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Wed, 09/03/2014 - 12:17
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Victory welcomes Iran finally in 5th set

TEHRAN, Sept.3 (MNA) – Iran’s men’s volleyball national squad has written its name in history winning the US, World League champion after crushing Italy in the first game. Iran started game with Ghaemi, Marouf, Gholami, Mirzajanpour and Zarif (as libero) as the main team. Shahram Mahmoudi lost the game due to injury. He will not be able to play against Belgium and France as well. The sweet win came rather belatedly for Iran after brilliant performance in the first and second set which secured two sets for Iran and lackluster performance and many individual faults in the third and fourth sets which brought hope to American camp to pursue chances for win in the fifth set. The fifth set was tense and two teams’ scores were parallel. The US challenged the game point but the initial verdict was for Iran, which in the second challenge, it was repeated to secure the 17-15 win for Iran in the marathon of 3 and half hours. This was the second win for Iran in the group of giants. Iran will have another difficult match with France, to which it lost in the semifinals of FIVB World League 2014 in Italy last June.

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