Pan - American Cup in Mexico (Jun 21-30)

    GROUP A preliminar
    Date Time
    Jun 21 12:00 Dominican vs. Costa Rica
    Jun 21 16:00 USA vs. Argentina
    Jun 21 20:00 México vs. Trinidad & Tobago
    Jun 22 12:00 Costa Rica vs. USA
    Jun 22 16:00 Trinidad & Tobago vs. Dominican
    Jun 22 20:00 Argentina vs. México
    Jun 23 12:00 Trinidad & Tobago vs. Argentina
    Jun 23 16:00 Dominican vs. USA
    Jun 23 20:00 México vs. Costa Rica
    Jun 24 12:00 USA vs. Trinidad & Tobago
    Jun 24 16:00 Costa Rica vs. Argentina
    Jun 24 20:00 México vs. Dominican
    Jun 25 12:00 Trinidad & Tobago vs. Costa Rica


    GROUP B preliminar


    Jun 21 10:00 Cuba vs. Uruguay .
    Jun 21 14:00 Perú vs. Canadá .
    Jun 21 18:00 Brazil vs. Puerto Rico .
    Jun 22 10:00 Uruguay vs. Canadá .
    Jun 22 14:00 Perú vs. Brazil .
    Jun 22 18:00 Puerto Rico vs. Cuba .
    Jun 23 10:00 Brazil vs. Uruguay .
    Jun 23 14:00 Canadá vs. Cuba .
    Jun 23 18:00 Perú vs. Puerto Rico .
    Jun 24 10:00 Puerto Rico vs. Uruguay .
    Jun 24 14:00 Canadá vs. Brazil .
    Jun 24 18:00 Cuba vs. Perú .
    Jun 25 10:00 Perú vs. Uruguay .
    Jun 25 14:00 Puerto Rico vs. Canadá .
    Jun 25 18:00 Brazil vs. Cuba .



    - The first place of each group goes directly to the semis, and the second and third place will play in quaterfinals for the other two spots.


    - top 4 teams will qualify for the WGP 2008


    - All countries are with their best teams, except Brazil that is sending the U-20 team (the same one that will play at the Junior WCH 2007 in Thailand, and USA that is sending a mixture of experience and young players.


    - Some big stars: Barros, Ruiz, Calderon (cuba), Natalia (brazil), Stacey Gordon (canada), Robyn Ah Mow-Santos (USA), Vargas (dominican), Cruz (Puerto Rico)

    Quote from "paivavita"

    I think that brazil, curba,usa and dominican republic will not dificute to classificate to WGP 2008.


    Today's match between Brazil and Puerto Rico will be important for both teams. Last year in the previous Pan Cup edition, Puerto Rico beat the main brazilian team 3x2.....

    PANAMERICAN CUP - DAY 1 - RESULTS


    GROUP A


    USA 3x1 ARGENTINA 17-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-16
    DOMINICAN 3x0 COSTA RICA 25-21, 25-22, 25-10
    MEXICO 3x0 TRINIDAD 25-10, 25-19, 25-8


    GROUP B


    CUBA 3x0 URUGUAY 25-13, 25-11, 25-14
    BRASIL 3x0 PUERTO RICO 35-33, 25-23, 25-19
    PERU 3x2 CANADA 25-21, 21-25, 31-29, 16-25, 16-14

    Today Brazil beat Peru in straight sets


    Brazil 3-0 Peru (25-18, 25-23, 25-16)


    Brazil has almost qualified for 2008 World Grand Prix, once the best South American team and the top-3 teams from Norceca qualify for this competition. It seems Brazil will finish second on its pool and neither Peru nor Argentina will qualify for the second round in their pools.

    Puerto Rico 3 - 2 Cuba (20-25, 25-15, 17-25, 25-20, 15-13)


    What amazed me is that Cuba played with its main players: Yumilka Ruiz, Nancy Carillo, Rosir Calderón and so on.


    You guys can find more about it on the following link:


    http://www.fpvoleibol.com/noti…s_femenino_noticias&id=16

    PAN AMERICAN CUP DAY 2 RESULTS


    GROUP A
    USA 3x0 COSTA RICA 25-14, 25-15, 25-13
    DOMINICAN 3x0 TRINIDAD 25-7, 25-9, 25-10
    ARGENTINA 3x0 MEXICO 25-19, 25-22, 25-14


    GROUP B
    PUERTO RICO 3x2 CUBA 20-25, 25-15, 17-25, 25-20, 15-13 :shock:
    BRASIL 3x0 PERU 25-18, 25-23, 25-16
    CANADA 3x0 URUGUAY 25-16, 25-17, 25-13


    - As said before, Puerto Rico could be a nice surprise in this tournament
    - Brasil represented with the U-20 team is shining. Two clear wins and is the only unbeaten team in Group B. Natalia 1,88 and Malu 1,97 the stars.

