2014 FIVB World Championship - Italy - 9/23

Our girls are doing good job. I liked Jana Lena and Zhidkova's appearances. Service and block is good. Please keep this rhythm !!

ITA is crumbling!!!! AZE might take 4th set and make this interesting.

Finallly my Poli shows her service potential

wow. that ball dropping on AZE back court was ridiculous!!!!!!

what a mistake!

i cannot stand the RAI commentators. so jingoistic and annoying. and they never shut up!!!!!

That shot was out !
I don't understand why Azeri coach didn't take any time-out.

Thank for u stupid substitution Chervyakov Jana was quite good at receiving why do u put Jeyran and she made two mistakes .....

actually the replay showed it was in...

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actually the replay showed it was in...

No you can't determine its position from that angle.
Even Bonitta was sure it was out so he was arguing if it was a block-out

So many interseting things today:
- Croatia is playing really good, while Japan without Sano disappointed me... Fabris changed the game
- bye Turkey Barbolini and his choices also bye Germany they need to find new OHs as replacements for Brinker - Beier immediately
-Americans shouldn't complain about OHs, Hildebrand will have problems to go to Rio, because Hodge may be back fortunately Davis is on stands
- Boskovic as starting OP in Serbian NT just amazed me what a smart move by so often criticised Terzic it pays off, though Malagurski could be Tijana's backup because Brakocevic can't help much...
- Dominicans with 6th win altrhough it was another tiebreak, these girtls finally play better than in previous years De La Cruz with high spiking %, Vargas is keeping high blocking efficiency and Castillo shines bright like a diamond in defence
- Russians finally with Obmochaeva on bench
- Italians won (great game by Arrighetti ), but Azerbaijan can steal points from Dominicans, about which I'm worrying

China, Brazil and USA are leading in terms of points so these 3 teams should advance. Italians are quite close too. Dominicans or Japan will be probably 3rd from E - Dominican Republic made another step, but it could've been bigger with winning 3-1 or 3-0. And direct battle Serbia-Russia should determine last participant in 3rd Round

so many mistakes in the end of the set here our gift for Italian NT

Anyway, I like this spirit. It is funny Jana can receive better than Odina and our 2nd libero Jeyran

too bad she can't kill the ball even though she's so tall… :- )

i really like Ayshan, she is fast her services are effective, but the problem is she is small. I ti shown 1.84, but I think she is smaller than that 1.80.

Can somebody please tell me what happened to Nagaoka?

Japan's libero's passing was very shaky. So many high balls the setter has had difficulty setting. I have missed Sano.

Congratulations to all winners tonight.

nati, in offical WCh website, she's listed as 177 cm although other sites (like CEV) says she's 184.

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too bad she can't kill the ball even though she's so tall… :- )

she is not Polna, but she is better at reception than Odina and the same level in attacking.

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nati, in offical WCh website, she's listed as 177 cm although other sites (like CEV) says she's 184.

I think 177 is right, when she stands next to Oksana (Kurt), you can see she is shorter than her. Oksana is 1.84cm

wow...that was tough! much needed 3 pts...
GREAT arrighetti!

RAI commentators are great. With Consuelo Mangifesta and Andrea Luchetta , we can listen to the best technical comments of this millenium (at least)