA ------56 16:35 BRA - RUS ------57 19:30 JPN - BUL ------Final Ranking 2 Dec. (Sun.) 61 14:05 ARG - BUL ------1 62 16:35 RUS - USA ------63 19:30 JPN - BRA ------2 Awarding Ceremony 3

4 4th Round: Site B, Tokyo (Komazawa Gymnasium) 5 Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 30 Nov. (Fri.) 52 12:35 PUR - TUN ------6 53 15:05 EGY - KOR ------7 54 18:05 AUS - ESP ------8 1 Dec. (Sat.) 58 12:35 EGY - TUN ------59 15:05 ESP - KOR ------9 60 18:05 AUS - PUR ------10 2 Dec. (Sun.) 64 12:05 ESP - TUN ------11 65 14:35 KOR - PUR ------66 17:35 AUS - EGY ------12

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Participants

Norceca PUR Puerto Rico Norceca vice-champion

USA U.S.A. Norceca Champion

South America BRA Brazil South America Champion

ARG Argentina South America vice-champion

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 14 MEN Europe ESP Spain Europe Champion

BUL Bulgaria Wild Card

RUS Russia Europe vice-champion

Asia JPN Japan Host Country

KOR Korea, Wild Card Republic of

AUS Australia Asia Champion

Africa EGY Egypt Africa Champion

TUN Tunisia Africa vice- champion

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2007 World Cup Host cities

Saitama

1,189,144 inhabitans

Toyama

420,939 inhabitans

Matsumoto

227,339 inhabitans

Hiroshima

1,161,260 inhabitans

Fukuoka

1,425,213 inhabitans

Tokyo

8,641,764 inhabitans Okayama

699,901 inhabitans

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2007 World Cup Host cities

Saitama, Saitama Super Arena 1st Round - Site A

The Saitama Super Arena is a huge sports 8 Shintoshin, Saitama, Saitama complex, located in the center of Saitama where it now has 18 national organizations (30 minutes from Tokyo Station). Many big sports events (soccer, Volleyball, basketball) have taken place here. The Saitama Super Arena has the biggest operation system that can change the size of the arena according to the size of the events. The main arena has the capacity of 23,000 where you can get together with the players.

Access: near Saitama Shintoshin Station [JR Tohoku-honsen (main line)], 7 minutes walk from Kitayono Station [JR Saikyo Line].

Matsumoto, Matsumoto City Gymnasium 1st Round - Site B

The Matsumoto City Gymnasium was for 5-1 Misuzu, Matsumoto, Nagano many years the local indoor sports center, which was substantially expanded in 1991. In 1992, the Nagano Prefecture Matsumoto Culture Hall was opened adjacent to the gymnasium, making the combined facilities, the sports and cultural center of the city. The gymnasium can hold various sports events such as Volleyball and ice skating.

Access: Take a bus for “Sogo Taiikukan-mae” from Matsumoto Station [JR Chuo Line].

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 18 MEN Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefectural Sports Center 2nd Round - Site A

Hiroshima has recovered from the horrific 4-1 Motomachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima disaster of the atomic bomb and is now a city of one million people, which prays for world peace. Since before the war, Hiroshima has produced many famous Volleyball players, such as the late setter, Mr. Katsutoshi Nekoda who won a gold medal in the Munich Olympics in 1972. This year, Hiroshima will host the World Cup for the eighth time which follows Tokyo and Osaka. The competition venue, Hiroshima Arena, filled to capacity for the Asian Games in 1994 and for the Volleyball World Championships in 1998.

[The Sanyo Line / JR] From Hiroshima Station to Kamiya-cho stop by bus or tram, 5 minutes walk.

Toyama, Toyama City Gymnasium 2nd Round - Site B

Toyama is a city surrounded by the native 12-1 Minatoirifune-cho, Toyama beauty of Japan’s scenic mountains, the Northern Alps, and the Bay of Toyama which is famous for the mirage - the altitude drop between them is 3000m. Toyama has been well known for pharmacy for over 300 years and there are many pharmaceutical laboratories. In Toyama, people are extremely enthusiastic about Volleyball and a great number of international competitions have been staged. The Toyama City Gym was completed just before the previous World Cup and was the main competition site for the National Athletic Meet in 2000. As it is very easily accessible - 5 to 6 minutes walk from JR Toyama Station - it is assumed that many Volleyball enthusiasts from the Kansai area will visit Toyama.

Access: [Hokuriku-Line / JR] 5 minutes walk from the North Exit of the Toyama Station.

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2007 World Cup Host cities

Fukuoka, Marine Messe Fukuoka 3rd Round - Site A

Making the most of its geographical 7-1 Okihama-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka advantage of being the closest city to the Korean peninsula and China, Fukuoka has been flourished as a base for accepting foreign culture. Furthermore, Fukuoka, as a centre for exchanging cultures and information internationally, has many convention centres. One of the biggest facilities is the Marine Messe Fukuoka, which is located at the central pier in the port of Hakata and it is only 2 km away from the centre of business, Tenjin. Fukuoka Airport and Hakata Station are also within a short distance and big international events are staged here every year.

Access: [Hakata Station / JR] Take a Nishitetsu Bus No.11 or 19 for Chuo-Futo (the Central Pier) from the platform E at JR Fukuoka Station Centre Building-Mae, get off at Marin Messe-mae.

Okayama, Okayama Momotaro Arena 3rd Round - Site B

The Momotaro Arena, used as a venue for 2-1-3, Izumi-cho, Okayama, Okayama the 2006 World Grand Prix, is getting popular as a venue for Volleyball. Designed with the idea of universal design, the competition hall has a beautiful form that it blends nicely with the surrounding sceneries.

Access: Take a bus for “Sports Center-mae”; 3 minutes from JR Okayama Station West Exit, 6 minutes from JR Okayama Station East Exit, and 23 minutes from Okayama Airport.

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 20 MEN Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium 4th Round - Site A

Tokyo, which will hold the women’s 1-17-1 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo opening and final matches, is, needless to say, Japan’s capital city and its entire population is about twelve million. The opening ceremony for the ‘77 World Cup took place at the gym - staged for the first time in Japan - and this year will be the ninth time to host the World Cup both for men and women. The Tokyo Metropolitan gymnasium, the competition venue for the opening and final matches of the Site A, which Japan will participate in, was refurbished in 1990 and is equipped with high- tech machinery and 10,000 seats.

Tokyo, Komazawa Gymnasium 4th Round - Site B

The Komazawa Gymnasium was a venue for 1-1 Komazawakoen Setagaya-ku, Tokyo Volleyball competitions of Tokyo Olympics where the Japanese team won a gold medal. The gymnasium, built within the Komazawa Olympics Park, is a traditional stage for many exciting matches. As well as Volleyball matches, many international and national competitions were held here. Located in the center of Tokyo, the venue is easily accessible.

Access: 15 minutes walk from Komazawa Daigaku Station [Tokyu Denentoshi Line].

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Argentina

Team Biography

Volleyball was introduced in Argentina 4th in Sydney in 2000 and finally 5th in by the YMCA in 1912 and the Argentine Athens in 2004. Argentina qualified for the Volleyball Federation was created in 1932. second round in all Olympic Games. The number of fans slowly started to grow As for the World League, Argentina first as a result of its broadcasting. Nowadays, joined it in 1996 in Mar del Plata. As host about 30.000 registered players enjoy country in 1999, they played in the final Volleyball all over the country, not to matches with the best 6 teams of the mention the number of players at school world. In the 2006 edition Argentina level. played against Brazil, Portugal and Finland, The Men’s National team’s first participation winning 7 consecutive matches, 4 of which in an official event was at the South as visiting team, losing only one against American Championship held in Rio de Finland in Catamarca and 4 played against Janeiro, Brazil, in 1951, where they finished Champion Brazil, 2 in San Juan and 2 in fourth. The Argentinean Men’s team first Belo Horizonte. took part in the World Championship in On the American level, Argentina took part 1960 in Rio de Janeiro, finishing 15th. Since in 9 editions of the Panamerican Games, then, Argentina participated in 8 World obtaining 3 times the bronze medal and Championships and its best ranking was became champion in 1995 in the Games 3rd, which was in Buenos Aires in 1982. At played in Mar del Plata, Argentina. the last World Championship, held in Japan Argentina has organized two World Senior in November 2006, Argentina finished 13th. Men’s Championships, in 1982 and in 2002, They first qualified for the Olympic Games one World Youth Boys Championship in in Los Angeles in 1984 and finished 6th, 1993 and several other Championships in and 4 years later in Seoul won the Bronze South America. medal. They finished 6th in Atlanta in 1996,

Area: 2,791,810 sq km Inhabitants: 40,302,000 Capital: Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 22 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Manager Osvaldo Celia 18.11 15:35 Saitama ARG - RUS Head coach Jon Uriarte 19.11 15:05 Saitama ARG - TUN Assistant coach Guillermo Orduna 20.11 15:05 Saitama ARG - KOR Doctor Fernando Locaso 22.11 18:00 Hiroshima JPN - ARG Trainer/Therapist Julian Alvarez 23.11 15:05 Hiroshima ARG - AUS 25.11 12:35 Fukuoka ARG - PUR 26.11 12:35 Fukuoka ARG - ESP 27.11 12:35 Fukuoka ARG - EGY 30.11 14:05 Tokyo (TMG) ARG - BRA 01.12 14:05 Tokyo (TMG) ARG - USA 02.12 14:05 Tokyo (TMG) ARG - BUL

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1 Milinkovic 2 Scholtis 3 Stepanenko Name: Marcos Milinkovic - Age: Name: Gustavo Scholtis - Age: 24 Name: Diego Stepanenko - Age: 35 - Born in: San Martín, ARG - - Born in: Cordoba, ARG - Position: 22 Position: Universal - Club debut: Wing spiker - Club debut: Villa Sportivo Ballester (Villa Ballester Carlos Paz (Cordoba, Argentina) in - Argentina) in 1988 - Intl. debut: 1998 - Intl. debut: Friendly Game South American Championship (San Pablo - (Buenio Aires,Argentina) in 1999 - Hobby: Watch Brazil) in 1990 - Hobby: Music, internet - Lang.: TV - Lang.: Spanish - Favourites: Book: Fiction, Spanish, Portuguese - Favourites: Book: El Food: Empanadas, Movie: Action, Music: National Alquimista, Food: Barbecue, Movie: Action, Music, Other sports: Soccer Music: Rock and Roll, Other sports: NBA

4 De Cecco 5 Arroyo 6 Orduna Name: Luciano De Cecco - Age: Name: Gabriel Arroyo - Age: 30 Name: Santiago Orduna - Age: 24 19 - Position: Setter - Club debut: - Born in: Argentina - Position: Gimnasia y Esgrima Santa Fe Middle blocker - Club debut: CLUB (Santa Fe - ARG) in 2000 - Intl. A. VELEZ SARSFIELD (BUENOS debut: Youth South American AIRES ARGENTINA) in 1998 - Tournament (Colombia) in 2004 - Hobby: Video Intl. debut: SUDAMERICANO (RIO DE JANEIRO Games and Listen music - Favourites: Book: The BRAZIL) in 2003 - Hobby: Dance - Lang.: Spanish lords of the Rings, Food: Asado, Music: National - Favourites: Book: Godfather, Food: Pasta, Movie: Rock, Other sports: Basketball Godfather, Music: Massive Attack

7 Bernasconi 8 Concina 9 Chavez Name: Ignacio Bernasconi - Age: Name: Leandro Concina - Age: Name: Lucas Chavez - Age: 25 22 23 - Born in: Mendoza - Lang.: - Born in: Buenos Aires, ARG - Spanish Position: Universal - Club debut: Club Italiano (Buenos Aires Argentina) in 1997 - Intl. debut: Sudamericano in 2000 - Hobby: Videogames - Lang.: Spanish - Favourites: Book: Flores robadas en J Quilmes, Food: Barbecue, Movie: Grease, Music: The Police

10 Spajic 11 Layus 12 Meana Name: Alejandro Spajic - Age: 31 - Name: Tomás Layus - Age: 20 Name: Martin Meana - Age: 25 Born in: San Juan, ARG - Position: Middle blocker - Club debut: Obras Sanitarias de San Juan (San Juan - Argentina) in 1993 - Intl. debut: Qualification Tournament for 1994 World Championship (Neuquén - Argentina) in 1994 - Hobby: Fishing - Lang.: Spanish - Favourites: Book: Biographies, Food: Barbecue, Movie: Comedy, Music: Rock and Roll, Other sports: Soccer

13 Garcia 14 Filardi 15 Quiroga Name: Guillermo Garcia - Age: 24 Name: Javier Filardi - Age: 27 - Name: Rodrigo Quiroga - Age: 20 - Position: Wing spiker Born in: Argentina - Position: Wing - Position: Wing spiker spiker - Club debut: Banco de Córdoba (Córdoba, Argentina) in 1989 - Intl. debut: Sudamericano (Rio de Janeiro Brazil) in 2003 - Hobby: Dance - Lang.: Spanish - Favourites: Book: Evita, Food: Asado, Movie: Grease, Music: La Barra, Other sports: Football

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 24 MEN 16 Hernandez 17 Aschemacher JON URIARTE (ARG) Name: Martin Hernandez - Age: Name: Rodrigo Aschemacher A former player and coach, Jon 22 - Age: 18 - Position: Middle Uriarte wore the Argentinean jersey blocker himself for 12 years and won the bronze medal at the 1982 Men’s World Championship in Argentina and at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. His path as a coach started in Argentina, first coaching Chacarita FC Azul (1991/93 - twice champion) and Azul Volley Club (1993/2001 – twice champion). After that he went to Australia to coach their Men’s National Team (2001/04), allowing them

to qualify for the first time to the Olympic Games in H ead C oach 2004. In 2005 he coached Telemig Minas de Brazil 18 Giani 19 Santucci with whom he won one Championship and one Name: Gaston Giani - Age: 28 Name: Facundo Santucci - Age: second place before returning to Argentina. - Born in: Buenos Aires, ARG 20 - Born in: Corrientes - Position: Under the coaching of Jon Uriarte, the Argentine - Position: Wing spiker - Club Libero Men’s National Team put on the best performance debut: Independiente (Buenos in its history at the 2006 World League with seven consecutive victories, and also finished 13th at the Aires Argentina) in 1995 - Intl. 2006 Men’s World Championship in Japan. At the debut: South American Cup in 1998 - Hobby: 2007 South-American Championship, held in Chile, Music - Lang.: Spanish - Favourites: Book: Thriller, Argentina finished 2nd, only behind Brazil and with Food: Pizza, Movie: Action, Music: AC/DC, Other a great victory over Venezuela, and earning a place sports: Football at the 2007 Men’s World Cup.

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Milinkovic Marcos Milinkovic C 22/12/1971 205 99 355 338 20 33 272 325 IBB - TUR 2 Scholtis Gustavo Scholtis 16/12/1982 206 85 349 332 9 37 46 Galatasaray - TUR 3 Stepanenko Diego Stepanenko 25/02/1985 204 90 349 337 12 12 Rosario Sonder - ARG 4 De Cecco Luciano De Cecco 02/06/1988 194 84 333 315 9 41 50 Gabeca Pallavolo - ITA 5 Arroyo Gabriel Arroyo 03/03/1977 194 90 352 327 9 9 DirecTv Bolivar - ARG 6 Orduna Santiago Orduna 31/08/1983 184 72 333 324 10 10 Soria - ESP 7 Bernasconi Ignacio Bernasconi 19/09/1985 195 75 335 323 35 35 Rosario Sonder - ARG 8 Concina Leandro Concina 04/11/1984 195 94 345 325 9 25 34 Alvarez Cabral - BRA 9 Chavez Lucas Chavez 03/04/1982 200 88 348 328 35 35 Neftyanik Yaroslavl - RUS 10 Spajic Alejandro Spajic 07/05/1976 204 95 360 340 14 28 150 192 DirecTv Bolivar - ARG 11 Layus Tomás Layus 26/06/1987 207 89 333 318 1 1 Ciudad de Bs As - ARG 12 Meana Martin Meana L 26/04/1982 188 83 347 320 21 21 Unicaja Arukasur - ESP 13 Garcia Guillermo Garcia 21/09/1983 196 78 345 303 9 9 DirecTv Bolivar - ARG 14 Filardi Javier Filardi 07/02/1980 191 88 335 318 4 4 DirecTv Bolivar - ARG 15 Quiroga Rodrigo Quiroga 23/03/1987 194 84 345 327 9 9 ASD Pallavolo Catania - ITA 16 Hernandez Martin Hernandez 23/03/1985 202 80 351 330 9 35 44 Gigantes del Sur - ARG 17 Aschemacher Rodrigo Aschemacher 06/03/1989 202 91 343 327 20 20 Unión de Formosa - ARG 18 Giani Gaston Giani 26/04/1979 194 86 345 330 6 18 60 84 Arkas Spor Kulupu - TUR 19 Santucci Facundo Santucci L 06/03/1987 186 86 320 305 5 5 Misiones Voley - ARG H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 2004 5 2006 13 2007 13 2001 6 1999 9 2007 2 1981 2 2000 4 2002 6 2006 7 1995 7 2005 2 1979 5 1996 8 1998 11 2005 10 1985 5 2003 3 1977 3 1988 3 1994 13 2002 9 2001 2 1975 3 1984 6 1990 6 2001 13 1999 2 1973 2 1986 7 2000 8 1997 3 1971 3 1982 3 1999 6 1995 2 1969 5 1978 22 1998 9 1993 2 1964 1 1960 11 1997 7 1991 2 1962 2 1996 7 1989 2 1961 3 1987 2 1958 4 1985 3 1951 4 1983 2

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Australia

Team Biography

The Australian Volleyball Federation was A new look team competed in its 4th founded in 1963, and the sport of Volleyball World Championships in 2006, to follow has rapidly increased in popularity since up its appearance in the 1982, 1998, 2002 then, particularly in schools and recreational editions of the tournament. centers. Volleyball Team Australia Men has In 2007, they returned to Fukuoka to win been supported by the Australian Institute the Asia Pacific Cup for the first time. of Sport since 1990. Following on from their success at the The team entered the new century with Asia Pacific Cup, they travelled to India for an appearance in the 2000 Olympics in the 2nd Commonwealth Championships Sydney, where they placed 8th, beating for Men and won their second successive Spain in the process and taking a set from tournament in the space of two months as World Champions, Italy. preparation for the 14th Asian Senior Men’s Having participated in the Sydney Olympics Volleyball Championship in Indonesia. as the host nation, they set out to qualify for At the 14th Asian Senior Men’s Volleyball Athens. At the World Olympic Qualification Championship Australia created Asian Tournament in Tokyo, Australia achieved Volleyball history by winning the this historic goal becoming the Asian championship after playing ten games Volleyball Confederation’s representative in in ten days with only one loss. This was Athens as the highest ranked Asian team, the first time in which a country other when it defeated traditional Asian powers than China, Japan or Korea had won the Japan, Korea and China for the first time in Continental Championship and as such a single International tournament. qualified Australia to its first Volleyball At the Athens Olympics, in 2004, Australia World Cup. eventually finished 11th while taking a set off the USA and World and Olympic Champions Brazil.

