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Men’s Under 21 African Nations Championship: |
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12 Men’s Under 21
African Nations Championship:
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Match No. 8: Egypt vs.
Morocco
The more skillful
Egyptians defeated Morocco and clinched the cup
Egypt used the high performance of the middle
blockers Ahmed Aly and Mohamed Abdel Moneim and the
magic state of the setter Hassam Yousef who was
chosen by his coach as the match star, to achieve a
straight sets victory over the Organizers and
defending champions Morocco 25-16, 25-18, 25-16 in
64 minutes. Morocco team was affected by the absence
of the main 2 middle blockers due to injury and they
couldn’t compete with Egypt on the net action which
made it easy for Egypt to penetrate.
Egypt started the match very aggressively and used
the wing spikers Ramy Nakhla and Ahmed Yousef to
penetrate the Moroccan block and lead 8-5 and 16-9.
Morocco team increased the activity of the spikers
specially Mohamed Allaoui and Sofiane Hajjam to
decrease the point difference but the Egyptian
blockers prevented them from using their skills and
so they ended the set 25-16 in 20 minutes.
The Egyptian coach noticed the weak point in the
Moroccan team and used the central part of the net
to penetrate through the outstanding middle blocker
Mohamed Abdel Moneim and Ahmed Aly as they used the
fast attacks to lead all through the second set 8-4
and 16-12. Morocco tried to use the spike service to
stop the Egyptian attacks but the Egyptian back line
defense and reception was good enough to put their
team ahead and win the set 25-18 in 22 minutes.
Morocco tried to save the match by improving the
digging against the Egyptian hits but the Egyptian
setter reached to his best performance to lead his
team through his skillful sitting to the middle
blockers and Mohamed Eldaabousi in position 2 and
thus Egypt led also all through the set except one
time when Morocco led 3-2 but afterwards Egypt kept
the rhythm to win the set 25-16 in 20 minutes.
Press Conference:
Egypt Head Coach, Sherif El Shemerly:
The match was very difficult because we played four
successive days and we entered this match after a
difficult face of against Tunisia yesterday. We know
the weakest point in Morocco team was the Middle
blockers so we used our blocker to send their
efficient spikes to Morocco team. We did good
squatting for the opponent before the match and we
used this to achieve this important victory which
qualified my team to the 2007 World Championship. In
my opinion my setter Hassam Yousef was the star of
the match.
Morocco Head Coach, Mohamed Abdallaoui:
We had a great problem before the match because we
missed our best blockers Ahmed Bartaki and Kamal
Ouali due to injury thus our weak point was the
middle of the net and this was used well by the
Egyptians who are the best team in this competition
and I think they are a big team that can achieve
surprises in future. The biggest problem for us in
this competition is that the players don’t have
experience with the big competitions like the
Egyptians who played in the World Championship under
19 in Algeria.
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Match No. 7: Tunisia vs.
Algeria
Tunisia Defeated
Algeria using 3-0 the Dominant front line
Tunisia used the strong front line players Marouane
Garci and Karim Brini and the skilful setter Amine
Zouaoui to set the competition second victory over
Algeria 3-0 (25-21, 25-17, 26-24) in 68 minutes.
Tunisia was the better side in all volleyball skills
and used this technical dominance to widely lead in
all sets except the third one which was the most
competitive in the match when the Algerians used
their strong spikers Billel Soualem and Chahine
Zaichi.
The match started balanced between the two teams as
it went point by point till the draw 7-7, when
Tunisia dominated the net through the blocking of
Aymen Ben Hassine and Malek Melliou to lead 16-10.
The point deficit increased due to the mistakes of
Algerian players in block and back line defense till
they tired at the end of the set to catch the set
and used the strong spike service to disturb the
Tunisian reception, but Tunisia won the critical
points of the set to win 25-21 in 21 minutes.
