The French volleyball team continued its flawless run for the first window of the League of Nations in Ottawa, winning 3 sets 0 (25-16, 25-23, 25-21) against the hosts of Canada on Friday night. After beating Italy (3-0) and then Serbia (3-1), the reigning Olympic champions, France, recorded their third victory in the same number of matches in this first round.
Arranged from the beginning of the week in Canada, the central Barthelemy Chinese was again one of the key players in the victory of the French with 15 points (10 attacks, 5 counterattacks). «I appreciate the focus, the energy of the team“, Stressed coach Andrea Gianni, who rotated his team a bit, appearing as Jeremy Muriel as a libero instead of Benjamin Diez, as he did during the attack, Pierre Derouyon in the transfers of եդ Medric Henri և Rafael Corre.
At the end of Sunday morning in Ottawa (11:00 local, 17:00 French), the Blues will complete this first window of the VNL against Poland, which is a two-time world champion, but will be presented in Canada with a renewed squad. Nikola Grbic’s team lost to Italy, but prevailed in Argentina. Two more windows, each with four matches, await the Blues: in late June in Quezon City (Philippines), in Osaka (Japan) in early July, until the possible final 8 in Bologna (Italy) on July 20-24. This VNL 2022 serves as a major preparation for the World Cup, scheduled for late August-early September in Slovenia: Poland.
Source: Le Figaro
