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Al-Ahram Weekly Published in Al-Ahram Weekly on 12 - 05 - 2011

ONLY a day before Ahli's football team qualified for the group stage of the African Champions League, the club's volleyball team won the African Volleyball Clubs Championship. Ahli beat Kenya's Prisons Club 3-0 to set a record of nine wins in the African championship. The event was held at the club's indoor hall at Gezira which saw a full house which supported the home team as if they were in a football stadium.
Al-Gaish won the bronze medal with a 3-0 victory over the University club of Rwanda.
Ahli and Prisons dominated the All-Star team selections. Dennis Onsomu of the Prisons club was named best receiver. Ahli's Alexander Shane was selected best setter. Shane, an Australian, was happy to win both titles -- the event and his first season with the Egyptian club. Shane told Al-Ahram Weekly that playing for a big club like Ahli was definitely a great boost to his career.
Peter Kibara from Prisons was selected best digger while Guma Yakan of the University Club of Rwanda was voted best server. Rashad Shebl of Al-Gaish was selected best blocker and Ahli's Ahmed Kotb best attacker. The MVP award went to Ahli's Raouf Abdel-Kader.
Ahli head coach Ibrahim Fakhreddin was happy for his team and said it was a tough tournament "but was the best preparation for the team" which is preparing for an international tournament in the UAE next month.

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