The 2008 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup, so-called 2008 AVC Cup for Men was the inaugural edition of the
Asian Cup
The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest cont ...
The teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the
2007 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the fourteenth staging of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Indonesian Volleyball Feder ...
Javad Mohammadinejad
Javad Mohammadinejad R. ( fa, جواد محمدینژاد, born 22 March 1985 in Urmia, West Azerbaijan) is a volleyball player from Iran, who plays as a Middle-blocker for Shahrdari Urmia VC in Iranian Volleyball Super League and Iran men ...
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Arash Keshavarzi
Arash Keshavarzi ( fa, آرش کشاورزی, born 1987 in Tehran) is a volleyball player from Iran, who plays as an outside hitter for the Men's National Team and Shahrdari Tabriz in Iranian Volleyball Super League. He is of Iranian Azerbaijani ...
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Hamzeh Zarini
Hamzeh Zarini ( fa, حمزه زرینی, born October 18, 1985 in Eslamshahr) is a volleyball player from Iran, who plays as an outside spiker for the national team and Haraz Amol club. He competed at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Zarini two nam ...
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Mohammad Mohammadkazem
Mohammad Mohammadkazem ( fa, محمد محمدكاظم, born September 28, 1985, in Tehran) is a volleyball player from Iran, who former plays as an Opposite-hitter for the Men's National Team of the year 2005–2011.
Honours
National team
*As ...
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Alireza Nadi
Alireza Naderi ( fa, علیرضا نادری, born September 2, 1980) is a former volleyball player from Iran, who played as a middle-blocker for the Men's National Team of the year 2003–2012.
Honours
National team
*Asian Championship
**Gold ...
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Ahsanollah Shirkavand
Ahsanollah Shirkavand ( fa, احسنالله شیرکوند; born 18 March 1981 in Varamin, Tehran Province) is an Iranian volleyball libero. After playing at the Asian Youth Games, he was invited to the Iran Men's National Volleyball Team an ...
Farhad Nazari Afshar
Farhad Nazari Afshar ( fa, فرهاد نظری افشار, born 22 May 1984 in Tehran) is an Iranian volleyball player, who former plays as an outside hitter for the Men's National Team of the year 2009–2017.
Nazari Afshar announced his retire ...
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Mehdi Mahdavi
Mehdi Mahdavi ( fa, مهدی مهدوی, born 13 February 1984) is an Iranian volleyball player, who former played as a setter for the Iran national team of the year 2007–2016.Mohammad Mousavi
Head Coach:
Hossein Maadani
Hossein Maadani ( fa, حسین معدنی, 7 May 1971 – 1 August 2014) was an Iranian volleyball player and coach. He was assistant coach and head coach of Iran men's national volleyball team
The Iran M ...
Awards
*MVP:
Hamzeh Zarini
Hamzeh Zarini ( fa, حمزه زرینی, born October 18, 1985 in Eslamshahr) is a volleyball player from Iran, who plays as an outside spiker for the national team and Haraz Amol club. He competed at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Zarini two nam ...
*Best scorer:
Yasuyuki Shibakoya
Yasuyuki is a masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Yasuyuki can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:
*靖幸, "peaceful, happiness"
*靖行, "peaceful, to go"
*靖之, "peaceful, ...
*Best spiker:
Park Chul-woo
Park Chul-Woo (born September 29, 1965) is a retired football player and goalkeeper coach.
He played in K-League side POSCO Atoms, LG Cheetahs, Chunnam Dragons and Suwon Samsung Bluewings in South Korea
South Korea, officially the Repu ...
*Best server:
Cui Jianjun
Cui Jianjun (born 1985-08-01 in Kaifeng, Henan) is a male Chinese volleyball player. He was part of the silver medal winning team at the 2006 Asian Games.
He competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
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*Best setter:
Saranchit Charoensuk
Saranchit Charoensuk ( th, สราญจิตต์ เจริญสุข, born July 20, 1987) is a member of the Thailand men's national volleyball team.
Clubs
* Suan Dusit (2012–2013)
* Sisaket–Suan Dusit (2013–2014)
* Chonburi ...
*Best receiver:
Yeo Oh-hyun
Yeo Oh-hyun (Hangul: 여오현; born ) is a South Korean male volleyball player. He currently plays the libero position for the Cheonan Hyundai Capital Skywalkers.
Career Clubs
Yeo, a 5-foot-9 (1.75 m) libero, played outside hitter for Hongik U ...
*Best digger:
Chien Wei-lun
Chien may refer to:
*Chien (name)
*Les Chiens, Canadian rock band
* ''The Dogs'' (film) or , a 1979 French drama film
*Jian (disambiguation), zh, links=no, w=chien
*Padre Pedro Chien Municipality or Chien, a municipality in Venezuela
*Qian (di ...
*Best libero:
Yeo Oh-hyun
Yeo Oh-hyun (Hangul: 여오현; born ) is a South Korean male volleyball player. He currently plays the libero position for the Cheonan Hyundai Capital Skywalkers.
Career Clubs
Yeo, a 5-foot-9 (1.75 m) libero, played outside hitter for Hongik U ...
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...