The draws in volleyball were conducted recently in Brazil with Cameroon drawn in Group A alongside host country Brazil, Russia, Japan, South Korea and Argentina.

Cameroon inherits a difficult draw as Brazil is ranked 3^rd in the world, Russia 4^th, Japan 5^th, South Korea 9^th and Argentina ranked 12^th in the world. Cameroon classified 21^st on the world ranking will therefore have an uphill task to sail through the group stage of the competition. It is worthy to mention that Cameroon will be in their maiden participation at the Olympic Games in volleyball following the silver medal won by the feminine national selection during the Olympic qualifying event in Yaounde.

“We are not going to be ridiculous,” said the coach, Jean René Akono ‘but Cameroonians should not expect much from this expedition. We have a young team whose ambition is to win the Africa cup of Nations in 2017, he added. Cameroon has already started preparing for the competition and will continue their training in Spain before moving to Brazil one week before the beginning of competitions.