Area: 7,741,000 sq km Inhabitants: 21,105,000 Capital: Canberra

Canberra

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 26 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Manager Stephen Benson 18.11 13:05 Saitama AUS - KOR Head coach Russell Borgeaud 19.11 12:35 Saitama AUS - RUS Assistant coach Andrew Strugnell 20.11 18:00 Saitama JPN - AUS Doctor Charles Howse 22.11 15:05 Hiroshima AUS - TUN Trainer/Therapist Daniel Ilott 23.11 15:05 Hiroshima ARG - AUS 25.11 18:05 Okayama BRA - AUS 26.11 15:35 Okayama AUS - BUL 27.11 13:05 Okayama AUS - USA 30.11 18:05 Tokyo (KG) AUS - ESP 01.12 18:05 Tokyo (KG) AUS - PUR 02.12 17:35 Tokyo (KG) AUS - EGY

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1 Howard 2 Christensen 3 Roberts Name: Daniel Howard - Age: 30 Name: Jarryd Christensen - Age: 19 Name: Nathan Roberts - Age: - Born in: Kingscote, Australia - - Born in: Ipswich, QLD - Position: 21 - Born in: Adelaide, Australia Position: Middle blocker - Club Wing spiker - Club debut: School - Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: Esperance High School (Brisbane, AUS) in 2002 - Intl. debut: USC Lion (Adelaide, AUS) in (Perth, Australia) in 1993 - Intl. debut: in 2006 - Hobby: Sleeping 1998 - Intl. debut: in 2005 - Lang.: debut: Match v. Japan (Griffith, Australia) in 1994 and TV - Lang.: English - Favourites: Book: The English - Favourites: Book: A Fortunate Life, Food: - Lang.: English, Italian Tomorrow series, Food: Pizza, Ice cream, Movie: Italian, Movie: The Butterfly Effect, Music: Dance, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Music: House, Dance, Other sports: Australian Rules Football Other sports: Tennis

4 Hardy 5 Campbell 6 Yudin Name: Benjamin Hardy - Age: 33 Name: Luke Campbell - Age: 28 Name: Igor Yudin - Age: 20 - - Born in: Caringbah, Australia - - Born in: Melbourne, Australia Born in: Sverdlovsk - Position: Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: - Position: Middle blocker - Wing spiker - Club debut: in ACT Juniors (Canberra, Australia) Club debut: Southern Cross 1996 - Intl. debut: Asian Snr in 1986 - Intl. debut: AUS tour of (Melbourne, Australia) in 1994 - Intl. Men’s Championships (Thailand) China (Haimen, China) in 1994 - Hobby: Watching debut: Trans-Tasman (Waipuna, New Zealand) in in 2005 - Hobby: Playing on the Play Station, Owen roll and the outdoors - Lang.: English, 1998 - Hobby: Relaxing - Lang.: English, Spanish, listening to music and reading - Lang.: English, Italian - Favourites: Book: Where Do I Come From, German - Favourites: Book: Wasp Factory, Food: Russian - Favourites: Book: The Da Vinci Code, Food: Chocolate, Movie: The Wiggles, Music: The Lots, Movie: Lord of War, Music: David Gray, Other Food: Italian, Movie: How High, Music: Dance, Wiggles, Other sports: Australian Rules Football sports: Curling and Poker Other sports: Basketball

7 Young 8 Grant 9 Earl Name: Matthew Young - Age: 26 - Name: Andrew Grant - Age: 22 Name: Andrew Earl - Age: 25 - Born Born in: Brisbane, Australia - Position: - Born in: Brisbane, Australia - in: Adelaide, Australia - Position: Setter - Club debut: Dragons Position: Middle blocker - Club Wing spiker - Club debut: Henley (Brisbane, Australia) in 1997 - Intl. debut: High School (Brisbane, Hawks (Adelaide, Australia) in 1996 debut: Rashid Tournament (Dubai, Queensland) in 1998 - Intl. debut: - Intl. debut: Rashid Tournament United Arab Emirates) in 1999 - Hobby: Watching AIS 21st Birthday Series v. Canada (Canberra, (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) in 2001 - Hobby: movies - Lang.: English, Indonesian - Favourites: Australia) in 2002 - Hobby: Playing the guitar and Watching movies and spending time with friends. Book: Empire & Rolling Stone, Food: Pasta, Movie: going to the beach - Lang.: English - Favourites: - Lang.: English - Favourites: Book: Contest by Star Wars, Music: Alternative Australian music, Book: Ice Station, Food: Mexican, Movie: The Matthew Reilly, Food: Roast Dinner, Movie: Star Wars, Other sports: Australian Rules Football Hurricane, Music: Acoustic, Other sports: Rugby Music: Hip/Hop, Other sports: Australian Rules, NFL Football, Ice Hockey, Basketball 10 Alexander 11 DeSalvo 12 Tutton Name: Shane Alexander - Age: Name: Phillip DeSalvo - Age: 22 Name: Aden Tutton - Age: 22 - 21 - Born in: Adelaide, Australia - Born in: Melbourne, Australia Born in: Glenelg, AUS - Position: - Position: Setter - Club debut: - Position: Libero - Club debut: Libero - Club debut: School School (Brisbane, AUS) in 2001 School (Wonthaggi, AUS) in 1999 (Adelaide, AUS) - Intl. debut: - Intl. debut: Asian Snr Men’s - Intl. debut: in 2005 - Hobby: in 2005 - Lang.: English, basic Championships (Thailand) in 2005 - Lang.: Listening to music and going to the beach - Spanish - Favourites: Book: Da Vinci Code, Food: English - Favourites: Book: Mongolian Phrase Lang.: English - Favourites: Food: Italian, Movie: KFC, Movie: Oceans 11, Music: House, Dance, Book, Food: Horse Raddish, Movie: Sponge Bob Jerry McGuire, Music: Anything acoustic, Other Other sports: Australian Rules Football Square Pants sports: Cycling

13 Ferguson 14 Panagopka 15 Dekker Name: David Ferguson - Age: 25 - Name: Nigel Panagopka - Age: Name: John Dekker - Age: 19 - Born in: Perth, Australia - Position: 20 - Born in: Sydney, Australia - Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: Middle blocker - Club debut: Position: Middle blocker - Club School (Brisbane) in 2001 - Intl. Rossmoyne High School (Perth, debut: Australian Institute of debut: in 2005 - Lang.: English Australia) in 1994 - Intl. debut: Sport (Canberra, AUS) in 2003 - - Favourites: Book: Lord of the AIS 21st Birthday Series v. Canada (Canberra, Intl. debut: in 2004 - Lang.: English - Favourites: Rings, Food: Hot Chips, Movie: Lord of the Rings Australia) in 2002 - Hobby: Computers - Lang.: Book: Harry Potter series, Food: Pizza, Spaghetti, trilogy, Music: Dance, Other sports: Golf English - Favourites: Book: Wheel of Time, Food: Movie: Matrix trilogy, Music: House, Dance, Other Mexican, Movie: Star Wars, Music: Disturbed, sports: Swimming Other sports: Cricket

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 28 MEN 16 Thwaite 17 Carroll Russell BORGEAUD (AUS) Name: William Thwaite - Age: 20 Name: Paul Carroll - Age: 21 - Born Russell Borgeaud played 136 times - Born in: Sydney, AUS - Position: in: Taree, Australia - Position: for the Australian Men’s National Wing spiker - Club debut: School Wing spiker - Club debut: School Team before retiring as a player. in 2004 - Intl. debut: in 2005 - in 1999 - Intl. debut: in 2006 - Borgeaud was then appointed as Favourites: Book: Da Vinci Code, Lang.: English - Favourites: Food: Head Coach of the Queensland Food: Italian, Movie: Lord of the Rings trilogy, Chicken wings, Movie: Old School, Music: Athlete, Academy of Sport where he recruited and Music: Dance, Other sports: Rugby Other sports: Cricket developed a number of new athletes for the Junior National Teams. In 2001, Borgeaud was approached to assist Jon Uriarte who had been appointed Head Coach of the Men’s National Team. As Assistant Coach, he

was involved with the 2002 World Championship H ead C oach Alderman and the Olympic Qualification Tournament in 18 Tokyo that saw the Australian Team qualify for Name: Brett Alderman - Age: 28 the 2004 Olympics in Athens. - Born in: Toowoomba, Australia Since Borgeaud’s appointment as Head Coach - Position: Setter - Club debut: in 2005, the Australian Men’s Team qualified for Toowoomba Titans (Toowoomba, the World Championship for the third successive Australia) in 1994 - Intl. debut: time, won its first Asian Championship and enters Match v. Kazakhstan (Canberra, Australia) in its first World Cup tournament. 1997 - Hobby: Playing the Guitar - Lang.: English - Favourites: Book: Alchemist, Food: All food, Music: Alternative, Other sports: All sports

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Howard Daniel Howard 13/12/1976 208 95 375 340 13 11 280 304 Acqua Paradiso Gabeca 2 Christensen Jarryd Christensen 22/08/1988 198 88 345 328 20 20 Middelfart VK 3 Roberts Nathan Roberts 17/02/1986 199 87 342 328 5 106 111 Castelo de Maia 4 Hardy Benjamin Hardy C 21/09/1974 198 94 335 320 13 11 333 357 Knack Randstad Roeselare 5 Campbell Luke Campbell 08/11/1979 202 98 346 335 5 8 179 192 OK Budvanska Rivijera 6 Yudin Igor Yudin 17/06/1987 200 85 357 330 5 89 94 KS Jastrzebski Wegiel S.A 7 Young Matthew Young 17/07/1981 188 78 335 323 5 8 148 161 Australian Institute of Sport 8 Grant Andrew Grant 22/04/1985 206 93 345 327 5 97 102 BKSCH Delecta Bydgoszcz 9 Earl Andrew Earl 15/09/1982 196 85 336 322 5 8 159 172 Volleyball.CZ CZU Praha 10 Alexander Shane Alexander 07/01/1986 202 95 339 320 28 28 Hypo VBK Klagenfurrt 11 DeSalvo Phillip DeSalvo L 11/03/1985 182 78 326 308 5 80 85 Volleyball.CZ CZU Praha 12 Tutton Aden Tutton L 06/12/1984 182 81 333 315 37 37 Castelo de Maia 13 Ferguson David Ferguson 13/03/1982 205 90 348 328 5 3 124 132 Arago de Sete Volley Ball 14 Panagopka Nigel Panagopka 19/07/1987 206 103 346 328 5 19 24 Castelo de Maia 15 Dekker John Dekker 09/05/1988 206 85 345 325 19 19 Team Valla 16 Thwaite William Thwaite 08/09/1987 207 90 345 328 44 44 Team Valla 17 Carroll Paul Carroll 16/05/1986 204 93 340 325 5 20 25 Pepperdine University 18 Alderman Brett Alderman 27/02/1979 191 90 343 328 5 8 192 205 Australian Institute of Sport H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero

List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 2004 11 2006 21 1999 10 1997 6 2007 1 2000 8 2002 19 2005 8 1998 17 2003 4 1982 22 2001 2 1999 2 1997 3 1995 5 1993 6 1991 4

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Brazil

Team Biography

After the sixth place at the Sydney Olympic In the 2005 season, the Olympic Champion Games, the Brazilian Men’s National Team team conquered four medals. Another gold suffered some important changes for the in the World League and to conclude the 2001 season. Bernardo Rezende, nicknamed great season, Bernardo Rezende’s team Bernardinho, who had spent six years guaranteed the gold medal in the World coaching the Women’s National Team, was Grand Champions Cup, in Japan. chosen to be the new Head Coach. In 2006, Brazil won one more time the gold He began to build a fantastic group, which medal at the World League – the sixth title won immediately three gold medals (World in the history. In Japan, it won the World League, America’s Cup and South American Championship. Giba was elected the most Championship) and one silver medal (World valuable player and Dante was the best Grand Champions Cup). In 2002, Brazil attacker. was second in the World League, then it In 2007, Brazil won the seventh title against conquered the World Championship for the Russia: in the final match. Ricardinho, the first time ever. setter, was the best player; Gustavo was the In 2003 Brazil won the gold medal for the best blocker. third time in the World League. That year After this competition, Brazil played at ended with Brazil conquering the title it had home the Pan-American Games, in Rio de never won: the World Cups, in Japan. Janeiro. The group, coached by Bernardinho, In 2004, Bernardinho led the Brazilian team won this tournament for the first time. With to the fourth title of the World League. In young players, Brazil played the America´s August, Brazil won the second Olympic Cup, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, and gold medal of its history in Men’s Volleyball, finished in second place, loosing this title in Athens (the first one was conquered in to the experienced Americans. With its Barcelona 92). main players, Brazil won the South America Championship, confirming their participation in the World Cup 2007.

Area: 8,514,877 sq km Inhabitants: 190,011,000 Capital: Brasilia

Brasilia

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 30 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Manager José Salles Neto 18.11 18:05 Matsumoto BRA - USA Head coach Bernardo Rezende 19.11 18:35 Matsumoto BRA - ESP Assistant coach Ricardo Tabach 20.11 18:35 Matsumoto BRA - EGY Doctor Alvaro Chamecki 22.11 15:35 Toyama BRA - PUR Trainer/Therapist Guilherme Tenius 23.11 15:05 Toyama BRA - BUL 25.11 18:05 Okayama BRA - AUS 26.11 18:35 Okayama BRA - TUN 27.11 18:35 Okayama BRA - KOR 30.11 14:05 Tokyo (TMG) ARG - BRA 01.12 16:35 Tokyo (TMG) BRA - RUS 02.12 19:30 Tokyo (TMG) JPN - BRA

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1 Bruno 2 Marcelinho 3 Eder Name: Rezende Bruno - Age: 21 - Name: Marcelo Elgarten - Age: Name: Eder Carbonera - Age: 24 - Born in: Rio de Janeiro - Position: 33 - Born in: Rio de Janeiro, BRA Born in: Farroupilha - RS - Position: Setter - Club debut: in 1998 - - Position: Setter - Club debut: Middle blocker - Club debut: UCS - Hobby: Play - Lang.: Portuguese Clube Israelita Brasileiro (Rio de RS (Caxias do Sul, RS) in 1999 - Intl. - Favourites: Book: Da Vince Code, Janeiro - BRA) in 1987 - Intl. debut: debut: friendly match (Varginha, Food: Barbecue Junior world championship (Rosário - Argentina) MG) in 2001 - Hobby: Music shows and movies in 1993 - Hobby: Footvolley / Beach / Music - - Favourites: Food: Lasagna, chocolat, pasta and Lang.: Portuguese - Favourites: Food: Brazilian, pizza, Music: Rock - U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday Movie: Adventure, Music: Pop, Other sports: Soccer

4 André Heller 5 Lucas 6 Samuel Name: André Heller - Age: 31 - Born Name: Lucas Saatkamp - Age: 21 Name: Samuel Fuchs - Age: 23 - in: Sao Leopoldo - BRA - Position: - Born in: Lajeado - Club debut: Born in: Curitiba - PR - Position: Middle blocker - Club debut: SC. Porto Alegre in 2001 - Hobby: Wing spiker - Club debut: Santa Ginastica (Novo Hamburgo, R.S.) Movies - Lang.: Portuguese - Monica (Curitiba - PR) in 1998 - in 1990 - Intl. debut: Junior - South Favourites: Book: Harry Potter, Intl. debut: Youth South American American Championship (Venezuela) in 1994 - Food: Barbecue Championship (Neuquen - Argentina) in 2000 Hobby: Listening to Music - Lang.: Portuguese - Hobby: reading and watching movies - Lang.: - Favourites: Book: Mistérios do coração, Food: Portuguese and English - Favourites: Book: O Barbecue, Movie: Forrest Gump, Music: All Kinds, Vampiro que descobriu o Brasil, Food: Pasta, Other sports: Table Tennis Movie: Gladiator, Music: Log B I see the light

7 Giba 8 Murilo 9 André Name: Gilberto Godoy Filho - Name: Murilo Endres - Age: Name: André Luiz da Silva Age: 30 - Born in: Londrina, BRA - 26 - Born in: Brazil - Position: Nascimento - Age: 28 - Born Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: Wing spiker - Club debut: at in: São João de Miriti/RJ, BRA - Country Club Canadá (Londrina - school (Passo Fundo/RS) in 1996 Position: Wing spiker - Club Paraná - BRA) in 1991 - Intl. debut: - Intl. debut: South American debut: Bom Pastor (Juiz de Fora - Youth World Championship (Portugal) in 1993 Championship (Venezuela) in 2000 - Hobby: BRAZIL0) in 1993 - Intl. debut: Youth Continental - Hobby: Movies / Listening to music - Lang.: sleep - Lang.: Portuguese - Favourites: Food: Championship (Assunção Paraguai) in 1996 - Portuguese - Favourites: Book: Spiritual Topics, barbecue, Movie: Gladiator Hobby: Music - Lang.: Portuguese - Favourites: Food: Pasta, Movie: Action/Comedy, Music: Pop, Book: Contos Científicos, Food: Feijoada, Movie: Other sports: Volleyball Adventure

10 Sérgio 11 Anderson 12 Leandro Name: Sérgio Dutra Santos - Age: Name: Anderson Rodrigues - Age: Name: Leandro Vissotto Neves 32 - Born in: Nova Londrina, BRA 33 - Born in: Belo Horizonte/MG, - Age: 24 - Born in: São Paulo - - Position: Libero - Club debut: BRA - Position: Wing spiker - Club Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: E.C. Palmeiras (São Paulo - BRA) in debut: C. Oficiais da Polícia Militar C.R. Flamengo (Rio de Janeiro) in 1989 - Intl. debut: World League (Belo Horizonte - MG. Brazil) 1995 - Intl. debut: South American (Grece) in 2001 - Hobby: Travelling - Lang.: in 1992 - Intl. debut: World League (Germany) Championship (ARG) in 2000 - Hobby: Movies, Portuguese - Favourites: Food: Brazilian food, in 2001 - Hobby: Music and traveling - Lang.: Fishing - Lang.: Por, Esp, Ing - Favourites: Book: Movie: Adventure Portuguese - Favourites: Food: Brazilian, Movie: Michael Jordan’s Biography, Food: Sushi, Movie: Titanic, Music: Samba Gladiator, Other sports: Michael Jordan

13 Gustavo 14 Rodrigão 15 Minuzzi Name: Gustavo Endres - Age: Name: Rodrigo Santana - Age: 28 - Name: Roberto Minuzzi Jr - Age: 32 - Born in: Passo Fundo, BRA Born in: Sao Paulo, BRA - Position: 26 - Born in: Caxias do Sul, BRA - Position: Middle blocker - Club Middle blocker - Club debut: - Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: EACNSC (Rio Grande do Banespa (São Paulo - BRA) in 1993 debut: at school (Caxias do Sul, Sul - BRA) in 1991 - Intl. debut: - Intl. debut: Youth Continental BRA) in 1998 - Intl. debut: World Continental Championship (Venezuela) in Championship (Assunção - Paraguai) in 1996 - Championship Youth (Riyadh, Arabia) in 1999 - 1994 - Hobby: Movies - Lang.: Portuguese - Hobby: Travel - Lang.: Portuguese - Favourites: Hobby: Dancing - Lang.: Portuguese - Favourites: Favourites: Book: X - Files, Food: Barbecue, Book: feliz ano velho, Food: Italian, Movie: Action, Food: Barbecue, Movie: Cidade de Deus, Music: Movie: Independence Day, Music: Bon Jovi, Music: Samba, Other sports: Soccer Samba Other sports: Soccer

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 32 MEN 16 Rafael 17 Ricardo Bernardo ReZende (BRA) Name: Rafael Redwitz - Age: Name: Ricardo Garcia - Age: 31 - Bernardo Rocha de Rezende, 26 - Born in: Curitiba - Position: Born in: Sao Paulo, BRA - Position: nicknamed “Bernardinho”, was born Setter - Lang.: Port / Eng / France Setter - Club debut: BANESPA (Sao in Rio de Janeiro. He is 48 years-old, - Favourites: Food: BBQ Paulo - BRA) in 1986 - Intl. debut: and was in charge of the Women’s South American Championship National Team from 1994 to 2000. In 2001, Mr. Bernardo Rezende became the head coach (Venezuela) in 1992 - Hobby: Movies and Music - of the Brazilian senior men’s national team. The choice Lang.: Portuguese - Favourites: Book: Bible, Food: could not have been better. Bernardinho led the team Home made, Movie: Titanic, Music: Brazilian Pop to memorable victories such as six gold medals in the Music, Other sports: Soccer World League, two World Championships titles (2002 and 2006) and the gold medal at the Olympic Games. Focusing on the last two years, in the 2006 season

he won the World League for the fifth time, and the H ead C oach Dante Alan World Championship for the second time. In April, 18 19 Bernardinho was coaching the Rexona-Ades club, and Name: Dante Guimaraes Amaral Name: Alan Barbosa Domingos won the Brazilian Superliga. - Age: 27 - Born in: Itumbiara/ - Age: 27 - Born in: Uberlandia, To continue his success coaching the Brazilian GO, BRA - Position: Wing spiker - BRA - Position: Libero - Intl. debut: national Men’s team, Bernardinho won in 2007: Club debut: Clube dos 50 (Goias) Junior World Championship the World League, for the sixth time, and the Pan- American Games. In ‘83, he won this tournament as a in 1995 - Intl. debut: Continental (Tailand) in 1999 - Hobby: Dancing player, and in ‘99, when he was coaching the Brazilian Championship (Chile) in 1998 - Hobby: Going - Favourites: Book: A Arte da Felicidade, Food: women’s team. In the same year, Bernardinho was to the beach, music - Lang.: Portuguese - Pasta, Movie: Gladiator, Music: Samba, Other second in America´s Cup, coaching a young team, and Favourites: Book: O Alquimista, Food: Brazilian, sports: Soccer was South American Champion. Movie: Action, Music: Rock, Other sports: Soccer As a player, he won the bronze medal in the World Cup ’81 in Japan.

