2014 FIVB World Championship - Poland - 8/30

  • Dutch roster for Qualification Tournament in Czech Republic (Czech Republic, Bulgaria, The Netherlands, Cyprus)


    Setters: Nimir Abdelaziz, Yannick van Harskamp.


    Opp: Niels Klapwijk, Tony Krolis


    OH: Dick Kooy, Thijs ter Horst, Jeroen Rauwerdink, Robbert Andringa


    MB: Wytze Kooistra, Thomas Koelewijn, Bas van Bemmelen


    L: Gijs Jorna

  • Players list for preparations to WCH qualifications: - 14 players here, I don't know if Tillie wants to take all players or 2 will be out.
    Setters: Rafaël Redwitz, Benjamin Toniutti
    Opposites: Antonin Rouzier, Mory Sidibé
    Outside Hitters: Julien Lyneel, Earvin Ngapeth, Kévin Tillie, Samuele Tuia
    Middle Blockers: Gérald Hardy-Dessources, Franck Lafitte, Nicolas Le Goff, Kevin Le Roux
    Liberos: Jenia Grebennikov, Nicolas Rossard

    Gold medal - World League 2013 Prediction Game
    Bronze medal - World League 2012 Prediction Game

  • no more moreau?

    I'm also surprised, seeing this list on siatka.org, in which shape is Marien after his injury, did he started training back?

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    Bronze medal - World League 2012 Prediction Game

  • Finland's wide roster for WCH qualifications:
    Setters: Mikko Esko, Eemi Tervaportti, Ville Juntura, Antti Esko
    Opposites: Urpo Sivula, Mikko Oivanen (also OH), Olli-Pekka Ojansivu, Ville Sorvoja
    Outside Hitters: Antti Siltala, Olli Kunnari, Niklas Seppänen, Elviss Krastins, Toni Kankaanpää, Eemeli Kouki
    Middle Blockers: Jukka Lehtonen, Konstantin Shumov, Matti Oivanen, Tommi Siirilä, Samuli Kaislasalo
    Liberos: Lauri Kerminen, Juho Rajala, Jesse Mäntylä

    Gold medal - World League 2013 Prediction Game
    Bronze medal - World League 2012 Prediction Game

  • Germany`s 15 player roster for preparation:


    Setter: Lukas Kampa (Modena/ITA), Sebastian Kühner (BR Volleys)
    MB: Marcus Böhme (Generali Haching), Tim Broshog (Moerser SC), Philipp Collin (Tours/FRA), Michael Andrei (St-Nazaire/FRA),
    Lukas Bauer(Sete/FRA)
    OH: Denis Kaliberda (Piacenca/ITA), Björn Höhne (TV Ingersoll Bühl), Sebastian Schwarz (Generali Haching),
    Christian Fromm (Castello Pallavolo/ITA)
    Opp: Jochen Schöps (Rzeszow/POL), Georg Grozer (Belgorod/RUS)
    Libero: Ferdinand Tille (Generali Haching), Markus Steuerwald (Paris/FRA)


    No Günthör (witdrew due to "private reasons").
    No P. Steuerwald ?( , Calling a second setter with no NT experience and little playing time in the league is quite risky. Heynen obviously does not like Steuerwald at all.


  • How about Simon Tischer?


  • Injured. He doesn't play for his club Lyon at the moment. They are even looking for a replacement.

    Someone wrote that Turkish setter Ulas Kiyak may join Lyon.

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    Bronze medal - World League 2012 Prediction Game

  • Serbian 17 for WCH qualifications:
    Setters: Vlado Petkovic, Nikola Jovovic, Mihajlo Mitic
    Opposites: Sasa Starovic, Aleksandar Atanasijevic, Dusan Petkovic
    Outside Hitters: Milos Nikic, Nikola Kovacevic, Uros Kovacevic, Marko Ivovic, Nemanja Petric
    Middle Blockers: Dragan Stankovic, Marko Podrascanin, Milan Rasic, Srecko Lisinac
    Liberos: Nikola Rosic, Neven Majstorovic

