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About me: Favorite teams: M: USA, Serbia, Italy,Russia, Perugia, PGE Skra, Taubate W: Brazil, Japan, Serbia, wherever club Queen Sheilla is at...
"Be careful how you treat people. What you do to others has a funny way of coming back on you..."
Location: End of the f****** world
Occupation: Prostitution... Do you believe me? :-*
And now Antiga is in the final six with Canada using plenty of new faces...I feel like Poland or maybe their federation probably blames a lot of non-factors like maybe Antiga. Antiga is a man of action. When he does something... he sticks with it like using Lomacz instead of Drzyzga or benching popular players that are playing badly. So they probably feel like what he did to their team is his fault. I don't know. It's just a conspiracy theory.
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what the heck was that with the FRA uniforms in the match with ITA, that they had to change them in the first TTO???? they were all wearing blue as the ITA, then they changed to red... that was funny, except they didn't match the shorts anymore.
About me: Favorite teams: M: USA, Serbia, Italy,Russia, Perugia, PGE Skra, Taubate W: Brazil, Japan, Serbia, wherever club Queen Sheilla is at...
"Be careful how you treat people. What you do to others has a funny way of coming back on you..."
Location: End of the f****** world
Occupation: Prostitution... Do you believe me? :-*
Oh yeahhh, Antiga is in the Final 6 and Poland is not.![]()
I will be cheering my heart out for Canada to beat Russia.
I had a roommate from Poland which happens to be a volleyball fan as well, and she told me that Polish players does not know how to work together as a group, they really struggles with that, they are better in individual sports, and when they score and they do that "jumping group together" is a way to "force" themselves to create some "group chemistry" during the game. But during the games each player goes into their own island, and it becomes a individual performance game. Especially when they are loosing it is easy to see they have 0 communication.
I was thinking they would play this WL with Muzaj as main weapon, but I think he barely played.
Szalpuk barely played also so when turned the game on I was really surprised to see him playing today.
Only bright spot is Lemanski.
Well, they will have the European Championship, let`s see if they can redeem themselves.
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Favourite Team: Bulgarian NT
Favourite Players: Tsvetan Sokolov, Viktor Yosifov, Elizaveta Tichtchenko, Evguenia Estes
Location: Silicon Valley, US
Argentina played very good volleyball in all the last weekend despite playing with two midget OHs and a MB as OppDe Cecco worked his magic.
Favourite Team: Bulgarian NT
Favourite Players: Tsvetan Sokolov, Viktor Yosifov, Elizaveta Tichtchenko, Evguenia Estes
Location: Silicon Valley, US
Bulgaria needs to train better setters with the middles blockers. It seems like that's going to be a problem for them when they are separated by countries or miles though. Bulgaria was one-dimensional in offense and faces lots of troubles with blocks. Their passing wasn't great but the best setters in the world are capable of turning trash into gold. The lack of creativity was seen best today. Even Bruno wasn't that creative with Bulgaria. So with that, it just made Argentina play aggressively because the setter can't do nothing and forces the play to Sokolov.
I also feel Bulgaria has trouble with "resetting the play". There's no fine line befween killing the ball or saving the play which could've created better opportunities for them to attack the second time around.
Honestly, it's just tactics for Bulgaria. They need someone who can guide them and make them play without the need for power.
Oh I think Sokolov should train with his service. That error ratio was really bad. Other wise Sokolov played really well... with his shorts. I feel I was in heaven too.![]()
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How many years since the last win of Argentina over Brazil?![]()
Officially since PanAm games 2015 final, however, against Brazil "A" team, since Sydney 2000![]()
Thanks. I realized how much they cared about the game by the way the celebrated all together.
I really liked this WL, everthing can happen in this last round.![]()
France lost nothing changing Rouzier with Boyer, IMHO they fixed the weak link of the team.
hey cant produce a decent team B
I`m glad Canada is in the Finals.
But I can`t believe Belgium is out . And I can`t believe Russia is in
what the heck was that with the FRA uniforms in the match with ITA, that they had to change them in the first TTO???? they were all wearing blue as the ITA, then they changed to red... that was funny, except they didn't match the shorts anymore.
IMO Brazil, Canada, France and Serbia should play in SF's.
I want promotions and relegations. Go Slovenia!![]()
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What a mess![]()
The big issue is that there's no practical way of fixing the WL without some significant changes that will anger a lot of countries. Just like Tokyo 2020 fixed the World Cup disaster, something else will happen to fix the World League, again without any kind of real decision making by the FIVB.
Perhaps a compromise solution would be having the European League function as de facto Division 2, with the winner automatically qualified for the World League next season.
It worked like that on women's side some 7-8 years ago, that's how Serbia first started playing in Grand Prix.
Favourite Team: Cuban NT, Turkish NT, VAKIFBANK
Favourite Players: A. Orro/O. Malinov/H. Miyashita/X. Gong/T. Boskoviç/M. Vargas/P. Egonu/I. Haak/H. Klimets/Z. Ting/C. Zhang/Gabi/B. Busa/M. Sylla/C. Bosetti/I. Voronkova/K. Ilchenko/D. Santana/J. Geerties/C. Plak/M. Mlejnkova/A. Leyva/L. Scuka/C. van Gestel/B. Herbotts/N. Daalderop/C. Chirichella/I. Fetisova/K. Akman/M. Popoviç/A. Danesi/S. Bonifacio/Y. Xinyue/Z. Todorova/A. De Tant
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Perhaps a compromise solution would be having the European League function as de facto Division 2, with the winner automatically qualified for the World League next season.
It worked like that on women's side some 7-8 years ago, that's how Serbia first started playing in Grand Prix.
Maybe but only Bulgaria might relegate from all European teamsI doubt they'll relegate so EL would be useless because only European NT's may replace each other in WL.
Absolutely. The current format is pathetic. But I would go even further and do like in the soccer World Cup, Round of 16, Quaterfinal, Semis and Final. ( FIBA Basketball World Championship did adopt this format).I'd rather have the FIVB spend some time in fixing the World Championships, for example eliminate the idiotic "third phase" and bring back the quarterfinal round.