MOSCOW, Oct 15 Italy's women's volleyball team beat USA in a match for the third place in the World Cup, which takes place in Poland and the Netherlands. The meeting in the Dutch Apeldoorn ended with a score of 3-0 (25:20, 25:15, 27:25) in favor of the Italians. The Italian team is the 2002 world champion, also on The team won silver medals in 2018, they won bronze medals for the first time. The Americans won the tournament in 2014, the team also won silver (1967, 2002) and bronze medals (1982, 1990). The competition will end on Saturday with the final between the national teams of Serbia and Brazil. Earlier, the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) suspended the national teams of Russia and Belarus from participating in international competitions and deprived the Russian Federation of the right to host the 2022 men's world championship.
