The Argentine national team volleyball has already secured its classification for the Olympic Games of Paris 2024, the main objective when he began to play in the Nations League (VNL), and now he dreams of getting into the top eight of the tournament that precedes the Olympic event. This Saturday he took the first step.
The team led by Marcelo Mendez closed the regular phase with a 3-0 victory against Bulgaria (25-22, 25-17 and 25-20) in Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, and will have to wait for other results to reach the quarterfinals, where they lost to Italy last year.
The first result I needed has already arrived: it was with the victory of Poland ante Serbia, which was narrowly defined by 3 to 2 (25-21, 21-25, 25-18, 22-25 and 15-11). The Argentine players will once again cheer on the Polish team when they face this Sunday against Cuba. Meanwhile, Serbia will have another chance to eliminate Argentina when they face Slovenia, also this Sunday. There, the Argentine team will only benefit from the victory of the local team. Otherwise you will be left out.
But that is not all. In turn, they will have to pay attention to the clash between USA y Japan which will be held in Manila, Philippines. If Japan wins or the United States wins in five sets, Argentina will qualify if, in addition, the aforementioned victories of Poland and Slovenia occur. On the other hand, if the Americans win 3-0 or 3-1 it will be a matter of taking the calculator and measuring the ratio (for now favorable to Argentina).
Solid victory for the National Team at the close of the regular phase of the VNL
🇦🇷 ARG 3-0 BUL 🇧🇬
25-22, 25-17, 25-20🔝 Luciano Vicentín and Bruno Lima, top scorers of the game with 14 each
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Luciano Vicentin y Bruno Lima were the team’s top scorers against Bulgaria with 14 points and Luciano Palonsky added 9, while Agustín Loser y Nicolás Zerba They were once again a great contribution through blocking, a facet of the game in which Argentina has grown a lot in recent times and with which it has shown itself to be much superior to its rival to build an unquestionable victory.
Although it represents an important achievement to reach the VNL quarterfinals, which will be played in Lodz, Poland, from Thursday to Sunday, all guns are pointed at the Olympic Games. The Argentine team qualified after winning the previous match against Turkey and then being favored by Slovenia’s victory against Cuba, which was one of its direct rivals in the race for the Games.
In Paris 2024, he will defend the bronze medal obtained in Tokyo three years ago with a team similar to the current one. She was the second Olympic medal in Argentine volleyball after that also historic one in Seoul 1988.
2024-06-23 02:28:43
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