Egypt Officially Withdraw From Women’s World Olympic Volleyball Qualifier

Egypt Women’s Volleyball team officially withdrew from the World Olympic Qualification tournament designated to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 20 to 22, 2016.

Egypt came as African Women’s Olympic Qualifier runner up in the tournament held in Yaoundé, Cameroon where the host team claimed the automatic African Olympic ticket.

“Most of the team line up will be busy with the final year exams at schools and universities and these commitment wasn’t able to be postponed,” Said Egyptian Volleyball Federation President Foad Abdel Salam.

“We tried our best to help the players, but all the efforts failed after the parents of the players decided not to drop their exams.”

Early on Tuesday the volleyball World governing body “FIVB” had selected San Juan, Puerto to host the Women’s World Olympic Qualification Tournament from May 20-22. The four-team competition will take place at the Coliseo Roberto Clemente and qualify the winners for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

The World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Puerto Rico will decide which country claims the 12th and last berth up for grabs at this year’s Summer Games’ women’s volleyball tournament.

The winners will join seven countries that have already qualified for this year’s Olympic tournament, including hosts Brazil, FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup winners China and runners-up Serbia, European Olympic Qualification Tournament winners Russia, NORCECA Olympic Qualification winners USA, South American Olympic Qualification Tournament winners Argentina, and African Olympic Qualification Tournament winners Cameroon.

Four more teams will join the competition in Rio from the World Olympic Qualification Tournament and Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament scheduled to take place from May 14 to 22 in Japan.

Successful Level II Coaches Course Organised In Egypt

FIVB Instructors Mr Sherif Hamdy Elshemerly from Egypt and Mr Mostafa Ahchouche from Morroco were in Cairo to supervise a Level II Coaches Course from June 1-13. The course brought together 36 participants from eight different cities in Egypt.

Opened by Egyptian Volleyball Federation President Mr. Fouad Abdel Salam Ahmed Shoukri and three board members, the course was composed of sessions focusing on all aspects of the game and based around classroom and on court exercises. The course took place at the Cairo stadium, an ideal venue for the sessions on court.

The Egyptian Volleyball Federation has organised Level I and Level II Coaches Course since 2005, which has helped to develop the number and quality of coaches in the country. The participants in last week’s course included two former national team players: Mr Ahmed Samir, who was a setter with the national team in the years up to 2003, and Mrs Nagwa Fouad, who played with the women’s national team until 2008.

Volleyball Coaches Level 2 course in Egypt

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Egypt Overpower Algeria For 4th Men’s U21 African Volleyball Championship

Egypt added a new title as they beat Algeria 3-1(25-23, 20-25, 25-22, 25-21) in the final of the Men’s U21 African Nations Championship held at Eastern Company Hall in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday.

This is the fourth Egyptian crown at this age category, while Algeria stayed at two titles. Tunisia is still the record holder with 9 crowns under their name.

Gold medallists Egypt

Egypt topped the 3 nation tournament with win-loss ratio of 2-0 (6 points), ahead of Algeria who dropped to 1-1 (3 points) and both teams confirmed their tickets to the FIVB Volleyball Men’s U21 World Championship in Tijuana and Mexicali, Mexico from September 11-20, 2015. Morocco came third with 0-2 record.

The match started very competitive as both teams deployed their solid block against the other. Egypt’s Hesham Yosry performed well in Position 3 to lead his team towards a wide lead 16-11 before Algeria led by Larbi Hedroug succeded to draw 23-23 before Egypt got hardly the set 25-23.

Silver Medallists Algeria

Algeria played their best in the second set specially in serving through Sofiane Bouyoucef and Hedrog beside improving the recption and digging through Ibrahim Sbaibi to win 25-20.

Egypt came back in the third set as the setter Ahmed El Ashry arranged the combinations using his outside hitters to win the set 25-22.

Again Algeria survived in the fourth set as it went point by point till 15-15. Egypt then won the crucial points to wn the set 25-21 and the match 3-1.

Individual Award Winners

Individual Awards
· Best Spiker: Hamza Ouafi (MAR)
· Best Blocker: Abdelrahman Abdalla (EGY)
· Best Server: Mohamed Ali Elsheikh (EGY)
· Best Receiver: Larbi Hedroug (ALG)
· Best Libero: Ibrahim Sbaibi (ALG)
· Best setter: Ahmed El Ashry (EGY)
· MVP: Ahmed Diaa (EGY)

Results

No Date Teams Set Result per set (points) Total Points Time Audience

1 27-Feb EGY-MAR 3-0 25-13 25-20 25-19 75-52 1:17 400

2 28-Feb ALG-MAR 3-1 20-25 25-20 25-16 25-15 95-67 1:38 300

3 1-Mar ALG-EGY 1-3 23-25 25-20 25-22 25-21 91-95 1:47 600

Egypt Stun Morocco At Men’s U21 African Championship Opening

Egypt overpowered Morocco 3-0 (25-13, 25-20, 25-) in the 2015 Men’s U21 African Nations Championship opening match held at Eastern Company Hall in Cairo, Egypt on Friday.

CAVB President Dr Amr Elwani opened the competition in presence of Egyptian Volleyball Federation President Foad Abdelsalam, Eastern Company President Nabil Abdelnaim, Control Committee President Camelo Antao and Referee Delegate Majeed Djirad.

Algeria men U19 team

Egypt dominated the match early through their disciplined defence and attacks specially through the opposite Saad Mohsen and the outside hitter Ahmed Diaa. Morocco team had several troubles in reception that couldn’t allow them to come back in the first and second sets. The third set showed improvement of attacking activity for the Moroccan team, but they couldn’t withstand the Egyptian comeback as they went to straight sets victory.

Algeria plays Morocco in the competition day 2 seeking a dream of World Championship ticket.

The winner and runner up of these finals book their tickets to the FIVB Volleyball Men’s U21 World Championship in Tijuana and Mexicali, Mexico from September 7 -20, 2015.

Elwani with Morocco team

Results

No Date Teams Set Result per set (points) Total Points Time Audience
1 27-Feb MAR-EGY 3-0 25-13 25-20 25-19 75-52 1:17 400
2 28-Feb ALG-MAR
3 1-Mar ALG-EGY

Morocco in action

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