Girls’ U17 World Champs to serve off on Saturday

16 teams representing all five continental confederations will write history as they compete in the first ever FIVB Volleyball Girls’ U17 World Championship. The inaugural edition of the competition is set to get underway on Saturday, August 17, in the Peruvian capital Lima and will continue through next Saturday, August 24, with all participating squads playing matches on each of the seven competition days.

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The U17 girls’ national teams of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Thailand and Türkiye have been split into four single round-robin pools of four. Their places in the final pool standings will determine the teams’ starting positions in the playoff bracket.

The playoff battles will start with the eighthfinals. Then all 16 teams will go through another three rounds of elimination matches (quarterfinals, semifinals and final for the winners; playoffs and classification matches for the losers) to fill all the places from first to 16th in the final tournament standings.

The matches of the U17 World Championship in Lima will be played at two venues – the Coliseo Eduardo Dibos and the Villa Deportiva El Salvador. The Coliseo Eduardo Dibos, with a capacity for 4,600 people, will host the games of Pools A and C, four of the eighthfinals and the matches of the upper half of the rest of the playoff bracket, including the gold medal showdown on August 24 at 19:30 local time (00:30 UTC +1 day). The Villa Deportiva El Salvador, with a capacity for more than 5,000 people, will stage the Pool B and Pool D fixtures, four of the eighthfinals and the matches of the lower half of the rest of the playoff bracket.

The teams of Argentina and Egypt will get the U17 World Championship underway with their Pool C encounter at the Coliseo Eduardo Dibos on Saturday at 10:30 local time (15:30 UTC). The other two Pool C teams, Italy and Mexico, will launch their World Championship campaigns in the second match on the venue’s programme, facing each other at 13:30 (18:30).

The first competition day at the Coliseo Eduardo Dibos will continue with Pool A action, with Canada taking on the Dominican Republic at 16:30 (21:30) and hosts Peru making their much anticipated debut against Brazil at 19:30 (00:30 +1 day).

The competition at the Villa Deportiva El Salvador will start half an hour later, at 11:00 (16:00), with a Pool B game between Thailand and China. Ecuador will challenge Türkiye in the second Pool B match at 14:00 (19:00).

Croatia and Puerto Rico will open Pool D for business at 17:00 (22:00), before Japan and Chinese Taipei close the first competition day as they face each other at 20:00 (01:00 +1 day).

During the tournament a new rule will be tested, according to which, at the first hit of the team, the ball may contact various parts of the body consecutively, provided that the contacts occur during one action, but it is forbidden to make the serve reception with an overhand fingers action. The aim is to increase flying ball time with focus on the serve reception, rather than restricting the serve execution in any way.

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