Tunisia continued the same rhythm in the second set
to lead 4-0 after a group of strong spikes of
Marouane Garci and Karim Brini and continued leading
8-3. Algeria improved their block through middle
blocker Billel Soualem and Abdelhak Bettache to
reach to 9-8. Tunisia used again the big guns Garci,
Brini and Amenallah Hmissi to penetrate the Algerian
defense and increase the point deficit till they won
the set comfortably 25-17.
Tunisia continued their upper hand on all volleyball
skills to lead 8-5 through the skillful setting by
the match star Amine Zouaoui. Algeria improved their
block through Chahine Zaichi and Soualem and thus
they came near to Tunisia till the draw 24-24, but
the more experienced Tunisian players ended the most
exciting set of the match 26-24 in 25 minutes to win
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Match No. 6: Morocco vs.
South Africa
Morocco swept
South Africa in straight sets
The organizers Morocco used the net dominance to
pull of an easy victory over South Africa 3-0
(25-18, 25-23, 25-10) in 60 minutes of one side game
except in the second set that was the most
competitive for South Africa. Morocco Coach tried to
use most of his squad to relief his players before
the critical encounter against Egypt on Thursday.
Morocco started the match as the better side in the
net action as they used their strong spikers Mohamed
Alaoui and Soufiane Hajjam to lead 16-11. South
Africa came to the match through Kamal Ouali and
struggled against the better Moroccan team to narrow
the score but Morocco succeeded to win the set 25-18
in 20 minutes.
In the second set the South African team became more
competitive with the participation of their star
Ricky Govender as they came close to morocco all
through till the draw 17-17. South Africa was better
in reception and back line defense and this allowed
them to build up the attacks using the setter , but
Morocco succeeded to win the critical points of the
set to clinch the set narrowly 25-23 in 23 minutes.
The third set was one side towards morocco who
dominated completely the match through their strong
spike service and also the efficient spikes of win
25-10 in 17 minutes.
Press Conference:
Morocco Head Coach, Mohamed Abdellaoui:
The match went exactly as I expected as we played a
team without high capabilities and so I asked my
players to be serious in the match in order not to
lose a set like what happened for the Egyptians. My
players played to the size of the match and didn’t
appear with their full capacity except the setter
Hicham Faiazid. Now I’m thinking of the match
tomorrow against Egypt because it is the actual
final of the competition, but still I’m thinking
that Egypt is the best team in the competition till
now.
South Africa Head Coach, Abdelhamid El Wassimy
I’m disappointed with my team’s performance today
because they didn’t apply my strategy except in the
second set when they were near to win the set. We
are not satisfied with the performance in the
competition till now but this exposure is very
important for our future.
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Match No. 5: Egypt vs.
Tunisia
Egypt defeated
Tunisia 3-1 with the impermeable block
The impermeable Egyptian block of Mohamed Abdel
Moneim and Ahmed Ali and the unstoppable spikes of
Mohamed Eldaabosi and Ramy Nahkla allowed Egypt to
win the clash against their arch rivals Tunisia 3-1
(21-25, 25-15, 25-22, 31-29) in 98 minutes of
volleyball skills. Egypt came from one set behind
due to weak reception to win three successive sets
using the block that finalized the situation to
their side.
Tunisia started the match more concentrating and
used the strong spiker Marouane Garci to penetrate
the unstable Egyptian block and thus they lead 8-5.
Tunisia used also the mistakes done by the Egyptian
players in reception and service to continue leading
16-9. Egyptian players improved afterwards and used
the strong spiking from position 4 through Rami
Nakhla and position 2 through Mohamed Eldabousi to
decrease the point deficit to 24-21 before Tunisia
ended the set 25-21 in 22 minutes.
Egypt appeared with a completely different
performance in the second set and their block
improved to stop the Tunisian big guns by the net
and lead 8-4 by the first technical time out. They
used also the strong spikes of Nakhla and Ahmed
Yousef to penetrate the Tunisian block and increased
the point deficit to 16-7. The Egyptian setter
Hossam Yousef deceived the Tunisian block several
time and used the efficient spikers of his team to
end the set 25-15 in 27 minutes.
