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Argentina men's national volleyball team

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FIVB ranking
  
6 (as of August 2016)

Appearances
  
7 (First in 1984)

Appearances
  
11 (First in 1960)

Location
  
Argentina

Home
  
Away

Best result
  
3rd place (1988)

Head coach
  
Julio Velasco

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Association
  
Argentine Volleyball Federation

Confederation
  
Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol

The Argentina national volleyball team is the national volleyball representative of Argentina. The team is controlled by the Argentine Volleyball Federation (Federación del Voleibol Argentino in Spanish, and abbreviated "FEVA").

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The team's best achievements are the bronze medal at the 1982 World Championship, the bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics and two gold medals at the 1995 and 2015 Pan American Games. Throughout the 1990s it was usually ranked among the first ten.

In recent years, though without achieving any medal, the team finished 4th at the 2000 and 5th at the 2004, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.

At continental level, overshadowed by volleyball power Brazil men's national volleyball team, Argentina won the gold medal at the 1964 South American Men's Volleyball Championship, twelve silver and seven bronze.

Summer Olympics

  • 1984 — 6th place
  • 1988 — 03 ! 3rd place
  • 1996 — 8th place
  • 2000 — 4th place
  • 2004 — 5th place
  • 2012 — 5th place
  • 2016 — 5th place

    • World Championship

  • 1960 — 11th place
  • 1978 — 22nd place
  • 1982 — 03 ! 3rd place
  • 1986 — 7th place
  • 1990 — 6th place
  • 1994 — 14th place
  • 1998 — 11th place
  • 2002 — 6th place
  • 2006 — 13th place
  • 2010 — 9th place
  • 2014 — 11th place

    • World Cup

  • 1995 — 7th place
  • 1999 — 9th place
  • 2007 — 7th place
  • 2011 — 7th place
  • 2015 — 5th place

    • World League

  • 1990 to 1995 — did not compete
  • 1996 — 7th place
  • 1997 — 8th place
  • 1998 — 9th place
  • 1999 — 6th place
  • 2000 — 8th place
  • 2001 — 13th place
  • 2002 — 9th place
  • 2005 — 10th place
  • 2006 — 7th place
  • 2007 — 13th place
  • 2009 — 5th place
  • 2010 — 5th place
  • 2011 — 4th place
  • 2012 — 10th place
  • 2013 — 6th place
  • 2014 — 13th place
  • 2015 — 11th place
  • 2016 — 10th place

    • World Grand Champions Cup

  • 2001 — 6th place

    • Pan American Games

  • 1963 — 03 ! Bronze
  • 1983 — 03 ! Bronze
  • 1991 — 03 ! Bronze
  • 1995 — 01 ! Gold
  • 2011 — 03 ! Bronze
  • 2015 — 01 ! Gold

    • America Cup

  • 1998 — 2nd place
  • 1999 — 3rd place
  • 2000 — 4th place
  • 2001 — 3rd place
  • 2005 — 4th place
  • 2007 — 4th place
  • 2008 — 4th place

    • Pan-American Cup

  • 2010 — 2nd place
  • 2011 — 7th place
  • 2012 — 2nd place
  • 2013 — 3rd place
  • 2014 — 3rd place
  • 2015 — 2nd place

    • Current squad

    The following is the Argentine roster in the men's volleyball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics. ‹See Tfd›

    Head coach: Julio Velasco

    Notable players

  • Marcos Milinkovic
  • Waldo Kantor
  • Javier Weber
  • Daniel Castellani
  • Hugo Conte
  • Raúl Quiroga
  • Jon Uriarte

    • Kit providers

    The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Argentina national volleyball team.

    Sponsorship

    Primary sponsors include: main sponsors like Banco de la Nación Argentina and Sonder, other sponsors: Pensma, Sodimac, Arnet, Enardo, Gatorade and universal assistance.

    References

    Argentina men's national volleyball team Wikipedia
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