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Former champions Al Arabi Club of Qatar headed the Group E and will clash with Taiwan Power of Chinese Taipei for a place in the semi-finals of the SMM Asia Men’s Club Volleyball Championship on Sunday. In Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Al Arabi Club, who were runners-up last year, crushed local team Myanmar in straight...
Qatar League champions Al Arabi look the team to beat at the 17th Asian Clubs Championship in Myanmar from August 23 to 31. Sixteen teams are drawn into four groups at the annual Asian Volleyball Confederation-sanctioned event. The winners will get a direct entry into the FIVB Club World Championship in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, later...
emerged as GCC Under-20 champions with an all-win record in the round-robin format event held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Qatar started their campaign with a 25-13, 26-24, 25-23 victory against Bahrain. They then beat Oman 25-22, 25-19, 22-25, 25-23. Their last round -robin tie against Saudi Arabia was virtually a final and Qatar prevailed 26-24,...
Qatar beach volleyball team’s campaign at the Rio Games ended with a 13-21, 13-21 defeat to Russia in the round of 16 at the Copacabana Beach Arena here on Friday. Qatar’s Jefferson Pereira and Cherif Younesse who were making their debut in Olympics did their best, but the Russia’s Konstantin Semenov and Viacheslav Krasilnikov proved...
Qatar’s debutants Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younousse secured the first objective of their major mission by qualifying for the Rio Olympic Games beach volleyball elimination round with a gritty comeback triumph. At the Copacabana Beach on Wednesday, Asian Continental Cup champions Pereira and Younousse, who began playing together only last year, defeated European Continental...
Asian Continental Cup qualifiers Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younousse of Qatar brightened their chances of advancing to the knock-out stage of the Rio Olympic Games men’s beach volleyball with a gritty come-from-behind victory over FIVB World Tour veterans Adrian Gavira and Pablo Herrera of Spain on Monday. At the picturesque Copacabana Beach arena, Pereira and...
atar’s beach volleyball team of Jefferson Pereira and Cherif Younousse, who are making their debut in Olympics, went down fighting 16-21, 16-21 to leading US pair of Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson in their opening match at the Copacabana Beach Arena here on Saturday. The Qatari duo, who are drawn in Pool F will next...
Qatar beach volleyball team coach Pedro Paulo Costa and his pair of Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younnouse are eagerly waiting for the start of the men’s competition in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games at the majestic Copacabana Beach on August 6. After facing numerous ups and downs, including a change of partner, the 27-year-old Pereira finally settled with younger teammate...
As beach volleyball commemorates its 20th anniversary as an Olympic sport, debutants Qatar look for their own share of joy at the Games in Rio. Qatar’s Jefferson Pereira and Cherif Younousse, who made the Olympic cut by winning the Asian Volleyball Confederation’s Continental Cup in Australia, are relishing the prospect of playing at the exotic Copacabana...
Beach volleyball is yet to become truly popular in the country, but the Qatar Volleyball Association (QVA) is striving hard to take it to the masses. Though the country had its first tryst with the sport at the 2006 Asian Games, it picked up only after the launch of the Qatar Beach Volleyball Academy (QBVA) at...