{"id":62972,"date":"2021-07-11T08:57:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T08:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=62972"},"modified":"2021-07-11T08:57:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T08:57:47","slug":"iran-announces-tokyo-2020-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/iran-announces-tokyo-2020-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"IRAN ANNOUNCES TOKYO 2020 SQUAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><strong>Vladimir Alekno selects 11 players from the 2021 VNL squad and a Rio 2016 veteran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iran Volleyball Federation has announced the 12-player composition of their team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after a thorough selection process by their Russian coach Vladimir Alekno.<\/p>\n<p>Alekno trimmed down the 16-man team at a training camp, with 11 players coming from his 2021 FIVB Volleyball Nations League line-up and adding one veteran player with experience from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s 11 VNL players who will see action in Tokyo are setters Saeid Marouf, Javad Karimi, outside hitters Milad Ebadipour, Morteza Sharifi and Meisam Salehi, middle blockers Seyed Mousavi, Masoud Gholami and Aliasghar Mojarad, opposites Amir Ghafour and Saber Kazemi, and Arman Salehi.<\/p>\n<p>Marouf will lead the squad as captain for the second time at the Olympics with young apprentice Karimi also potentially orchestrating the plays this edition.<\/p>\n<p>Ebadipour, Mousavi and Ghafour will also make their second Olympic appearance and will take the lead in their respective positions. Also returning to Iran\u2019s Olympic line-up is libero Mahdi Marandi, a Rio 2016 veteran who did not play at the VNL.<\/p>\n<p>The team will be reinforced by promising talents Meisam Salehi and Kazemi, who had a breakthrough competition at the VNL. They will make their Olympic debut with Sharifi, Gholami, Mojarad and libero Arman Salehi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s Olympic Roster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 Setters<\/strong> \u2013 Saied Marouf, Javad Karimi<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 Opposites<\/strong> \u2013 Amir Ghafour, Saber Kazemi<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 Outside Hitters<\/strong> \u2013 Milad Ebadipour, Morteza Sharifi, Meisam Salehi<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 Middle Blockers<\/strong> \u2013 Seyed Mousavi, Masoud Gholami, Aliasghar Mojarad<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 Liberos \u2013<\/strong> Arman Salehi, Mahdi Marandi<\/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&nbsp;<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>Vladimir Alekno selects 11 players from the 2021 VNL squad and a Rio 2016 veteran The Iran Volleyball Federation has announced the 12-player composition of their team for the Tokyo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":62973,"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-62972","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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