Most people in the US these days have some facial hair.
Most of the OLDER people but people who are my age or 35 years and younger usually are clean cut. Especially if you work in corporate America, it is kind of viewed as unprofessional. Also, it depends where you live. In Alaska, you will see people my age with beards but not in Cali or NY. Also, I notice Americans are a little bit neater with their beard and grooming. Usually you will be hard pressed to find the bush man American. Anyways, back to the game. I thought in both games Iran would compete at first but then USA would pull away. At least we won the 3rd set and they have to go back to Tehran(they being USA).
What I like is how Kovacs(spelling) is changing the culture of Volleyball in Iran and the American, who was an Olympic champion, was talking about that. He was saying it's going to take more than one or two years to change the culture of bache bazi javan mardaneh bull$hit mentality Iranians have. However, he is on his way and clearly, we have established ourselves as the top team in Asia and a top ten team in the world. It also seems like Iran has a decent professional league they were talking about that as well, maybe not Italy good but decent. Hopefully, some of these players will perform well and get called up to big European clubs, where you can make a very nice living for yourself if you establish yourself in Europe, much like soccer.
Take these games as preparation for bigger games we are going to go up against solid teams. I know Poland is in our group and correct me if I am wrong but I think Russia(the current champs if I am not mistaken) are also in the tourney. We need some work in order to catch up to Russia but we can catch up to teams like USA, we are right there and there is not much of a difference in terms of talent between the #5 team and the #10 team. It's not like USA is in the top 5 and Iran is nowhere to be found, they are a top 10 team and they deserve that ranking that is legit.