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Bruno Rezende Bruno 02/07/1986 190 76 323 302 Cimed 2 Elgarten Marcelo Marcelinho 09/11/1974 183 78 321 308 7 7 86 100 Panathinakos A. O. 3 Carbonera Eder Eder 19/08/1983 204 101 350 330 3 5 8 Cimed 4 Heller André André Heller 17/12/1975 199 93 339 321 12 5 136 153 Pallavolo Modena 5 Saatkamp Lucas Lucas 06/03/1986 209 101 340 321 7 20 27 Cimed 6 Fuchs Samuel Samuel 04/03/1984 200 89 342 316 14 42 56 Lokomotiv Belgorod 7 Godoy Filho Gilberto Giba C 23/12/1976 192 85 325 312 15 33 260 308 Iskra Odsintovo 8 Endres Murilo Murilo 03/05/1981 190 76 343 319 7 24 31 Pallavolo Modena 9 Nascimento André Luiz da Silva André 04/03/1979 195 95 340 320 8 21 141 170 Pallavolo Modena 10 Santos Sérgio Dutra Sérgio L 15/10/1975 184 78 325 310 8 9 125 142 Copra V. Piacenza 11 Rodrigues Anderson Anderson 21/05/1974 190 95 330 321 8 9 104 121 Ulbra 12 Neves Leandro Vissotto Leandro 30/04/1983 212 97 358 335 14 17 31 Clube Taranto Volley 13 Endres Gustavo Gustavo 23/08/1975 203 98 337 325 16 27 268 311 Volley Treviso 14 Santana Rodrigo Rodrigão 17/04/1979 205 85 350 328 4 20 125 149 A.S.V.L. Macerata 15 Minuzzi Jr Roberto Minuzzi 27/08/1981 200 88 344 329 11 32 43 Panathinaikos A. O. 16 Redwitz Rafael Rafael 08/12/1980 188 80 320 307 Club Puc Volleyball 17 Garcia Ricardo Ricardo 19/11/1975 191 89 337 320 8 22 270 300 Pallavolo Modena 18 Amaral Dante Guimaraes Dante 30/09/1980 201 86 345 327 16 12 116 144 Panathinakos A. O. 19 Domingos Alan Barbosa Alan L 15/02/1980 189 75 354 323 7 7 Dinamo Moska H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 2004 1 2006 1 2007 1 1998 5 2005 1 2003 1 2007 1 1981 1 2000 6 2002 1 2006 1 1997 5 2001 2 1999 5 2005 1 1979 1 1996 5 1998 4 2005 1 1996 5 1997 1 1995 3 2003 1 1977 1 1992 1 1994 5 2004 1 1995 2 1993 2 1991 6 2001 1 1975 1 1988 4 1990 4 2003 1 1994 3 1989 5 1999 1 1973 1 1984 2 1986 4 2002 2 1993 1 1985 4 1997 1 1971 1 1980 5 1982 2 2001 1 1992 5 1981 3 1995 1 1969 1 1976 7 1978 6 2000 3 1991 5 1977 8 1993 1 1967 1 1972 8 1974 10 1999 3 1990 3 1969 6 1991 1 1962 1 1968 9 1970 12 1989 1 1961 1 1964 7 1966 13 1987 1 1958 1 1962 10 1985 1 1956 1 1960 5 1983 1 1951 1 1956 11 OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE MEN 33 www.fivb.org

Bulgaria

Team Biography

In 2007, it will be 86 years since Volleyball bronze medal in 1955 (Bucharest), in 1981 came to Bulgaria. It all began in 1922. (Varna) and in 1983 (Berlin). For a short time the sport reached a big In 1957 in the National Stadium “Vassil popularity and became one of the most Levski” (in Sofia) a demonstrative practiced in Bulgaria. In 1942 the first tournament was provided, after which National Volleyball Championship was Volleyball became an official member of organized. Bulgaria has more than 111 the Olympic family. The Bulgarian Volleyball registered Volleyball Clubs and over 5500 players were in the first Olympic tournament Volleyball players from all age groups. in Tokyo (1964), where they finished at 5th The Bulgarian Senior Men’s National Team place, in Mexico (1968) 6th place, in Munich has been participating successfully in World (1972) 4th place, in Moscow (1980) 2nd place, and European Championships, Olympic in Seoul (1988) 6th place and in Atlanta Games and international tournaments for (1996) 7th place. almost for 50 years. The Bulgarian National In some demonstrative “Matches of the Team finished third for its first participation World Volleyball Stars” were included in the World Championship in Prague (1949). Bulgarian Volleyball players such as Petkov, The team also won the bronze in Moscow Kiossev, Ganev, Tonev. (1952) at the World Championships and in In 1994 the Bulgarian National Team was Paris (1986). At the World Championships in included for the first time in the World Sofia (1970) the team finished at the second League and finished at the 4th place. place, third at the World Championships in Nowadays there are some very good Japan, Tokyo (2006). Volleyball players in the Bulgarian national At the European Championships, the team such as: Plamen Konstantinov, Evgeni Bulgarian team finished nine times among Ivanov, Hristo Tsvetanov and young good the first six teams and four times among the players as Matey Kaziyski, Danail Milushev, medallists: 1951 in Paris (second place) and Andrey Zhekov, Boyan Yordanov...

Area: 110,994 sq km Inhabitants: 7,700,000 Capital: Sofia

Sofia

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 34 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Head coach Stoev Martin 18.11 15:05 Matsumoto BUL - ESP Assistant coach Todorov Vladislav 19.11 13:05 Matsumoto BUL - EGY Doctor Zahariev Dinko 20.11 13:05 Matsumoto BUL - PUR Trainer/Therapist Iskrev Iskren 22.11 18:35 Toyama BUL - USA Trainer/Therapist José Ricardo Regi 23.11 15:05 Toyama BRA - BUL 25.11 15:05 Okayama BUL - KOR 26.11 15:35 Okayama AUS - BUL 27.11 15:35 Okayama BUL - TUN 30.11 16:35 Tokyo (TMG) BUL - RUS 01.12 19:30 Tokyo (TMG) JPN - BUL 02.12 14:05 Tokyo (TMG) ARG - BUL

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1 Ivanov E. 2 Tsvetanov 3 Zhekov Name: Evgeni Ivanov - Age: 33 - Name: Hristo Tsvetanov - Age: 29 - Name: Andrey Zhekov - Age: 27 Born in: Sofia - Position: Middle Born in: Cherven Briag - Position: - Born in: Sofia - Position: Setter blocker - Club debut: CSKA (Sofia, Middle blocker - Club debut: - Club debut: Slavia (Sofia, BUL) in BUL) in 1987 - Hobby: Modelism, Lokomotiv (Plovdiv) in 1992 - 1993 - Intl. debut: WCH (Argentine) computer - Lang.: ITA, ENG, RUS, Intl. debut: ECH in 2000 - Lang.: in 2002 - Lang.: English, Russian FRA - Favourites: Book: Quo vadis, Food: Meat, English, French, German, Greek - Favourites: Movie: The Negotiator, Music: All kinds, Other Music: Metallica, Other sports: NBA sports: Formula 1

4 Yordanov 5 Gaydarski 6 Kaziyski Name: Boyan Yordanov - Age: 24 Name: Krasimir Gaydarski - Age: Name: Matey Kaziyski - Age: 23 - - Born in: Sofia - Position: Wing 24 - Born in: Russia - Position: Born in: Sofia - Position: Universal spiker - Club debut: Levski Siconco Middle blocker - Club debut: - Club debut: Slavia (Sofia, BUL) in (Sofia, BUL) in 1996 - Intl. debut: Kozloduy (Kozloduy, BUL) in 1993 - Intl. debut: WCH (Argentine) WCH (Argentine) in 2002 - Hobby: 1994 - Intl. debut: World League in 2002 - Lang.: English, Russian, Cinema - Lang.: English, Greek - Favourites: Book: (Various cities) in 2004 - Hobby: Fishing - Lang.: French - Favourites: Book: Shougun, Food: Steak, It, Food: pasta, Movie: Gadiator, Music: Various, Russia - Favourites: Book: Shalom, Food: Pasta, Movie: Spoun, Music: Hip-hop, Other sports: Other sports: Football Movie: Gladiator, Music: pop folk, Other sports: Fighting Football

7 Nikolov N. 8 Stanev 9 Ananiev Name: Nikolay Nikolov - Age: Name: Ivan Stanev - Age: 22 - Born Name: Metodi Ananiev - Age: 21 - 21 - Born in: Karnobat - Position: in: Burgas - Position: Setter - Club Born in: Sofia - Position: Universal Middle blocker - Club debut: debut: Neftohimik in 1996 - Intl. - Club debut: Levski Siconco (Sofia, Lukoil Neftohimik (Bourgas, BUL) debut: in 2002 - Hobby: Music Bulgaria) in 1998 - Lang.: English in 1999 - Intl. debut: World League (Various cities) in 2006 - Lang.: English

10 Milushev 11 Nikolov V. 12 Hristov Name: Danail Milushev - Age: 23 Name: Vladimir Nikolov - Age: 30 Name: Lyubomir Hristov - Age: 24 - - Born in: Varna - Position: Wing - Born in: Sofia - Position: Wing Born in: Plovdiv - Position: Middle spiker - Club debut: Cherno more spiker - Club debut: Levski (Sofia, blocker - Club debut: Lokomotiv BASK (Varna, BUL) in 1997 - Intl. BUL) in 1992 - Intl. debut: WCH Plovdiv in 1995 - Intl. debut: in debut: WCH (Argentine) in 2002 - (Argentine) in 2002 - Hobby: 2002 - Lang.: English - Favourites: Lang.: English, Italian, French Computer games - Lang.: English, French, Food: Pasta, Movie: Fast and furious, Music: Hip- Japanese - Favourites: Book: Wheel of Time, hop, Other sports: Basketball Food: Cream caramel, Movie: Gladiator, Music: Pop, Other sports: Formula 1

13 Salparov 14 Stoykov 15 Aleksiev Name: Teodor Salparov - Age: Name: Kostadin Stoykov - Age: Name: Todor Aleksiev - Age: 25 - Born in: Gabrovo - Position: 29 - Born in: Smolian - Position: 24 - Born in: Plovdiv - Position: Libero - Club debut: CSKA Royal Wing spiker - Club debut: Levski Universal - Club debut: Lokomotiv Cake (Sofia, BUL) in 1996 - Intl. Siconco (Sofia, BUL) in 1992 - Intl. (Plovdiv) in 1995 - Intl. debut: debut: World League (Various debut: World League (Various WCH (Argentine) in 2002 - Lang.: cities) in 2003 - Lang.: English, Russian cities) in 2004 - Hobby: Music - Lang.: French, English - Favourites: Food: Bulgarian, Movie: English, Russian - Favourites: Book: Vinetu, Food: Heat, Music: all kinds, Other sports: Football Pasta, Movie: Blade, Music: Greek, Other sports: Tennis

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 36 MEN 16 Sokolov 17 Konstantinov STOEV Martin (BUL) Name: Tsvetan Sokolov - Age: Name: Plamen Konstantinov - Martin Stoyanov Stoev played 17 - Born in: Dupnitsa - Position: Age: 34 - Born in: Sofia - Position: Volleyball from 1984 till 2005 Universal - Club debut: in 2002 - Universal - Club debut: Slavia as wing spiker. Enlisted in the Intl. debut: JECH (Kazan, Russia) (Bulgaria, Sofia) in 1984 - Hobby: National Team from 1991 to 1999, in 2006 - Lang.: English Tennis - Lang.: ENG, GRE, RUS, he played over 200 matches with POL, ITA, TUR - Favourites: Food: Pasta, Music: the Bulgarian team and was 3 times National Disco, Other sports: Formula 1 Champion of Bulgaria (twice with the team of Levski Siconco, once with the team of Minior Buhovo). Not to forget that he was World Junior Champion in 1981 in Cairo, where he was nominated as MVP

of the competition. H ead C oach Zarev Peev Since 2005 he has been the Head Coach of the 18 19 Bulgarian Senior Men’s National team, with the Name: Ivan Zarev - Age: 21 - Born Name: Daniel Peev - Age: 37 - Born following achievements: in: Sofia - Position: Setter - Club in: Dobrich - Position: Libero - −−2005: the team qualified for the World debut: Slavia (Sofia, BUL) in 1999 - Club debut: Dobrudja (Dobrich) Championship, 5th place at the World League. Intl. debut: World League (Various in 1987 - Intl. debut: ECH in 2000 - −−2006: the team qualified for the European cities) in 2006 - Lang.: Italian, Hobby: Computers, music - Lang.: Championship, 4th place at World League and English German, English - Favourites: Book: Pulp Fiction, 3rd place in the World Champioship in Japan. Food: Pasta, meat, Movie: Gladiator, Music: rock, −−2007: 8th place at European Championship, Other sports: Formula 1, football 5th place at the World League.

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Ivanov Evgeni Ivanov E. 03/06/1974 210 98 351 340 6 14 211 231 Jastrzebski Wegiel SA 2 Tsvetanov Hristo Tsvetanov 29/03/1978 198 85 345 330 15 110 125 Budvanska Rivijera BUDVA 3 Zhekov Andrey Zhekov 12/03/1980 190 82 340 326 1 28 29 Patron Patra 4 Yordanov Boyan Yordanov 12/03/1983 197 86 358 335 1 5 6 Olympiacos Piraeus 5 Gaydarski Krasimir Gaydarski 23/02/1983 204 96 350 330 1 25 26 Olympiacos Piraeus 6 Kaziyski Matey Kaziyski 23/09/1984 202 93 370 335 1 27 28 Trentino Volley SPA 7 Nikolov Nikolay Nikolov N. 29/07/1986 203 85 344 330 2 2 Lukoil Neftohimik 8 Stanev Ivan Stanev 07/07/1985 190 80 337 320 1 1 Lukoil Neftohimik 9 Ananiev Metodi Ananiev 17/02/1986 202 100 340 330 2 2 Gabeca Pallavolo Spa 10 Milushev Danail Milushev 03/02/1984 200 93 358 335 6 28 34 Tours VB 11 Nikolov Vladimir Nikolov V. 03/10/1977 200 95 345 325 7 102 109 Trentino Volley Spa 12 Hristov Lyubomir Hristov 26/09/1983 207 99 353 330 1 1 Pirin Balkanstroy 13 Salparov Teodor Salparov L 16/08/1982 185 73 320 305 1 79 80 CSKA 14 Stoykov Kostadin Stoykov 07/12/1977 199 85 349 329 37 37 VC “Nova” 15 Aleksiev Todor Aleksiev 21/04/1983 200 96 347 327 1 12 13 Volley Citta di Corigliano 16 Sokolov Tsvetan Sokolov 31/12/1989 205 100 337 319 1 1 Marek Union Ivkoni 17 Konstantinov Plamen Konstantinov C 14/06/1973 202 93 347 330 6 15 262 283 Iraklis THESSALONIKI 18 Zarev Ivan Zarev 25/06/1986 199 87 341 328 1 2 3 CSKA 19 Peev Daniel Peev L 11/05/1970 192 88 325 310 6 73 79 CSKA H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 1996 7 2006 3 2007 5 1977 6 2007 8 1981 3 1988 6 2002 13 2006 4 1969 4 2003 10 1979 10 1980 2 1998 7 2005 5 1965 9 2001 6 1977 5 1972 4 1994 9 2004 4 1999 7 1975 5 1968 6 1990 5 2003 5 1997 9 1971 7 1964 5 1986 3 1998 7 1995 4 1967 9 1982 5 1997 6 1993 5 1963 4 1978 10 1996 8 1991 5 1958 4 1974 7 1995 5 1989 6 1955 3 1970 2 1994 4 1987 11 1951 2 1966 7 1985 5 1950 4 1962 4 1983 3 1956 5 1952 3 1949 3 OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE MEN 37 www.fivb.org

Egypt

Team Biography

The Egyptian men’s team has grown up Championship. Moreover, they qualified thanks to three different generations. The on continental level to the 2006 World first being those players who joined the Championship in Japan and to the 2006 National Team during the period 1990 – World League, making it the first ever 1999, and participated in all Continental African representation in this tournament. and International competitions played by They represented Africa also in the 2007 their team, from the 2000 Sydney Olympic World League and will participate in the Games to the 2006 World Championships 2008 World League after they won 2007 in Japan. All Africa Games and 2007 African Cup of The second generation is composed by Nations where they qualified to the 2007 those players born in 1983-1984, who World Cup as the Continental Champion. joined the Egyptian National Youth Team The third generation was born in 1985 and participated in the 2001 Youth Boys and afterwards and recently joined the World Championship in Egypt, where Senior National Team. they got the fourth ranking position. Egypt is the Volleyball leader in Then they qualified on the continental Africa, where they participated in level and participated in the 2003 Junior most international competitions after Men’s World Championship in Iran. They qualifying continentally. The team won represent the majority of the Senior team the African Nations Championship now, starting their victories with the in 1983 to qualify to the 1984 Olympic Senior team in the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Los Angeles. They were then Games in Spain, where they won the qualified to the 2000 Sydney Olympic gold medal. Later they qualified to the Games. They participated to the 2002 2005 World Grand Champions Cup in World Championships in Argentina and Japan by winning the African Nations 2003 World Cups in Japan.

