Trento, 04 January 2020

National Teams, in Berlin takes place the olympic qualification tournament

The new year of the male volleyball officially starts with the activity of the national teams: in fact, the Olympic qualifying tournament for eight European selections starts on Sunday January 5^th in Berlin (Germany) and until Friday January 10^th they will try to gain the pass to Tokyo 2020.
Four players from Trentino Volley will also be competing for a place in the five-circle games: Klemen Cebulj with Slovenia, Jenia Grebennikov with France, Uros Kovacevic and Srecko Lisinac with Serbia. The first of three potential derbies between yellow-blue players in the German capital will take place on the opening day with the match between France and Serbia. In fact, in the first pool phase of the tournament the two national teams were included in Pool B, which also includes the Netherlands and Bulgaria. Pool A is instead composed of Slovenia, Belgium, Czech Republic and Germany.
The first two classified in each group will qualify for the semifinals of Thursday 9^th; the final will take place on Friday 10^th at 8.10pm. All the matches of the tournament will be streamed live on Eurovolley Tv, the official web TV of CEV (service on payment).

The schedule of the matches of the four players in the Berlin Olympic tournament (Italian time zone):

Sunday January 5^th
1.30pm France-Serbia (Grebennikov, Kovacevic and Lisinac)
4.30pm Slovenia-Belgium (Cebulj)

Monday January 6^th
2.00pm Netherlands-Serbia (Kovacevic and Lisinac)
5.00pm France-Bulgaria (Grebennikov)  

Tuesday January 7^th
8.10pm Germany-Slovenia (Cebulj)

Wednesday January 8^th
2.30pm Serbia-Bulgaria (Kovacevic and Lisinac)
5.30pm Slovenia-Czech Republic (Cebulj)
8.45pm France-Holland (Grebennikov)

Thursday January 9^th
Semi-finals (times to be determined)

Friday January 10^th
Final (8.10pm)

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