2020 Men's Intercontinental Olympics Qualification Tournament

Congrats Italy. That was the cleanest game I've ever seen from them since 2016. They deserve to qualify when you play with overwhelming quality.

And Italy beats Serbia 3:0 out of nowhere. Serves me well as I expected an easy Serbian win.

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I'll enjoy every second of european salt in this forum when Chile qualifies

Chile has a GOLDEN chance for their first ever olympic qualification. Maybe Colombia or Venezuela (which are a huge ?) could challenge them.

I think that in the next Southamerican Championship we could see the real chances of the other teams.

Serbia need to fire the coach, he's literally so useless. I feel like Serbia is not gonna make it to OG again. They never play well in the important matches. In January, it's gonna be the same... But they'll probably win VNL 2020

Atanasijevic choked again. Worse Serbia have setter problems. Jovovic with that kind of setting could injure his own players. Fortunately, everyone's fine.

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Serbia need to fire the coach, he's literally so useless. I feel like Serbia is not gonna make it to OG again. They never play well in the important matches. In January, it's gonna be the same... But they'll probably win VNL 2020

Grbic have to fire himself and return from retirement so he can be Serbia's setter again.

Bulgaria's MNT and WNT basically lost in the same fashion They were so close yet so far away, they'll never come out alive in January.

So sorry for Bulgaria 😟

France and Serbia was disappointing. I expected more from them.

On the other hand Bulgaria was a big surprise. They had their chance and lost it, but they played really well in the first 3 sets.

i know Chile or some other South America Nt are not close to european teams, but i will be glad to see Chile there. It will na good for the development in south america.

Bulgaria already played a great match overall. They missed the match point in set #3. I knew the momentum had been shifted since then. Serbia's serve and reception were off today, while Italy played great in every aspect. Looks like a repeating game of Italy vs Serbia in WCH 2018, but this time the role was reversed. Congrats to Italy. Now Serbia and France have to fight for another ticket in Euro area.

If I had to bet on someone I would say Germany, as it's their speciality to shine in one single match once in a few years, especially when playing home. Though I refuse to believe Serbia will throw away the Olympic ticket twice in a row.

Does anyone know the formula for the European qualification group? Will it be the usual one with pools, semifinals and final?

In my opinion Grbic must oversee Jovovic's choice of club before league season. His time in Turkey have degraded his abilities.

I'm so surprised Italy won in that way against Serbia. Congrats to the boys, good they already took the spot for Tokyo

Anyway they have to keep it up, they shouldn't play at their maximun when they want to. I hope this group finds its stability and manages to develop good game.

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Does anyone know the formula for the European qualification group? Will it be the usual one with pools, semifinals and final?

Same as always. CEV ranking after ECH will determine participants - 8 teams, 2 pool, semis and final.

After these qualification I can say that OG will have only 6 strong teams: Bra, Usa, Ita, Pol, Rus and European qualifier. Japan and Argentina will be strong opponents but with no chances for SF. I'm much more now against OGs diversity.

It was nice to see that Ivan and Osmany hugged each other when they won.

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It was nice to see that Ivan and Osmany hugged each other when they won.

Same here, though I don't understand why they seem to hate each other all of sudden. Of course it wouldn't be Italy without some kind of drama between players.

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I see we're still underestimating Argentina, huh? Okay.

Respect has to be earned. We've all been disappointed too many times.

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I see we're still underestimating Argentina, huh? Okay.

I think it will be the same as always, beat one big team in the pool and lose in QFs.