Area: 1,001,000 sq km Inhabitants: 80,335,000 Capital: Cairo

Cairo

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 38 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Manager Abdel Rahman Oof 18.11 12:35 Matsumoto EGY - PUR Head coach Zakaria Ahmed 19.11 13:05 Matsumoto BUL - EGY Assistant coach Meselhy Hany 20.11 18:35 Matsumoto BRA - EGY Doctor Bahgat Hosam 22.11 13:35 Toyama EGY - ESP Trainer/Therapist Agamy Abd El Rahman 23.11 18:05 Toyama EGY - USA 25.11 18:00 Fukuoka JPN - EGY 26.11 15:05 Fukuoka EGY - RUS 27.11 12:35 Fukuoka ARG - EGY 30.11 15:05 Tokyo (KG) EGY - KOR 01.12 12:35 Tokyo (KG) EGY - TUN 02.12 17:35 Tokyo (KG) AUS - EGY

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1 ELSAFI 2 ABDALLA 3 GABAL Name: Hamdy Awad - Age: 35 - Name: Abdalla Ahmed - Age: 24 Name: Mohamed Gabal - Age: 23 Born in: Alexandria - Position: Wing - Born in: Cairo - Position: Setter - Born in: Mahala - Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: Smoha Club - Club debut: AHLY (Cairo,EGY) in spiker - Intl. debut: World League (ALEXANDRISA- EGYPT) in 1982 - 1998 - Intl. debut: Youth Men World (Various Countries) in 2006 - Lang.: Intl. debut: World Championship Championship (Cairo, Egypt) in Arabic, English - Favourites: Book: in 1998 - Hobby: Travelling & reading - Lang.: 2001 - Hobby: Sport - Lang.: Arabic, English - Comic, Food: Kofta, Movie: Spiderman, Music: Arabic, English - Favourites: Book: History, Food: Favourites: Book: History, Food: Chinese Satana, Other sports: Beckham Egyptian, Movie: Action, Music: classic, Other sports: Football

4 SALAH 5 O.KEMSAN 6 ALAYDY Name: Ahmed Abd Elnaeim - Name: Ossama Bekheit - Age: 30 Name: Wael Al Aydy - Age: 35 - Age: 23 - Born in: Cairo - Position: - Born in: GIZA - Position: Middle Born in: Cairo - Position: Libero Wing spiker - Club debut: AHLY blocker - Club debut: Tersana - Club debut: El Tayran (Cairo,EGY) (Cairo,EGY) in 1994 - Intl. debut: (Giza,EGY) in 1994 - Intl. debut: in 1978 - Intl. debut: World Youth World Championship World Championship (Argentina) Championship (Argentina) in (Cairo) in 2001 - Hobby: Sports - Lang.: Arabic, in 2002 - Hobby: Swimming - Lang.: Arabic - 2002 - Hobby: Squash, football - Lang.: Arabic, English - Favourites: Book: Stories, Food: Italan, Favourites: Book: History, Food: Asian, Movie: English - Favourites: Book: History & Religious, Movie: Comedian, Other sports: Football Die another day Food: Fast food, Movie: Action, Music: Slow music, Other sports: Football

7 ASHRAF 8 S.FATHY 9 ELMAHDY Name: Ashraf Abouel Hassan - Name: Saleh Youssef - Age: 25 Name: Mohamed El Mahdy - Age: Age: 32 - Born in: Giza - Position: - Born in: GIZA - Position: Wing 29 - Born in: Giza,EGY - Position: Setter - Club debut: ZAMALEK spiker - Club debut: ZAMALEK Setter - Club debut: AHLY (Giza,EGY) in 1986 - Intl. (Giza,EGY) in 1995 - Intl. debut: (Cairo,EGY) in 1989 - Intl. debut: debut: World Championship Grand Champions (Japan) in 2005 World Cup (Japan) in 2003 - Qualification (Nigeria) in 1992 - Hobby: Sports - - Hobby: Tennis - Lang.: Arabic - Favourites: Book: Hobby: Walking, Reading - Lang.: Arabic, English Lang.: Arabic, English - Favourites: Book: History, History, Food: Italian, Movie: Batman and Robin, - Favourites: Book: Stories, Food: Lebanon Food, Food: Oriental Food, Movie: Action, Music: Soft, Music: Oriental, Other sports: Tennis Movie: Comic, Music: Light music, Other sports: Other sports: Football Tennis

10 MOSTAFA 11 ELSAYED 12 HOSSAM Name: Mohamed Kamel - Age: 19 Name: Mohamed Elnafrawy - Name: Hossam Abdalla - Age: 19 - Born in: Alex,Egypt - Position: Age: 24 - Born in: Cairo - Position: - Born in: Damanhour - Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: ETHAD Middle blocker - Club debut: AHLY Setter - Club debut: DAMANHOUR (Alex,Egypt) in 1995 - Intl. debut: (Cairo,EGY) in 1995 - Intl. debut: (Bahaira,EGY) in 1998 - Intl. debut: Youth Boys World Championship Youth Men World Championship African Youth Boys’ Championship (Algeria) in 2005 - Hobby: Swimming - Lang.: (Cairo,Egypt) in 2001 - Hobby: Computers (South Africa) in 2004 - Hobby: Reading - Lang.: Arabic - Favourites: Book: Comic, Food: Egyptian, Sciences - Lang.: Arabic, English - Favourites: Arabic - Favourites: Book: History, Food: Egyptian, Movie: Action, Music: Tamer Ashour, Other sports: Food: Fruits, Movie: Action, Other sports: Judo Movie: Troy, Music: Tom Cruise, Other sports: Football Micheal Jordan

13 MONEIM 14 HOSSAM 15 A.ALY Name: Mohamed Badawy - Age: Name: Hossam Shaarawy - Age: Name: Ahmed El Shikh - Age: 19 21 - Born in: Giza,EGY - Position: 23 - Born in: kalyoubia - Position: - Born in: Cairo, EGY - Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: Zamalek Middle blocker - Club debut: AHLY Middle blocker - Club debut: (Giza , EGY) in 1994 - Intl. debut: (Cairo,EGY) in 1996 - Intl. debut: ELSHAMS (Cairo,EGY) in 1997 - Youth Boys World Championship Youth Men World Championship Intl. debut: African Youth Boys’ (Cairo,EGY) in 2001 - Hobby: Reading - Lang.: (Cairo, Egypt) in 2001 - Hobby: Dancing - Lang.: Championship (South Africa) in 2004 - Hobby: Arabic, English - Favourites: Book: Comic, Food: English - Favourites: Book: Adventures, Food: Swimming - Lang.: Arabic, English - Favourites: Egyptian, Movie: Look who’s talking too, Music: Indian, Movie: Action, Music: Pop Book: History, Food: Grilled Chicken, Movie: Asher, Other sports: Football Action, Music: Tamer Hosni, Other sports: Football

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 40 MEN 16 M.ALI 17 RAOUF Zakaria Ahmed (EGY) Name: Mohamed Seif Elnasr - Age: Name: Mahmoud Abdelkader Ahmed Zakaria played from 1973 24 - Born in: Cairo - Position: Middle - Age: 22 - Position: Wing spiker to 1983, in both Youth and Senior blocker - Club debut: ZAMALEK - Club debut: AHLY (Cairo,EGY) National Team, competing also for (Giza,EGY) in 1999 - Intl. debut: in 1995 - Intl. debut: Youth the World Cup 1977 in Japan and the World League (Various Countries) Men World Championship World Championship in Italy in 1978. in 2006 - Lang.: Arabic, English - Favourites: Book: (Cairo,Egypt) in 2001 - Hobby: Computers - Lang.: Coaching Career: History, Food: Pizza, Movie: Love stories, Music: Arabic, English - Favourites: Book: Comic, Food: From 1991 till 1993: Youth Team Al Ahly Club. Oriental, Other sports: Football Italian, Music: HipHop From 1993 till 1998 in Emirates. From 1998 till 2001: Senior Men Team Al Ahly Club. From 2003 till 2005: Senior Men Team Petrojet Club. Coaching Career in the Egyptian National

team: Sydney Olympic Games 2000 Australia, H ead C oach DAABOUSI A.KAMAL Mediterranean Tournament in Spain 2005, African 18 19 Championship qualifying for the World Grand Name: Mohamed El Daabousi - Name: Ahmed Elhefnawy - Age: 35 Champion Japan 2005, World Grand Champions Age: 20 - Born in: Damanhour - - Born in: Gharbia,EGY - Position: Cup 2005 Japan, World League 2006 and 2007, Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: Libero - Club debut: ZAMALEK World Championship Japan 2006, African Nations DAMANHOUR (Alex,EGY) in 1993 (Giza,EGY) in 1986 - Intl. debut: Championship South Africa 2007 qualifying for the - Intl. debut: African Youth Boys’ World League (Various Countries) World Cup Japan 2007. Championship (South Africa) in 2004 - Hobby: in 2007 - Lang.: Arabic, English - Favourites: Book: Swimming - Lang.: Arabic - Favourites: Book: Social Magazine, Food: Egyptian traditional Comic, Food: Egyptian, Movie: Action, Music: Food, Movie: Romantic, Music: Oriental, Other Tamer Hosni, Other sports: Tennis sports: Football

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Awad Hamdy Elsafi C 14/04/1972 202 105 346 327 5 11 280 296 AHLY 2 Ahmed Abdalla Abdalla 10/10/1983 198 72 352 331 5 80 85 MONTICHIARI 3 Gabal Mohamed Gabal 21/01/1984 195 97 345 320 1 3 4 ELGAISH 4 Abd Elnaeim Ahmed Salah 19/08/1984 197 87 342 316 3 80 83 AHLY 5 Bekheit Ossama O.Kemsan 12/01/1977 192 72 335 326 5 4 185 194 AHLY 6 Al Aydy Wael Alaydy L 08/12/1971 178 76 0 0 2 100 102 AHLY 7 Abouel Hassan Ashraf Ashraf 17/05/1975 184 87 321 302 1 2 150 153 ZAMALEK 8 Youssef Saleh S.Fathy 25/07/1982 191 92 338 316 1 60 61 ZAMALEK 9 El Mahdy Mohamed Elmahdy 02/09/1978 196 96 340 335 1 180 181 AHLY 10 Kamel Mohamed Mostafa 12/04/1988 201 82 325 311 4 4 8 ETHAD 11 Elnafrawy Mohamed Elsayed 09/06/1983 200 92 335 320 3 105 108 AHLY 12 Abdalla Hossam Hossam 16/02/1988 203 97 343 321 4 9 13 AHLY 13 Badawy Mohamed Moneim 11/01/1986 197 99 335 322 3 20 23 ZAMALEK 14 Shaarawy Hossam Hossam 15/02/1984 199 92 344 324 3 60 63 AHLY 15 El Shikh Ahmed A.Aly 19/07/1988 201 83 339 327 4 9 13 ELSHAMS 16 Seif Elnasr Mohamed M.Ali 05/09/1983 203 80 346 326 15 15 ZAMALEK 17 Abdelkader Mahmoud Raouf 12/05/1985 195 94 342 316 1 17 18 AHLY 18 El Daabousi Mohamed Daabousi 01/03/1987 201 102 339 320 4 11 15 SPORTING 19 Elhefnawy Ahmed A.Kamal L 05/09/1972 188 80 0 0 50 50 ZAMALEK H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 2000 11 2006 21 2007 13 2005 5 2003 12 2007 1 1989 3 1984 10 2002 19 2006 13 1995 11 2005 1 1987 4 1998 19 1985 8 2003 2 1983 1 1986 14 1977 11 1999 2 1976 1 1978 23 1997 5 1971 2 1974 17 1995 2 1971 7 1993 3 1958 15 1991 2 1955 14

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Spain

Team Biography

Spain entered the World League in 1995 Oscar Novillo, a young coach substituted (Rafael Pascual was nominated best Francisco Hervás in 2005, a year marked player). by the semifinals of the European The World Cup 1999 ended with the 6th Championships played against Russia in position and the unquestionable leader Rome (4th place). The arrival of Andrea inside and outside the court was Rafa Anastasi to the Spanish National Team was Pascual, nominated best player in the a hit for Spain. His work had a goal: the World Championship 1998 and best scorer 2007 European Championship in Russia. of the World Cup. Eight matches, eight victories. A compact After the participation in the Olympic team, minded, well directed by Andrea Games of Sydney 2000 a new stage opens Anastasi and on the court by the setter up for the Senior Men’s National Team. Miguel Ángel Falasca. A team that made Francisco Hervás is the new Head Coach. history and will achieve more success. A The 2002 World League started with a team with veteran players: Rafael Pascual, good previous round and reached the 5th Guillermo Falasca, José Luis Moltó, José position, but paid the effort of the World Luis Lobato... Then, the youngsters to look League in the World Championship. After out for: Israel Rodríguez, Manuel Sevillano, a fair first round, the Spaniards seemed Javier Subiela, Julián García-Torres, Ibán to run out of fuel in the second stage and Pérez, Guillermo Hernán... couldn’t win a match. The World Cup, the quest for the Olympic In 2003, the renovation of the team qualification for Beijin 2008, is the continues. For the first time ever, Spain ultimate challenge, with Marcelo Méndez organized the World League Finals, as new coach after that Anastasi has been in Madrid, but couldn’t qualify for the appointed again as Italy new Head Coach semifinals. in place of Gian Paolo Montali.

Area: 504,030 km Inhabitants: 45,117,000 Capital: Madrid

Madrid

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 42 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Manager Alonso, Juan 18.11 15:05 Matsumoto BUL - ESP Head coach Méndez, Marcelo R. 19.11 18:35 Matsumoto BRA - ESP Assistant coach Costa, Venancio 20.11 15:35 Matsumoto ESP - USA Doctor Turmo, Antonio 22.11 13:35 Toyama EGY - ESP Trainer/Therapist Díaz, David 23.11 12:05 Toyama ESP - PUR 25.11 15:05 Fukuoka ESP - RUS 26.11 12:35 Fukuoka ARG - ESP 27.11 18:00 Fukuoka JPN - ESP 30.11 18:05 Tokyo (KG) AUS - ESP 01.12 15:05 Tokyo (KG) ESP - KOR 02.12 12:05 Tokyo (KG) ESP - TUN

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1 Pascual 2 Pérez 3 Lobato Name: Rafael Pascual - Age: 37 - Name: Ibán Pérez - Age: 24 Name: Jose Luis Lobato - Age: Born in: Madrid (ESP) - Position: - Born in: Barcelona (ESP) - 30 - Born in: Huelva - Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: CIT Position: Universal - Club debut: Libero - Club debut: C.V. Aguas Madrid (Madrid) in 1984 - Intl. C.E.Episcopal (ESP) in 2000 - Intl. de Huelva (Huelva (ESP)) in 1988 debut: Torneo Internacional debut: European League (ESP) in - Intl. debut: European Olympic (Altea (Alicante) España) in 1988 - Lang.: Spanish, 2005 Qualification Tournament (Leipzig (GER)) in 2004 Italian - Lang.: Spanish, French

4 Sevillano 5 F. Rodriguez 6 Flores Name: Manuel Sevillano - Age: Name: Francisco José Rodriguez Name: Alfonso Flores - Age: 32 - 26 - Born in: Tarragona - Position: - Age: 27 - Born in: Santa Cruz Born in: Madrid - Position: Setter Universal - Club debut: Sant Pere i Tenerife - Position: Universal - - Club debut: CITD Vallehermoso Sant Pau (Tarragona (España)) in Club debut: C.V. Villa Orotava (Madrid (ESP)) in 1987 - Intl. 1992 - Intl. debut: World League (Tenerife (ESP)) in 1997 - Intl. debut: World League (ESP) in (ESP) in 2002 - Lang.: Italian debut: European League (ESP) in 2007 - Lang.: 1997 - Lang.: Spanish, English, French Spanish, English

7 Hernan 8 Salas 9 Valido Name: Guillermo Hernan - Age: Name: Alberto Salas - Age: 23 - Born Name: Alexis Valido - Age: 31 25 - Born in: Granada - Position: in: Soria - Position: Middle blocker - Born in: Las Palmas - Position: Setter - Club debut: Universidad - Club debut: C.V. Numancia Caja Libero - Club debut: C.V. Gran Granada (ESP) in 1998 - Intl. Duero (Soria (ESP)) in 2000 - Intl. Canaria (ESP) in 1995 - Intl. debut: debut: European League (ESP) in debut: European League (ESP) in European League (ESP) in 1999 - 2005 - Lang.: English 2007 - Lang.: Spanish, English Lang.: Spanish, English

10 M. Falasca 11 Subiela 12 G. Falasca Name: Miguel Angel Falasca Name: Javier Subiela - Age: 23 Name: Guillermo Falasca - Age: - Age: 34 - Born in: Mendoza - Born in: Valencia - Position: 30 - Born in: Mendoza (ARG) - (ARG) - Position: Setter - Club Middle blocker - Club debut: C.V. Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: debut: Club Mendoza Regatas Cartagena (ESP) in 1998 - Intl. C.V.Ivesur Málaga (ESP) in 1989 (Argentina) in 1983 - Intl. debut: debut: European League (ESP) in - Intl. debut: Senior European Senior European Championships (ESP) in 1993 - 2005 Championship (ESP) in 1998 - Lang.: Spanish, Lang.: Spanish, English Italian, French

13 Barcala 14 Molto 15 Salvador Name: Juan Carlos Barcala - Age: Name: Jose Luis Molto - Age: Name: Juan Jose Salvador - Age: 31 23 - Born in: Cádiz (ESP) - Position: 32 - Born in: Concentaina (ESP) - Born in: Almeria (ESP) - Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: C.V. - Position: Middle blocker - Club Wing spiker - Club debut: Unicaja Amigos de Cádiz (Cádiz (ESP)) debut: C.V. Concentaina (ESP) Almeria (Almeria - Spain) in 1990 - in 2000 - Intl. debut: European in 1991 - Intl. debut: Torneo Intl. debut: World Championships League (ESP) in 2006 - Lang.: Spanish, English Internacional (Espinho (POR)) in 1994 - Lang.: Qualification Tournament (Granada (ESP)) in Spanish, French 1993 - Lang.: Spanish, Italian, French

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 44 MEN 16 García Torres 17 De La Fuente MÉNDEZ, Marcelo R. (ARG) Name: Julián García-Torres - Age: Name: Enrique De La Fuente - Age: Mr. Marcelo R. Méndez was born in 27 - Born in: Madrid - Position: 32 - Born in: Vigo (ESP) - Position: Argentina in 1964 and finished his Middle blocker - Club debut: Wing spiker - Club debut: C.V. Physical Education degree in Buenos C.V. Rochelambert (Sevilla (ESP)) Vigo (Vigo - España) in 1986 - Intl. Aires in 1988. in 1999 - Intl. debut: European debut: European Championship Qualification Tournament (Zagreb (CRO)) in Qualification in 1993 - Lang.: Spanish, French As player, he has played in Argentina and Italy: 1981/1988 and 1992 - Club Atlético River Plate (ARG) 2004 1988/1990 - Club Soc. Fiat Ammauto (ITA) 1990-1991 - Club Polliesportiva Jonica (ITA) As head coach, he has led several clubs: 1986 - Club Daom (ARG) 1987/1988 - Club Atlético River Plate (ARG) 1988/1990 - Club Sociedad Fiat Ammauto (ITA) H ead C oach Rodríguez Palharini 1990/1991 - Club Sociedad Poliesporitva Jonica (ITA) 18 19 1992/2004 - Club Atlético River Plate (ARG) Name: Israel Rodríguez - Age: 26 Name: Marlon Palharini - Age: 23 2004/2007 - Club Voleibol Pórtol (ESP) - Born in: Sevilla - Position: Wing - Born in: Jendaya do Sul (BRA) Main achievements as Coach: spiker - Club debut: C.V. Aharal - Club debut: Arona Little Italy 1997, 1999 and 2000 - Champion Metropolitan (Arahal / Sevilla (ESP)) in 1993 - (Tenerife (ESP)) in 2003 - Intl. League (ARG) Intl. debut: World League 2004 debut: European Qualification 1998/1999 - Champion Argentinian Clubes League (ESP) in 2004 - Lang.: English Tournament (Zagreb (CRO)) in 2004 2002 - Vice-Champion Metropolitan League (ARG) 2004/2005 - Vice-Champion Spanish Top League (Superliga) C.V. Pórtol 2004/2005 - Second CEV Final Four C.V. Pórtol 2004/2005 - Champion King Cup (ESP) C.V. Pórtol

