The 2007 FIVB Men's World Cup was held from 18 November to 2 December 2007 in

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. The tournament was the first step in the qualification process for the

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. The top three teams qualified for the Olympics, and joined

as they had already secured a berth as the host country.

Qualification

Squads

Venues

Format

The competition system of the 2007 World Cup for Men was the single Round-Robin system. Each team played once against each of the 11 other teams. Points were accumulated throughout the whole tournament. The final standing was determined by the number of points gained.

Results

All times are

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( UTC+09:00).

First round

Site A

Site B

Second round

Site A

Site B

Third round

Site A

Site B

Fourth round

Site A

Site B

Final standing

Awards

* Most Valuable Player :

Gilberto Godoy Filho 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 ...

* Best Scorer : Héctor Soto * Best Spiker :

Dante Amaral Dante Guimarães Santos do Amaral (born 30 September 1980) is a former Brazilian professional volleyball player, who is best known as Dante. Measuring and , he played in the position of outside hitter. He was born in Itumbiara. Biography Ea ...

* Best Blocker : José Luis Moltó * Best Server :

Semen Poltavskiy Semyon Vladimirovich Poltavskiy (russian: Семён Владимирович Полтавский) (born 8 February 1981 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) is a former volleyball player from Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a ...

* Best Setter :

Miguel Angel Falasca --> Miguel is a given name and surname, the Portuguese and Spanish form of the Hebrew name Michael. It may refer to: Places *Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands * São Miguel (disamb ...

* Best Libero : Sérgio Santos

External links

Official website

Final standing

Awards

Statistics
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