08/07/2021 5:05 AM
Clarín.com
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Updated 08/07/2021 5:05 AM
The Argentine men's volleyball team beat Brazil in five sets and won the gold medal at these Olympic Games.
The sentence may well refer to
Seoul 1988
or Tokyo 2020. It is that 33 years later, volleyball returned to the podium by taking third place in an Olympic event against the same rival.
With an overall result of 3-2 (25-23, 20-25, 20-25, 25-17 and 15-13), those led by
Marcelo Méndez
prevailed in the Argentine morning of this Saturday against the Brazilian team, the last Olympic champion in Rio 2016 and first in the world ranking of the FIVB (International Volleyball Federation).
After the blockade of Agustín Loser that sealed the victory, the players were merged in an embrace when they learned that they were Olympic medalists.
One of the most emotional encounters was between
Facundo Conte
(match scorer with 13 points), and his father, Hugo, protagonist of the first and, until this Friday, the last Argentine volleyball medal in the Olympic Games.
In the capital of South Korea, 33 years ago, the national team achieved third place by beating Brazil, after being left out in the semifinals against the former Soviet Union.
The objective was fulfilled after an irregular initial phase, in which 'the generation of '82, as that team of Conte, Waldo Kantor, Daniel Castellani, Eduardo Martínez, Raúl Quiroga and Jon Uriarte was called, beat Tunisia. , Japan and the Netherlands and lost to the United States and France.
In the bronze match, it was 15-10, 15-17, 15-8, 12-15 and 15-9 for the team led by Luis Muchaga, who maintained the base of the team that had achieved third place in the World Cup. 1982 and added a youth Javier Weber.
Until this Saturday, that had been the best feat of Argentine volleyball in the Olympic Games.
From now on, it will share a place in history with the bronze medal achieved in Tokyo 2020, thanks to the members of this team: Sebastián Solé, Bruno Lima, Ezequiel Palacios, Luciano de Cecco, Nicolás Méndez, Martín Ramos, Santiago Danani, Agustín Loser, Facundo Conte, Cristian Poblajen, Federico Pereyra, Matías Sánchez and DT Marcelo Méndez.
Look also
Tokyo 2020: Facundo and Hugo Conte, responsible for an unprecedented feat in Argentine history
Tokyo 2020: Argentina beat Brazil a great game, made history and won the bronze medal
