World League 2009

3 more days till start - can't wait!

The french team against Serbia:

Setters:
Yannick Bazin - Pierre Pujol

Opposites:
Marien Moreau - Antonin Rouzier

Midle blockers:
Romain Vadeleux - Gérald Hardy-Dessources - Jean-Philippe Sol

Outside hitters:
Ludovic Castard - Guillaume Samica - Nicolas Maréchal - Emmanuel Ragondet

Libero:
Jean-François Exiga

US Team against Netherlands:

1 Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
3 Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
7 Donald Suxho (S, 6-5, Korce, Albania, USC)
8 Andrew Hein (MB, 6-11, Carol Stream, Ill., Pepperdine)
10 David Smith (MB, 6-7, Saugus, Calif., UC Irvine)
11 Brook Billings (Opp, 6-5, Santa Barbara, Calif., USC)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
15 Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
16 Jayson Jablonsky (OH, 6-5, Yorba Linda, Calif., UC Irvine)
18 Scott Touzinsky (OH, 6-6, St. Louis, Mo., Long Beach State)
19 Alfee Reft (L, 5-10, Oxnard, Calif., Hawai'i)

WVL 2009:

Setters:

Yannick van Harskamp (Maaseik), Nico Freriks (Wegiel), Roland Rademaker (Tourcoing)

Outside Hitters:

Robert Horstink (Treviso), Jan Willem Snippe (Topvolley Latina), Jeroen Rauwerdink (Montichiari), Dick Kooy (Modena), Jeroen Trommel (IBB Spor), Mathijs Mast (Apeldoorn)

Middleblockers:

Rob Bontje (Verona), Lars Lorsheijd (Tourcoing), Dennis van der Veen (Paris Volley), Bart-Jan van der Mark (Orion), Tije Vlam (Roeselare)

Opposites:

Wytze Kooistra (Modena), Kay van Dijk (new club still unknown), Niels Klapwijk (Maaseik)

Liberos:

Jelte Maan (Maaseik), Richard Rademaker (new club still unknown)

Nice win by France in straight sets. Congratulations. It is never easy to win so clearly in Serbia.

Hello,

How are you?

Do you know where I can watch the macthes beetwen Cuba and Bulgaria?

Also,

Do you know if any TV is broadcasting the WL matches in the USA?

I would appreciate your help. thx

Quote from Konrad

Nice win by France in straight sets. Congratulations. It is never easy to win so clearly in Serbia.

Yes, that one is a good win. But the team of Serbia is less experienced than the french one (even if both are young), I think it really helped.

Rouzier and Samica were amazing yesterday.. :p In Polsat Sport speakers often called Vadeleux as Hardy-Dessources and vice versa..

They were sometimes called "twins" when they were playing with the CNVB !

Unfortunately we started this competition badly ... again Cuba did great on service and I dare say that our reception definately didn't work well - we got a lot of aces. In defence we also didn't paly well, our block started very promising but than it failed too. In my opinion we missed our chance in the second set which we were very closely to win but in the end Aleksiev sent the ball out serving it. Cuba played well especially on service. Simon was without a question their hero to me . From Bulgarian NT great job for Vlado Nikolov really no words to say - he just did his best! The only one who I 100 % liked. I hope now that we will succeed tomorrow.

About Serbia - France I have to admit that I am very surprised that French NT has won against Serbia as a guest because it is always hard to play there. The atmosphere for other teams in most cases is like in the hell because Serbian fans(actually all Balkan fans may be) are really great SUPPORTERS.

Quote from volley super fan

Unfortunately we started this competition badly ... again Cuba did great on service and I dare say that our reception definately didn't work well - we got a lot of aces. In defence we also didn't paly well, our block started very promising but than it failed too. In my opinion we missed our chance in the second set which we were very closely to win but in the end Aleksiev sent the ball out serving it. Cuba played well especially on service. Simon was without a question their hero to me . From Bulgarian NT great job for Vlado Nikolov really no words to say - he just did his best! The only one who I 100 % liked. I hope now that we will succeed tomorrow.

About Serbia - France I have to admit that I am very surprised that French NT has won against Serbia as a guest because it is always hard to play there. The atmosphere for other teams in most cases is like in the hell because Serbian fans(actually all Balkan fans may be) are really great SUPPORTERS.

Do you know if BNT 1 is showing the game live/06/13/09... thanks

if you want to see match Cuba-Bulagaria here is the link

http://www.justin.tv/bartek_hdtv6

enjoy

there is Italy vs China now

Quote from Black is beautiful

Do you know if BNT 1 is showing the game live/06/13/09... thanks

Yes, BNT 1 will show the game live

Poles we're good today, still very good in defence , but if u loose now with 3-1 without 4 primary players I think with sure you'll crash them in the finals. About Bulgaria - I won't stay till 3am to watch them loose again. We have still to work, coach is new.

WOW
Italy-China 0-3. These Chinese will really conquer this world.

Young Polish team played quite good today, although we have two remember, that Brasilians also lack some players. Good reception, no fear, will of winning... It wasn't bad. Too bad - no points for that I hope Kurek's injury isn't taht severe. I don't love him as a player, but this team need some variants.
Italy-China 0-3? Well, well...

Very good game on BNT now

Wilfredo Leon 15yo and Yoandry Leal 20yo playing a great match

It was good to see Cuba playing again at a high level. Even though a very young time, they did a very good job against a more experience Bulgarian team. Very refreshing was seeing Michael Sanchez # 9 playing after months recovering from a serious surgey. WHAT ABOUT THE “TEEN”? # 1 Wilfredo Leon at 15…..amazing.
Here the stats for both starting teams
Cuba
Age: 21.3
Height: 200.66
Attack: 356
Block: 337

Bulgaria
Age: 26.3
Height: 199
Attack: 349.5
Block: 328

Quote from volley super fan

Yes, BNT 1 will show the game live

Thanks, I saw the game, excellent game, great to watch Matey Kaziyski and Vladimir Nikolov great players

I just want to ask you, where Chinese has learnt to play on this level.. That was something amazing.. Day before they couldn't reach 17 points in single set and in 2nd match they won 3:0.. What happened at the night between that matches?