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Al Rayyan Club got a jolt before recovering to beat Al Wakra Club in four sets in the Qatar Volleyball Association League in Doha on Monday. At the QVA Hall, Al Rayyan Club dropped a set in extended points. The Lions kept facing a spirited resistance from the rivals but managed to clinch full three...
Camilo Soto, the Argentine who coached the national team to the FIVB World Under-23 Championship in Egypt this year, will guide Qatar’s national team. The 42-year-old signed the agreement with the QVA in Doha on Saturday, replacing Italian head coach Roberto Piazza. QVA President Ali Ghanim al Kuwari and QVA Board Member Mubarak Eid were...
The 22nd AVC General Assembly at the Centara Grand Hotel at CentralWorld Bangkok came to a fruitful conclusion on Wednesday, with agenda and the Minutes of the previous Assembly in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia two years ago getting approved and Zonal activity reports and proposals from Technical Committees made. AVC President Dr Saleh A. Bin Nasser...
Al Rayyan Club started from where they had left last season. The reigning Emir Cup winners launched the new Qatar Volleyball Association season with an inspiring 3-1 victory over Police to lift the Super Cup here on Friday. They lost the opening set but rallied back spiritedly to post a 20-25 25-23 25-22 25-23 victory...
For three successive years, the Super Cup featured Al Arabi Club against Al Rayyan Club. However this year, there is a change in the line-up as Policed forced their way into the one-off match that pits the League champions against the winners of the Emir Cup of the past season. The match is scheduled at...
The Qatar Olympic Committee Secretary General HE Jassim Rashid Al Boenin has applauded the glorious achievements made by the Qatar’ Beach Volleyball team who won both titles of 2017 Asia Pacific Beach Volleyball Championship in South Sumatra, Indonesia and AVC Volleyball Tour Grand Front Osaka Open in Japan. At a productive meeting held on Monday...
Promising Mariafe Artacho Del Solar/Taliqua Clancy captured the limelight on Sunday when the Australian duo captured the 6th South Sumatra Governor Cup AVC Beach Volleyball Tour Palembang Open at Jakabaring to win three consecutive major tournaments, as Qataris Cherif Younousse/Ahmed Tijan Janko took the men’s title. Artacho Del Solar/Clancy have already captured the women’s crown...
Qatar’s Julio De Nascimento and Ahmed Tijan emerged champions at the AVC Beach Volleyball Tour Grand Front Osaka Open on Monday. In the final they defeated Gilang Ramadan and Danangsyah Pribadi 21-15, 21-19. The Indonesians had beaten Qatar’s Jefferson Pereira/Cherif Younousse in the semifinals, but they were thoroughly outplayed by Julio and Tijan. Another Indonesian...
Qatar’s top national beach volleyball pair of Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younousse capped their gone by season with a career-high 18th ranking in the world. This was possible largely due to their superb run of three ninth-place finishes on the World Tour, which climaxed with the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Vienna. The...
Reigning champions Police got the top billing for the upcoming Qatar Volleyball Association Senior League, while Al Shamal secured the second spot and Al Wakrah were third. Powerhouses Al Arabi Club and Al Rayyan Club got the seventh and ninth rankings, respectively. In a new experiment, the QVA held the draws for rankings for the...