FIVB Reveals Boys' U19 Worlds Dream Team and Stats Leaders

2017 FIVB BOYS’ U19 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

With the tournament’s end, it’s time for we to look at tomorrow’s future volleyball superstars. These players came out to play, and they played big, shining at the biggest stages of their careers.

Most Valuable Player

Amirhosseini Esfandiar (Iran)

Esfandiar deserves the MVP award, as he captained his team to its historic gold medal. He was also very effective in doing so, being the tournament’s 3rd best server and 5th best spiker.

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Best Outside Spikers

Amirhosseini Esfandiar (Iran)
See above.

Pavel Tetyukhin (Russia)

Sergey Tetyukhin’s son continues into his father’s footsteps, delivering a memorable performance in this tournament. He helped Russia to the silver medal, while on the way being the tournament’s 4th best server and 5th best spiker.

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Best Middle Blockers

Artem Melnikov (Russia)

Melnikov spearhead Russia’s strong defense, and was one of the reasons they made it so far into the tournament, in which he was the 4th best blocker. He had a tournament high 10 block performance on his team’s game against Korea, a rare feat in competitive volleyball.

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Amir Hossein Toukhteh (Iran)

Toukteh’s presence was felt in many ways as he helped his team achieve the gold medal. Aside from being the tournament’s 10th best blocker, he was also its 5th best server

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Best Setter

Shunsuke Nakamura (JPN)

Nakamura ran away from the field in the setter’s efficiency statistics, a big reason why Japan was able to contend for a medal, ultimately winning the bronze.

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Best Outside Hitter

Im Donghyeok (KOR)

Donghyeok is an offensive juggernaut. He proved that this tournament, being its highest scorer. He also had the highest scoring output of the tournaent, dropping 35 points in his team’s game against Argentina.

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Best Libero

Kenta Ichikawa (JPN)

To continue with oriental volleyball defense tradition, Ichikawa helped his team to a bronze medal by being the tournament’s best digger and best receiver.

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Notable Exclusion

Hamdy Awad (Elsafy)

Egypt’s young star was left out of the team, understandably, due to his team standing, 6th place. Individual performances aside, winning matters in FIVB dream team choices. Regardless, it’s hard to ignore Elsafy’s performance as the tournament’s second highest scorer, and 4th best spiker. He also had multiple 30+ point games in the tournament.

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Statistical Leaders

SCORING			Spike	Block	Serve	Total
1	Im Donghyeok	KOR	153	10	2	165
2	Awad Youssef Hamdy	EGY	138	20	5	163
3	Lagumdzija Adis	TUR	136	13	9	158
4	Yali Porya	IRI	143	11	4	158
5	Garcia Gabriel	PUR	124	7	8	139
SPIKING			Spikes	Faults	Shots	Total Atts	Success %
1	Yali Porya	IRI	143	36	72	251	56.97
2	Firszt Bartosz	POL	84	19	52	155	54.19
3	Schneidmiller Joel	USA	117	36	71	224	52.23
4	Awad Hamdy	EGY	138	46	89	273	50.55
5	Tetyukhin Pavel	RUS	80	24	62	166	48.19
BLOCKING			Stuff Blocks	Faults	Rebounds	Total Atts	Avg/Set
1	Cortesia Lorenzo	ITA	37	41	43	121	1.23
2	Zerba Nicolas	ARG	38	51	73	162	1.12
3	Jasim Mohamed	BRN	29	39	36	104	1
4	Melnikov Artem	RUS	28	27	38	93	0.93
5	Polak Josef	CZE	26	29	56	111	0.87
SERVING			Aces	Faults	Serve Hits	Total Atts	Avg/Set
1	Toledo Pierre	FRA	21	24	100	145	0.66
2	Sharifi Morteza	IRI	12	19	68	99	0.44
3	Esfandiar Amirhossein	IRI	12	24	79	115	0.44
4	Tetyukhin Pavel	RUS	13	18	103	134	0.43
5	Toukhteh Hossein	IRI	11	19	58	88	0.41
SETTING			Running sets	Faults	Still Sets	Total Atts	Avg/Set
1	Nakamura Shunsuke	JPN	245	7	388	640	9.07
2	Choi Ikje	KOR	184	7	513	704	6.34
3	Abaev Konstantin	RUS	190	5	463	658	6.33
4	Soldner Lucas	FRA	196	7	437	640	6.13
5	Morgan Saadeldin	EGY	182	5	504	691	5.87
DIGGING			Digs	Faults	Receptions	Total Atts	Avg/Set
1	Ichikawa Kenta	JPN	82	36	95	213	3.04
2	Park Kyeongmin	KOR	79	37	81	197	2.72
3	Ramon Luca	FRA	84	36	121	241	2.63
4	Abdulla Husain	BRN	75	42	140	257	2.59
5	Abdelrahim Osman	EGY	75	45	66	186	2.42
RECEIVING			Excellents	Faults	Serve Receptions	Total Atts	Avg/Set
1	Ichikawa Kenta	JPN	77	7	40	124	56.45
2	Ramon Luca	FRA	94	7	56	157	55.41
3	H. Mohammadreza	IRI	63	5	40	108	53.7
4	Park Kyeongmin	KOR	83	8	59	150	50
5	Lyasov Nikita	RUS	89	3	88	180	47.78

FIVB Reveals Boys’ U19 Worlds Dream Team and Stats Leaders