Iran started the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship with a victory over Italy on Friday.

The Iranian team defeated Italy 3-0 (25-22, 25-19, 25-21) in the competition’s Pool C.

Behrouz Ataei’s men have been scheduled to meet Ukraine on Saturday.

“This match was hard but we don’t pay a lot of attention to it. On Saturday will be another difficult one against Ukraine,” Ataei told fivb.org.  

The FIVB Volleyball U21 World Championship runs from June 23 to July 2 in two cities Brno and Ceske Budejovice in Czech Republic.

The World Championship is the nineteenth edition of the international volleyball tournament and the world championship for men's national teams under the age of 21, organized by the sport's world governing body, FIVB.