Posts by Nima1993

Quote from mosi

that's no excuse . that wasn't on the match point. that was in middle of the set, the score was still 8-8 . that was just "one point" and mistakes happen (usually in favor of bigger teams), unfortunately you can't challenge such decisions. that's it . you can't change the call, focus on the next point.

If Heynen protests, that's part of his strategy. he does that when his team is playing bad. he wants to make a scene, change the momentum. but Marouf's protests alway;s hurt his own team much more.

True that but consider this: Marouf, Seyed and other Iranians because of their high level of over-emotional feelings in the court, always bothered even with the tiniest referees mistakes over the past years. Now in one of their biggest matches that reaction makes sense. I absolutely don't concur with their reaction since they are not acting like the professional players. This attitude always hurts them in so many important matches before...

This is the defining moment of set 5 Iran-Brazil where the violation clearly was against Brazil but Referee pissed Marouf and caused that drama afterwards.

Good Game Brazil. In my opinion Iran just lost to themselves not to Brazil, If the lucarelli's serve was not beneficial in the first points of the first set, Iran could win 3-0 . I don't want to mention the huge mistake of Iran in the second set, when they were leading 21-17 and lost it. Anyway my adrenaline is at the top of my head right now. I did not watch some amazing game like this for a while

OMG finally they got a set

22-22

if Iran lose this set they just should blame themselves

Lucarelli is killing Iran with his serves.

fireworks from both sides in set 1 . Very entertaining match so far.

Lucarelli aces

A few hours to the Iran's game and i know the possibility of victory for them is extremely low, but the miracle happened last time at the Iran's only participation in 2014 World League Finals in Italy, where they could beat brazil in their last game and advanced to the semi-finals. Just wish they fight till the last point, and we see an interesting match

amazing play by polish youngsters. Some unbelievable play from huber. The weak link in Iran side for sure was seyed. With this game I can't see any chance for Iran against mighty Brazil

I think with the Iran's loss to USA now USA is in the top 6 and the team arrangements in Chicago should like be in the following:
Iran,Brazil,Poland (possibly)
USA,Russia,France

Quote from WZP

I wish them to get visas.

I think there would be no problem based on the news i heard about the US embassy in Dubai told the federation that they have prepared 26 (don't know exact number) Visas for the team and staff

Finally after 2014 edition Iran is in final six. I wish the tiredness and the long trip don't affect on the players performance in Chicago

Quote from LDvolley

Too bad they blew that match with Poland the other day, with that win they would have a legitimate chance for the final 6 since they play Australia and China in the last weekend (also Russia though).

Exactly, Also the Brazil and Iran matches in Japan. I think with Mendez they possibly do much better in the upcoming tournaments like OQ or WC

Argentina deserved to get more wins this year, they were unlucky in some matches

Quote from andrea

Don’t know how their reaction would be like when they learn that it’s not a done deal yet

Exactly, some journalists mentioned it and now Kolakovic said he's gonna send the full team to the Bulgaria for the next week. I think this plan will hurt them physically for the F6.

Marouf just said in the press conference that they knew they are already qualified to the Chicago so they played with B squad

I thin the Iranian players thought they were already qualified now they are playing with full B squad.

WoW Iran is playing with its almost B team except Mousavi and Marouf

Quote from fan_of_volleybal

Considering BRA FRA ITA CAN will be in the same group, I was thinking whether all these related teams could end up above IRI. I did a math and logic game, and my conclusion is -- in theory the worst ranking of IRI could be #8, counting USA in as well.

To "realize" this, assuming IRI got the worst result -- losing all 4 remaining matches, and got 0 point. That'll be 5 losses and 30 points total.

CAN currently has 5 wins and 5 losses and 15 points , and needs all 5 wins with 15 points for all remaining 5 matches, including USA JPN FRA ITA and BRA. (their game vs USA is later today, maybe when you see my post, they already lost to USA, lol, but I'm talking about as of now). Then CAN would have same wins and points with IRI, and counting set ratio, there would be some cases (different combinations of 3-0 and 3-1) where CAN could be better than IRI.

POL has deficit in points if they have tie with others in number of losses (too many 3-2 wins), so would have to win all remaining 4 matches (ITA, JPN, POR, GER), to have 4 losses only to be above IRI, but as long as they could win all 4, whether that's 3-2 or 3-0 doesn't matter.

Now that CAN and POL both have to win all remaining, that means two more losses for ITA (to POL and CAN) already, so ITA has to beat BRA and FRA, then have 5 losses as well. But POL doesn't have to beat ITA in 4 sets. So if POL 3-2 ITA, and ITA beats BRA and FRA in 4 sets, ITA will collect 7 more points to have 31 points, 1 more point than IRI.

Now that both ITA and CAN have to beat FRA, that'll also mean 2 more losses for FRA, but FRA just needs to beat IRI and BRA in 4 sets to collect 6 points, that'll also give FRA 5 losses in total and 31 points, 1 more point than IRI.

Now that CAN, ITA, FRA all beat BRA, that'll mean 3 more losses for BRA, then as long as BRA beats RUS, BRA will have 4 losses in total.

RUS definitely can afford one loss to BRA, since their last 3 opponents are AUS ARG and CHN.

USA (yes, I know they qualified, but just do the math of ranking here...) just needs to beat CHN, SRB, IRI and BUL in 4 sets, losing to CAN, to have 5 losses as well, but also end up with 31 points.

So in the scenario above, RUS has 3 losses, BRA and POL have 4 losses, FRA, ITA, USA have 5 losses but 31 points, CAN has 5 losses and 30 points, but can have slightly better set ratio than IRI. So IRI can rank 8th.

FIVB needs a math teacher... lol

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Thanks for clarification