The third set was very exciting as Egypt started the
same rhythm to lead 16-12 after a group of skillful
spikes from Eldabousi from position 2 and Ahmed
Yousef from position 4. Tunisia decreased the point
deficit after the brave performance of Garci and
Brini in spiking and Hamissi in blocking to reach to
the draw 22-22 for the first time. Egypt performance
rise to the utmost to win three successive points
and win the set 25-22 in 27 minutes.
The thrills reached to the utmost in the fourth set
as Egypt used the solid block to stop the Tunisian
strong spikers and led 8-6. Egypt continued the
leadership in the net action to reach to 16-13.
Afterwards the Tunisian performance reached to the
peak through the strong spikers Garci, Brini and
Hamissi to reach the draw 24-24 when the match
passed to the most exciting part as it went point by
point till Egypt won 31-29 due to their efficient
block and won the match 3-1.
Press Conference:
Egypt Head Coach, Sherif El Shemerly:
My team was disturbed in the first set by the strong
Tunisian spike service that affected our performance
due to bad reception. But after that my team
received well and started to show up the attacking
power. The most important point of our dominance was
the good block that was the main factor to gain the
points. My attacker also succeeded to pass the solid
Tunisian block several times specially in the second
and third sets. We are looking forwards now to win
our last match against Morocco to achieve the cup
and qualify to the 2007 World Championship.
Tunisia Head Coach, Mohamed Mounir Gara:
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Match no. 4:
Tunisia vs. South Africa
The Technically
better Tunisia defeated South Africa in straight
sets
The Favorite Tunisia started their match in the
competition by a wide victory over the less
experienced South Africa in straight sets (25-15,
25-16, 25-19) in 64 minutes. Tunisia used their big
guns Marouane Garci and Karim Brini to penetrate
their opponent’s block. The Tunisian coach used some
bench players during the match to distribute the
effort before their important match against Egypt,
while the South African team was affected by the
injury of their player Ricky Govender. They
struggled against better team in volleyball skills
but they proof that they are promising in the near
future when they get enough experience.
Tunisia started the match more stable in block and
backline defense to lead 8-5 after a group of
successful spikes from Aymen Ben Hassine and
Marouane Garci. South Africa came to the match
through their better block and of Ephraim Ngoma to
come near 14-12 before Tunisia dominated the net
again and used their spike service to disturb the
South African reception and win the set 25-15 in 20
minutes.
Tunisia started the same rhythm in the second set
and used their big gun Garci and the skillful
setting by Amine Zouaoui to lead 8-4 and 14-7. South
Africa coach made some substitutions to control the
block and defense but Tunisia used again the wing
spikers Amenallah Hmissi and Karim Brini to win the
set 25-16 in 23 minutes.
Garci did a good job again in spiking from position
4 but South Africa improved their reception and
block to lead for the first time 8-7. Tunisia again
came to the match after some substitutions and used
the spikes of the star Karim Brini to win the set
25-19 in 21 minutes and the match in straight sets.
Press Conference:
Tunisia Head Coach, Mohamed Mounir Gara:
We played with most of the squad in the match today
to distribute the effort on all the players before
the next important matches. South Africa was
affected to by the absence of their best player
Ricky and I think their players did well although
their little international experience. We don’t have
one star for the team as we depend on the collective
team work so we wanted to put all the players on
this experience. The best player in my team today
was Karim Brini and in South Africa, Ethen May.
South Africa Head Coach, Abdel Hamid Elwassimy:
We missed our best player and this affected our
performance but I’m satisfied with the performance.
Unfortunately we played the hardest matches against
Egypt, then Tunisia first but I think we have the
opportunity to compete in the next matches against
Algeria and Morocco. The most important thing from
this participation is to win a team for the future.
