the 90's

Quote from "HeeelMooi"

Been waiting to see these matches for 9 years now, can't believe I'm finally watching them. All I had were a couple of rallies from a documentary. I got myself a megaupload premium account especially for this. 10 euro's isn't much to pay when i finally get to see Ron Zwerver, Olav van der Meulen En Bas van de Goor play while they were in their prime.

Seriously the Dutch AND the italian teams were such fantastic teams to watch. Especially when you compare them to a bunch of current teams, so much charisma.

The obvious question remains though... does anyone have the legendary OG 96' final??

But thanx a million for posting theses

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I do have the famous '96 final on tape. I encoded it already once, but the quality was poor (and audio out of sync). I have to do it again, but I'm a little short on disk storage.
I'l get to it somewhere this summer, promised.

Quote from "HeeelMooi"

That'd be fantastic man! I'll see if I can get myself the means to convert my 30 something VHS tapes in to avi format to repay all you people

Waw, 30 tapes - sounds promising, could you give us a hint about what you have in store?

Nice game between the defending olympic champion and the host country in the preliminary phase.

The USA line-up still counts 4 members of the 1988 Golden starting line-up (Stork, Timmons, Partie, Ctvrtlik <-> no Buck and no Kiraly, who participates in the Olympic Beach Volley tournament).
The Spanish team features Pascual (age 22 at that time, positioned in the middle, not his usual position) and Maroto, a spectacular high-flying hard hitting wing attacker.

The Americans shaved their heads to protest against a sanction imposed on teammate Samuelson (bald in the first place) in one of the previous games.

The sound is messed up a little bit, and video originates from an old VCR-tape, but still enjoyable.

part 1: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6H7XG10D
part 2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CF05NPSM
part 3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JZYF5MSH
part 4: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MIDH1HXA

(download all parts, then unzip with winrar)

1992 Olympic bronze medal game between USA and Cuba.

First appearance of the Cuban team in an olympic event since ??

They already lost the title game in the 1990 World Championships against the Italians.
I never counted how many titles (if any) the Cubans have won since their reappearance on the international scene(somewhere end eighties) , but I'm sure there aren't a lot.
Always a promising line-up and among the tournament's favorites, but in the end they always fall short.

2th set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JPPJIHG1
3th set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1QA1VO1Y
4th set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5CRI49IZ

Quote from "jacksonangelo"

I don't understand: Megaupload deleted the 4th set! Is it possbile re-upload it?

Oops, wrong link, I guess. I edited the link of the 4th set in the original post, so you can try that one.

Most part of hard-fought set played between Italy and (still united) Yugoslavia in the 1991 European Championships (Germany).
The Yugoslavian line-up is particularly interesting:

- Ekrem Lagumdzija: Bosnian scoring machine, the Miljkovic of that era
- Zarko Petrovic: one of my all-time favorite players - takes a number of powerful hits (his style reminds of Georg Grözer sr)
- Andrei Urnaut: (Slovenian) played in the Italian League at that time, and was one of the best players in the Belgian League afterwards, playing for Maaseik
- Vladimir Grbic: still very young at that time, his first appearance in an international tournament
- Culic, the setter en Tanaskovic complete the starting 6.

3th set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7NC88V4X

I managed to recuperate this footage by sticking a broken VHS tape together with a piece of sticky tape.
The images are a little bumpy at first (after all, this game was recorded 16 years ago), but it gets better pretty quickly.

I don't think I ever posted this one, so here you go:

a 45' summary from a game between Mediolanum Milano and Sisley Treviso, played on October 17th, 1991.
No rally-point system, no libero, an occasional jump serve, remember that?

2 incredible line-ups:
Tofoli, Quiroga, Bernardi, Cantagalli, Tonev, Loro
Stork, Zorzi, Bertoli, Ctvrtlik, Luchetta, Galli

An era in which Italy had enough world class players to staff the majority of these two world class teams.

rar1: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IQA0WKJU
rar2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KIEPBIPU
rar3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MKRZ5SVO

(stats: http://www.legavolley.it/TabellinoGara.asp?IdGara=665)

Download all 3 rar files next to each other, start uncompressing the first one.