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Pascual Rafael Pascual C 16/03/1970 194 90 355 330 13 12 491 516 Mater Domini SRL 2 Pérez Ibán Pérez 13/11/1983 198 87 350 325 93 93 Drac Palma C.V. Portol 3 Lobato Jose Luis Lobato L 19/02/1977 188 81 340 315 48 48 Stade Poitevin Volley-Ball 4 Sevillano Manuel Sevillano 02/07/1981 193 84 342 319 141 141 Drac Palma C.V. Portol 5 Rodriguez Francisco José F. Rodriguez 25/09/1980 188 89 340 315 8 8 C.V. Arona 6 Flores Alfonso Flores 24/08/1975 189 90 340 330 6 191 197 Unicaja Almería 7 Hernan Guillermo Hernan 25/07/1982 181 68 335 315 52 52 Universidad Granada 8 Salas Alberto Salas 13/09/1984 194 84 345 320 10 10 Numancia Soria 9 Valido Alexis Valido L 09/03/1976 188 85 325 312 6 10 157 173 Unicaja Almería 10 Falasca Miguel Angel M. Falasca 29/04/1973 194 90 345 322 12 5 163 180 Drac Palma C.V. Portol 11 Subiela Javier Subiela 22/03/1984 198 89 350 325 79 79 Lupi Pallavolo 12 Falasca Guillermo G. Falasca 24/10/1977 200 102 340 325 6 257 263 Gumi Lig Greates Insurance VB 13 Barcala Juan Carlos Barcala 25/01/1984 201 95 345 325 18 18 Drac Palma C.V. Portol 14 Molto Jose Luis Molto 29/06/1975 206 94 352 329 5 12 340 357 Drac Palma C.V. Portol 15 Salvador Juan Jose Salvador 18/12/1975 200 90 352 329 5 286 291 Unicaja Almería 16 García-Torres Julián García Torres 08/11/1980 202 93 355 330 75 75 Tours Volley-Ball 17 De La Fuente Enrique De La Fuente 11/08/1975 194 83 348 328 5 12 307 324 Drac Palma C.V. Portol 18 Rodríguez Israel Rodríguez 27/08/1981 194 85 343 325 107 107 Copra Volley Piacenza 19 Palharini Marlon Palharini 03/02/1984 194 85 330 310 70 70 C.V. Almoradí H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 2000 9 2002 13 2004 7 1999 6 2007 1 1992 8 1998 8 2003 5 2005 4 2002 5 2003 8 2001 9 1993 9 2000 11 1987 12 1999 5 1985 12 1998 5 1981 12 1997 9 1996 10 1995 7

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Team Biography The Japanese Men’s squad finished The players for whom head coach 8th at the 2006 World Championship Ueta has high hopes this year are and was quite satisfied with the result. Yu Koshikawa and Yusuke Ishijima. Everyone admitted that Japan Men’s Koshikawa, who just turned 23, showed squad had been rapidly improving since his potential as an outside hitter in 2005; the present head coach, Mr. Tatsuya however, last year was a mediocre year Ueta, was appointed in 2004 after the for him. Ueta hopes that Koshikawa will disappointment at the OQT. be one of the key players. Ishijima, who The year 2007 has been an absolutely has been playing in Brazil, is expected crucial year for Ueta’s squad due to the to show his improved Volleyball. This World Cup 2007, where Japan’s squad is year will be the second year for Takahiro aiming to qualify to the Olympics at the Yamamoto, a left-handed spiker, as a World Cup with the support of Japan’s member of the national team since his Volleyball fans. comeback and Ueta sets his hope on The squad started with its first training Yamamoto as an ace as a spiker. camp in May this year. Ueta named 22 Ueta’s squad is almost mature. Refining national players for the 2007 World individual skills, reducing errors, making League headed by 37-year old Masaji offence faster and increasing accuracy in Ogino. Ogino made his comeback to service reception, Japan’s Men’s squad is the international stage in 2005 and facing the World Cup 2007 targeting the played incredible Volleyball in the World podium. Championship in 2006. Most players who competed in the World Championship remained in this year’s squad.

Area: 377,819 sq km Inhabitants: 127,433,000 Capital: Tokyo

Tokyo

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 46 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Manager Hagiwara, Hideo 18.11 18:30 Saitama JPN - TUN Head coach Ueta, Tatsuya 19.11 18:00 Saitama JPN - KOR Assistant coach Otake, Hideyuki 20.11 18:00 Saitama JPN - AUS Doctor Hayashi, Mitsutoshi 22.11 18:00 Hiroshima JPN - ARG Trainer/Therapist Kubo, Yoshito 23.11 18:00 Hiroshima JPN - RUS 25.11 18:00 Fukuoka JPN - EGY 26.11 18:00 Fukuoka JPN - PUR 27.11 18:00 Fukuoka JPN - ESP 30.11 19:30 Tokyo (TMG) JPN - USA 01.12 19:30 Tokyo (TMG) JPN - BUL 02.12 19:30 Tokyo (TMG) JPN - BRA

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1 SAITO 2 KAWAURA 3 CHIBA Name: Nobuharu Saito - Age: Name: Hiroaki Kawaura - Age: 32 Name: Shinya Chiba - Age: 29 - 34 - Born in: Tochigi, JPN - - Born in: Miyazaki, JPN - Position: Born in: Kanagawa, JPN - Position: Position: Middle blocker - Club Middle blocker - Club debut: Wing spiker - Club debut: Daido debut: Utsunomiya Hakuyo High Minago Junior High School Club Jr. High (Yokohama, JPN) in 1990 (Tochigi, JPN) in 1989 - Intl. debut: (Gunma, JPN) in 1987 - Intl. debut: - Intl. debut: in 2002 - Hobby: World Cup (Tokyo, JPN) in 1995 - Hobby: Travel - in 1994 - Hobby: Reading books - Lang.: Japanese Driving - Lang.: Japanese - Favourites: Book: Lang.: Japanese - Favourites: Food: Meat, Movie: - Favourites: Book: Comics, Food: Curry Dish, Japanese non-fiction, Food: Ramen, Movie: The Big Blue, Music: American/Europian music, Movie: Nausica, Music: Classical Music, Other Pirates of Caribbean, Music: Bennie K (Japanese), Other sports: Figure Skating sports: Track and Field Other sports: Soccer

4 SHIMIZU 5 USAMI 6 NAOHIRO Name: Kunihiro Shimizu - Age: Name: Daisuke Usami - Age: 28 Name: Ryuji Naohiro - Age: 29 - 21 - Born in: Fukui, Japan - - Born in: Akita, JPN - Position: Born in: Hiroshima, JPN - Position: Position: Wing spiker - Club Setter - Club debut: Jumonji club Wing spiker - Club debut: debut: Kamiusaka Junior VB Club (Akita, JPN) in 1990 - Intl. debut: Hiroshima Tech. High (Hiroshima, (Fukui, Japan) in 1996 - Intl. debut: Asian Youth Championship in JPN) in 1994 - Intl. debut: in World League 05 in 2005 - Hobby: Listening to 1997 - Hobby: Driving a car - Lang.: Japanese - 2000 - Hobby: Driving a car - Lang.: Japanese - music - Lang.: Japanese - Favourites: Book: Favourites: Book: Information Magazine, Food: Favourites: Food: Meat, Music: AIl (Japanese), Tokyo Tower, a Japanese novel, Food: Meat, Meat, Movie: Comedy, Music: Popular, Other Other sports: Baseball Movie: No preference, Music: J-pop, Other sports: sports: Soccer Basketball

7 YAMAMOTO 8 OGINO 9 TOMIMATSU Name: Takahiro Yamamoto - Age: Name: Masaji Ogino - Age: 37 Name: Takaaki Tomimatsu - 29 - Born in: Tottori - Position: - Born in: Fukui, JPN - Position: Age: 23 - Born in: Miyagi,Japan Wing spiker - Club debut: Tottori- Wing spiker - Club debut: Fukui - Position: Middle blocker - Club Higashi Jr. High (Tottri, JPN) in high school (Fukui, JPN) in 1986 debut: Sambongi Junior Spots- 1992 - Intl. debut: Qualification - Intl. debut: World Cup (Japan) club in 1994 - Intl. debut: World for 2000 Sydney in 2000 - Hobby: Driving, Golf in 1989 - Hobby: Taking a bath, sauna - Lang.: League 07 in 2007 - Hobby: Portable games - - Lang.: Japanese - Favourites: Food: Meat, Fish, Japanese - Favourites: Book: Any kinds, Food: Lang.: Japanese - Favourites: Book: Comics, Music: Slow-tempo, Other sports: Baseball, Japanese food, Movie: Beauty and The Beast, Food: Curry, Movie: Action movies, Music: J-pop, Soccer Music: Exile (Japanese), Other sports: Baseball Other sports: Football

10 TANABE 11 MATSUMOTO 12 YAMAMURA Name: Osamu Tanabe - Age: 28 - Name: Yoshihiko Matsumoto - Name: Kota Yamamura - Age: 27 Born in: Hiroshima, JPN - Position: Age: 26 - Born in: Nagano, JPN - Born in: Tokyo, JPN - Position: Libero - Club debut: Yasukita Jr. - Position: Middle blocker - Club Middle blocker - Club debut: (Hiroshima, JPN) in 1986 - Intl. debut: Togakushi Jr. High (Nagano, Nakai JVC (Gumma, JPN) in 1989 debut: in 2005 - Hobby: Taking a JPN) in 1993 - Intl. debut: in 2006 - Intl. debut: 14th Asian Games bath - Lang.: Japanese - Favourites: Book: Sports - Hobby: none - Lang.: Japanese - Favourites: (Busan, Korea) in 2002 - Hobby: Watching people books, Food: Vegetables, Movie: Titanic, Music: Food: Sweets, Movie: The Perfect Storm, Music: - Lang.: Japanese - Favourites: Book: The Copy Ballad, Other sports: Soccer Any kinds, Other sports: Beach Volleyball Cat (Japanese), Food: Fruit, Movie: Japanese movie, Music: Ketsumeishi (Japanese), Other sports: Baseball

13 ABE 14 FUKUZAWA 15 TSUMAGARI Name: Yuta Abe - Age: 26 - Born Name: Tatsuya Fukuzawa - Age: Name: Katsutoshi Tsumagari in: Ibaraki, JPN - Position: Setter 21 - Born in: Kyoto, JPN - Position: - Age: 32 - Born in: Miyazaki, - Club debut: Oshima Jr. High Wing spiker - Club debut: Fushimi JPN - Position: Libero - Club (Ibaraki, JPN) in 1993 - Intl. debut: Junior High School (Kyoto, JPN) in debut: Fukushima Jr. Sports Club World Grand Champions Cup 1997 - Intl. debut: World League (Fukushima, JPN) in 1983 - Intl. (Nagoya, JPN) in 2001 - Hobby: Karaoke - Lang.: in 2005 - Hobby: Snowboarding - Lang.: Japanese debut: World League (Yugoslavia) in 2001 - Japanese - Favourites: Book: Written by Athletes, - Favourites: Book: Novel, Food: Japanese food, Hobby: Playing with my kids - Lang.: Japanese Food: Meat, Sushi, Movie: Japanese movie, Music: Other sports: Any kinds - Favourites: Book: Novels, Food: Fruits, Movie: Japanese pops, Other sports: Soccer, Baseball Sister Act, Music: Japanese pops, Other sports: Basketball

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 48 MEN 16 GOTTSU 17 KOSHIKAWA UETA, Tatsuya (JPN) Name: Yusuke Ishijima - Age: 23 Name: Yu Koshikawa - Age: 23 - Tatsuya Ueta has been the Head - Born in: Ibaraki - Position: Wing Born in: Ishikawa, JPN - Position: Coach of Japan’s Senior National spiker - Club debut: Matsubushi Wing spiker - Club debut: Moroe Team since 2004. He was born in Daini Jr. High (Saitama, JPN) in Junior (Kanazawa, JPN) in Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s 1996 - Intl. debut: in 2006 - Lang.: 1995 - Intl. debut: Asian Youth four main islands. He started Japanese - Favourites: Book: Any kinds, Other Championship (IRAN) in 2002 - Hobby: Travel - playing Volleyball at the age of 12 and developed sports: All kinds Lang.: Japanese - Favourites: Book: Regarding into an astute middle blocker. He played Top Athletes, Food: Chicken, Sushi, Movie: Volleyball for high school and university teams Driven, Music: Yuzu (Japanese), Other sports: and gained a reputation as a good player even in Baseball, Soccer his school days. He joined Nippon Steel Blazers in 1987 and played for the national team from

1989 to 1993. H ead C oach TOMONAGA SHIBATA Ueta was assistant coach of Nippon Steel Blazers 18 19 from 1995 to 1998, and head coach of Nippon Name: Kosuke Tomonaga - Age: 27 Name: kyohei Shibata - Age: 26 - Steel’s successor, Sakai Blazers, from 1999 to - Born in: Nagasaki, JPN - Position: Born in: Ibaraki, JPN - Position: Wing March 2001 before joining the Japan Volleyball Setter - Club debut: Matsubara spiker - Club debut: Shimodate Association as coach for the Junior Men’s National Jr. (Nagasaki, JPN) in 1989 - Intl. Minami Jr. High (Ibaraki, JPN) in Team. debut: Asian Chanpionship 1994 - Intl. debut: in 2004 - Hobby: His goal is to compete in the Olympics in Beijing (Thailand) in 2005 - Hobby: Watching sports - Listening to music, Movie, Driving, Shopping - and this aspiration is the motivation for his Lang.: Japanese - Favourites: Book: Japanese, Lang.: Japanese - Favourites: Book: Non-fiction squad. He planned to improve his squad step by Food: Meat, Fish, Movie: Twenty-Four, Music: written by athletes, Food: Fruits, Movie: Horror, step and in the 2007 World League he achieved Dreams Come True (Japanese), Other sports: Music: HIP HOP, Japanese pops, Other sports: good results by beating high ranked team like Soccer Soccer, Baseball Italy and France.

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Saito Nobuharu Saito 29/09/1973 205 95 356 330 11 132 143 Toray Arrows 2 Kawaura Hiroaki Kawaura 13/11/1975 200 82 357 340 10 80 90 Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza 3 Chiba Shinya Chiba 05/12/1977 184 81 343 320 21 52 73 Sakai Blazers 4 Shimizu Kunihiro Shimizu 11/08/1986 192 94 348 330 22 22 Tokai Univ. Volleyball Club 5 Usami Daisuke Usami 29/03/1979 184 83 340 320 82 82 Panasonic Panthers 6 Naohiro Ryuji Naohiro 01/10/1978 198 84 350 340 11 45 56 JT Thunders 7 Yamamoto Takahiro Yamamoto 12/07/1978 200 90 345 331 21 117 138 Panasonic Panthers 8 Ogino Masaji Ogino C 08/01/1970 197 100 340 320 11 31 207 249 Suntory Sunbirds 9 Tomimatsu Takaaki Tomimatsu 20/07/1984 191 82 350 340 27 27 Toray Arrows 10 Tanabe Osamu Tanabe L 10/04/1979 181 73 335 320 36 36 Toray Arrows 11 Matsumoto Yoshihiko Matsumoto 07/01/1981 193 75 356 330 27 27 NEC Blue Rockets 12 Yamamura Kota Yamamura 20/10/1980 205 95 350 330 11 102 113 Suntory Sunbirds 13 Abe Yuta Abe 08/08/1981 191 80 337 325 21 70 91 Toray Arrows 14 Fukuzawa Tatsuya Fukuzawa 01/07/1986 189 78 345 330 10 10 Chuo University 15 Tsumagari Katsutoshi Tsumagari L 02/11/1975 183 76 323 315 11 130 141 Suntory Sunbirds 16 Ishijima Yusuke Gottsu 09/01/1984 197 100 345 335 11 43 54 Sakai Blazers 17 Koshikawa Yu Koshikawa 30/06/1984 190 87 345 325 11 80 91 Suntory Sunbirds 18 Tomonaga Kosuke Tomonaga 22/07/1980 184 83 321 310 11 52 63 Sakai Blazers 19 Shibata Kyohei Shibata 24/06/1981 190 81 355 320 22 22 Toray Arrows H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 1992 6 2006 8 2007 13 2005 4 2003 9 2007 2 1988 10 2002 9 2006 13 2001 5 1999 10 2005 1 1984 7 1998 13 2005 10 1997 5 1995 5 2003 6 1976 4 1994 9 2004 10 1993 4 1991 4 2001 3 1972 1 1990 11 2003 13 1989 6 1999 4 1968 2 1986 10 2002 13 1985 6 1997 2 1964 3 1982 4 2001 9 1981 6 1995 1 1978 11 1997 12 1977 2 1993 3 1974 3 1996 9 1969 2 1991 1 1970 3 1995 8 1965 4 1966 5 1994 8 1962 5 1993 6 1960 8 1992 10 1991 7 1990 6 OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE MEN 49 www.fivb.org

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Team Biography The history of the Korean National Men’s In the 2007 World League, the Korean Team in world competitions over the last team won 3 matches against Canada. 40 years has been rather inconsistent. However, Korea played an exciting game Korea has participated in the Olympic with Brazil, and had good matches Games 8 times since 1964 and its with Canada and Finland. Many young best ranking was a 5th place at the Los players like Moon, who had acquired Angeles Olympics in 1984. The Korean valuable experience by taking part in National Men’s Team won the gold international competitions in 2006 and medal three times at the Asian Games : 2007, will become main player for the in 1978 in Bangkok, in 2002 in Busan and team, while veteran players lead the in 2006 in Doha. team harmoniously. In the World Cup, a 5th place in 1991 is the best result ever reached by the Korean National Men’s Team. Korea won four Asian Senior Men’s Volleyball Championship titles in 1989, 1993, 2001 and 2003.