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Match No. 3: Egypt
vs. Algeria
The New Look Egypt
defeated Algeria in straight sets
The new look Egyptian team showed much improvement
in their second match against Algeria than their
first match against South African to clinch a
straight sets victory (25-19, 25-15, 25-17) over
Algeria in 59 minutes. The Egyptian block of Mohamed
Abdel Moniem and Ahmed Aly and the efficient spikes
of Mohamed Eldabousi and Ahmed Yousef made the
difference against Algerians who were affected by
the great effort done in their first five set match
against Morocco 24 hours before.
The Algerian team used the skillful setting by
Debbih Massaoud and the strong spikes of Ahmed Bey
to get the lead from the start 8-5. Egypt came to
the match after the first technical time out and
used the efficient spikes of Mohamed Eldabousy from
position 2 to lead 16-15. Algeria started to use the
back line spiking through Billel Soualem and Bey to
come near, but the better Egyptian side ended the
set finally 25-19 in 19 minutes.
Egypt dominated the net in the second set and used
the solid block of Mohamed Abdel Moniem and Ahmed
Aly to lead 8-7 and then 16-13. Algeria struggled to
save the set and their head coach made some
substitutions to increase his attacking power but
Egypt had a solid block enough to finish the set
25-15 in 21 minutes.
The third set showed early activity from the
Algerians through Chahine Zaichi and Abdelhak
Bettache but Egypt regained their rhythm in blocking
to reach 8-5 by the first technical time out. Egypt
dominated the match completely to win the set 25-17
in 19 minutes.
Press Conference:
Egypt Head Coach, Sherif El Shemerly:
We studied the Algerian team well through the video
in their match against Morocco and we succeeded to
put the tactics to win this critical match. We
succeeded also to treat the defects of our block
that appear in the last match against South Africa
and our block was the star of the match today. We
are looking forwards to win our next match against
Tunisia which is considered an early final of the
competition.
Algeria Head Coach, Kaci Said:
My players were physically affected by the great
effort they did yesterday against Morocco in the
five set match and this allowed the experienced
Egyptian team to take over the match easier than
expected. We had weak service that allowed Egypt to
apply the strategy of the fast attacks through their
middle blockers. We had also weak reception and that
affected our attacks. The Egyptian team is the best
in the competition and I think they are the nearest
team to pick the cup.
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Match no. 2:
Morocco vs. Algeria:
Morocco clinched a
difficult victory in a fantastic five set Match
In a match full of thrills and made the spectators
on their toes for 123 minutes Algeria clinched a
narrow victory over Morocco in an exciting five set
match 3-2 (29-27, 19-25, 25-12, 26-28, 18-16).
Morocco used the strong wing spikers specially 4 and
to penetrate the strong Algerian block although they
missed their outstanding middle blockers due to
injury.
Morocco coach, Mohamed Abdallaoui was very happy to
have this difficult victory because it put his team
on the competition spot.
The Algerian coach was very sad to lose the match
although his team was leading in the tiebreak and
have three match points. Said Algeria Head Caoch,
Kaci Said.
The match started by activity from Morocco team who
led the net action through the strong spikers
Mohamed Alaoui from position 2 and Sofian Hajjam
from position 4 to lead 8-5 and they continued
leading using the strong spike service and the solid
block to reach to 24-20 mark when the set passed
into the most exciting part as the Algerian
performance reached to its maxiomum as they scored
five successive points to lead 25-24 before Morocco
saved the set and won narrowly 29-27 in 26 minutes.
In the second set Algeria was the better side in
both front and back lines as they used their block
to stopr the Moroccan attacks and led 8-6 and 16-13.
The wing spiker Hamza Adrar and the opposite Ahmed
Bey used their skills to allow Algeria to win the
set 25-19 in 22 minutes.
