{"id":48478,"date":"2019-10-16T01:40:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T01:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=48478"},"modified":"2019-10-16T01:40:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T01:40:20","slug":"alan-souza-named-mvp-in-2019-mens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/alan-souza-named-mvp-in-2019-mens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"ALAN SOUZA NAMED MVP IN 2019 MEN\u2019S WORLD CUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Hiroshima, Japan, October 15, 2019 \u2013 Brazil opposite Alan Souza was named Most Valuable Player of the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men\u2019s World Cup after leading his team to an undefeated run to win the gold medal for the third time.<\/p>\n<p>Alan and his teammates completed the golden run after beating Italy 3-0 (25-20, 25-22, 25-15) to sweep the tournament at the Hiroshima Green Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Alan tallied 165 points from 140 attacks, 10 blocks and 15 aces.<\/p>\n<p>He was joined in the Dream Team by two members of the gold-medal winning Brazilian squad &#8211; Lucas Saatkamp as Best Middle Blocker and Thales Hoss as Best Libero.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48480\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2-16.jpg 5184w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2-16-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2-16-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2-16-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2-16-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5184px) 100vw, 5184px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wilfredo Leon, who helped Poland to finish in second place also made it to the Dream Team as Best Outside Spiker, while two members each from the United States and Japan completed the Dream Team list.<\/p>\n<p>USA\u2019s Maxwell Holt won as Best Middle Blocker and Micah Christenson got the Best Setter award, while Japan\u2019s scoring tandem of Yuki Ishikawa and Yuji Nishida bagged the Best Outside Spiker and Best Opposite awards, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019 FIVB Volleyball Men\u2019s World Cup Dream Team<\/strong><br \/>\nBest Outside Spikers: Wilfredo Leon (POL), Yuki Ishikawa (JPN)<br \/>\nBest Middle Blockers: Maxwell Holt (USA), Lucas Saatkamp (BRA)<br \/>\nBest Libero: Thales Hoss (BRA)<br \/>\nBest Setter: Micah Christenson (USA)<br \/>\nBest Opposite: Yuji Nishida (JPN)<br \/>\nMost Valuable Player: Alan Souza (BRA)<\/p>\n<p>Related links of AVC<br \/>\nAVC Website: click www.asianvolleyball.net<br \/>\nAVC Facebook: click www.Facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation<br \/>\nAVC Twitter: click: https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley<br \/>\nAVC Instagram: click: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en<br \/>\nAVC Youtube: click: Asian Volleyball Confederation<br \/>\nAVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiroshima, Japan, October 15, 2019 \u2013 Brazil opposite Alan Souza was named Most Valuable Player of the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men\u2019s World Cup after leading his team to an undefeated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-volleyball-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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