Area: 99,313 sq km Inhabitants: 49,025,000 Capital: Seoul

Seoul

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 50 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Manager Seo, Soon-Kil 18.11 13:05 Saitama AUS - KOR Head coach Yoo, Jung-Tak 19.11 18:00 Saitama JPN - KOR Assistant coach Seo, Nam-Won 20.11 15:05 Saitama ARG - KOR Doctor Kong, Byung-Yum 22.11 12:35 Hiroshima KOR - RUS Trainer/Therapist Cha, Sang-Hyun 23.11 12:35 Hiroshima KOR - TUN 25.11 15:05 Okayama BUL - KOR 26.11 13:05 Okayama KOR - USA 27.11 18:35 Okayama BRA - KOR 30.11 15:05 Tokyo (KG) EGY - KOR 01.12 15:05 Tokyo (KG) ESP - KOR 02.12 14:35 Tokyo (KG) KOR - PUR

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1 H.M. KIM 2 K.W.YOU 3 Y.M. KWON Name: Hak-Min KIM - Age: 24 - Born Name: Kwang-Woo YOU - Age: 22 Name: Young-Min KWON - Age: 27 in: Chungbuk Korea - Position: - Position: Setter - Born in: Seoul - Position: Setter - Wing spiker - Club debut: Susung Club debut: Hankik elementary High School (Kyunggido, Korea) school (Incheon, Korea) in 1992 in 2000 - Intl. debut: 2006 Asia - Intl. debut: 2002 Asia Challenge Challenge Cup (Korea, Japan) in 2006 - Lang.: Cup (Korea, China) in 2002 - Lang.: Korean Korean

4 S.M.MOON 5 O.H. YEO 6 T.W. CHOI Name: Sung-Min MOON - Age: 21 Name: Oh-Hyun YEO - Age: 29 - Name: Tae-Woong CHOI - Age: - Born in: Busan - Position: Wing Born in: Chungnam - Position: 31 - Born in: Incheon - Position: spiker - Club debut: Sungbuk Libero - Club debut: Yoosung Setter - Club debut: in 1986 - elementary school (Busan, Korea) elementary school (Chungbuk, Lang.: Korean in 1996 - Intl. debut: 2006 Asia Korea) in 1988 - Intl. debut: Challenge Cup (Korea, Japan) in 2006 - Lang.: Asia Championships (Korea) in 2001 - Hobby: Korean Computer game - Lang.: Korean

7 S.K. LEE 8 H.Y.HA 9 Y.S. SHIN Name: Sun-Kyu LEE - Age: 26 Name: Hyun-Yong HA - Age: 25 - Name: Young-Soo SHIN - Age: - Born in: Kyunggi - Position: Position: Middle blocker - Lang.: 25 - Born in: Daejeon - Position: Middle blocker - Club debut: Korean Middle blocker - Lang.: Korean Daesin middle School (Kyunggido, Korea) in 1997 - Intl. debut: 2003 Asia Men’s Championship (China) in 2003 - Lang.: Korean

10 B.W.YUN 11 K.S. LEE 12 J.B. PARK Name: Bong-Woo YUN - Age: 25 Name: Kyung-Soo LEE - Age: 28 - Name: Jun-Bum PARK - Age: 19 - Born in: Jeonnam - Position: Born in: Daejeon - Position: Wing Middle blocker - Club debut: spiker - Club debut: Yousung Cheonho middle school elementary school (Daejeon, (Jeonnam, Korea) in 1995 - Intl. Korea) in 1988 - Intl. debut: World debut: 2000 Asia Challenge Cup (Korea, Japan) in League (Korea etc.) in 1998 - Lang.: Korean 2000 - Hobby: Driving - Lang.: Korean

13 C.W. PARK 14 Y.H.KIM 15 D.J. KANG Name: Chul-Woo PARK - Age: Name: Yo-Han KIM - Age: 22 - Born Name: Dong-Jin KANG - Age: 24 - 22 - Born in: Kyungbuk Korea in: Kwangju - Position: Wing spiker Born in: Jeonam Korea - Position: - Position: Wing spiker - Club - Club debut: Kumho elementary Wing spiker - Club debut: debut: Kyungbuk High School school (Gwangju, Korea) in 1996 Damyang Dong Elementary (Kyungbuk, Korea) in 1998 - Intl. - Intl. debut: 2006 Asia Challenge school (Jeonnam, Korea) in 1995 debut: 2005 Asia Challeng Cup (China, Chinese Cup (Korea, Japan) in 2006 - Lang.: Korean - Intl. debut: the 12th Asia Men’s Championship Taiwan) in 2005 - Lang.: Korean (China) in 2003 - Lang.: Korean

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 52 MEN 16 B.I. SONG 17 K.M.HA YOO, Jung-Tak (KOR) Name: Byung-Il SONG - Age: 24 - Name: Kyoung-Min HA - Age: Junk-Tak Woo (24 May 1960) is a Born in: Daejeon - Position: Setter 25 - Born in: Jeonnam - Position: former National Volleyball Player - Club debut: Yousung Elementary Middle blocker - Club debut: (1983-1990). School (Daejeon, Korea) in 1993 - Byeollyang elementary school Intl. debut: World League (Korea (Jeonnam, Korea) in 1998 - Intl. etc.) in 2006 - Lang.: Korean debut: 2005 Asia Challeng Cup (China, Chinese - 1983 Summer Universiade (4th ranked). Taiwan) in 2005 - Hobby: Computer game - Lang.: - 1983 Asian Men’s Volleyball Championship Korean (3rd ranked). - 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games (5th ranked). - 1985 World Cup (7th ranked). - 1986 Seoul Asian Games (2nd ranked). H ead C oach

18 Y.S.SHIN 19 B.S. CHOI Coaching Career: Name: Yung-Suk SHIN - Age: 21 Name: Bu-Sik CHOI - Age: 29 - - 1995-1997 Assistant Coach of Koryo Stock - Born in: Kyunggido - Position: Position: Libero - Lang.: Korean Company Men’s VB Team. Middle blocker - Club debut: - 1998-1999 A.C. of Korea National Men’s Songjeon elementary school Volleyball Team. (Seoul, Korea) in 1997 - Intl. debut: - 2000-2001 Head Coach of Myunggi Univ. Men’s Asia Pacfpic Cup (Japan) in 2005 - Lang.: Korean VB Team. - 2002-2003 A.C. of Hyundai Capital Men’s VB Team.

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Kim Hak-Min H.M. Kim 04/09/1983 192 78 327 319 21 21 Korean Airline 2 You Kwang-Woo K.W.You 22/04/1985 185 78 320 312 17 17 Inha Univ. 3 Kwon Young-Min Y.M. Kwon 05/07/1980 190 78 315 309 5 75 80 Hyundai Capital Co. 4 Moon Sung-Min S.M.Moon 14/09/1986 197 90 329 321 5 51 56 Kyonggi Univ. 5 Yeo Oh-Hyun O.H. Yeo L 02/09/1978 175 66 280 279 5 111 116 Samsung fire&marine Insurance 6 Choi Tae-Woong T.W. Choi 09/04/1976 185 78 330 317 5 10 124 139 Samsung fire&Marine Insurance 7 Lee Sun-Kyu S.K. Lee 14/03/1981 202 87 325 320 5 88 93 Hyundai Capital Co. 8 Ha Hyun-Yong H.Y.Ha 09/05/1982 198 80 330 322 40 40 LIG 9 Shin Young-Soo Y.S. Shin 01/07/1982 200 90 300 290 38 38 Korean Airlines co. 10 Yun Bong-Woo B.W.Yun 20/01/1982 203 82 325 320 5 41 46 Hyundai Capital co. 11 Lee Kyung-Soo K.S. Lee 27/04/1979 200 88 320 310 5 15 119 139 LIG 12 Park Jun-Bum J.B. Park 12/06/1988 199 80 332 318 15 15 Hanyang Univ. 13 Park Chul-Woo C.W. Park 25/07/1985 201 83 328 319 33 33 Hyundai Capital co. 14 Kim Yo-Han Y.H.Kim 16/08/1985 200 82 335 326 5 33 38 Inha Univ. 15 Kang Dong-Jin D.J. Kang 31/08/1983 193 82 322 311 27 27 Korean Airlines co. 16 Song Byung-Il B.I. Song 03/04/1983 193 78 310 297 5 27 32 Hyundai Capital co. 17 Ha Kyoung-Min K.M.Ha 27/07/1982 203 79 320 310 5 53 58 Hyundai Capital co. 18 Shin Yung-Suk Y.S.Shin 04/10/1986 200 77 335 325 12 12 Kyonggi Univ. 19 Choi Bu-Sik B.S. Choi L 12/07/1978 180 79 290 281 9 9 Korean Airlines Co. H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 2000 9 2006 17 2007 9 2001 4 2003 6 2007 3 1996 9 1998 13 2006 10 1993 6 1999 7 2005 3 1992 9 1994 8 1998 9 1995 8 2003 1 1988 11 1990 14 1997 11 1991 4 2001 1 1984 5 1982 8 1995 6 1989 7 1999 3 1976 6 1978 4 1994 9 1985 7 1997 5 1972 7 1974 13 1993 10 1977 7 1993 1 1964 10 1956 18 1992 8 1991 2 1991 9

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Puerto Rico

Team Biography Puerto Rico qualifies for the first time to the FIVB World Cup. The team defeated once again Cuba in the 2007 Norceca Championship Semi Final, after five fought set. The Puerto Rican squad is ready for the World Cup and the goal is simply to make the best performance. The Puerto Rican Team prepared to battle face to face against the traditional world Volleyball power and looks for the rematch against some rivals of last year’s World Championship. In 2006, the Island celebrated a great performance during the 2006 FIVB World Championship in Japan and won the gold medal in XX Central American and Caribbean Games in Colombia. Before the Norceca Championship, the team participated in the XV Pan American Games in Brazil, finishing with a 5th place. They also won the silver medal in the II Pan American Cup in Dominican Republic, which also qualifies to the 2008 America’s Cup.

Area: 9,104 sq km Inhabitants: 3,995,000 Capital: San Juan

San Juan

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 54 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Manager Noel Marrero 18.11 12:35 Matsumoto EGY - PUR Head coach Carlos D. Cardona 19.11 15:35 Matsumoto PUR - USA Assistant coach Alejandro C.H. Arconada 20.11 13:05 Matsumoto BUL - PUR Doctor Dr. Luis Baerga Varela 22.11 15:35 Toyama BRA - PUR Trainer/Therapist Juan Rivera 23.11 12:05 Toyama ESP - PUR 25.11 12:35 Fukuoka ARG - PUR 26.11 18:00 Fukuoka JPN - PUR 27.11 15:05 Fukuoka PUR - RUS 30.11 12:35 Tokyo (KG) PUR - TUN 01.12 18:05 Tokyo (KG) AUS - PUR 02.12 14:35 Tokyo (KG) KOR - PUR

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1 J. RIVERA 2 BERRIOS 3 J. RUIZ Name: Jose Rivera - Age: 30 - Born Name: Gregorry Berrios - Age: 28 Name: Juan Ruiz - Age: 26 - in: Chicago, Ill. - Position: Wing - Born in: Puerto Rico - Position: Born in: San Juan, Puerto Rico - spiker - Intl. debut: Pan American Libero - Club debut: San Juan Position: Setter - Lang.: English, Games (Santo Domingo) in 2003 (PUR) in 1998 - Intl. debut: Central Spanish - Favourites: Book: All of - Hobby: Watch TV and Reading American & Caribbean Games (El Pablo Coehlo, Food: Rice + Beans - Lang.: English, Spanish - Favourites: Book: All Salvador) in 2002 - Hobby: Watch TV, listen music, & Chicken, Movie: All, Music: Reggaeton, Other of Pablo Coehlo, Food: Pasta, Movie: N/A, Music: go to Movie - Favourites: Book: Paulo Coelho, sports: Basketball Rock, Other sports: Football Movie: All, Music: All

4 V. RIVERA 5 BIRD 6 PEREZ Name: Victor Rivera - Age: 31 - Name: Victor Bird - Age: 25 - Name: Angel Perez - Age: 25 - Born in: Naranjito, Puerto Rico Position: Universal - Club debut: Born in: San Juan, Puerto Rico - Position: Wing spiker - Club Arrevica (PUR) in 2001 - Intl. - Position: Setter - Intl. debut: debut: Naranjito (PUR) in 1990 debut: NORCECA Championship WCQT (Caguas, Puerto Rico) in - Intl. debut: NORCECA Junior (Culiacan, Mexico) in 2003 - 2005 - Hobby: Go to the beach, Championship (San JUan, Puerto Rico) in 1994 Hobby: Hang Up, Beach, Shopping and play the Movies and read - Favourites: Book: All of - Hobby: Go to the Movie and the Beach - Lang.: Domino - Favourites: Food: Sea Food & Pastas, Pablo Coehlo, Food: Pasta, Movie: All, Music: All Spanish and English - Favourites: Book: Codigo Movie: Mystic River, Other sports: Basketball Da Vinci, Food: BBQ Ribs, Music: N/A, Other sports: Basketball, Baseball

7 AN. MATIAS 8 ESTEVES 9 RODRIGUEZ Name: Angel Matias - Age: 31 - Name: Rene Esteves - Age: 29 - Name: Luis Rodriguez - Age: 38 Born in: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Born in: Puerto Rico - Position: - Born in: Naranjito, Puerto Rico - Position: Libero - Club debut: Middle blocker - Club debut: San - Position: Middle blocker - Club Mayaguez (PUR) in 1990 - Hobby: Juan (PUR) in 1993 - Intl. debut: debut: Naranjito (PUR) in 1990 Watch TV, listen music, go to NORCECA Junior Championship - Intl. debut: NORCECA Junior Movie - Lang.: Spanish - Favourites: Book: Angels (Guadalajara, Mexico) in 1996 - Hobby: Jogging, Championship (Honduras) in 1992 - Hobby: & Demons, Food: Arroz, Habichuela, Biftec y Internet - Favourites: Book: Kamasutra, Food: Watch TV - Favourites: Book: El Alquimista, Food: Tostones, Movie: Action/Comedy, Music: All, Papaya, Other sports: Basketball, Gym Arroz, Habichuela, Biftec y Tostones, Movie: Other sports: Carlos Arroyo Cocodrile Dundee, Other sports: Carlos Arroyo

10 RUIZ 11 MUÑIZ 12 SOTO Name: Arcangel Ruiz - Age: 27 Name: Roberto Muñiz - Age: 27 Name: Hector Soto - Age: 29 - - Born in: San Juan, Puerto Rico - Born in: Yauco, Puerto Rico - Born in: Puerto Rico - Position: - Position: Middle blocker - Club Position: Universal - Club debut: Wing spiker - Club debut: Arroyo debut: Yauco (PUR) in 1995 - Intl. Yauco (PUR) in 1996 - Intl. debut: (PUR) in 1994 - Intl. debut: FIVB debut: NORCECA Championship NORCECA U-19 Championship U-21 World Championship (Culiacan, Mexico) in 2003 - Hobby: Watch TV - (Dominican Republic) in 1998 - Hobby: Beach, (Malasya) in 1995 - Hobby: Watch Movie & play Lang.: Spanish and English - Favourites: Book: Tennis and pool - Lang.: Spanish and English Golf - Favourites: Book: Angels & Demons - Dan N/A, Food: Rice + Beans & Chicken, Movie: Rudy, - Favourites: Food: Arroz, Habichuela, Biftec Brown, Food: Lasagna, Movie: Forrest Gump, Other sports: Michael Jordan encebollado, Movie: Saw I y II, Other sports: Other sports: Golf & Basketball Michael Jordan and Andre Agassi

13 MATIAS 14 MORALES 15 ESCALANTE Name: Alexis Matias - Age: Name: Fernando Morales - Name: Enrique Escalante - Age: 33 - Position: Universal - Club Age: 25 - Born in: Puerto Rico 23 - Born in: San Juan, Puerto Rico debut: Mayaguez (PUR) in 1990 - Position: Setter - Club debut: - Position: Middle blocker - Club - Intl. debut: Central American & San Juan (PUR) in 1996 - Intl. debut: Bucaplaa (PUR) in 1991 Caribbean Games (Ponce, Puerto debut: NORCECA Championship - Intl. debut: Central American Rico) in 1993 - Hobby: Watch TV - Favourites: (Bridgestown, Barbados) in 2001 - Hobby: Goto & Caribbean Games (Cartagena, Colombia) in Book: Da Vinci Code, Food: All, Movie: All, Music: the beach and reading - Favourites: Book: Angels 2006 - Hobby: Beach, Tennis, Golf and Basketball ALL, Other sports: Tennis & Demons - Dan Brown, Food: Lasagna, Movie: - Lang.: Spanish and English - Favourites: Book: Anger Management The Hounds of the Baskervilles, Food: Mofongo Relleno, Movie: Ong Bak - Thai Warriors, Other sports: Michael Jordan

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 56 MEN 16 I. PEREZ 17 BATISTA Carlos D. CARDONA (ARG) Name: Ivan Perez - Age: 22 - Born Name: Emanuel Batista - Age: 18 This will be the second occasion for in: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico - - Born in: San Juan, Puerto Rico Argentina’s coach, Carlos Cardona, Position: Wing spiker - Intl. debut: - Position: Middle blocker - Club leading the Puerto Rico Men’s Norceca Youth Championship debut: Caguas Criollos (Caguas, National Team in Japan. Last year (Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep.) Puerto Rico) in 1997 - Intl. debut: the team had a great performance in 2002 - Lang.: English, Spanish NORCECA U-19 Championship (Mexico DF, in the FIVB World Championship. Mexico) in 2004 - Hobby: go to the movies - Cardona was born in the city of Rosario, Argentina. Lang.: Spanish and English - Favourites: Book: After its graduation, he began a successful N/A, Food: Pork Chp & Tostones (Plantain), Movie: coaching career with the Argentina National Stomp the Yard, Music: DJ Tiesto and Paul Van League and Italy League Serie A (four different Dyk, Other sports: Basketball, Baseball Clubs, Grottazzolina, Fano, Gioia del Colle and

Taviano), and also worked in the Italian B1 League H ead C oach ROMAN AQUINO with Grottazzolina and Ascoli Piceno. 18 19 In 2003 he arrived in Puerto Rico to coach the club Name: Mannix Roman - Age: 24 Name: Edwin Leonardo Aquino - San Juan Playeros in the Puerto Rico Men’s League, - Born in: San Sebastian, Puerto Age: 23 - Born in: San Juan, Puerto which had successful seasons and participated in Rico - Position: Middle blocker - Rico - Position: Middle blocker - the Final Series and various Semi Finals. Lang.: English, Spanish Intl. debut: NORCECA Continental In 2006, the Puerto Rico Volleyball Federation Championship (Anaheim, appointed Cardona as Head Coach, facing the FIVB California, USA) in 2007 - Hobby: Watch TV, listen World Championship in Japan. Last September, music, go to Movie - Lang.: English, Spanish - Cardona went back to the Island and with just Favourites: Book: Newspaper, Food: Rice + Beans a short preparation he trained the team which & Chicken, Music: Reggaeton, Other sports: won the historical second place in the Norceca Basketball Championship and qualified for the FIVB World Cup.

