The Most Risky Match in Volleyball History (HD)

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Varna, Bulgaria, September 21, 2018 - Argentina delivered one of the biggest surprises at the 2018 FIVB World Championship! The South Americans defeated the unstoppable Polish machine by 3-2 (16-25, 25-19, 25-23, 23-25, 16-14) in the Palace of Culture and Sports.


The players coached by the legendary Julio Velasco lost the opening set, but were absolutely brilliant and achieved their third victory versus this opponent in the history of this major volleyball event!

In the opening set the current World Champions took the control on the field from the very first point and won it by 25-16.

Jakub Kochanowski topped the list of the Polish scorers with 5 points, whereas Bartosz Kurek, Artur Szalpuk and Aleksander Sliwka added 4 points each.
The second set was a completely different story. Argentinians stabilized their reception, the outside-spikers were brilliant in attack and led them to a 3-point advantage (17-14). The South Americans continued to play better and increased their lead by 20-15. In the end Pablo Crer was unstoppable in the middle and after an unforced Polish error in attack, Argentina won the set by 25-19.

Julio Velasko’s players made the perfect start in the third set and took an early 4-point advantage (8-4). A few minutes later Tomas Lopes and Jose Luis Gonzalez collided when trying to safe a ball near the net and Jose left the field with an injury. Despite this, Argentina managed to win the set by 25-23 after a perfect spike by Lisandro Zanotti.

In the fourth set Poland started to play a little bit better and the South Americans took a huge 3-point advantage (20-17). Despite this, in the end Damian Schulz stole the show with his powerful serve and Poland made a great come back, winning the set by 25-23.

Despite the end of the fourth set, Argentinians started pretty well the tie-break and were 3 points ahead (6-3). With a good block Poland managed to come back, making the result 9-8. A few minutes later the first referee of the match Ramirez Ortiz made two controversial decisions after repeated video checks. After them Poland were really close to make their 100th victory in the history of the World Championship (14-12). However, in the end the Argentinians showed great character and achieved a remarkable win after 16-14!

Cristian Poglajen topped the list of the scorers with 14 points for the winners! For Poland Artur Szalpuk finished with 19.

Julio Velasco, head coach of Argentina: „I am so happy because we won a very difficult match. I saw some controversial situations but we continued to play inspite of them. I am very, very proud of my team! It is practically impossible to qualify for the next round but we are here to give our best and play for the honor of our country. We were in the similar situation 4 years ago when we beat USA even we did not have a chance to qualify and now we did the same against Poland. This is the sport!”

Luciano De Cecco, captain of Argentina: “We wanted to win, we fought every set and we did it. I think we played an amazing game. We went on the field today for fun, to relax, to play our volleyball. We made some really good points. May be in the fourth set Poland made three really good serves and changed the result but in the tie-break we did a really good job. We enjoyed this game. We will come tomorrow to fight against Serbia and to try to make the best volleyball again.”

Vital Heynen, head coach of Poland: „It was a tough game. Both the teams were very close to the win. We can say that Argentina was a little bit more lucky but I tnink they won the tie-break because they were better. We had our chances but we were not using them at the end. Now we have a couple of hours to prepare for our next game tomorrow. This is the situation when you have 4 good teams in a pool. Sometimes you lose! It is part of life!”

Dawid Konarski, player of Poland: „We had our chances to stay undefeated and to get at least 2 points out of the game which were very important. We started well and easily won the first set. But then something happened and we began to make a lot of mistakes. We are dissapointed for sure but we have everything in our hands in the upcoming matches. I hope we will win them.”

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