Morocco team regained their performance in the third
set and used their skills in the third set specially
the middle blocker Ahmed Bartali and the wing spiker
Hajjam to have a wide point deficit 10-1 before
Algeria returned to the match for sometime to reach
too 19-10 before the better side Morocco ended the
set 25-12 in 24 minutes.
The fourth set showed the same rhythm for Morocco to
lead 8-5 before Algeria return to the match using
the efficient spikes of Bey and Chahine Zaichi
turned the result to draw 14-14 and they led for the
first time 16-15. the match went point by point
afterwards till 20-20 when Algeria used the strong
spikes of Chahine to lead 23-20 before Morocco
brought the draw 24-24 and Algeria won the set 28-26
and bring the match to draw 2-2 and extend to the
tiebreak.
Morocco used the fast attacks in the tiebreak Alaoui
and Mohamed Errashidi to lead 6-4 before the
Algerians returned to their rhythm and used their
strong backline defense to regain the lead 8-7. The
set went point by point till Morocco ended the
Marathon 18-16 in 23 minutes and won the match 3-2.
Press Conference:
Morocco Head coach, Mohamed Abdallaoui:
We had to win this match in straight sets as we were
better all through the match but my I send my
congratulations to the Algerian team for their
performance. We missed our middle blockers and this
made a problem for us against the efficient spikes
of the Algerian team. I want to thank my players
specialyy Naoufal Maskali for their high performance
in the match.
Algeria Head coach, Kaci Said:
My players did their best in the match and their
performance was affected by the some referee
decisions.
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Match No. 1: Egypt
vs. South Africa
Egypt clinched the
first victory over South Africa 3-1
Egypt used the strong spike service and the strong
hits of Mohamed El Dabousi and Ahmed Afifi to defeat
South Africa 3-1 (25-17, 25-13, 23-25, 25-12) in 93
Minutes.
South Africa team started the match more motivated
and thus they used their spikers Ephraim Ngoma and
Ricky Govender to lead 4-1. Egyptian team came to
the match to lead for the first time 7-6 and 16-13
after they adjusted the block of Mohamed Abdel Rehim
and Ahmed El Sheikh. Afterwards Egypt dominated the
net action to end the set 25-17 in 20 minutes.
Egypt continued the same rhythm in the second set
and used the strong spike service to disturb the
South African team and led 8-6. Egypt started to use
the opposite player Mohamed El Dabousi and the
middle blocker Ahmed El Shikh to widen the point
deficit to 16-10. The South African team couldn’t
adjust their backline defense against the Egyptian
spikes and this allowed Egypt to win the set 25-13
in 17 minutes.
The third set was the best for South Africa as they
used the decreased curve of Egyptian performance
specially in blocking to lead several times 8-7,
12-11 and 20-18 through the block of Peter Size and
the spikes of Ricky Govender and Nathan Earnest.
They used the frequent mistakes of the Egyptian team
in defense and block to win the set 25-23 in 27
minutes.
Egypt started the fourth set more concentrating and
the setter Hossam Abdalla started to use the fast
setting by the net and this disturbed the South
African defense. South Africa struggled to save the
match but Egypt was better enough to win the set 25-
12 and the match 3-1
Press Conference:
Egypt Head coach, Sherif El Shemerly:
We are happy to achieve the first victory in the
competition but we are not happy with the
performance the team specially the blocking which
needs some improvement before the stronger matches
starting from Algeria tomorrow. I think we lost the
third set because we were not concentrating in the
match specially the block which affected also the
backline defense. My team was affected also because
we didn’t play enough friendly matches before the
competition and I think we will improve in the next
matches.
South Africa Head Coach, Abdel Hamid Elwassikmy:
I think we are satisfied with our first performance
in the competition against respected team. We didn’t
play any match before the competition so new hope to
improve in the next matches after the players get
enough experience. We hope also to use some of these
players for the senior team in future.
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By Tarek Al Adwar CAVB
Press Officer |
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