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Rivera Jose J. Rivera 02/07/1977 192 85 325 320 11 23 34 Carolina 2 Berrios Gregorry Berrios L 24/01/1979 182 83 305 299 11 47 58 Lares 3 Ruiz Juan J. Ruiz 24/04/1981 188 84 291 285 San Sebastian 4 Rivera Victor V. Rivera 30/08/1976 195 88 345 329 3 34 37 Naranjito 5 Bird Victor Bird 16/03/1982 195 90 335 328 24 24 Naranjito 6 Perez Angel Perez 20/05/1982 190 86 325 318 15 15 Naranjito 7 Matias Angel An. Matias L 30/07/1976 179 59 294 287 Mayaguez 8 Esteves Rene Esteves 25/11/1977 199 90 340 333 15 43 58 Adjuntas 9 Rodriguez Luis Rodriguez 13/07/1969 202 89 340 333 11 45 56 Naranjito 10 Ruiz Arcangel Ruiz 17/10/1980 196 90 324 314 21 21 San Sebastian 11 Muñiz Roberto Muñiz 11/06/1980 196 92 333 326 11 32 43 Ponce 12 Soto Hector Soto C 20/06/1978 197 85 340 332 13 49 62 San Juan 13 Matias Alexis Matias 21/07/1974 195 88 335 325 11 69 80 Corozal 14 Morales Fernando Morales 04/02/1982 186 68 299 292 21 21 Lares 15 Escalante Enrique Escalante 06/08/1984 195 88 330 324 11 18 29 Corozal 16 Perez Ivan I. Perez 13/02/1985 190 86 305 298 7 22 29 National Team 17 Batista Emanuel Batista 12/01/1989 187 68 300 292 8 12 20 Naranjito 18 Roman Mannix Roman 17/01/1983 190 85 295 288 San Sebastian 19 Aquino Edwin Leonardo Aquino 09/11/1984 196 82 299 292 6 6 San Juan H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 2006 12 2007 2 1989 4 1974 23 2005 5 1987 6 2003 5 1985 6 2001 5 1983 5 1999 5 1981 5 1997 5 1977 4 1995 4 1973 4 1993 4 1971 4 1991 5 1969 6

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Russia

Team Biography

The USSR Volleyball Federation In 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney the entered the FIVB in 1948 and already in Russian National Team won the silver 1949 participated in the official FIVB medal and in 2004 the bronze. competition, the 1st Men’s Volleyball World For years Russian players like Zaitsev, Savin, Championships. The Men’s National Team Antonov, Shkurichin, Fomin, Olikhver, of the USSR participated in all international Kuznetsov competed for the World All official competitions (Olympic Games, Stars Team in the FIVB Gala matches and World and European Championships, were recognized as the best in many World Cups). official FIVB competitions. It was three-times Olympic Champion At the European Championship 2007, (1964, 1968, 1980), six-times World Semen Poltavskiy was recognized as the Champion (1949, 1952, 1960, 1962, 1978, best MVP. 1982), four-times World Cup Winner (1965, At the World League 2007 the team won 1977, 1981, 1991, 1999), twelve-times the silver medal; Yury Berezhko was European Champion. awarded as the best attacker, Semen Since 1993 the USSR National Team is Poltavskyi as the best scorer and best called the Russian National Team. server. In 2002 the Russian National Team won The Russian National Team is composed of the World League; in 1993, 1998 and 2000 the players from these Russian clubs: Iskra was second at the World League Finals and Odintsovo, Dinamo Moscow, Dinamo-Ttg third in 1996, 1997 and 2001. Kazan, Dinamo-Yantar Kaliningrad, Fakel In 1999 the Russian National Team took Novy Urengoi, Zsk-Gazprom Sugut, Ural the first place at the World Cup, the second Ufa. place at the European Championship and in 2001 the third place at the European Championship.

Area: 17,075,400 sq km Inhabitants: 143,025,000 Capital: Moscow

Moscow

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 58 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Manager Olikhver Ruslan 18.11 15:35 Saitama ARG - RUS Head coach Alekno Vladimir 19.11 12:35 Saitama AUS - RUS Assistant coach Panchenko Yury 20.11 12:35 Saitama RUS - TUN Doctor Tregubov Yury 22.11 12:35 Hiroshima KOR - RUS Trainer/Therapist Khromenkov Vladimir 23.11 18:00 Hiroshima JPN - RUS 25.11 15:05 Fukuoka ESP - RUS 26.11 15:05 Fukuoka EGY - RUS 27.11 15:05 Fukuoka PUR - RUS 30.11 16:35 Tokyo (TMG) BUL - RUS 01.12 16:35 Tokyo (TMG) BRA - RUS 02.12 16:35 Tokyo (TMG) RUS - USA

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1 Korneev 2 Poltavskiy 3 Kosarev Name: Alexander Korneev - Age: Name: Semen Poltavskiy - Age: Name: Alexander Kosarev - Age: 30 27 - Born in: Moscow - Position: 26 - Born in: Odessa, Ukraine - - Born in: Ukraine - Position: Wing Universal - Club debut: MGFSO Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: spiker - Club debut: Nadzbruchie (Moscow) in 1992 - Lang.: Russian Automobilist (St. Petersburg) (RUS) in 1990 - Intl. debut: in 1999 - Favourites: Book: Historical, in 1993 - Hobby: Cars - Lang.: - Hobby: Fishing - Lang.: Russian - Food: Chicken, Salad “Olivie”, Movie: Fantasy, Russian - Favourites: Book: Detective, Food: Favourites: Food: Ravioli, Movie: The Godfather, Music: Any, Other sports: Biathlon Sweets, Movie: All, Music: Dance, Other sports: Music: Club, Hip-Hop Basketball, Tennis, Boxing

4 Kruglov 5 Abramov 6 Grankin Name: Pavel Kruglov - Age: 22 Name: Pavel Abramov - Age: 28 - Name: Sergey Grankin - Age: 22 Born in: Moscow, RUS - Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: MGFSO (Moscow Russia) in 1990 - Intl. debut: World League (different countries) in 2001 - Hobby: Movies - Lang.: Russian, English - Favourites: Book: “Compromise,” S. Dovlatov, Food: Sushi, Movie: Any Given Sunday, Music: Jazz, Electronic

7 Kazakov 8 Tetyukhin 9 Khamuttskikh Name: Alexey Kazakov - Age: 31 Name: Sergey Tetyukhin - Age: 32 Name: Vadim Khamuttskikh - - Born in: Naberezhnie Chelni, - Born in: Margelan, Uzbekistan - Age: 37 - Born in: Kharkov, RUS RUS - Position: Universal - Club Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: - Position: Setter - Club debut: debut: ISKRA Odintsovo (RUS) in Krylia Vostoka (Russia) in 1985 - Sport school (Cheliabinsk, Russia) 1986 - Intl. debut: in 1996 - Hobby: Intl. debut: Junior International in 1977 - Intl. debut: International Computers - Lang.: Russian, Italian Tournament (Various Countries) in 1996 - Hobby: Tournament (Moscow) in 1992 - Hobby: Motor Fishing - Lang.: Russian, Italian - Favourites: Book: races - Lang.: Russian - Favourites: Book: Detectives, Food: Fried Rice, Music: Any Detectives, Food: Any, Movie: Comedy, Music: Any, Other sports: Car racing, all

10 Berezhko 11 Ushakov 12 Yanutov Name: Yury Berezhko - Age: 23 - Name: Konstantin Ushakov - Age: Name: Alexandr Yanutov - Age: Born in: Komsomolsk-on-Amur, 37 - Born in: Russia - Position: 24 - Born in: Perm - Club debut: Russia - Position: Universal - Club Setter - Club debut: Radiotekhnik Prikamie (RUS) in 1999 - Intl. debut: Neftianik Yar. (RUS) - (Riga) in 1980 - Intl. debut: debut: World League (RUS) in Lang.: Russian - Favourites: Book: Junior International Tournament 2007 - Lang.: Russian - Favourites: Modern Classics, Food: Sushi, Russian, Movie: (Various Countries) in 1990 - Hobby: Cars - Lang.: Book: Tom Clancy, Food: Sushi, Movie: Terminator, Historical, Music: Club Russian - Favourites: Book: Pikul, Food: Borsch, Music: the Beatles Movie: Bruce Lee, Music: Pop, Other sports: Ice hockey

13 Ostapenko 14 Egorchev 15 Volkov Name: Alexey Ostapenko - Age: Name: Andrey Egorchev - Age: Name: Alexander Volkov - Age: 21 29 - Born in: Naberezhny Chelny, 22 RUS - Position: Middle blocker - Club debut: CJSOR (Nab. Chelni, Russia) in 1995 - Intl. debut: Youth CCH (Various countries) in 1996 - Lang.: Russian - Favourites: Book: Thriller, Food: Sushi, Movie: Fantasy, Music: Dance

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 60 MEN 16 Verbov 17 Matkovskiy ALEKNO Vladimir (RUS) Name: Alexey Verbov - Age: 25 - Name: Evgeniy Matkovskiy - Age: Vladimir Alekno (Polotsk, Born in: Moscow, RUS - Position: 31 4-12-1966) is married and has two Libero - Club debut: MGFSO children. He started his Volleyball (RUS) in 1990 - Intl. debut: QOGT career in 1984 in the SKA Minsk (Germany) in 2004 - Hobby: Volleyball team. He also played Sleeping - Lang.: Russian, English - Favourites: for the following clubs: CSKA (USSR), Levski Book: Dan Brown, Food: Ukrainian, Music: (Bulgaria), Asti (Italia), Spoleto (Italy), Cannes Various (France), Tours (France). He is double USSR Champion, Champion of Bulgaria, Champion and Cup Winner of France. As a head coach he worked in Tours (France) from 1999 to 2004 (2003 Cup Winner of France; H ead C oach 18 Kuleshov 19 Bovduy 2004 Champion of France; 2004 Bronze Winner Name: Alexey Kuleshov - Age: 28 Name: Alexey Bovduy - Age: of European Champion League). Then since - Born in: Fryazino, RUS - Position: 30 - Born in: Sverdlovsk, RUS - 2005 he has been working as Head Coach of Middle blocker - Club debut: Iskra Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: Dinamo Moscow (2006 Champion of Russia; (Odintsovo) in 1993 - Intl. debut: Uem-Izumrud (RUS) in 1990 - Intl. 2006 Russian Cup Winner). Since March 1, 2007 in 1998 - Hobby: Drawing - Lang.: debut: in 1998 - Hobby: Billiards he has been the Head Coach of the Russian Russian - Favourites: Book: Detective, Food: - Lang.: Russian - Favourites: Book: Detectives, Men’s National Team. Spaghetti, Movie: Comedy, Music: Rock&Roll, Food: Borsch, Movie: Comedy, Music: Modern, Other sports: Hockey Other sports: Hockey

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Korneev Alexander Korneev 11/09/1980 200 96 348 339 11 121 132 Dynamo 2 Poltavskiy Semen Poltavskiy 08/02/1981 205 89 346 338 11 161 172 Dinamo 3 Kosarev Alexander Kosarev 30/09/1977 200 90 339 328 8 32 157 197 Dinamo-Tattrancegas 4 Kruglov Pavel Kruglov 17/09/1985 205 90 351 342 14 31 45 Dinamo 5 Abramov Pavel Abramov 23/04/1979 198 87 347 336 8 20 149 177 Iskra 6 Grankin Sergey Grankin 21/01/1985 195 87 351 320 7 21 28 Dinamo 7 Kazakov Alexey Kazakov 18/03/1976 217 112 358 344 15 20 293 328 Ural 8 Tetyukhin Sergey Tetyukhin 23/09/1975 197 89 345 338 13 24 275 312 Dinamo-TTG Kazan 9 Khamuttskikh Vadim Khamuttskikh C 26/11/1969 196 85 342 331 19 24 221 264 Fakel Novy Urengoy 10 Berezhko Yury Berezhko 27/01/1984 193 90 346 338 11 112 123 Dinamo 11 Ushakov Konstantin Ushakov 24/03/1970 198 77 343 332 30 31 436 497 Dinamo-Yantar 12 Yanutov Alexandr Yanutov L 19/06/1983 195 83 335 315 ZSK-Gazprom 13 Ostapenko Alexey Ostapenko 26/05/1986 208 94 355 340 11 41 52 Dinamo 14 Egorchev Andrey Egorchev 08/02/1978 206 113 353 342 8 9 169 186 Dinamo-TTG Kazan 15 Volkov Alexander Volkov 14/02/1985 210 100 355 338 11 43 54 Dinamo 16 Verbov Alexey Verbov L 31/01/1982 185 77 315 310 8 11 61 80 Iskra 17 Matkovskiy Evgeniy Matkovskiy 28/05/1976 202 91 349 337 17 17 URAL 18 Kuleshov Alexey Kuleshov 24/02/1979 206 96 353 344 16 20 222 258 Iskra 19 Bovduy Alexey Bovduy 26/10/1977 202 90 355 342 57 57 Dinamo-TTG Kazan H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 2004 3 2006 7 2007 2 1999 1 2007 2 1983 1 (URS) 2000 2 2002 2 2006 3 1991 1 (URS) 2005 2 1981 1 (URS) 1996 4 1998 5 2003 7 1989 3 (URS) 2003 3 1979 1 (URS) 1994 7 2002 1 1992 7 (CIS) 1985 2 (URS) 2001 3 1977 1 (URS) 1990 3 (URS) 2001 3 1988 2 (URS) 1981 1 (URS) 1999 2 1975 1 (URS) 1986 2 (URS) 2000 2 1980 1 (URS) 1977 1 (URS) 1997 5 1971 1 (URS) 1982 1 (URS) 1999 4 1976 2 (URS) 1969 3 (URS) 1995 5 1967 1 (URS) 1978 1 (URS) 1998 2 1972 3 (URS) 1974 2 (URS) 1997 3 1965 1 (URS) 1993 3 1963 3 (URS) 1968 1 (URS) 1970 6 (URS) 1996 3 1991 1 (URS) 1958 3 (URS) 1964 1 (URS) 1966 3 (URS) 1995 4 1989 4 (URS) 1955 4 (URS) 1962 1 (URS) 1994 6 1987 1 (URS) 1951 1 (URS) 1960 1 (URS) 1993 2 1985 1 (URS) 1950 1 (URS) 1956 3 (URS) 1992 6 (CIS) 1952 1 (URS) 1991 3 (URS) 1949 1 (URS) 1990 4 (URS) OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE MEN 61 www.fivb.org

Tunisia

Team Biography The Tunisia Men’s Volleyball Team has won the most medals amongst all Tunisian sports squads.

They are supported by a preparation program sponsored by the local authorities.

Tunisia has always dominated African Volleyball, winning 8 titles of African Champions out of 12 participations.

Tunisia took part in 7 editions of the World Championships making regular progress. They also participated in 5 editions of the Olympic Games and 6 editions of the World Cup.

Area: 163,610 sq km Inhabitants: 10,102,000 Capital: Tunis Tunis

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 62 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Manager Boukhris Zied 18.11 18:30 Saitama JPN - TUN Head coach Giacobbe Antonio 19.11 15:05 Saitama ARG - TUN Assistant coach Ben Younes Noureddine 20.11 12:35 Saitama RUS - TUN Doctor Ben Ahmed Hedi 22.11 15:05 Hiroshima AUS - TUN Trainer/Therapist Ghedhami Ahmed 23.11 12:35 Hiroshima KOR - TUN 25.11 12:35 Okayama TUN - USA 26.11 18:35 Okayama BRA - TUN 27.11 15:35 Okayama BUL - TUN 30.11 12:35 Tokyo (KG) PUR - TUN 01.12 12:35 Tokyo (KG) EGY - TUN 02.12 12:05 Tokyo (KG) ESP - TUN

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1 Besrour.A 2 Trabelsi.M 3 Ben Tara.S Name: Amine Besrour - Age: 28 Name: Mohamed Trabelsi Name: Skander Ben Tara - Age: 22 - Born in: Tunis, TUN - Position: - Age: 26 - Born in: Sfax, TUN - Libero - Club debut: E.S.Tunis Position: Middle blocker - Club (Tunis, Tunisia) in 1989 - Intl. debut: U.S.T.Sfax (Sfax,Tunisia) in debut: in 2001 - Hobby: Reading - 1992 - Intl. debut: Youth World Lang.: Arabic - Favourites: Book: Romantic, Food: Championship (Saudia Arabia) in 1998 - Hobby: Italian, Movie: Action, Music: Reggae, Other Dancing - Lang.: Arabic - Favourites: Book: sports: Tennis Magazines, Food: Italian, Movie: Action, Music: Oriental, Other sports: Cyclism

4 Garci.M 5 Sellami.S 6 Karamosly.E Name: Marouane Garci - Age: 19 Name: Samir Sellami - Age: 30 - Name: Elyes Karamosly - Age: 18 Born in: Sfax, TUN - Position: Setter - Club debut: C.S.Sfax (C.S.Sfax) in 1986 - Intl. debut: in 1995 - Hobby: Swimming - Lang.: Arabic - Favourites: Book: Sciences, Food: fish, Movie: Action, Music: Slow, Other sports: Football

7 Ghezal.C 8 Ben Brik.A 9 Belaid.K Name: Chaker Ghezal - Age: 30 - Name: Aymen Ben Brik - Age: 22 Name: Khaled Belaid - Age: 33 Born in: Paris - Position: Middle - Born in: Tunis, TUN - Position: blocker - Club debut: E.S.SAHEL Wing spiker - Club debut: E.S.Tunis (Sousse, Tunisia) in 1990 - Intl. (Tunis, Tunisia) in 1984 - Intl. debut: debut: in 1996 - Hobby: Fishing - Junior african championship 1994 Lang.: Arabic - Favourites: Book: Politic, Food: Sea (Tunis) in 1993 - Hobby: Travel - Lang.: Arabic Food, Movie: Action, Music: Slow, Other sports: - Favourites: Book: Magazines, Food: Oriental, Football Movie: Action, Music: Classic, Other sports: Volley ball

10 Jerbi.H 11 Lamjed.S 12 Kaabi.H Name: Haykel Jerbi - Age: 19 Name: Seifeddine Lamjed - Age: Name: Hichem Kaabi - Age: 21 23 - Born in: Tunisia

13 Hfaiedh.N 14 Ben Hassine.B 15 Guidara.G Name: Noureddine Hfaiedh - Age: Name: Bilel Ben Hassine - Age: 25 Name: Ghazi Guidara - Age: 33 - 34 - Born in: Haouaria, TUN - - Born in: Tunisia Born in: Sfax, TUN - Position: Setter Position: Wing spiker - Club debut: - Club debut: C.S.S (Sfax, Tunisia) A.S.H. (Haouaria,Tunisia) in 1985 - in 1986 - Intl. debut: in 1992 - Intl. debut: World Championship Hobby: Fishing - Lang.: Arabic Junior (Argentina) in 1992 - Hobby: Fishing - Favourites: Book: Policier, Food: Fish, Movie: - Lang.: Arabic - Favourites: Book: Newspaper, Action, Music: Soul, Other sports: Athletics Food: Italian, Movie: Action, Music: Oriental, Other sports: Football

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 64 MEN 16 Jouini.C 17 Moalla.I Giacobbe Antonio (ITA) Name: Chokri Jouini - Age: 18 - Name: Ismail Moalla - Age: 17 Mr. Antonio Giaccobbe is Italian Club debut: E.S.TUNIS and started coaching the Tunisian Team in June 2000. An experienced trainer, he helped his team to obtain good results at international level. H ead C oach 18 Karamosly.H 19 Tawargui.A Name: Hosni Karamosly - Age: 27 Name: Anouar Tawargui - Age: 24 - Born in: Tunis, TUN - Position: - Born in: Tunisia Middle blocker - Club debut: C.S.Hammam Lif (H.Lif, Tunisia) in 1992 - Intl. debut: Youth African Champioship (1997) (Kelibia, Tunisia) in 1995 - Hobby: Swiming - Lang.: Arabic - Favourites: Book: Sport revues, Food: Oriental, Movie: Action, Music: Pop, Other sports: Basketball

