Cairo, Egypt, August 18, 2017 - There was satisfaction in the Russia camp here Friday after the defending champions opened their bid to retain the title at the 2017 FIVB Men's U23 World Championship with a convincing 4-0 (15-8, 15-11, 15-11, 15-8) sweep of Algeria.
Here's the post-match reaction:
Russia head coach, Andrey Voronkov: "We will do our best to play good volleyball and keep on winning. For this team this is a new championship and, who knows, maybe tomorrow there will be another champion."
Russia captain, Pavel Pankov: "We played a good game and concentrated on our serving and we are confident that we can win this championship."
Algeria coach, Salim Bouhalla: "We played against a very big an difficult team and we lost because of their strong serving. We will do our best to play good volleyball against Argentina tomorrow."
Algeria captain, Abderaouf Hamimes: "We came to Egypt to gain experience and we are not ashamed to lose this match against such a big team as Russia. We'll do our best to get some good results in the next matches."
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