Iran, Japan Korea and India are teams from Asia to compete in the world’s premium U19 men’s event, starting on Wednesday in San Juan
The youth national teams of France and Italy against each other in Europe’s 2022 continental final (source: cev.eu)
The 18th edition of the FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U19 World Championship will take place in San Juan over the next 10 days. The northwestern Argentinean city is set to welcome the world’s best 20 youth national teams from Wednesday, August 2, through Friday, August 11.
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The U19 World Championship will get underway at 11:00 local time (14:00 UTC) on Wednesday with two simultaneous matches on the two competition courts. India will take on France in a Pool B game, while Nigeria and Puerto Rico lock horns in a Pool C encounter.
The 20 participating teams were split into four single round-robin pools of five for the pool stage of the championship to be played over the first five competition days. On each of the five days, the matches in Pool B (Bulgaria, France, India, Japan, Slovenia) and Pool C (Colombia, Iran, Korea, Nigeria, Puerto Rico) will be played with starting times 11:00 local (14:00 UTC) and 14:00 (17:00). The games in Pool D (Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Italy, Mexico) will start at 17:00 (20:00) and 20:00 (23:00), while those in Pool A (Argentina, Costa Rica, Egypt, Serbia, United States) will serve off at 18:00 (21:00) and 21:00 (00:00).
The top four teams from each of the four pools will progress to the eighthfinals to start the direct elimination phase, during which each win means advancement to the upper tier of the next stage in the bracket and each loss means moving down to the lower tier of the next stage in the bracket until the final classification matches on August 11, which will fill up the places from first to sixteenth in the final standings.
The remaining four teams, those that finish fifth in their pools, will play a single round-robin to determine the final standings from 17th to 20th place.
The previous 17 editions of the youth boys’ world championships were held from 1989 to 2021. Argentina will host the event for the third time, after doing so in 2011 and 2015, and it will be the first country to do so in the history of the competition. Mexico and Iran have welcomed the tournament twice each.
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