Canada and Puerto Rico qualifies to World championship after qualifying to Norceca Championship final.s

[23 August]

Puerto Rico and Canada defeated Cuba and Mexico respectively to qualified directly into next year's World Championship. 

Puerto Rico defeated Cuba in 4 set. The first set went easily to Puerto Rico and then Cuba came back to take the second set. However in the third and fourth set, they played a very tight game, Puerto Rico wins in a tight 26:24 and 31:29 over Cuba to qualified to the finals and World Championships. The highest scorer of the match is Jesus Herrera Jaime from Cuba with 24 points, 21 attack at 37.2 efficiency, 1 block and 2 serves. However, Cuba gave up 44 errors verse 21 errors from Puerto Rico, which is ultimately the downfall of Cuba's games. Puerto Rico's best scorer is Gabi Garcia Fernandez , he score 18 with 15 attack point at 41.9% efficiency, 2 blocks and 1 serve. This is Puerto Rico's second ever Championship match since 2007. 

Canada beat Mexico handily in three set. Canada has two players breaking the double digit mark, Demyanenko and Koppers scoring 11 and 10 respectively. While Mexico struggle on attack, only having 11.8% efficiency on attack, 18 serving error on 3 ace and giving up 8 reception error.

Currently, Russia, Poland, Puerto Rico and Canada have qualified into the 2022 World Championship in Russia. Russia qualified as host and Poland qualified as defending World champion in 2018 Italy/Bulgaria World Championship.

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