Officials
Alexey PASHKEVICH
Pawel BURKIEWICZ
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Match Polls
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Officials
First RefereeAlexey PASHKEVICHRUSSecond RefereePawel BURKIEWICZPOL
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Venue Information
Štark Arena is the largest sports hall in Belgrade with a universal hall for all sports events: basketball, handball, volleyball, tennis and athletics. When needed, it can be turned into an ice hall, hall for cultural events, as well as for concerts. Total surface area of the hall is 48,000 m2 and it has between 20,000 and 25,000 seats for visitors and the state-of-the-art equipment for all scheduled events. Capacity: 19394
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How To Attend
Bulevar Arsenija Čarnojevica 58, BELGRADE, 11070 Capacity: 19394
City bus lines that have stops near the Arena are: 17, 18, 67, 68, 74, 88 и 601. Bus lines which are within the walking distance of Arena: 16, 65, 68, 71, 75, 94 и 95. Tram lines which have stops relatively close to the Arena: 7, 9 and 11. Get directions
Featured Players
Samanta FABRIS
Bio
Sananta was born in Danijeli-Istria. She started playing volleyball by accident. Titles won to date are: 4 x Croatian championships, 1 x Croatian Cup, 2 x Italian championships, 1 x Russian championship, 1 x Italian Suoercup, 2 x Russian Cups, 1 x Russian Supercup and a Silver at the World Club Championships and Champions league.
In the first game of the round of 16 in Belgrade's "Stark Arena", the French national team will play against Croatia. France reached the round of 16 from Pool A from the third place, and the Croatian team advanced to the next phase from the second place in Pool C. The winner of this duel is waiting for the winner of the match Serbia - Hungary.
Team
CROATIA 
Address
Trg Dražena Petrovića 1 ZAGREBContacts
Previous Games
| 29/08/2021 | vs. |
2 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 25/08/2021 | vs. |
0 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 24/08/2021 | vs. |
3 - 1 | W | Go to Match Centre |
- All Time
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16Competitions Played
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0Titles
- Competition
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6Matches Played
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4Matches Won
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67%Win %
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14Sets Won
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478Points Won
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42%Attack %
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51%Reception %
Team
- Birth Date: 1999
- Birth Place: Zagreb
- Height: 187 cm
- Birth Date: 2000
- Birth Place: Mostar
- Height: 192 cm
- Birth Date: 1995
- Birth Place: Zagreb
- Height: 180 cm
- Birth Date: 1991
- Birth Place: Osijek
- Height: 190 cm
- Birth Date: 1993
- Birth Place: Split
- Height: 193 cm
- Birth Date: 1994
- Birth Place: Zagreb
- Height: 190 cm
Recent Results
Gallery
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The match in numbers
The combined total number of points scored by both teams throughout the entire match.
The total length of the match, from the first serve through until the last point has ended.
Total number of people in attendance at the venue – taken at the end of the second set.
The combined total number of successful spikes achieved by both teams throughout the entire match.
An average of the two team service reception percentages from the complete match.
The number of successful point winning blocks of CROATIA compared to FRANCE.
CROATIA number of service aces compared to FRANCE
Errors leading to points of CROATIA, next to those from FRANCE
The Croatians opened the first set well with a series of 4: 0. They held the advantage throughout the set, and at one point led 17:10. At 19:11, the coach of France requested a time-out, in order to try to contribute to the better game of his players with advice. In the end, the Croatian volleyball players put an end to the first set with a serve. - 25:16
The French volleyball players took the lead at the beginning of the second set with 7: 4, then with 17:11. However, the Croatians didn’t give up at any moment and managed to equalize the result at 20:20. The selection of France was determined to win the set, they made a series of 3 points, and then equalized to 1: 1 in the sets. - 25:21
Croatia struggled, but managed to find its game. This was immediately seen in the result, where they gained two points difference of 13:11 in the middle of the set. They had Samantha Fabris and teammates a little later and a bigger lead - 16:12, although the French didn’t want to give up. They threatened, at one point they had a minimal delay (20:21), and in the end of the set they gave in to the attacks of a motivated rival. - 25:22
It seemed that Croatia was going to win, and then in the fourth set, France woke up again. They were led by Gicquel Lucille, who took the fifth set with a great game and great attacks.
The fifth set started very excitingly. They played point by point until the middle, but France made a series of 5: 1 with the result 7: 7, which brought them even closer to victory. Croatia tried to return to the match, but it was too late. France came out as the winner both from this set and from the match and won a place in the quarterfinals. 15:12