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 * Best Scorer :

Héctor Soto Héctor Soto (born June 28, 1978 in New York City, New York) is a former volleyball player from Puerto Rico, who was a member of the Men's National Team that ended up in sixth place at the 2007 FIVB Men's World Cup in Japan and received the Best ...

* 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 E ...

* Best Blocker :

José Luis Moltó José Luis Moltó Carbonell (born 29 June 1975 in Cocentaina, Alicante) is a Spanish volleyball player who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad an ...

* 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 * Best Libero : Sérgio Santos

External links

Official website

Final standing

Awards

Statistics
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