AVC Men’s Volleyball Championship 2023 / Samurai think of the 10th gold

The Japanese national volleyball team is thinking of winning the same gold medal in the 22nd Asian Men’s Championship.

The 22nd Asian Men’s Volleyball Championship will start tomorrow (Saturday, August 19) and will continue until August 26, hosted by the city of Urmia, with the participation of 17 teams.

A red circle, which is the symbol of the sun, in the middle of a white rectangle, is the symbol and symbol of Japanese identity. A country known as the land of the shining sun has come to Urmia with its national volleyball team to turn the color of the 2023 League of Nations bronze medal into gold in the 2023 Asian Men’s Championship. If until yesterday, Japan was Iran’s traditional rival in football, for several years, due to the upward growth of Iranian volleyball, these two countries are traditional rivals in Asian volleyball as well, and every now and then they clash in the finals of tournaments.

63-year-old Frenchman Philippe Blain, who came to Asia for adventure, won a bronze medal in the Volleyball Nations League in his first tournament with Japan, and now he is looking to continue this successful process in the Asian Men’s Volleyball Championship. The Japanese have won 9 gold, 4 silver, and 4 bronze medals in the men’s volleyball championship of Asia, they have won 17 colorful medals from 21 rounds of this competition.

Japan, which has entered this competition with all its stars and even brought the legendary Yūki Ishikawa and Nishida to Urmia, wants nothing but a championship from Urmia. The team that started its upward trend in volleyball in the 1960s and 1970s won bronze in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and turned the previous bronze medal into a silver medal in the 1968 Mexico Olympics

It is interesting to note that it was in this Olympics that the Japanese invented a new style of pass and attack in volleyball, and that was the speed pass and spike. A style that has become one of the most important attack styles in volleyball today and has completely changed the face of volleyball.

In addition to three Olympic medals, the Japanese have two silver medals in the World Cup, one bronze medal in the Champions Cup, 9 championships, 4 runners-up, and 4 third places in the Asian Men’s Championship, and a bronze medal in the League of Nations. Add Asian volleyball to your hall of fame. A task that seems difficult despite a highly motivated and powerful team like Iran, which has the privilege of hosting.

The Japanese, who have not had a tall volleyball player in their volleyball history, entered the tournament with an average height of less than 190 steps, but they counted on the amazing jumps of Nishida and Yūki Ishikawa. We have to wait and see which team’s fate will be tied in the 22nd edition of the Asian Men’s Volleyball Championship in the finals and what will be the result.