World Championship Japan 2010

    dani lins is ok sometimes. but she's on/off; which is something a setter shouldn't be. what the team needs is a decent replacement everytime dani lins plays awfully. unfortunately, the replacement is far worse. ana tiemi almost never sets to her middles, and during broken plays she'd always give a high set to her outside hitter.



    what happened to carolina albuquerque? i personally think that she's a far better choice than dani lins. but since the coach prefers dani lins, what she needs is a back up that can deliver everytime she's shaken by the circumstances.

    regarding ortolani, i think she's too inconsistent lately. in fact, bossetti plays far better than her. and i think the other option centoni is not as good as she once was. she's no longer the player that can dominate matches. and italy is known to have stellar opposites like togut, aguero, etc.


    i think the team looked better without aguero because aguero is no longer the player she once was. she no longer had the form she had; the form she had before olympics 08. she's still good defensively but she was getting too many sets and she can't convert.




    my problem for italy is what if their players retire. the team couldn't find a replacement for gioli and piccinini any time soon. and i do not see any one possibly replacing them.




    just a question though: what happened to the players like fiorin? stufi? vitez?

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    what happened to carolina albuquerque? i personally think that she's a far better choice than dani lins. but since the coach prefers dani lins, what she needs is a back up that can deliver everytime she's shaken by the circumstances.


    Zé Roberto likes her but Carol has left the team after OG saying she was tired although nobody believes it. Nowadays she plays only in clubs but the coach is probably gonna invite her to play in Japan next year.

    Kenya
    have received a major boost ahead of the FIVB Women’s World
    Championship Japan 2010 having secured the service of experienced
    Japanese coach Hidehiro Irisawa, who will take charge of Kenya’s
    preparations and participation in next year’s Commonwealth Youth Games
    in Singapore.


    Hidehiro, seconded to Kenya through the Japan
    International Cooperation Agency (JICA), will serve for a period of one
    year and depending on his performance in Singapore, he could
    potentially be allowed to head the country’s senior women’s team to
    next year’s World Championship in Japan where Kenya are grouped in Pool
    B with Brazil, Italy, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico and the Czech
    Republic.


    The coach, who arrived in Kenya a couple of days
    ago, will have his first session with the youth team on Saturday at the
    YMCA Shauri Moyo as the team prepares for the Africa qualifiers for the
    Youth Olympics to be held at a venue yet to be decided. The team of 18
    players was drawn from various schools in the country.


    "He is
    experienced and talented and good at unearthing raw players and
    nurturing them. I believe he will give us more skills and help in the
    development of the sport in the country," said Evans Wasike, the Kenya
    Volleyball Federation (KVF) secretary general. "Kenya Volleyball
    sincerely appreciates JICA’s support noting that we have previously
    benefited immensely from the Japanese influence, which could arguably
    be the reason of our dominance in women’s Volleyball in Africa."


    Previously,
    Kenya has benefitted from the service of other Japanese coaches
    including Hiroshi Hiyama, Sadatoshi Sugawara and Hedeyaki Onitshi. Many
    other volunteer coaches have been in different parts of the country.


    Wasike
    noted that though Kenya’s has received this support, it is yet to break
    its duck on the global scene, especially at the FIVB World Cup and
    World Championships where it is yet to win a match.


    "Kenya’s
    undoing in past global assignments has mainly been because of
    technique-related shortcomings. It is hoped that having on board a good
    coach as Irisawa, who has been the coach of respectable Japanese teams
    including the well-known Fuji team, might help address some of the
    shortcomings and raise the level of those coaches under his charge,"
    said Wasike.


    Hiyama was the first to come on board in 1986
    followed by Onishi in from Japan in 1987 before Sugawara took over
    first in 1996 and then in 2006 where he guided Kenya to the FIVB
    Women’s World Championship also in Japan. Several local players have
    benefited from the cooperation by signing up for Japanese clubs among
    them Dorcas Ndasaba, Praxicedes Agala and Philip Maiyo.


    Already,
    there is a vacancy in the senior women’s team technical bench after
    Paul Bitok stepped down having signed to help the Rwanda national team
    on a two-year contract.

    i heard that osmokroviç is going to play with her nt in WCH 2010 is it true ??

    I heard it too. Poljak, Usic and Osmokrovic will play in Japan this year. But the question is what will do Barbara Ruzic. She said, that maybe she will play for NT.

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    i heard that osmokroviç is going to play with her nt in WCH 2010 is it true ??


    where did you hear that?

    Would be definelty be amazing for Croatia if Osmokrovic came back!!!!:))))
    The team individually is already very good, they just need more experience as a group, to play more as a team....and maybe Natasha can bring that to them...

    Croatia has a many good players but our volley federetion doesnt really exist, they dont have money to play tournament with strong NT like italy, turkey, serbia and others

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    Croatia has a many good players but our volley federetion doesnt really exist, they dont have money to play tournament with strong NT like italy, turkey, serbia and others

    I agree with you..Croatia has many good players :D And I love all Croatian player For Example MAJA POLJAK :D , Osmokroviç and Usiç...Usiç is really exciting player :)