2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship statistics
Saeid Marouf Lakerani (Persian: میر سعید معروف لاكرانی, born 23 September 1985, in Urmia) is an Iranian volleyball setter. He is the captain of the Iranian national team. He was named best setter at the 2014 World League and 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic qualifying tournaments, as well as most valuable player at the 2013 Asian Championship. He participated in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. He was voted Iranian Sportsmen of the year for (2015–16) of the Iranian calendar by an Iranian TV.[2]
Statistics leaders[]
The statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, reception, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill plus top scorers as of 12 September 2018.[1]
Best Scorers[]
Best scorers determined by scored points from spike, block and serve.
| Best Scorers | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Spikes | Blocks | Serves | Total | |
| 1 |  Bartosz Kurek
|
113 | 20 | 14 | 147 |
| 2 |  Wallace de Souza
|
131 | 6 | 6 | 143 |
| 3 |  Ivan Zaytsev
|
114 | 12 | 17 | 143 |
| 4 | Douglas Souza
|
118 | 10 | 11 | 139 |
| 5 |  Aleksandar Atanasijević
|
123 | 6 | 9 | 138 |
Best Spikers[]
Best spikers determined by successful spikes in percentage.
| Best Spikers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Spikes | Faults | Shots | Total | % | |
| 1 |  Matthew Anderson
|
115 | 42 | 47 | 204 | 56.37 |
| 2 | Douglas Souza
|
118 | 25 | 67 | 210 | 56.19 |
| 3 | Taylor Sander
|
99 | 33 | 46 | 178 | 55.62 |
| 4 | Aleksandar Atanasijević
|
123 | 42 | 60 | 225 | 54.67 |
| 5 | Uroš Kovačević
|
103 | 30 | 57 | 190 | 54.21 |
Best Blockers[]
Best blockers determined by the average of stuff blocks per set.
| Best Blockers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Blocks | Faults | Rebounds | Total | Avg | |
| 1 |  Ilyas Kurkaev
|
20 | 19 | 21 | 60 | 0.54 |
| 2 | Simone Anzani
|
19 | 15 | 51 | 85 | 0.51 |
| 3 | Dmitry Muserskiy
|
19 | 21 | 29 | 69 | 0.51 |
| 4 | Bartosz Kurek
|
20 | 16 | 18 | 54 | 0.47 |
| 5 | Piotr Nowakowski
|
19 | 15 | 40 | 74 | 0.44 |
Best Servers[]
Best servers determined by the average of aces per set.
| Best Servers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Aces | Faults | Hits | Total | Avg | |
| 1 | Maxim Mikhaylov
|
19 | 30 | 92 | 141 | 0.51 |
| 2 | Ivan Zaytsev
|
17 | 31 | 71 | 119 | 0.46 |
| 3 | Taylor Sander
|
15 | 36 | 82 | 133 | 0.37 |
| 4 | Marko Ivović
|
14 | 33 | 76 | 123 | 0.34 |
| 5 | Bartosz Kurek
|
14 | 31 | 52 | 97 | 0.33 |
Best Setters[]
Best setters determined by the average of running sets per set.
| Best Setters | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Running | Faults | Still | Total | Avg | |
| 1 | Micah Christenson
|
280 | 5 | 387 | 672 | 6.83 |
| 2 | Nikola Jovović
|
230 | 4 | 499 | 733 | 5.61 |
| 3 | Sergey Grankin
|
166 | 3 | 139 | 308 | 4.49 |
| 4 | Bruno Mossa Rezende
|
171 | 2 | 394 | 567 | 4.17 |
| 5 | Simone Giannelli
|
139 | 4 | 494 | 637 | 3.76 |
Best Diggers[]
Best diggers determined by the average of successful digs per set.
| Best Diggers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Digs | Faults | Receptions | Total | Avg | |
| 1 | Aleksey Verbov
|
66 | 8 | 28 | 102 | 1.78 |
| 2 | Paweł Zatorski
|
65 | 9 | 38 | 112 | 1.51 |
| 3 | Erik Shoji
|
61 | 3 | 30 | 94 | 1.49 |
| 4 | Thales Hoss
|
60 | 7 | 26 | 93 | 1.46 |
| 5 | Massimo Colaci
|
53 | 15 | 18 | 86 | 1.43 |
Best Receivers[]
Best receivers determined by efficient receptions in percentage.
| Best Receivers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Excellents | Faults | Serve | Total | % | |
| 1 | Taylor Sander
|
71 | 8 | 107 | 186 | 33.86 |
| 2 | Paweł Zatorski
|
73 | 10 | 120 | 203 | 31.03 |
| 3 | 63 | 15 | 105 | 183 | 26.23 | |
| 4 | Marko Ivović
|
68 | 14 | 124 | 206 | 26.21 |
| 5 | Douglas Souza
|
87 | 18 | 160 | 265 | 26.04 |
Wins and losses[]
- Most wins: 5 – Italy, Poland and United States (Most big wins: 5 Italy and Poland; Most small wins: 2 United States)
- Most losses: 5 – China, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Tunisia (Most big losses: 5 China, Dominican Republic and Tunisia; Most small losses: 2 France)
- Most points in the group stage: 15 – Italy and Poland
- Fewest points in the group stage: 0 – China, Dominican Republic, and Tunisia
Squads[]
Coaches[]
- Oldest coach:
Tunisia - 71 years and 212 days in the first game against Brazil. - Youngest coach: Tuomas Sammelvuo
Finland - 42 years and 206 days in the first game against Bulgaria. - Teams with foreign coaches: 7 teams are trained by foreign coaches, including two teams (Dominican Republic and Iran) of coaches whose home countries (Venezuela and Montenegro) did not qualify for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship.
Players[]
- Appearance record: Luciano de Cecco
Argentina, Nathan Roberts, Paul Carroll 
Australia, Teodor Salparov 
Bulgaria, Ahmed Abdelhay 
Egypt and Marko Podraščanin 
Serbia participated in the World Championship for the fourth time. - Oldest player: At 39 years and 130 days, Jean Patrice Ndaki Mboulet
Cameroon is the oldest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship finals. - Youngest player:
Cuba is the youngest player at the age of 17 years and 111 days. - Tallest player: At 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in), Dmitry Muserskiy
Russia is the tallest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship finals. - Shortest player: At 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in), Taichiro Koga
Japan is the shortest player ever to be nominated for a 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship finals. - 21 teams nominated at least one player from the domestic league, Cameroon, Bulgaria, Japan and Puerto Rico nominated at least one player who is free agent, but only China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Italy, Japan, Puerto Rico and Russia exclusively fielded players of its own domestic league. By contrast, Australia, Canada and Netherlands nominated only players from foreign leagues.
- The most players (51) are active in clubs based in Italy, the majority of them in the SuperLega. In total 15 of the 24 team squads have players who play in England.
- From the leagues of countries that did not qualify for the World Cup, the Germany Bundesliga have the strongest representation with 12 players.
Multiple World Championships[]
Overall results[]
By team[]
References[]
- ^ "Statistics". FIVB.org. 12 September 2018.
External links[]
- 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship