Iran’s volleyball team will play in the 6th edition of the Asian Men’s Volleyball Cup against host country, Taiwan, Wednesday aiming to raise the title count to four.
The reigning champion shares Group B with Australia and Taiwan with the second match against the Aussies on Thursday.
Kazakhstan, Japan and South Korea are in Group A while Thailand, Qatar and Vietnam are in Group C.
The honor of ‘most titles in the history of the biennial event’ goes to Iran with three titles in the 2008, 2010, and 2016 editions.
Behrooz Ataei, who managed the Iran U20 team to win the Asian title in July, is now in charge of managing Iran at the AVC Cup.
With his U20 team, Ataei achieved the sixth title for Iran in the history of the games.
Ataei’s team for the AVC Cup has a mix of the U20 and U23 team members.
The Asian Men’s Volleyball Cup, so-called the AVC Cup for Men, is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the top ten senior men’s national teams from among members of the Asian Volleyball Confederation.
Tenth team in the games was China, the winner of the 2012 cup in Vietnam. It boycotted the games following political issues with the host nation Taiwan.
Organized by the AVC and the Chinese Taipei Volleyball Association (CTVA), the tournament will be held in Taipei, Taiwan (referred to as Chinese Taipei by the AVC), from August 8-15.
As mentioned before, Iran won the U20 Asian title less than a month ago and also the Khatam Ardakan team from Iran bagged gold in the Asian Men’s Club Championship on Monday after beating Kazakhstan representative Atyrau in a cstraight set victory in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
Now Ataei’s team has to test its mettle to bring home the third continental title for Iran as well as the second for Ataei himself.
