In their last game in the Asian Clubs Cup volleyball team, the Cam Air Afghanistan volleyball team defeated the representative of Kuwait and took the seventh place in this competition.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): Cam Air (Afghanistan) and Sporting Club (Kuwait) teams met each other at 2 o'clock yesterday (Saturday) to determine the seventh place. Com Air team won 3-1 in this match and defeated Sporting Club (Kuwait) with scores (25-19, 25-20, 23-25, and 29-27) and placed in the seventh place of this competition.

In the first set of this match, Hamid Mowahdi's students played a beautiful game and with a good progress compared to their initial games, they were able to defeat the Sporting Club Kuwait team 25-19 in this set.

The second set also continued with the superiority of the Afghan team and with unique coordination, it was able to register a score of 25-20 in its favor by maintaining the difference in points until the end of the set.

In the third set, however, in a tight competition, the Sporting Club team (Kuwait) overtook the Afghan opponent and recorded the result of this set with two differences and with a score of 25-23, so that the match was extended to the fourth set.

The students of the Iranian head coach of the Afghanistan volleyball team, who learned well in the Asian Clubs Cup volleyball competitions, finished the fourth set of the match with the result of 29-27 in an attractive and breathtaking competition. Also, in this set, "Abdullah Boftin", the passer of the Kuwait team, received a yellow card due to his protest in the opinion of the referee.

Indra Muflih from Indonesia and Alireza Gharib from Iran were the first and second judges of this match, respectively.

Kam Air (Afghanistan) experienced two defeats against Foulad Sirjan and Al-Ryan of Qatar in the preliminary stage and succeeded in defeating Gaz Al-Janoob in the third game of this stage. This team lost to the representative of Kazakhstan in the quarter-final stage to continue the competition for the 5th to 8th places. In the semi-final stage, the country's representative players lost the result to Iraq's Gaz Al-Janoob and won the seventh place in their last match against Sporting Club Kuwait.

This year, the representative of Afghanistan is experiencing his fifth appearance in the Asian men's club championship, which has also recorded his best performance. Our country's representative was 12th in 2011 and 2012, 14th in 2023 and 15th in 2015.

The Sporting Club (Kuwait) volleyball team experienced three defeats against the representatives of Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Iran (Shohdab Yazd) in the preliminary stage, and was defeated by Folad Sirjan of Iran in the first elimination stage to avoid being among the top four teams. The representative of Kuwait was defeated by Al-Ryan of Qatar in the semi-final stage and lost against the representative of Afghanistan in their last match and settled for the eighth place in this competition.

It should be mentioned that the ranking and final matches of these competitions will be held at 2:05 PM today (Sunday, 25 Sanblah) in the exclusive hall of Shahdab in Yazd.

The Iranian head coach of the country's volleyball team: participation in the Asian Club Cup was the best training class
The head coach of our country's Com Air team, who is participating in the Asia Club Cup volleyball tournament in Yazd, said in a conversation with the media: "Participating in this competition was the best training session for the inexperienced players of the Afghanistan team."

On Saturday, Hamid Mohadi stated that the players of the Afghan team did not have the experience of participating in international competitions and added: "It has been a month since we formed the Afghan team by testing the players. Unfortunately, due to the lack of facilities, we could not get the results we should have; even In training, we used old balls.

Stating that we entered this tournament without a preparatory game, he continued: We performed well in this tournament compared to the little experience the team had. We are trying to get better results in the next competitions in Central Asia by gaining experience in these competitions.

Regarding the continuation of the cooperation with the Afghanistan Cam Air team, Mohadi said: The players are talented, they just need more training and experience.

He added: On the third day of the Asian Club Cup volleyball tournament, we managed to defeat the Iraqi team 3-0, which was far from the expectations of many. In the quarter final stage against Kazakhstan, it was a life and death game, the sensitivity and stress of the game did not allow our less experienced kids to overcome their stress and show their main performance.

He said: The teams present in this tournament are very strong and the level of the tournament is very high. Also, two Iranian teams, Shahdab Yazd and Folad Sirjan, are playing a great game, and other teams have strengthened their teams with foreign players. In any case, we are happy. We participated in these games because it is the best training class for our team.