Friendly NT Matches

  • i hope UK-France-Spain will improve their volleyball, its not enjoyable without them :( also there is no basketball in UK, only football :lol: :lol: :lol:

    I find it quite remarkable that volleyball is SO poorly followed here, France and Spain at least have professional leagues for Men and Women (full of foreign players, I accept, but still…) yet in Britain it is amateur only. The level is improving every year but even the top teams have no spectators. Hopefully the Olympics will help things, but I'm not holding my breath.


    Basketball is much more popular and there was (and maybe still is) a professional mens league, and there is a professional netball league for women.


    PS: This is not the fault of the British womens NT, OK? :lol: :lol: :lol:

  • tonight was the first friendly game for France this summer. Vs Slovakia in Albi, France without Rybaczewski, Faesch, Lozancic,Bousquet. Sombody know the result? one comment about the game?

    Les pieds dans le fumier, mais toujours le verbe haut et la tête droite ! Cocorico !

  • I can't find anything either! People really don't care about volleyball in this country! :lol:

  • German NT will come to Poland again for two friendly matches as preparation for WGP on 31 May and 1 June. Looks like Guidetti and Swiderek get along rather well ;)


    Well, I think that it is hard to find a team which want play at this time. Few teams will be after OQT in Japan, few will play European League and few don't want go to Europe ;)
    Besides I think that Germany and Poland are both good teams and this matches will help a lot.

  • Sombody know the result?


    Francja - Słowacja 3:0
    (25:16, 25:19, 25:22, set dodatkowy: 18:25)


    Francja - Słowacja 2:3
    (25:23, 18:25, 26:24, 21:25, 8:15)


    Francja - Słowacja 2:3
    (25:17, 25:22, 18:25, 16:25, 8:15)

  • First games for Italia NT :cheesy:
    3 Italy vs China


    Thursday 24th Imperia 20.45
    Saturday 26 th Alassio 20.45
    Monday 28 th Alassio 10.30
    ...
    And on Sunday, in Genova, charity game (for the city because the flood of last Autumn ; idea of Piske, who comes from Genova) between Italian players.

  • i think that thios week end dutch NT will play against french NT. some broadcast?

    Les pieds dans le fumier, mais toujours le verbe haut et la tête droite ! Cocorico !

  • China NT arrived at Alassio at local time of 1.00 pm on May 22. the 14 players travelling for Italy are as follows


    S - Wei Qiuyue, Mi Yang
    OP - Zhang Lei, Zeng Chunlei
    OH - Hui Ruoqi, Chu Jinling, Fan Linlin, Yang Jie
    MB - Ma Yunwen, Yang Junjing, Xu Yunli, Liu Congcong
    L - Zhang Xian, Shan Danna


    Wang Yimei will definitely miss the GP, and not sure if she could catch the OG...let's see...
    Wang Yimei looks quite painful while accepting the rehabilitation after the operation in her right ankle.

    i may not be the tallest,
    the fastest, or the strongest,
    but at least i can do one thing better than anyone else,
    to be me...

  • Anzanello wrote in her twitter now that is beggining of fourth set, China winning 2-1.



    Wow! that pic looks like volleyball at 80's.

  • Final score ??? :white:
    Anyone ...
    ...
    An italian joke about Cardullo ... in Volleyball.it :cheesy:





    "Io l'Olimpiade la gioco..."
    L'operatore Sky chiama Paola Cardullo per proporre il "pacchetto Olimpiade".


    Il libero azzurro rifiuta.


    L'operatore Sky insiste...


    Paola Cardullo esclama: "Ma io la gioco...
    ...
    ...
    (Did everybody understand ? Need a translation ?)

  • ITALY 1x3 CHINA (19-25, 25-27, 25-22 28-30)
    ITALIA: Signorile 1, Barcellini 8, Arrighetti 10, L. Bosetti 5, Piccinini 20, Folie 6; De Gennaro (L), Ortolani 17, Gennari 7, Sirressi, Barazza 1. N.e. Camera. All. Barbolini.
    CINA: Wei 5, Fan 10, Yang Ju. 15, Zeng 22, Yang Jie 10, Ma 13; Zhang X. (L), Shan. N.e. Mi, Hui, Xu, Zang. All. Yu.


    Italia: service errors 15, aces 5, blocks 4, errors 25; China: service errors 9, aces 7, blocks 16, errors 23.

  • ITALY 1x3 CHINA (19-25, 25-27, 25-22 28-30)
    ITALIA: Signorile 1, Barcellini 8, Arrighetti 10, L. Bosetti 5, Piccinini 20, Folie 6; De Gennaro (L), Ortolani 17, Gennari 7, Sirressi, Barazza 1. N.e. Camera. All. Barbolini.
    CINA: Wei 5, Fan 10, Yang Ju. 15, Zeng 22, Yang Jie 10, Ma 13; Zhang X. (L), Shan. N.e. Mi, Hui, Xu, Zang. All. Yu.


    Italia: service errors 15, aces 5, blocks 4, errors 25; China: service errors 9, aces 7, blocks 16, errors 23.

    Thank you !
    16 blocks to 4 .... :pinch:

  • ITALY 1x3 CHINA (19-25, 25-27, 25-22 28-30)
    ITALIA: Signorile 1, Barcellini 8, Arrighetti 10, L. Bosetti 5, Piccinini 20, Folie 6; De Gennaro (L), Ortolani 17, Gennari 7, Sirressi, Barazza 1. N.e. Camera. All. Barbolini.
    CINA: Wei 5, Fan 10, Yang Ju. 15, Zeng 22, Yang Jie 10, Ma 13; Zhang X. (L), Shan. N.e. Mi, Hui, Xu, Zang. All. Yu.


    Italia: service errors 15, aces 5, blocks 4, errors 25; China: service errors 9, aces 7, blocks 16, errors 23.


    Where is Bartek's Antonella Hard Core