Argentina achieved a valuable victory over Iran to get a little closer to the Olympic Games

The men’s volleyball team closed the window of victory with a huge victory. League of Nations who disputed in Rio de Janeiro and continues to feed the illusion of qualifying for the Paris Olympic Games. The team led by Marcelo Mendez defeated Iran 3 to 2 (partials 23-25, 31-29, 20-25, 25-20 and 15-13). Thus, he said goodbye to the city of Rio with two wins and two losses and took good points for the Olympic ranking that will distribute five tickets to the event in the French capital.

Bruno Limawith 20 points, was the top scorer of the albiceleste team, in which they were also decisive Facundo Conte (15 points) and Nicolás Zerba (16).

Argentina started the game stronger, but then lost confidence in defense and was more irregular, which allowed Iran to grow. With the match very even, everything was decided in the tie break of the fifth set, which was point by point until 13-11, in which the South Americans got two ahead with a block of Luciano Palonsky that led to the victory and an attack by Lima that sealed the 15-13 score.

The light blue and white team had debuted in the window with two losses in a row against Japan (3-1) y Brazil (3-2), but recovered and closed with two wins, since on Saturday they had defeated 3-1 Germany.

Thus, he finished ninth in the table that qualifies the first eight to the final round. And it is placed eighth in the ranking that will define the last qualifiers for Paris; Although it has only two countries ahead that have not yet secured their place, Italia y Sloveniaso today it is in the Olympic tournament.

The team will play from June 4 to 9, a new window in Ottawa, Canada, where the group will share with the local team, Italy, the United States, France, Serbia, the Netherlands and Cuba. And the initial phase will close from the 18th to the 23rd in LjubljanaSlovenia, where the home team, Poland, Italy, Serbia, Turkey, Cuba and Bulgaria will also play.

The day after that last week of competition – which will also have action in Manila-, the Olympic ranking will be published that will complete the list of teams that will compete in the Paris event.

Meanwhile, the final round of the Nations League will be played from June 27 to 30 in LodzPoland.