www.fivb.org MEDIA GUIDE Men’s Tournament 18th November to 2nd December 2007 www.fivb.org MEDIA GUIDE Men’s Tournament 18th November to 2nd December 2007 Credits Editorial : Fabrizio Rossini - FIVB Press Officer Project Manager : Volleyball Events Department Data : Alberto Rigamonti - FIVB IT Department Layout : Samuel Chesaux Printing : Wakao Printing Co. Ltd., Japan Photos : © FIVB 1 www.fivb.org 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 OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE MEN 3 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 OFFICIAL TEAM PRESENTATION AND MEDIA GUIDE MEN 5 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 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 - 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