    Quote from "Celso"

    Puerto Rico 3 - 2 Cuba (20-25, 25-15, 17-25, 25-20, 15-13)


    What amazed me is that Cuba played with its main players: Yumilka Ruiz, Nancy Carillo, Rosir Calderón and so on.


    Oooooooooooo, unbelievable lol

    Brazil 3 - 1 Canada (25-22, 25-22, 23-25, 25-19)


    Tomorrow Brazil's Junior Team will play against Cuba's A-team. If Brazil were able to beat Cuba that will be a major surprise for me.


    One thing is worth remarking: since the Pan-American Cup started to be a WGP qualification tournament, Brazil's Team qualified for the Grand Prix with its Junior Team. The only exception was the 2006 edition of this tournament, in which Brazil's team was represemted by the adult team without its main players.

    Quote from "Celso"

    Brazil 3 - 1 Canada (25-22, 25-22, 23-25, 25-19)


    Tomorrow Brazil's Junior Team will play against Cuba's A-team. If Brazil were able to beat Cuba that will be a major surprise for me.


    One thing is worth remarking: since the Pan-American Cup started to be a WGP qualification tournament, Brazil's Team qualified for the Grand Prix with its Junior Team. The only exception was the 2006 edition of this tournament, in which Brazil's team was represemted by the adult team without its main players.


    Well, it happens that there is only one spot available to the WGP 208 for the best south american team in the competition, and Brazil is some steps ahead of Argentina and Peru. In addition, both Argentina and Peru were not allowed to participate in any Fivb tournament for 2 years because of problems with their national federations, and this affected their development.


    On the other hand, it is true that brazil is participating with their junior team but these junior players are big stars in the brazilian league (natalia, for instance, was the top scorer of the last edition of the brazilian tournament, and I think she will get a spot in the main team in Beijing.


    Still, if this brazilian team (juniors) is able to beat the Cuba 'A' team in today's match (Ruiz, Calderon, Barros, Santos, etc), i'd be in shock :shock: :wink2:

    VI PANAMERICAN CUP - DAY 3 RESULTS


    USA 3x2 DOM: 25-20, 18-25, 26-24, 18-25, 15-13
    COSTA RICA 3x2 MEX: 25-20, 18-25, 26-24, 18-25, 15-13
    ARG 3x0 T&T: 25-10, 25-11, 25-12


    CUBA 3x0 CAN: 25-14, 25-16, 25-18
    BRA 3x0 URU: 25-13, 25-16, 25-14
    PUERTO RICO 3x0 PERU: 25-20, 25-16, 25-21

    do you have any info about the teams?ı wonder whether stacey gordon plays for canada national team or not?or any web page we can find info.about these matches?

    thanks justyna and celso

    Quote from "DEMIR17"

    do you have any info about the teams?ı wonder whether stacey gordon plays for canada national team or not?or any web page we can find info.about these matches?


    Yes Demir, Stacey Gordon is playing for Canada in this tournament.....
    she is been consistenlty the most valuable player for her team, however they lost 4 games and beat only Uruguay :(


    They will play tomorrow for places 9 and 10 against Mexico.

    Quote from "xopxeech"

    Yes Demir, Stacey Gordon is playing for Canada in this tournament.....
    she is been consistenlty the most valuable player for her team, however they lost 4 games and beat only Uruguay :(


    They will play tomorrow for places 9 and 10 against Mexico.


    thanks for the info,xopxeech she was playing for eczacıbaşı for the last two seasons and next season she is going to play for tenerife with neslihan and ı was a bit curious about her play.

    Brazil lost to Cuba in the last match of the preliminary round


    Cuba 3 - 0 Brazil (25-22, 25-19, 25-18 )


    In the quarterfinals, the results were:


    Brazil 3 - 0 Argentina (25-11, 25-19, 25-18 )


    Dominican Republic 3 - 2 Puerto Rico (25-17, 21-25, 25-27, 25-17, 15-07)


    Cuba, USA, Dominican Republic and Brazil qualified for next year's WGP.


    The semifinals of this competition will be:


    USA vs. Brazil


    Cuba vs. Dominican Republic

    SEMIFINALS


    BRASIL 3x0 USA 25-15, 25-15, 25-18


    CUBA 3x0 DOMINICAN 28-26, 25-22, 25-18


    Brazilian young players once again showed impressive high level skills.


    Tonight is the gold medal game between Brazil (U-20 team) and Cuba main team.