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Besrour Amine Besrour.A L 05/12/1978 181 78 309 295 8 8 CHAUMON 2 Trabelsi Mohamed Trabelsi.M 15/09/1981 202 92 340 320 7 7 C.S.Sfaxien 3 Ben Tara Skander Ben Tara.S 22/01/1985 200 90 340 328 1 1 25 27 Esperance S.T. 4 Garci Marouane Garci.M 21/03/1988 194 73 317 308 E.S.Sahel 5 Sellami Samir Sellami.S 13/07/1977 194 82 320 308 1 1 25 27 C.S.Sfaxien 6 Karamosly Elyes Karamosly.E 22/08/1989 195 86 270 280 C.S.H.LIF 7 Ghezal Chaker Ghezal.C 14/01/1977 199 90 352 335 1 1 72 74 SAYIDIA.S 8 Ben Brik Aymen Ben Brik.A 08/05/1985 188 68 330 322 10 10 SAYDIA.S 9 Belaid Khaled Belaid.K 30/12/1973 195 82 326 312 1 3 150 154 Esperance S.T. 10 Jerbi Haykel Jerbi.H 04/04/1988 187 63 305 286 AS HAOUARIA 11 Lamjed Seifeddine Lamjed.S 10/03/1984 197 87 340 315 10 10 C.O. Kelibia 12 Kaabi Hichem Kaabi.H 03/09/1986 194 76 335 320 15 15 Esperance S.T. 13 Hfaiedh Noureddine Hfaiedh.N 27/08/1973 200 86 350 315 5 155 160 Toures V.C 14 Ben Hassine Bilel Ben Hassine.B 22/06/1982 192 72 330 305 12 12 F.H. Ghezaz 15 Guidara Ghazi Guidara.G C 18/05/1974 186 75 326 305 150 150 EST 16 Jouini Chokri Jouini.C 25/04/1989 194 70 320 275 E.S.TUNIS 17 Moalla Ismail Moalla.I 30/09/1990 193 77 310 290 C.S.SFAX 18 Karamosly Hosni Karamosly.H 01/06/1980 197 82 338 315 35 35 C.S.Saxien 19 Tawargui Anouar Tawargui.A L 17/08/1983 180 65 298 280 14 14 C.S.Sfaxien H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 2004 11 2006 15 2003 11 2007 2 1987 1 1996 11 2002 19 1999 12 2005 2 1983 2 1988 12 1982 21 1995 12 2003 1 1979 1 1984 9 1978 24 1991 8 1999 1 1976 2 1972 12 1974 18 1981 8 1997 1 1976 7 1970 22 1969 11 1995 1 1971 1 1993 2 1967 1 1991 3 1958 16

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United States

Team Biography

After some disappointing finishes in 2006, to stop there. They followed up with a silver the U.S. Men’s Volleyball Team has found medal at the Pan American Games (losing great success so far in 2007 and hopes the to Brazil in the final) and a gold medal at momentum carries it to a berth at the 2008 the Americas’ Cup. At the Americas’ Cup, Lloy Olympic Games in Beijing, China. The U.S. Ball, a three-time Olympian, competed with Men finished 10th at both the 2006 World the team for the first time since the 2004 League and the 2006 World Championship Olympic Games in Athens. and saw their FIVB World Ranking drop from The United States hosted the 2007 Norceca fifth to eighth. In the 2007 World League the Men’s Continental Championship in United States made it to the final round for Anaheim, California knowing that the the first time since 2000. Their first opponent tournament would qualify the top-two in the final round in Poland was France and finishers for the World Cup, the U.S. Men did the U.S. Men took its third victory over the not hold anything back. In the semi-finals European team in the first round of the final. against Canada they needed four sets to win Poland also defeated France, which put the and in the final they defeated Puerto Rico in United States and Poland into the semi-final. four sets. However, the United States lost to Poland in Ball was named the tournament’s Most its second match of pool. The United States Valuable Player and Best Setter. Clay had done its homework and this time it Stanley won Best Server and Head Coach defeated Poland for the bronze medal. Hugh McCutcheon won the inaugural Jim During the World League, outside hitter Reid Coleman Award as the tournament’s most Priddy led the team in scoring six times while outstanding coach. Gabe Gardner, who moved from outside Going into the World Cup, the U.S. Men’s hitter to opposite, led five times. record is 25-5 in 2007. The U.S. Men saw their FIVB World Ranking improve to fifth again after their World League success, but they were not content

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OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 66 MEN Team Officials Match Schedule Manager Beal, Douglas 18.11 18:05 Matsumoto BRA - USA Head coach McCutcheon, Hugh 19.11 15:35 Matsumoto PUR - USA Assistant coach Larsen, Ronald 20.11 15:35 Matsumoto ESP - USA Doctor Briner Jr., William 22.11 18:35 Toyama BUL - USA Trainer/Therapist Speraw, John 23.11 18:05 Toyama EGY - USA 25.11 12:35 Okayama TUN - USA 26.11 13:05 Okayama KOR - USA 27.11 13:05 Okayama AUS - USA 30.11 19:30 Tokyo (TMG) JPN - USA 01.12 14:05 Tokyo (TMG) ARG - USA 02.12 16:35 Tokyo (TMG) RUS - USA

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1 Ball 2 Rooney 3 Polster Name: Lloy Ball - Age: 35 - Born Name: Sean Rooney - Age: 25 Name: James Polster - Age: in: Indiana, USA - Position: Setter - Born in: Illinois USA - Lang.: 28 - Born in: Minnesota, USA - - Club debut: in 1984 - Intl. debut: English Position: Wing spiker - Intl. debut: in 1994 - Hobby: Golf, music, World University Games in 1997 snowboarding - Lang.: English - - Hobby: Reading - Lang.: English Favourites: Book: Women, Food: Cottage cheese, - Favourites: Book: Fools Dictionary, Food: Movie: Animal House, Music: Heavy Metal, Other Burgers, Movie: Star Wars, Music: Rap, Other sports: Golf sports: Baseball

4 Lee 5 Lambourne 6 Eatherton Name: David Lee - Age: 25 - Born Name: Richard Lambourne - Age: 32 Name: Phillip Eatherton - Age: in: California, USA - Hobby: Model - Born in: Kentucky, USA - Position: 33 - Born in: Kirkwood, Missouri trains and airplanes, stamps Libero - Club debut: Seaside (San - Position: Middle blocker - Club - Lang.: English - Favourites: Diego, California) in 1990 - Intl. debut: Lafayette High School Book: Haunted Mesa, Food: Filet debut: in 2000 - Hobby: Beach in 1990 - Intl. debut: in 1995 - mignon and lobster, Movie: Zoolander, Music: Volleyball, golf, tennis, body surfing - Lang.: English Hobby: Traveling, spending time with family and King Tubby - Favourites: Book: Rising Sun, The Green Mile, friends - Lang.: English - Favourites: Book: Into DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons, Food: Burritos, Thin Air, Food: Pizza, Movie: Point Break, Music: Movie: Good Will Hunting, Snatch, Jurassic Park, Alternative, pop, country, Other sports: Super Music: Hip Hop and Rhythm and Blues, Musicals, Dodge Ball, World’s Strongest Man Other sports: Golf, Basketball, Tennis, Football 7 Suxho 8 Priddy 9 Millar Name: Donald Suxho - Age: 31 - Name: William Priddy - Age: 30 - Name: Ryan Millar - Age: 29 - Born Born in: Albania - Position: Setter Born in: Virgina, USA - Position: in: California, USA - Position: Middle - Club debut: Skenderbeu (Korye, Wing spiker - Club debut: Lake blocker - Club debut: Highland Albania) in 1987 - Intl. debut: in Mary High School in 1999 - Hobby: High School in 1989 - Intl. debut: 2000 - Hobby: Skiing, Travel, Music, Surfing, Beach Volleyball, Music in 1999 - Hobby: Snowboarding, Hiking, Swimming - Lang.: English - Favourites: (Guitar) - Lang.: English - Favourites: Book: Holy golfing - Lang.: English - Favourites: Book: Of Book: Life of Vince Lombardi, Food: Greek, Steak, Bible, Food: Mexican, Movie: Dumb and Dumber, Mice and Men, Food: Chicken enchiladas, Movie: Movie: Gladiator, Music: Everything but hard Other sports: Surfing Braveheart, Music: Alternative, Other sports: rock, Other sports: Soccer, skiing, swimming American football, basketball

10 Salmon 11 Billings 12 Hoff Name: Riley Salmon - Age: 31 - Name: Brook Billings - Age: 27 - Name: Thomas Hoff - Age: 34 - Born Born in: Texas, USA - Position: Born in: California, USA - Position: in: Illinois, USA - Position: Middle Wing spiker - Hobby: Golfing Universal - Club debut: East Beach blocker - Club debut: Chicago, - Lang.: English - Favourites: (Santa Barbara, CA USA) in 1994 Illinois in 1980 - Intl. debut: in Book: Prey, Food: Mexican, Movie: - Intl. debut: in 2002 - Hobby: 1997 - Hobby: Engineering topics, Pulp Fiction, Music: Jack Johnson, Other sports: Basketball, music - Lang.: English - Favourites: fish, hiking, mountain biking - Lang.: English - Basketball, Golf Book: Anything by John Wooden, Food: Mexican, Favourites: Book: Clive Cussler, Food: Sandy’s Movie: Super Troopers, Music: Jack Johnson Tacos, Movie: Man in the Iron Mask, Music: Rock, Other sports: Beach Volleyball, baseball

13 Stanley 14 Hansen 15 Gardner Name: Clayton Stanley - Age: 29 Name: Kevin Hansen - Age: 25 Name: Gabriel Gardner - Age: 31 - - Born in: Hawaii, USA - Position: - Born in: California - Position: Born in: California, USA - Position: Universal - Club debut: Outrigger Setter - Lang.: English Wing spiker - Club debut: Palisades (Honolulu, Hawaii) in 1995 - Intl. High School in 1991 - Intl. debut: debut: World University Games/ in 1999 - Hobby: Surfing, playing Pan American Games (Spain/Winnipeg, Canada) guitar, stock market - Lang.: English - Favourites: in 1999 - Hobby: Surfing - Lang.: English - Book: Catcher in the Rye, Food: Greek, Movie: Favourites: Food: Hawaiian, Movie: Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, Music: Jim Music: Everything but country Morrison, Other sports: Kobe Bryant/Basketball

OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE 68 MEN 16 Taliaferro 17 Thomas McCutcheon, Hugh (NZL) Name: Richard Brandon Taliaferro Name: Delano Thomas - Age: 24 - McCutcheon, a native of Christchurch, - Age: 30 - Born in: California, USA Lang.: English New Zealand, played on the New - Club debut: Los Angeles Athletic Zealand Junior and Senior National Club (Laguna Beach, California) Teams from 1988 to 1990 before in 1989 - Intl. debut: in 1999 - coming to the United States. Lang.: English - Favourites: Other sports: Beach He played for BYU from 1991-1993. In 1993 he Volleyball, surfing earned honorable mention All-America honors. In 1992 he earned Academic All-Conference honors from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in physical education from BYU in 1993, McCutcheon played professionally for two years in Finland and Japan H ead C oach before returning to BYU to complete his master’s 18 Touzinsky 19 Reft degree in exercise science in 1998. He was also a member of New Zealand’s national team in 1996 Name: Scott Touzinsky - Age: 25 - Name: Alfredo Reft - Age: 24 - Born and represented his country on the FIVB Beach Born in: Missouri - Hobby: Baseball in: California - Lang.: English Volleyball World Tour in 1997. In 1999, McCutcheon games, watching sports, golfing - received an MBA from BYU’s Marriott School of Lang.: English - Favourites: Food: Management. Sushi, Movie: Gone in 60 Seconds, He joined USA Volleyball as a full-time assistant coach Music: Akon, Other sports: Michael Jordan in April 2003. In 2005 he was selected to become the new head coach of the USA Men’s National Volleyball Team. He took over the position from long-time head coach Doug Beal, who resigned to become the new Chief Executive Officer of USA Volleyball.

Players Roster Nr Name/First Name Nickname Birthdate H W S B OG WC OTH Total Club 1 Ball Lloy Ball 17/02/1972 203 95 351 316 18 25 320 363 Dynamo Kazan 2 Rooney Sean Rooney 13/11/1982 206 100 354 336 25 25 Dinamo-Yantar Kalingrad 3 Polster James Polster 08/02/1979 198 100 352 333 17 138 155 USA National Team 4 Lee David Lee 08/03/1982 203 105 350 325 62 62 Halk Bankasi Spor Kuluba 5 Lambourne Richard Lambourne L 06/05/1975 190 90 324 312 11 121 132 Sports Joint Stock Co. 6 Eatherton Phillip Eatherton 02/01/1974 206 101 356 335 8 23 168 199 AZS Czestochowa 7 Suxho Donald Suxho 21/02/1976 196 98 337 319 8 11 89 108 Acqua Paradiso 8 Priddy William Priddy 01/10/1977 196 89 353 330 8 17 115 140 USA National Team 9 Millar Ryan Millar 22/01/1978 204 98 354 326 13 17 183 213 Sparkling Milano 10 Salmon Riley Salmon 02/07/1976 197 89 345 331 8 17 130 155 Top Volley SRL 11 Billings Brook Billings 30/04/1980 196 95 351 331 8 6 88 102 AZS Czestochowa 12 Hoff Thomas Hoff C 09/06/1973 198 94 353 333 13 23 227 263 Fakel New Urengoy 13 Stanley Clayton Stanley 20/01/1978 205 104 357 332 8 17 108 133 Dynamo Kazan 14 Hansen Kevin Hansen 19/03/1982 196 93 349 330 55 55 Poiter 15 Gardner Gabriel Gardner 18/03/1976 209 103 353 335 8 11 109 128 Sparkling Milano 16 Taliaferro Richard Brandon Taliaferro 28/09/1977 196 100 342 325 11 31 42 ACH Volley 17 Thomas Delano Thomas 26/01/1983 201 95 366 339 13 13 ACH Volley 18 Touzinsky Scott Touzinsky 22/04/1982 198 86 344 330 5 5 Los Gigantes de Carolina 19 Reft Alfredo Reft L 15/12/1982 175 80 319 309 USA National Team H=Height, W=Weight, S=Spike (in cm), B=Block (in cm), WC=World Championship, OG=Olympic Games, OTH=Other, C=Captain, L=Libero List of Honours Olympic Games World Championships World League Grand Champions Cup World Cup Continental Championships 2004 4 2006 10 2007 3 2005 2 2003 4 2007 1 1987 2 2000 11 2002 9 2006 10 1993 5 1999 4 2005 1 1985 1 1996 9 1998 9 2001 9 1995 4 2003 1 1983 1 1992 3 1994 3 2000 6 1991 3 2001 2 1979 5 1988 1 1990 13 1995 10 1989 4 1999 1 1977 5 1984 1 1986 1 1994 12 1985 1 1997 2 1975 3 1968 7 1982 13 1993 9 1977 10 1995 2 1973 1 1964 9 1978 19 1992 3 1993 2 1971 2 1974 14 1991 6 1991 2 1969 3 1970 18 1990 7 1989 3 1966 11 1960 7 1956 6

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Men’s World Cup Honours

Medals Year Location 1st 2nd 3rd 2007 Tokyo (Japan) 2003 Tokyo (Japan) Brazil Italy Serbia & Montenegro 1999 Tokyo (Japan) Russia Cuba Italy 1995 Tokyo (Japan) Italy Netherlands Brazil 1991 Tokyo (Japan) U.S.S.R. Cuba USA 1989 Tokyo (Japan) Cuba Italy U.S.S.R. 1985 Tokyo (Japan) USA U.S.S.R. Czechoslovakia 1981 Tokyo (Japan) U.S.S.R. Cuba Brazil 1977 Tokyo (Japan) U.S.S.R. Japan Cuba 1969 Berlin Est (D.D.R.) D.D.R. Japan U.S.S.R. 1965 Varsovie (Poland) U.S.S.R. Poland Czechoslovakia

Overall Standings for the Men’s World Cup 1965 - 2003 Teams Part '65 '69 '77 '81 '85 '89 '91 '95 '99 '03 Algeria 1 ------9 ------Argentina 3 ------5 - - - - 7 9 - - Brazil 8 - - 6 8 3 4 5 6 3 5 1 Bulgaria 4 9 4 6 ------Cameroon 1 ------8 ------Canada 4 - - - - 12 ------10 8 7 Chile 1 ------12 ------China 5 - - - - 5 5 ------9 11 10 Cuba 7 - - 9 3 2 - - 1 2 6 2 - - Czechoslovakia 3 3 5 - - - - 3 ------Egypt 4 - - - - 11 - - 8 - - - - 11 - - 12 France 2 11 ------5 Germany (East) 2 5 1 ------Germany (E) Jr. 1 - - 12 ------Germany (West) 2 - - 10 ------7 ------Hungary 1 7 ------Iran 1 ------11 ------Italy 5 ------7 - - 2 - - 1 3 2 Japan 10 4 2 2 6 6 6 4 5 10 9 Korea (South) 7 - - - - 7 - - 7 7 5 8 7 6 Mexico 2 - - - - 9 ------10 ------Netherlands 2 10 ------2 - - - - Poland 4 2 8 4 4 ------Romania 2 6 7 ------Serbia & Montenegro 1 ------3 Spain 1 ------6 - - Tunisia 6 - - 11 - - 8 - - - - 8 12 12 11 United States 7 - - - - 10 - - 1 4 3 4 4 4 USSR/Russia 8 1 3 1 1 2 3 1 - - 1 - - Venezuela 1 ------8 Yugoslavia 1 8 ------

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4 years ago 2003 Men’s World Cup in Japan A golden Brazil

It’s the 29th November 2003 when the 2002 World Champions of Brazil jump on the highest podium, their first World Cup title. They’ve just finish to mark 11 successive victories, the last over Japan in Yoyogi Stadium. With the South Americans already confirmed as gold medallists after Italy had lost to Serbia and Montenegro earlier in the same day, Bernardo Rezende’s men had to complete the formalities against Japan and did so in great artistic style to silence the 12,000 screaming local fans and walk away with the honour of having won the World League, the South American Championship and the World Cup in the same year. “It is my privilege to be the first ever head coach of Brazil to win this tournament,” Rezende said. “Our players did an excellent job and played superbly right throughout the tournament, despite the long and tough campaign. Maybe this title has slightly less value than the Olympics, but it is still a great honour to win the World Cup and completes a fantastic year for us.”

Final standings (win-loss ratio):

1. Brazil 11-0 2. Italy 9-2 3. Serbia and Montenegro 9-2 4. USA 8-3 5. France 7-4 6. Korea 5-6 7. Canada 5-6 8. Venezuela 4-7 9. Japan 3-8 10. China 2-9 11. Tunisia 2-9 12. Egypt 1-10

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List of officials

Control Committee Role Name CC President Dr. Ruben ACOSTA H. (MEX) Event Manager Mr. Cristobal MARTE HOFFIZ (DOM) Mr. Jizhong WEI (CHN) Venue Operations Mr. S. WONGPRASERT (THA) Mr. S. SHEVCHENKO (RUS) Mr. Hiroshi TOYODA (JPN) Mr. Camilo ANTAO (MOZ) Medical Delegate Dr. Manfred HOLZGRAEFE (GER) Dr. Andrés Vinicio PINA DEL ROSARIO (DOM) Vis Subcommittee Mr. Jivko JETCHEV (BUL) Mr. Akira JONORI (JPN) Mr. Thomas KUROPKA (POL) Mr. M. Silva OLIVEIRA (POR) Refereeing Subcom. Mr. Jaafar NASEEB (BRN) Mr. T. SHIMOYAMA (JPN) Mr. László HERPAI (HUN) Mr. Habib ALI ABDULLAH (KUW) Press Officials and Official Photographers Mr. Giorgio STEFANIS (GRE) Mr. Andrea ZORZI (ITA) Mr. Mauro DE SANCTIS (ITA) Ms. Liana FERNANDEZ (PER) Photographer to be engaged by JVA

Referees Mr. Vassilios ADONOULIS (GRE) Mr. Bela HOBOR (HUN) Mr. Rolando CHOLAKIAN (ARG) Mr. Joel REINFORD (USA) Mr. Ning WANG (CHN) Mr. Ibrahim AL NAAMA (QAT) Mr. Carlos CIMINO (BRA) Mr. Andrey ZENOVICH (RUS) Mr. Fabrizio SALTALIPPI (ITA) Mr. Andrzej KISZCZAK (POL) Mr. Mahmoud ABDEL MAGID (EGY) Mr. Dejan JOVANOVIC (SRB) Mr. Akihiko TANO (JPN) Mr. Tadashi TONEGAWA (JPN)

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