FIVB Volleyball Boys' U-19 World Championship 2023: India vs Japan Highlights

India were beaten 0-3 by France in their first match.

India faced consecutive defeats in the FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U-19 World Championship 2023 after going down 0-3 against Japan in their second match on August 4 (Friday). The Indian U-19 team lost 12-25, 16-25, 19-25 against Japan, resulting in back-to-back losses in the tournament.

Japan started on the front foot in the opening set and won it with little fight from their Indian opponents. However, India came back strongly in the second set and were ahead at the start. But Japan levelled at 5-5 and raced ahead in on time. It was a similar story in the third set with India ahead until Japan levelled the scores at 10-10. Japan eventually sealed the game with consecutive spike shots.

Watch India vs Japan Match Highlights | FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U-19 World Championship 2023

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The Indian U-19 Volleyball team will face Japan in their second match of the ongoing FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U-19 World Championship 2023. India started their campaign in the FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U-19 World Championship 2023 with a 0-3 defeat to France in their opening match of Pool B.

The Indian U-19 team were no match as they went down 8-25, 8-25, 18-25 to concede a defeat. Scroll below to watch the India vs Japan match live streaming.

The only time India managed to show a fight was in the third game when they lead France 9-7 at one stage. Apart from that, France pulled the strings throughout the match and produced a result in a little over an hour.

The FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U-19 World Championship 2023 started on August 2 and will continue until 13 with a total of 20 nations taking part in the competition.

This is the 18th edition of the tournament in which the 20 best youth national teams compete against each other. Argentina is hosting the event for the third time having previously played hosts in 2011 and 2015, making them the first country to do so in the tournament’s history. Among the other nations, Mexico and Iran have hosted the competition twice each.

Poland are defending champions having won the latest edition of the FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U-19 World Championship in 2021. They are also two-time winners of the competition alongside Serbia and Iran, while Brazil are the most decorated team in the tournament history with six titles and a runners-up finish. However, the last time they reached the podium was in 2005.

India are placed in Pool B in the tournament alongside France, Bulgaria, Japan and Slovenia. Following their clash against France, India will next face Japan before meeting Slovenia and Bulgaria.

A total of 20 nations have been divided into four pools of five each. Each nation will face the other teams in their respective groups once each in a round-robin system with the top ranked team from each group qualifying for the playoffs. The rest of the teams will play classification matches to determine final positions.

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