Qualifications for the World Championships 2010

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AFRICA (3 teams will qualify)
2. Phase
Pool A: Algeria, Marocco, Nigeria, Congo
Pool: B: Mozambique, Mauritius, Zimbawe, Malawi
3. Phase
Pool C: Egypt, Botswana, 2A, 3A
Pool D: Tunisia, Kenya, 1A, 3B
Pool E: Cameroon, South Africa, 1B, 2B

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Pool A: All three nations appearing at the round-robin competition had already qualified for the third-round Africa C and D pools in Egypt and Tunisia, respectively, following the withdrawal of Congo before the onset of the tournament.

By finishing first, Algeria will move to Pool D along with hosts Tunisia, Kenya and Mozambique, while Morocco and Nigeria advance to Pool C to play Egypt and Botswana.

3. Phase
Pool C: Egypt, Botswana, Morocco, Nigeria
Pool D: Tunisia, Kenya, Algeria, Mozambique
Pool E: Cameroon, South Africa, Mauritius, Zimbabwe

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NORCECA (5 teams will qualify)
2. Phase
Pool C: Trinidad Tobago, Surinam, Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, Virgin Island, Antigua & Barbuda
Pool D: Mexico, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Haiti, Saint Lucia
Pool E: Panama and Guatemala qualified for the 3. Phase
3. Phase
Pool F: USA, Dominican R., Panama, Guatemala
Pool G: Puerto Rico, Barbados, Mexico, 2C
Pool H: Cuba, Canada, 1C, Bahamas

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Pool C: Suriname defeated U.S. Virgin Islands by score of 16-25, 25-18, 25-22, 25-17 to finish atop of the Norceca-C second round men’s tournament of the 2010 FIVB World Championship.

The victory sent Suriname to the Norceca-H tournament in Cuba in August 14-16 to play against Canada, Bahamas and the home team. By finishing second, U.S. Virgin Islands advanced to Norceca-G in Puerto Rico next July 8-10 to compete against Mexico, Barbados and the host squad.

3. Phase
Pool F: USA, Dominican R., Panama, Guatemala
Pool G: Puerto Rico, Barbados, Mexico, U.S. Virgin Islands
Pool H: Cuba, Canada, Suriname, Bahamas

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2. Phase
Pool D: Iran, India, Pakistan, Oman
Pool E: Thailandia, Indonesia, Qatar, Bangladesh
Pool F: Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Tonga, UAE

Pool E: Thailand win Asian Men’s Pool E ticket to next round
Thailand will next join current Asian champions Australia, China and India in a tough third-round Pool G in Chengdu, China from August 14-16.

Final standings:
1. Thailand 6 pts
2. Indonesia 5 pts
3. Qatar 4 pts
4. Bangladesh 3 pts

3. Phase
Pool G: Australia, China, Thailand, India
Pool F: Japan, Korea, Iran, Kazahstan

Last round in each continental zones:

ASIA (4 teams will qualify)
3. Phase
Pool G: Australia, China, Thailand, India
Pool F: Japan, Korea, Iran, Kazahstan

AFRICA (3 teams will qualify)
3. Phase
Pool C: Egypt, Botswana, Morocco, Nigeria
Pool D: Tunisia, Kenya, Algeria, Mozambique
Pool E: Cameroon, South Africa, Mauritius, Zimbabwe

SOUTH AMERICA (2 teams will qualify)
3. Phase
Pool A: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia
Pool B: Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador

NORCECA (5 teams will qualify)
3. Phase
Pool F: USA, Dominican R., Panama, Guatemala
Pool G: Puerto Rico, Barbados, Mexico, U.S. Virgin Islands
Pool H: Cuba, Canada, Suriname, Bahamas

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NORCECA (5 teams will qualify)
3. Phase
Pool F: USA, Dominican R., Panama, Guatemala
Pool G: Puerto Rico, Barbados, Mexico, U.S. Virgin Islands
Pool H: Cuba, Canada, Suriname, Bahamas

Pool G
Barbados - Mexico 0-3 (21-25 15-25 15-25) stats
Puerto Rico - Virgin Islands U.S. 3-0 (25-12 25-16 25-13) stats

Virgin Islands U.S. - Mexico 0-3 (19-25 19-25 15-25) stats
Barbados - Puerto Rico 0-3 (11-25 11-25 11-25) stats

Last matches:
Virgin Islands U.S. - Barbados
Puerto Rico - Mexico

Puerto Rico is the first to make it to Italy
Puerto Rico survived a dramatic five-setter against Mexico and became the first team qualified to the 2010 FIVB 2010 Men’s World Championship joining defending champions Brazil and hosts Italy. The score was 25-13, 23-25, 25-18, 24-26, 15-8.

Hector Soto and Jose Rivera paced the Puerto Rican attack with 24 and 23 points respectively and Victor Rivera added 13.

Jose Martell topped Mexico with 18 points and Gustavo Meyer and Carlos Guerra added 16 and 15 points respectively.

"We accomplished the goal, we wanted to win no matter the way," said Puerto Rican coach Carlos Cardona. "The whole night was complicated. Our serves failed and didn’t have the coordination in our settings. Obviously we feel happy because the objective of making it to Italy was reached."

"The goal was to make it to Italy and we did it", said Soto. "We played more than expected, as I think we should have been a three-set job."

Mexican coach Jorge Azair said: "We wanted this game badly but fell short in the tie-breaker. Now we need to keep working and try to make it in the next round."

As second place finishers, Mexico will have another option of reaching the Italy round in a four-team playoff tournament in August 26-31 against the runner-ups of two other third round Norceca’s competitions plus the best third place of those events.

Earlier on Friday, Barbados scored a 25-21, 25-21, 25-20 over U.S. Virgin Islands to finish in third place.

Shawn Simpson led Barbados with 16 points and Jelani Richards topped the losers with 11 tallies.

Soto was elected as Most Valuable Player and Best Scorer of the competition joining four other Puerto Ricans in the All-Star team.

Gregory Berrios earned the honors as Best Receiver and Libero, Enrique Escalante was the Best Server, Jose Rivera took the award as Best Attacker and Angel Perez was the Best Setter.

Mexicans Mario Becerra and Samuel Cordova were selected as Best Digger and Best Blocker respectively.

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Summary - qualified teams:
ASIA China, Australia, Japan, Iran
AFRICA Tunisia, Egypt, Cameroon
SOUTH AMERICA Venezuela, Argentina
NORCECA Puerto Rico, Cuba, USA, Canada, Mexico