Paykan leaves for Kazakhstan to attend 2018 Asian Women’s Club Volleyball C’ship
The champion of Iranian Volleyball Super League Paykan has left Tehran for Kazakhstan to attend the 2018 Asian Women’s Club Volleyball Championship. The Iranian club has been seeded with the host country Kazakhstan, as well as Taiwan and Vietnam in group B of the tournament. Thailand, China, Japan are pitted in group A, while in […]
Iran’s Saber Kazemi Joins Turkey’s Ziraat Bankası
Iran international opposite Saber Kazemi joined Turkey’s Ziraat Bankası volleyball team. The 19-year-old player was a true revelation for Iran national team in Volleyball National League. Kazemi was a member of Iranian Super League newcomer Shams Tehran last season. Iranian outside spiker Farhad Ghaemi had already joined the Turkish giant in early June. Ziraat Bankası […]
Iran Beats Thailand Asian Men’s U-18 Volleyball Championship
Host Iran pulled off a dramatic 3-1 victory over Thailand at Poursharifi Gymnasium in Tabriz at the 12th Asian Men’s U-18 Volleyball Championship. Iran proved much stronger than Thailand to win the first two sets 25-19, 25-20, but Thailand staged a successful comeback in the third and beat Iran 25-22. In the fourth set, Iran […]
Iran beat S. Korea in Volleyball National League
An energetic effort from Saber Kazemi overwhelmed Korea and provided plenty of cheer for enthusiastic local fans in the FIVB Volleyball Nations League on Friday. Both teams were playing for pride having been eliminated from the finals race and favorites Iran proved too strong with a hard-fought 3-1 (27-25, 23-25, 25-22, 25-23) triumph – their […]
USA wins Iran 3-0: VNL
Iran’s national volleyball team lost the match 3-0 to USA at the fourth week of Volleyball Men’s Nation League (VNL). The match was held in Chicago on Monday morning and Kolakovic’s men couldn’t earn a point. Iran didn’t stun the spectators and lost the match in three straight sets (29-27, 25-20, 26-24). Milad Ebadipour and […]
Asian Women’s U-19 Volleyball C’ship: Iran Suffers Narrow Defeat to Australia
Iran lost to Australia 3-2 (25–15, 25–15, 23–25, 21–25,12–15) in the 2018 Asian Women’s U-19 Volleyball Championship on Monday. Iran will play Macau on Tuesday. The 2018 Asian Women’s U-19 Volleyball Championship is a biennial international volleyball tournament organized by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Volleyball Federation of Vietnam (VFV) for the women’s under-19 […]
VNL: Russia beat plucky Iran
Dmitriy Muserskiy offers his teams much with his spiking ability and his massive block, but today it was only the attacking side of his game that really functioned, but boy did it function. In a match where every set was decided by a few key moments, the 24 points scored by Russia’s number 13 – […]
Iran wins Argentina in VNL
Iran secured a nail-biting 3-2 victory over Argentina in the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) on Friday. The second week of VNL competitions kicked off in San Juan, Argentina, where Kolakovic’s men proved their quality against their former coach Julio Velasco. Iran won the second, third and fifth sets (25-22, 25-22 and 15-9) while losing first […]
Iran Loses to Chinese Taipei in Asian Women’s U-17 Volleyball C’ship
Iran suffered a 3-0 (25-13, 25-13, 25-15) defeat against Chinese Taipei at the 2018 Asian Women U-17 Volleyball Championship on Saturday. The Iranian girls will play India on Sunday in a play-off match for the 7th place. Iran started the tournament with a 3-0 win against New Zealand in preliminary round but advanced to the […]
VNL: Ngapeth stars for France against Iran
Earvin Ngapeth’s 18 points compensated France’s inconsistency as Les Bleus claimed a 3-1 victory over Iran (25-20, 24-26, 25-20, 25-17) in Friday’s action at the 2018 Nations League. The Zenit Kazan outside hitter was unstoppable as he scored 18 points to lead the local team in front of the home crowd to make up for […]