translated from Spanish: Volleyball: Argentina is measured with Portugal in the Aconcagua Arena

This Friday, since 21.10, the Argentinean volleyball team faces his Portuguese pair in the League of Nations to be held at the Arena Aconcagua. It will be the official debut of Marcelo Méndez as a coach of the ensemble that has in his ranks the central Agustín Loser, the only Mendocino del campus. Before, at 18.10, will play Canada and Bulgaria, the other two teams that will compete in the first stage of the League of Nations, the annual elite Tournament of the International Federation (FIVB). The selected will face Portugal today, Saturday with Bulgaria (at 21) and Sunday with Canada (at 19), in his local league stage. Then, for four weekends in a row, he played quads in Tokyo (Japan), Cannes (France), Milan (Italy) and Brisbane (Australia), as part of the qualifying phase. The best five selected the United States, host of the finals, will advance to the decisive phase of the league, which in this second edition again have 16 participating countries. Loser was born in General Alvear, was a youth world champion in Egypt 2017 with Sub 23, a historical and unprecedented for Argentine volleyball, and is the only Mendocino on the campus of Mendez. For him, “getting to the end Six is a very difficult thing, but we bet on that and go with the whole team to try to achieve it.” The League of Nations will be the first official tournament of Marcelo Méndez, the successor of Julio Velasco, as DT of the selected male, in a year full of competitions in which highlights the Pan American Games of Lima (from July 31 to August 4) and the pre-Olympic HAC Tokyo 2020, in Ningbo, China (9 to 11 August). In this note:
League of Nations
Volleyball
Marcelo Méndez

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