Mexico holds a training camp and friendly tournament in Qatar

DOHA, Qatar, August 27 2014 - The national team of Mexico prepares to the FIVB Men’s World Championships of Poland by holding a training camp and a friendly tournament against countries like Qatar, Argelia and Venezuela.

This friendly tournament is part of their preparation after their participation at the IX Men’s Pan American Cup celebrated in Tijuana, Mexico.

Mexico has played friendly matches against Venezuela and Qatar. In their first one, the team coached by Sergio Hernandez lost in straight sets

(18-25, 22-25,20-25) against Venezuela.

The second match, celebrated at the Al-Arabi Sporting Club Gymnasium was against the hosts, who won in four (25-18, 22-25, 25-16 and 25-19).

The team opened with the same line up used since the beginning of the training camp with Carlos Guerra, Pedro Rangel, Tomas Aguilera, Samuel Cordova, Daniel Vargas, Jorge Quinones and Reynold Rangel as libero.


Mexico will play its third match of this friendly competition against Algeria and expects to grab first win in Doha before departing to Gdansk, Poland, to play at the World Championship scheduled from August 30th to September 21st.