Friendly matches

  • Germany will play three friendlies in the Netherlands on 30., 31. August and on 1. Sep.
    On 16. and 17. Sep. they will play Italy in Germany.

    Results:
    30th August: Ger vs.Ned: 3-0 (25-23, 28-26, 25-23)
    Starting 6: Simon Tischer, Jochen Schöps, Björn Höhne, Christian Fromm, Marcus Böhme, Philipp Collin und Ferdinand Tille


    31th August: Ger vs. Ned: 0:3 (23-25, 20-25, 15-25)
    Starting 6:Lukas Kampa, Jochen Schöps, Sebastian Schwarz, Denis Kaliberda, Tim Broshog, Felix Fischer und Markus Steuerwald
    Best german scorers: Schwarz and Kaliberda (10 points)


    No Grozer??? Maybe he will play today. Hope he will get in shape for the euros. Had quite a long break now.

  • No Grozer??? Maybe he will play today. Hope he will get in shape for the euros. Had quite a long break now.

    OK then....
    Third match result Ger vs. Ned: 3-1 (25-22, 19-25, 25-15, 25-22)
    Starting 6: Lukas Kampa, Georg Grozer, Philipp Collin, Tim Broshog, Christian Fromm, Denis Kaliberda und Markus Steuerwald


    Heynen made a lot of changes and said afterwards that he was very satified and that "we are on the right way"


    Source: http://www.volleyball-verband.…vadr2brbjp3h0u5k4jatdqho1

  • At Polish side good job by Kubiak, Kurek and Bociek. I don't understand why Anastasi took Bociek out after three sets and put Bartman in :gone: again MBs with low amounts of points :whistle: Now Polish NT is coming back for Wagner's Memorial, then OH Michał Ruciak and MB Łukasz Wiśniewski will join team. From this 16 Anastasi will choose group for Euro Volley.

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  • Tonight, Belgium won the first game in a series of 3 consecutive preparation games against Czech Republic: 3-1 (-20, 29-, -22, -20 ? could be off by a few points)


    Czech Republic starting line-up:
    1. Tichachek 2. Stokr 3 Sykory 4. Konecny 5. Baranek 6. Holubec (lib: Juraka)


    In set 2: Boula replace Tichachek and Hudecek replaced Baranek - both to stay in the field for the remainder of the game.


    Belgian starting line-up:
    1. Depestele 2. Deroo 3. VandeVoorde 4. Van den Dries 5. Verhees 6. Verhanneman (lib: Dejonckheere)



    I'm not convinced by this experiment to use Stokr for serve reception: this is simply too easy to exploit tactically by the other team and he's not making up for it in scoring percentage.
    I can imagine it's though to choose between Konecny and Stokr for the opposite position, but it feels like the coach is simply avoiding that choice.
    Czech team is lacking consistency: powerful serving (Konecny - Stokr - Houba) - Houba succesfully using a lot his middle attackers - but overall too many errors.


    The Belgian team was mostly relying on Deroo and, to a lesser extent, Van den Dries to score the important points. Block-defense was good, serving could be better still.
    Depestele was finding Deroo from every angle, a joy to watch. I would have liked to see Verhees get more involved in attack (hardly got 5 attacks in total).
    Dejonckheere overall great in defense and serve reception, Gert-Jan Claes was only briefly on court to deliver a perfect serve reception on a huge serve from Stokr at set point - respect!



    Belgium team currently is composed as follows:
    Setters: Frank Depestele, Tim Verschueren
    Opposite: Bram Van den Dries, Gert Van Walle, Hendrik Tuerlinckx
    Middle: Simon Van de Voorde, Pieter Verhees, Pieter Coolman
    Outside: Sam Deroo, Mathijs Verhanneman, Gert-Jan Claes, Kevin Klinkenberg, Tomas Rousseaux
    Libero: Stijn Dejonckheere, Bert Derkoningen


    Coach Bayens announced he would make his final selection of 14 players by the end of this campaign against Czech Republic.
    This means he has to eliminate one single player, probably one of the 5 outside hitters.

