FIVB Reveals WGCC Dream Team and Statistical Leaders

  0 Liam Smith | September 17th, 2017 | Asian Volleyball, Brazilian Volleyball, European volleyball, International Volleyball, News, NORCECA volleyball, South American Volleyball, U.S. Men's National Team

2017 WORLD GRAND CHAMPIONS CUP

Only the best of the best. If fantasy volleyball was a thing, these would be the most sought off players,

MVP – Ricardo Lucarelli

Ricardo Lucarelli won the coveted MVP award, along with being awarded as one of the tournament’s two best opposite hitters. He was the competition’s 3rd most efficient spiker and also its 7th most efficient digger. Brazilian fans are ruthless, though, and greatly called out Lucarelli in what they considered to be an underachieving performance. This goes to show how fanatic Brazilian volleyball fans are, that even with the gold medal and MVP honors secured, they still find faults in their players.

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Best Opposite Hitters

Milad Ebadipour got picked alongside Lucarelli as one of the tournament’s two best opposite hitters. The Iranian had a very balanced effort, appearing in four statistical categories. He was the tournament’s 4th best receiver, 5th best server, 7th highest scorer, and 9th best spiker.

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Best Outside Hitter

American Matthew Anderson was chosen as the competition’s best outside hitter. Anderson was the tournament’s 4th best scorer, 4th best spiker, and 2nd best server.

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Best Middle Blockers

On to the middleblockers, Lucas Saatkamp was picked as one of the best two players in his position for the tournament. He led the Brazilian squad to the gold medal being the competition’s 4th best server, 4th best blocker, and surprisingly, 9th best scorer, not an easy feat for a middle blocker. This goes to show just what kind of connection he has with Brazilian setter and best friend Bruno Rezende. Meanwhile, just like with Lucarelli, Brazilian fans took to social media to “protest” his pick.

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Joining Saatkamp, Italy’s Matteo Piano was picked as one of the best two middle blockers in the competition. He spearheaded the silver medal winners’ defense, being the tournament’s 2nd best blocker.

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Best Setter

Italy’s Simone Gianelli was picked as the Dream Team’s setter. He finished the tournament leading the setting statistics, while also being its 10th best digger. He also had a good serving performance, being the 14th best server for the competition, but 2nd among setters.

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Best Libero

Finally, as a nod to the host crowd, Satoshi Ide was chosen as the Dream Team’s best libero, even if Japan finished the tournament is last place. Regardless, he did have some merit, as he was the competition’s best digger, and was so avoided in the passing lanes by opposite servers that he didn’t even show up in the receiving statistics.

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Statistical Leaders

Highest Scorers
Rank Name Pos. Team Spike Block Serve Total
1 Luca Vettori OP ITA 78 9 6 93
2 Amir Ghafour OP IRI 83 7 90
3 Filippo Lanza OS ITA 79 6 3 88
4 Matthew Anderson OP USA 70 8 9 87
5 Wallace Souza OP BRA 61 10 2 73
Oleg Antonov OS ITA 60 2 11 73

 

Spiking
Rank Name Pos. Team Spikes Faults Shots Total Succ. %
1 Mauricio Borges OS BRA 50 12 31 93 53.76
2 Stephen Boyer OP FRA 43 10 27 80 53.75
3 Ricardo Lucarelli OS BRA 61 14 39 114 53.51
4 Matthew Anderson OP USA 70 15 49 134 52.24
5 Oleg Antonov OS ITA 60 14 42 116 51.72

 

Blocking
Rank Name Pos. Team Stuff Faults Rebounds Total Avg. Set
1 Barthelemy Chinenyeze MB FRA 15 25 23 63 0.83
2 Matteo Piano MB ITA 17 29 24 70 0.77
3 Maurício Souza MB BRA 12 21 23 56 0.63
4 Lucas Saatkamp MB BRA 12 25 26 63 0.63
5 Daniele Mazzone MB ITA 12 24 16 52 0.55

 

Serving
Rank Name Pos. Team Aces Faults Serve Total Avg. Set
1 Oleg Antonov OS ITA 11 20 69 100 0.5
2 Matthew Anderson OP USA 9 17 66 92 0.45
3 Thibault Rossard OS FRA 7 15 45 67 0.39
4 Lucas Saatkamp MB BRA 6 17 48 71 0.32
5 Milad Ebadipour OS IRI 7 25 57 89 0.32

 

Setting
Rank Name Pos. Team Running Faults Still Total Avg. Set
1 Simone Giannelli S ITA 214 3 259 476 9.73
2 Saeid Marouf S IRI 193 5 226 424 8.77
3 Naonobu Fujii S JPN 132 4 197 333 7.76
4 Bruno Rezende S BRA 142 2 218 362 7.47
5 Micah Christenson S USA 143 1 220 364 7.15

 

Digging
Rank Name Pos. Team Digs Faults Receptions Total Avg. Set
1 Satoshi Ide L JPN 37 22 26 85 2.18
2 Erik Shoji L USA 43 8 16 67 2.15
3 Micah Christenson S USA 29 11 18 58 1.45
4 Massimo Colaci L ITA 30 10 21 61 1.36
5 Kevin Tillie L FRA 24 13 28 65 1.33

 

Receiving
Rank Name Pos. Team Excellents Faults Serve Total Eff. %
1 Thibault Rossard OS FRA 62 2 45 109 55.05
2 Massimo Colaci L ITA 69 2 66 137 48.91
3 Oleg Antonov OS ITA 67 6 74 147 41.5
4 Milad Ebadipour OS IRI 66 9 67 142 40.14
5 Trevor Clevenot OS FRA 40 3 50 93 39.78
Top Scoring Performances
27 – Matt Anderson of USA v Brazil on September 16
27 – Luca Vettori of Italy v Brazil on September 13
25 – Trevor Clevenot of France v Iran on September 17
Top Individual Serving Performances
5 – Matthew Anderson of USA v France on September 14
4 – M. Manavinezhad of Iran v France on September 17
4 – Shohei Yamamoto of Japan v Iran on September 16
4 – Matthew Anderson of USA v Iran on September 13
4 – Oleg Antonov of Italy v Iran on September 12
Top Individual Blocking Performances
6 – Daniele Mazzone of Italy v Iran on September 12
5 – Seyed Eraghi of Iran v France on September 17
5 – Barthelemy Chinenyeze of France v Japan on September 13

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