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Bulgaria to face France and Italy at European Volleyball Championship

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The Bulgarian national volleyball team will face France and Italy at the European Volleyball Championship. The other teams in the group are Portugal, Greece and Romania. The draw ceremony for the tournament took place in Brussels.

The competition will be held in the period September 13 to 29 and for the first time in history the tournament will be hosted by four countries - France, Belgium, Slovenia and the Netherlands.

At the European Volleyball Championship in Poland in2017 Bulgaria placed sixth.Back then Russia grabbed its record 14th title in the tournament after a success in the final against Germany.




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