2010 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship
The Volleyball World Championship for Men 2010 took place from September 25 to October 10 in Italy. The Brazilians were able to defend their title in the final against Cuba successfully. The German team reached the eighth rank and the best result since the World Cup 1974.
- 5.1 Europe
- 5.2 Africa
- 5.3 Asia
- 5.4 North and Central America
- 5.5 South America
Mode
The tournament began with a preliminary round into six groups (A-F ), each with four teams. The draw was held in Rome on 28 October 2009. The top three teams in each group reached the second round, which was held in six groups of three participants. The group winners and runners of the second round played in the third round in four groups of three. With the same score not set the ratio, but the ball point quotient ( BPQ ) the order of the rankings decided. After the three group stages the placement matches followed by the ranks of one to twelve.
Schedule
First round
In Group A, the hosts started with two clear victories against Egypt and Japan. Although the Iranian team was able to win two sets in the final match against Italy, but missed because of the poorer ball point quotient to the next round. In Group B Spain was defeated in the tiebreak against Cuba and after a hard fought match against Brazil. The Cubans secured in five sets against the South Americans win the group, while Tunisia remained winless.
The Russians occupied in Group C with three wins first place. The direct competitor of Puerto Rico lost the last game with 2:3. Cameroon came with the success against Australia, the first victory in a World Cup. In group D, the U.S. had to kick off against Mexico shoot a 0:2 behind, but managed undefeated to win the group. Argentina came second in the next round, while Venezuela could decide not set for itself.
The French were the competitors Czech Republic and Bulgaria, which progressed well, beat in the Group E first in the tiebreak. China had no chance with just winning a set. The German team cashed in Group F first significant defeat against Serbia and then succumbed to the group winners Poland in the tiebreak. By a 3-0 underdog against Canada came the DVV - selection because of the better ball point quotient still in the second round.
Second Round
Germany lost in Group G after its successful debut against Puerto Rico, the encounter with the host and ultimately benefited from the victory of the Italians against the Caribbean team. In group H the Serbs 3-1 against Cuba already handed to the first place, as both competitors had no problems with Mexico.
In group I attended the match between Russia and Spain for a controversial discussion about the mode, since the Russians deliberately lost by 2-0 to come second in the supposedly lighter group of the third round. After the Americans had lost in group L 0-3 to the Czech Republic, missed the outsider Cameroon against the Olympic champion just another success.
In group M, France secured after the defeat against Argentina with a victory against the retired Japanese second place. The European champions Poland was eliminated in group N after two 0-3 defeats. That the Brazilians then also won against Bulgaria no sentence, aggravated the public criticism of the tournament.
Third Round
The hosts reached in group O the semifinals undefeated. The U.S. team came after the victory against France in second place. In group P Serbia finished with two wins, the chances of the Russians on a front placement.
In group Q, Bulgaria and Cuba were after a 3-1 victory against Spain in the deciding game against the Cubans and reached despite two successive residue still the first rank. The German team was defeated in group R in three sets against Brazil after they had managed a 3-0 previously against the Czechs, who were inferior to the South Americans only in the tiebreak.
Finals and placement matches
In the first semi-final in Rome, Cuba began after a hard-fought match in the tiebreak by against Serbia. The Brazilians then defeated the host. Italy lost the next day and the match for third place. The defending champions handed in the final against Cuba three sets to win the World Cup again.
The German team won in Modena against the United States and Bulgaria no longer set for himself and finished at the end of the eighth. The Russians secured with a 3-0 win against the Olympic champion to fifth place.
Germany played with Patrick Steuerwald, Simon Tischer, Lukas Bauer, Marcus Böhme, Max Günthör, Georg Grozer, Jochen Schoeps, Björn Andrae, Denis Kaliberda, Robert Kromm, Sebastian Black, Thin Christian, Sebastian Prüsener and Ferdinand Tille.
In the classification matches in Florence, Argentina won against Spain and the Czech Republic. The French won the game at the eleventh place.
Full Time
Brazil won for the third time in a row the title. For the defeated finalists from Cuba it was the biggest success since 1990 when they reached the final at the World Championships in Brazil. The Serbs won after two fourth places a medal again. Germany was number eight, a better result for a German team had recently given it to the fourth place in the GDR in 1974. Germany played with Patrick Steuerwald, Simon Tischer, Lukas Bauer, Marcus Böhme, Max Günthör, Georg Grozer, Jochen Schoeps, Björn Andrae, Denis Kaliberda, Robert Kromm, Sebastian Black, Thin Christian, Sebastian Prüsener and Ferdinand Tille. Coach was Raúl Lozano.
Individual Awards
The new world champion had the most valuable player of the tournament in his team. For Cuba, it was enough despite the best blocker is not quite the title. Serbia came up with the best setter in the semifinals, while the other teams it maximum occupied the fifth rank in spite of their outstanding players.
Media
In Germany Sport 1 showed the games with German participation in a live Internet stream. The Games for places five to eight, however, were not to be seen online. Since early October, there were additional transfers on the new pay- TV channel Sport 1 .
Qualification
The continental qualifying matches were held from December 2008 to August 2009.
Europe
The European teams played eight starting positions next to hosts Italy. In the first round there were two triple and quadruple groups. The group winners Belarus, Latvia, Romania and Montenegro qualified for the second round, which was held in two fours and two groups of five. In Group E, the German team won against the White Russians and Croatia, reaching a second group behind Slovakia, the third round. In Group F, the Netherlands and Estonia were successful. For the other two groups of three teams came on, namely Portugal, Romania and Slovenia, Finland, Czech Republic and Belgium. The group winners and second of the four groups of four in the third round qualified for the World Cup. Germany finished second in Group I with victories over Finland and Belgium in second place behind Russia. Bulgaria and the Czech Republic prevailed against the Netherlands and Portugal; Poland and France won against Slovakia and Slovenia; Serbia and Spain occupied the first places ahead of Romania and Estonia.
Africa
The African qualification in which it went to three places, started with seven teams in the second round, of which only Malawi eliminated. In the third round, there were three groups of four, the winner is qualified for the World Cup. Egypt was successful against Nigeria, Morocco and Botswana. Tunisia won against Algeria, Kenya and Mozambique. Cameroon became group winners ahead of South Africa, Mauritius and Zimbabwe.
Asia
In the first round of Asian qualifying, in which four participants were identified, Tonga (group A), Pakistan and Bangladesh (Group B ) and all teams in Group C (Qatar, Oman and UAE) came on. The second round was carried out in three groups of four. The group winners Iran, Thailand and Kazakhstan as well as the runners- India reached the third round with two groups of four from which the top two teams qualified for the World Cup. In Group G China and Australia were successful against India and Thailand. In Group H, Japan and Iran prevailed against South Korea and Kazakhstan.
North and Central America
From the Association of NORCECA five teams qualified for the World Cup. In the first round, there were two groups of five, the winners of St. Lucia and Antigua / Barbuda reached the second round, which was held in two sixes and a group of seven. As group winners and second - Suriname, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mexico, the Bahamas, Panama and Guatemala came on. The three winners of the four groups in the third round (USA, Puerto Rico and Cuba) were directly qualified for Italy. The runners-up and third in the group played a playoff round in which Canada and Mexico prevailed against the Dominican Republic and Panama.
South America
The South American qualifying was held with eight participants into two groups of four. In Group A Argentina against Colombia, Chile and Bolivia was successful. Venezuela became winner of Group B against Paraguay, Uruguay and Ecuador.