    Gold medal - World League 2013 Prediction Game
    Bronze medal - World League 2012 Prediction Game

  • Setters: Depestele, Verschueren
    Opposites: Van den Dries, G. Van Walle
    Middle: Van de Voorde, Verhees, Coolman, Heyrman
    Outside: Deroo, Verhanneman, Klinkenberg, Claes
    Libero: Dejonckheere, Derkoningen


    A lot of injuries:
    - Depestele broke a bone in his (right) hand and underwent surgery somewhere in october. He only recently returned to the Beauvais line-up (as a substitute)
    - Dejonckheere missed a lot of games with Roeselare due to a knee injury
    - Deroo had knee problems, but played almost all Modena matches
    - Verhees injured his ankle at the beginning of the national team preparation
    - Claes didn't participate in some of the national team preparation
    - Tuerlinckx was cut from the team, because of an injury on his hand


    Van de Voorde and Van den Dries seem to have the best shape in their respective teams (Jastrebski Wegiel and Beauvais), according to their stats.
    Van Walle is struggling with Cita di Castello in serie A: he had some good stats, but also a few really poor ones (lots of errors).


    I'm not terribly optimistic for the upcoming qualifications in Paris.
    The French team seems to be in better shape since Tillie took over. I'm sure they're looking for revenge since they lost the last 2 confrontations against Belgium.

  • Turkish 14 for WCH qualifications:


    Setters: Ulaş Kıyak, Yiğit Gülmezoğlu (1995-he is very talented, can play both as Opp and setter)
    Opposites: Serhat Coşkun, Metin Toy (1994)
    Outside Hitters: Burutay Subaşı, Gökhan Gökgöz, Can Ayvazoğlu, Turgay Doğan
    Middle Blockers: Emre Batur, Resul Tekeli, Hakkı Çapkınoğlu, Mustafa Koç
    Liberos: Hasan Yeşilbudak, Murat Tokgöz

  • Bulgarian 12 for WCH qualifications:
    Setters: Georgi Bratoev, Andrey Zhekov
    Opposites: Tsvetan Sokolov, Danail Milushev
    Outside Hitters: Todor Aleksiev, Todor Skrimov, Nikolay Penchev, Valentin Bratoev
    Middle Blockers: Nikolay Nikolov, Teodor Todorov, Viktor Yosifov
    Libero: Teodor Salparov


    As we can see Zhekov is back :thumbsup:

    Gold medal - World League 2013 Prediction Game
    Bronze medal - World League 2012 Prediction Game

  • German 12 for the weekend:


    Setters: Lukas Kampa (Modena/ITA), Sebastian Kühner (BR Volleys)
    MB: Marcus Böhme (Generali Haching), Tim Broshog (Moerser SC), Philipp Collin (Tours/FRA)
    OH: Denis Kaliberda (Piacenca/ITA), Sebastian Schwarz (Generali Haching), Christian Fromm (Castello Pallavolo/ITA)
    Opp: Jochen Schöps (Rzeszow/POL), Georg Grozer (Belgorod/RUS)
    Libero: Ferdinand Tille (Generali Haching), Markus Steuerwald (Paris/FRA)


    Björn Höhne and Michael Andrei were cut in last moment.


    The schedule:
    03.01.2014: GER - CRO (15.30) / EST - TUR (18.30)
    04.01.2014: GER - EST (17.00) / CRO - TUR (20.00)
    05.01.2014: EST - CRO (14.00) / TUR - GER (17.00)

  • " Quoted from "kondzio"


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    Where, for sweet heavens, is Pasi Hyvärinen??"


    Hyvärinen has not played in the Finnish League or any other major league for couple years now. I think he's concentrating on other things. Kerminen is young and promising guy, and he was already our first libero in the last ECH. Generally he's got very good skills in defence and serve receiving, but he needs to set better and get more strength to his feet.


    Final roster for the qualifications can be found here:
    https://lentopalloliitto-fi.di…oukkue/mm-karsinnat-2014/


    As you might notice Mikko Oivanen is missing from this roster, since his club team in China does not let him to participate. Quite interesting.