  • First match in Saint-Nazaire: France-Canada 4-0 (25:21, 27:25, 25:20, 32:30)

    La Soucoupe Saint-Nazaire


    2000 Spectateurs


    France : Aguenier 8, Hardy-Dessources 3, Le Goff 5, Le Roux 4, Lyneel 8, Ngapeth
    12, Redwitz, Rouzier 9, Sidibé 10, Tillie 14, Toniutti 2, Tuia 8. Exiga,
    Grebennikov. coach : L. Tillie.


    Canada : Howatson 2, Verhoeff, Duff, Soonias 18, Simac 7, Schneider 1, Van Lankvelt
    17, Schmitt 11, Winters 10, Gotch, Vigrass 2, Bann, Derocco 3, Sanders. Coach : G. Hoag.


    http://www.snvba.net/FranceCanada/FranceCanada.php

  • Italy played two friendly matches against Slovakia:


    7th September:
    ITALIA-SLOVACCHIA 3-0 (25-21, 25-22, 28-26)
    ITALIA: Birarelli 5, Zaytsev 15, Parodi 8, Beretta 4, Travica 4, Savani 9, Rossini (L). Kovar 5, Mazzone 3, Giovi, Saitta, Vettori, Lanza. Ne Sabbi. All. Berruto
    SLOVACCHIA: Masny, Ogurgac 5, Kohut 9, Nemec 12, Chrtiansky 7, Kmet 6, Ondrusek (L). Patak 1, Michalovic 3, Zatko, Hruska, Hupka (L). Ne: Kasper, Bencz. All. Chrtiansky
    Arbitri: Pol, Lot
    Spettatori: 500 Durata set: 25’, 31’, 31’. Italia: bs 16 a 6 mv 10 et 26
    Slovacchia : bs 18 a 2 mv 1 et 25



    8th september:
    ITALIA-SLOVACCHIA 3-1 (22-25, 25-20, 25-20, 25-20).
    ITALIA: Birarelli 11, Zaytsev 20 , Kovar 6, Beretta 10, Travica 4, Savani 14, Rossini (L). Giovi, Saitta, Lanza. Ne Parodi, Mazzone, Vettori, Sabbi. All. Berruto.
    SLOVACCHIA: Masny, Ogurgac 4, Kohut 9, Nemec 9, Chrtiansky 7, Kmet 3, Ondrusek (L). Bencz 12, Zatko 4, Patak 3, Hupka (L). Ne: Michalovic, Hruska, Kasper,. All. Chrtiansky.
    Arbitri: Zanussi, Sessolo.
    Spettatori: 2600 Durata set: 27’, 27’, 26’, 25’. Italia: bs 23 a 8 mv 7 et 35.
    Slovacchia : bs 17 a 4 mv 10 et 32.


    I'm happy Italy showed quite a good game, but I hope they manage to reduce the number of mistakes, they're too much!

  • Transfer Bydgoszcz - PGE Skra Bełchatów 0-4 (22-25 20-25 24-26 21-25)


    Transfer: Salas, Wika, Nowakowski, Portuondo, Waliński, Wieczorek, Stysiał (L) and Sieńko, Wiese
    Skra: Uriarte, Antiga, Pliński, Wlazły, Konieczny, Kłos, Conte (L) and Pietrzak, Maćkowiak

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  • Transfer Bydgoszcz - PGE Skra Bełchatów 0-4 (22-25 20-25 24-26 21-25)


    Transfer: Salas, Wika, Nowakowski, Portuondo, Waliński, Wieczorek, Stysiał (L) and Sieńko, Wiese
    Skra: Uriarte, Antiga, Pliński, Wlazły, Konieczny, Kłos, Conte (L) and Pietrzak, Maćkowiak


    Wait... what? Conte was the libero???

  • Wait... what? Conte was the libero???

    Yep, I also couldn't believe that :D

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