Bulgaria's men's volleyball team defeated the team of the Czech Republic in the first semi-final of the World Volleyball Championship in the Philippines.
This is the second time in volleyball history that the Bulgarian national team makes it to the world finals.
The Bulgarian players won a definitive 3:1 after a series of spectacular plays (with 20:25, 25:23, 21:25 and 25:22 points).
Bulgaria started the match again with the usual lineup of Italian coach Gianlorenzo Blengini: Simeon Nikolov, Alex Grozdanov, Alexander Nikolov, Asparuh Asparuhov, Iliya Petkov, Martin Atanasov and libero Damyan Kolev. During the match, Preslav Petkov came on as a substitute.
The final of the volleyball world championship in Manila is tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. In it, Bulgaria will fight for gold with the winner of the match Italy - Poland which will be player later today.
Edited by Rositsa Petkova
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