The 2005

FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup The FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's and women's national teams of the members of ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The tournament was created in 1993 af ...

was held in

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and

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from 22 to 27 November 2005.

Qualification

Competition formula

The competition formula of the 2005 Men's World Grand Champions Cup was the single Round-Robin system. Each team plays once against each of the 5 remaining teams. Points were accumulated during the whole tournament, and the final standing was determined by the total points gained.

Squads

Venues

* Nagano White Ring,

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Results

*All times are

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( UTC+09:00).

Nagano round

Tokyo round

Final standing

Team Roster
Marcelinho,

André Heller Franz André Heller (; born 22 March 1947 as Francis Charles Georges Jean André Heller-Hueart) is an Austrian artist, author, poet, singer, songwriter and actor. Biography Heller was born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family of sweets manufac ...

Giba Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho, known as Giba (born 23 December 1976), is a Brazilian former professional volleyball player who played as an outside hitter. For much of the 2000s, he was widely regarded as one of the best volleyball players in t ...

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André André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variation o ...

, Sérgio,

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Samuel Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...

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Rodrigão Rodrigo Santana (born 17 April 1979), commonly known as Rodrigão, is a Brazilian former volleyball player who won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics. Santana with ...

, Ezinho,

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Head Coach: Bernardinho

Awards

*MVP: André Nascimento *Best scorer: André Nascimento *Best spiker: Alessandro Fei *Best blocker:

Ryan Millar Ryan Madsen Millar (born 22 January 1978) is an American volleyball player, a member of United States men's national volleyball team in 1998–2008, a participant of the Olympic Games (2000, 2004, 2008), 2008 Olympic Champion, three times NOR ...

*Best server:

Abdalsalam Abdallah Abdalla Ahmed Bekhit ( ar, أحمد عبد الله) (born October 10, 1983) is an Egyptian indoor volleyball player. He was included as part of the Egypt men's national volleyball team, Egypt national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Ahmed was ...

*Best setter: Ricardo Garcia *Best libero:

Mirko Corsano Mirko Corsano (born 28 October 1973 in Casarano) is a volleyball player from Italy, who won the bronze medal with the men's national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Playing as a libero, he claimed his first title for the ''Azzurri'' in 1999 a ...

External links

Official website
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