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The FIFA World Cup official mascots are a series of characters for each World Cup event. The trend began with Willie in 1966 FIFA World Cup, one of the first mascots to be associated with a major sporting competition. The mascot designs represent a characteristic or symbol of the host country, such as flora, fauna, or costume. [1]
Starting at the 1990 World Championships and the 1990 Goodwill Games, the Italian National team swept the world volleyball events for five years. They won a gold medal in the World Championships in 1990 and 1994, the World League in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1995, the 1991 Mediterranean Games, and the 1993 Grand Champions Cup.
This is a list of volleyball sports video games. Volleyball ... Malibu Bikini Volleyball / Seaside Volley (JP) (1990), Atari Lynx, ... World Cup Volley '95 (1995), ...
This is a list of mascots. A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name.
The World Cup was created in 1965 with the purpose of partially filling the gap between the two most important volleyball tournaments, the Olympic Games and the World Championship, which take place in alternating four-year cycles. The establishment of a third international competition would leave only one in every four years with no major events.
Since volleyball was to be added to the Olympic Program in 1964, the 4-cycles were advanced in 2 years after the fourth edition (1960), so that the World Championship may alternate with the Summer Olympic Games. As of 1970, teams from Africa also took part in the competition, and the original goal of having members from all five continental ...
1986 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship: 25 Sep – 5 Oct 1986 France: 7 United States Soviet Union Bulgaria Cuba France Argentina Czechoslovakia: 1989 Men's European Volleyball Championship: 23 Sep – 1 October 1989 Sweden: 1 Italy: 1989 Men's NORCECA Volleyball Championship 8–15 July 1989 San Juan: 1 Canada
Name Date of birth Height Weight 1990 club 1: Joel Charles Despaigne 2 July 1966 (aged 24) 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) 84 kg (185 lb) S. Cuba: 2: Idalberto Valdes 14 April 1967 (aged 23) 197 cm (6 ft 6 in) 96 kg (212 lb) P. Habana: 3: Lazaro Beltran Rizo 27 February 1964 (aged 26) 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) 86 kg (190 lb)