The French volleyball team qualified in pain for the quarter-finals of the World Cup by beating Japan 3 sets to 2 (25-17, 21-25, 26-24, 25-22, 18-16) , Monday in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Les Bleus will face reigning European champions Italy on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., again in Ljubljana, and pursue their objective of a first World crown in the history of French men's volleyball, a year after the Olympic gold won in Tokyo.
