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Post by lionsarm on Sept 15, 2014 14:04:17 GMT -5
Groups are out:
Katowice: France, Germany, Iran
Lodz: Poland, Brasil, Russia
here's the video to the drawing of lots:
some ironic and tragic (for poland) observations:
1) Because Brasil and France finished atop of their respective groups in the second phase, they were separated and could not be drawn together. no controversy there. therefore the remaining four teams (poland, iran, germany, russia) were all put into a pot and representatives from each of the four teams were called to pick out of the pot.
2) a polish representative picked his own team to go into brasil's group!
3) french rep, coach laurent tillie, picked russia to go into brasil/poland group, then fellow frenchman staphane antiga (polish coach) smiles at tillie as if to say "thanks a lot". hahahaha
should be fantastic 3rd phase leading to the final four.
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Post by eastcoastvolleyball on Sept 15, 2014 21:56:35 GMT -5
France definitely has the easier pool
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Post by lionsarm on Sept 18, 2014 14:04:05 GMT -5
france just won their pool after taking first game from iran. iran has no chance of advancing even if they win 3-1 because they got swept by germany. France and Germany onto the semis
poland just won the first game. needs one more game to eliminate russia. russia looks out of it. russia needs to win 3-1 to eliminate poland and go through with brasil. if poland wins 3-0 or 3-1, they win the group and brasil is second.
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Post by lionsarm on Sept 18, 2014 14:30:11 GMT -5
russia is out! poland up 2-0. with the way it's going, i imagine poland will either sweep or win 3-1, and they will win the group.
medal rounds look like:
poland - germany
brasil - france
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Post by kokyu on Sept 20, 2014 14:43:47 GMT -5
So looks like Brazil vs Poland in the final tomorrow, couldn't ask for a better match up. Brazil going for record breaking 4th consecutive WC title.
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