Osaka, Japan, June 15, 2016 -
Cuba have won 43 of the 44 competitive matches against Korea. This says a lot, yet it says nothing, when it comes down the next meeting between these two volleyball powers coming up at the FIVB Volleyball World League 2016 Group 2 tournament in Osaka.
Head-to-Head
• Cuba have won 43 of 44 competitive matches against Korea. Their only defeat came in the 2011 World League, a match which was played in Korea (3-0).
• In the World League Cuba have won 28 of 29 meetings with Korea.
• Their last meeting was in the 2014 World Championship, when Cuba won 3-1 in the first round.
• Cuba have won the last four official meetings after the defeat in the 2011 World League.
Cuba
• Cuba are participating for the 26th time in the World League, only having missed out at the first edition in 1990.
• They won the tournament in 1998, but have not finished in the top-10 in each of the last three seasons.
• Last year they finished 18th, finishing fourth in Pool C behind Bulgaria, Argentina and Canada.
• They won three of their 12 matches last season, twice against Argentina and one against Canada.
Korea
• Korea will participate for the 18th time at the World League, with their best result coming in 1995, finishing fifth.
• Last year they finished 18th, like Cuba, finishing fourth in their Pool behind France, Japan and Czech Republic.
• They won two of their 10 matches last year, beating Czech Republic and Japan once.
• They have now lost their last six World League matches and can lose seven in a row for the first time since 2011-2012, when they lost 13 in a row.
• Korea have the worst win percentage of all teams having played at least 100 World League matches (22.9%, Japan follow with 23.2%).