After 15 years, the Japanese men's volleyball has just won a medal at a big tournament and this Asian No. 1 team is aiming for a higher goal in this season.
Last year, the Japanese men's volleyball won the Volleyball Nations League Medal 2023 as well as winning a ticket to attend the Paris Olympic Games 2024. This team is putting greater ambitions in Volleyball Nations League 2024 when there is no longer having to be busy competing to the Olympics.
Before winning a bronze medal of VNL 2023, the latest record of the Japanese volleyball was a bronze medal at the 2009 Grand Champions Cup. In VNL, this team has won the highest ranking as the 5th place in 2022.
The achievement of the Japanese male volleyball is making improvement steps when in 2018 they ranked 12th, 2019 is the 10th and 2011 is the 11th. The last two years, Japan has made incredible steps.
The Japanese men's volleyball has owned the most talented generation of athletes over the years, they expect to be able to bring the team back to its position as the 70s of the last century.
A series of current stars of Japanese volleyball are existing such as the duo Yuki Ishikawa and Ran Takahashi, the duo opposite Yuji Nishida and Miayura, two assistants Taishi Onodera and Akihiro Takahashi together with two Masahiro Sekita, Libero Tomohiro Yamamoto.
In particular, last season witnessed the shine of the capital sequence considered to be the Miayura reserve. He contributed greatly to bring Japanese volleyball to win great success last year.
This year, the Japanese male volleyball will come to Brazil in the first week of VNL 2024 and will encounter the Tokyo Olympic bronze medal, Argentina on May 21. Whether the male volleyball of cherry can realize its ambition in this year's tournament.