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| Did you know... | | | | 1974-1976)... |
| Boris Yeltsin -who was president of the Russian | | | | The Netherlands men's national volleyball team was |
| Federation- was a volleyball player. Russia hosted the | | | | coached by Arie Selinger, who had previously led the |
| Boris Yeltsin Cup in 2008. | | | | U.S. women's volleyball team to Olympic silver medal in |
| The Japanese men's team won the gold medal at the | | | | 1984... |
| Munich Olympics in 1972. Japan beat East Germany | | | | Bulgaria hosted the FIVB Men's Volleyball World |
| 3-1 in the final. This team also won the gold medal at | | | | Championships in 1970. |
| the 1970 Asian Games in Bangkok (Thailand). The | | | | Final standings: |
| Olympic players were: Yoshihide Fukao, Kenji Kimura, | | | | 1.East Germany (now Germany) |
| Masayuki Minami, Jungo Morita, Yuzo Nakamura, | | | | 2.Bulgaria |
| Katsutoshi Nekoda, Tetsuo Nishimoto, Yasuhiro | | | | 3.Japan |
| Noguchi, Seijo Oko, Tetsuo Sato, Kenji Shimaoka, | | | | 4.Czechoslovakia (now Slovak Republic) |
| Todayoshi Yokota. | | | | 5.Poland |
| The FIVB (Federation Internationale de Volleyball) is | | | | 6.USSR (now Russia) |
| one of the most successful sports organizations in the | | | | 7.Romania |
| world. Dr. Ruben Acosta (president of the FIVB) said, | | | | 8.Belgium |
| "There are no secret to success. Just organization, | | | | 9.North Korea |
| administration and management, sharing know-how | | | | 10.Hungary |
| and skills, and seizing opportunities..." | | | | 11.Brazil |
| In 2006, the United States was defeated by | | | | 12.Cuba |
| Venezuela at the Men's Volleyball World | | | | 13.Holland |
| Championships in Tokyo (Japan)... | | | | 14. Italy |
| In 1952, India was among 8 countries which took part in | | | | 15.Mongolia |
| the First Women's World Championships in Moscow | | | | 16.France |
| (USSR). | | | | 17.USA |
| The United States men's volleyball squad finished 6th | | | | 18.Israel |
| place in the Volleyball World League. The team | | | | 19.Finland |
| members were: Marc Jones (played for SDSU), | | | | 20.Iran |
| Parker Blackman (played for Stanford), Allen Allen | | | | 21.Tunisia |
| (played for Hawaii ), Dan Greenbaum (played for USC | | | | 22.Venezuela |
| ), Uvaldo Acosta (George Mason), Craig Buck (El | | | | 23.Guinea |
| Charro PD, Italy), Bryan Ivie (USC), Jose Gandara | | | | The U.S. men's volleyball team has participated in nine |
| (UCSB), Tom Sorenson (Pepperdine), Eric | | | | Summer Olympics: Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968, Los |
| Sato(SMCC), Brent Hilliard (CSULB), Jon Root | | | | Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta |
| (Stanford), Scott Fortune (Stanford), Carlos | | | | 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008... |
| Briceño (Hawaii), Bob Samuelson (CSUN), Mark | | | | America has qualified for the 2012 London Olympic |
| Arnold (Pepperdine), Mark Kerins (CSULB), Shirman | | | | Games... |
| Trevor (UCLA), Javier Gaspar (Penn Saint), Dan | | | | Julio Velasco was assistant coach for Argentina at |
| Hanan (Stanford). | | | | the FIVB Men's World Cup in 1982. Seven years later, |
| South Korea has contributed greatly to the | | | | Julio, who was born and grew up in Buenos Aires |
| development of volleyball in the world. In the past | | | | (Argentina), was head coach of the Italian men's |
| century, this Asian nation sent several coaches to Latin | | | | national volleyball team, one of the world's five |
| America and other countries: Man Bok Park (Peru, | | | | greatest volleyball teams. |
| 1975-1993), Young Wang Sohn (Argentina, 1977-1983), | | | | |