the national team won the south korea, in sao paulo, by 3-0(25-19/25-16/25-15). tomorrow have more.
World League 2007
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Finished now the secound game brazil and korea. the brazilian haven't difficult to win 3-0 (25-21/25-17/25-13). next weekend brazil face canada in belo horozinte(volleyball's city). Aganist the canada the players: ricardinho, giba, andre nascimento return to national team. teh coach bernardinho will have headache to choose the players to final round and to pan american games, in july.
fight to position in team:
setters
ricaridnho
marcelinho
bruninho(bernardinho's son)opposits:
andre nasciemnto
samuel fuchs
andersonhit
giba
murilo
samuel fuchs
nalbert
minuzzi
thiagomiddle block
rodrigao
gustavo
eder
andre heller
sidaoGO BRAZIL
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Quote from "paivavita"
the coach bernardinho will have headache to choose the players
Being Brazil NT coach is definitely not an easy job!
But I think that most others NT coaches would enjoy having such headache sometimes ...
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The head coach of the bulgarian NT said that he will give some rest of some of the basic players like Kaziyski, Salparov, Tsvetanov, Zhekov, probably Yordanov. They will not participate in the mathes against Poland in Poland. There's also possibility for them to not play in the matches against Poland in Bulgaria.
There is too many injured players or very tired after the heavy championship in Russia. It is a pity because everibody is expecting those matches. -
Just a little teaser... Is he afraid of loosing to Poland with the complete team?LOL
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No, I don't think so.
In fact if our team menage to defeat China this weekend, we are qualified. The truth is that in the 6 matches against Argentina and China participated many of the players from the bench or debutants. Evgeni Ivanov is not participating this year, Konstantinov will play only against Poland and on the finals. Vlado Nikolov, Boyan Yordanov, Dani Milushev, Andrey Zhekov, Kostadin Stoykov, Aleksiev are recovering after different injuries and Kaizyski and Salparov look really tired.
So Stoev want them to be in very good condition for the finals in Poland. -
It's sad that Bulgaria won't play against Poland with their best team, but I totally agree with Stoev's decision.
As long as the team managed to qualify (which means finishing 1st or second since Poland will automatically play the final round) what's the use of having tired players - or injured ones - playing?
It would be better for the team to have them have rest and give the chance to younger player to play a little at international level. -
Bulgaria , Brazil and Poland would be there.
Then Russia, Serbia or Cuba from group C. I'm quite disappointed by Serbia's results so far. But they are not too many point down from Russia, so they might always be back.
As for Cuba, since they played all their home games and are only 2nd from the pool, I'm afraid they won't be able to make it to the finals this year. Still everything is always possible with such teams, but that would meant something big in Russia and in Serbia to get there.
And then pool C, another tight group.
Italy lost one game in Japan, and I believe the team who will finish first would have to beat Japan 4 times. So Far France and USA were 2-2 with one more set for USA. France also managed to win a game in Italy. So they would be in perfect position IF they were able to win both home games against Italy be 4-0 against Japan, which I think they won't be able to do looking at the way Blain is leading the team right now. He is having Pujol play with too many young spikers. And Pujol's play is so fast that's it's not putting enough stability in the team play. His play is alright with experienced players like Granvorka or Antiga, but with youngster spiker discovering international level that's a big problem. Despite being rather gifted, they are not able to maintain the level of play required to win every time against, supposedly, weaker teams.
Then there is USA they appeared a very tough team in games against France. They have a great block and good defense to go with it. And overall they are a rather skilled team. But I'm not sure they would be able to win all their remaining games too.And then there's the FIVB wild card.
If I had to bet, I would say:
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Oops ! Sorry ... :oops:
I wanted so much to bring the subject of our impression on the WL so far in the conversation, that I sort of misread your post .
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My English isn't good enough to allow me any comment on other's.
But I should have understood what you meant if it had not been for my own intention to share my impressions on the competition. :wink2:
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After the victory today Stoev said that Kaziyski will not play against Poland the next week. He deserves the rest and he really look very tired, we didn't see even 50% of Kaziyski in the 8 matches past. :? Konstantinov will be back in the Bulgarian NT so the place of Kaziyski will be taken by someone of the debutants - I think that will be Metodi Ananiev, 21 years. Yordanov also will be back after an injury.
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Hi, sNeige. It's very possible that Poland will play without some key players too. For example without Wlazły, Zagumny, Kadziewicz, Grzyb or someone else. In this moment nobody knows the squad for games in Bulgaria, as Justyna wrote (maybe only Raul Lozano), because Poland plays in WL with different players in each match. The final in Katowice is the most important thing.
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In this moment nobody knows the squad for games in Bulgaria, as Justyna wrote (maybe only Raul Lozano), because Poland plays in WL with different players in each match. The final in Katowice is the most important thing.
here you are:
setters: Paweł Zagumny, Łukasz Żygadło
spikers: Mariusz Wlazły, Robert Prygiel
receivers: Michał Winiarski, Piotr Gruszka, Sebastian Świderski, Bartosz Kurek
middle-blockers: Łukasz Kadziewicz, Daniel Pliński, Wojciech Grzyb.
libero: Piotr Gacek
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O, thanks. I didn't know that :o Dzięki.