Lausanne, Switzerland, June 8, 2017 - Venezuela meet Greece for the fifth time in FIVB World League history Friday in Tallin, whith the series locked in a 2-2 tie.
Head-to-Head• Venezuela and Greece will clash for the fifth time in the World League.
• All four previous World League meetings between Venezuela and Greece came in 2001, with both teams winning twice.
• Three of the previous four World League matches between these teams were five-setters.
Venezuela• Venezuela won six of their last ten World League matches.
• Venezuela lost 12 of their last 13 World League matches against European opposition. The only exception in this run is the five-set victory over Montenegro on 24 June 2016.
• Ronald Jose Fayola Hurtado won a team-high 34 points in the 2017 World League opening weekend, one more than Alexander Rodriguez Gonzalez Emerson (33).
Greece• Greece started their 2017 World League campaign with three defeats. They lost 3-0 against Qatar and recorded 3-1 defeats against Mexico and Spain.
• Greece could lose their opening four matches of a World League campaign for the fifth time and for the first time since 1998.
• Greece have already lost more matches this campaign (3) than in their whole 2016 World League season (2).
• Only Germany's Simon Hirsch (8) and Mexico's Pedro Rangel (7) recorded more aces than Rafail Koumentakis (6) in Group 3 last weekend.