2013 FIVB World Grand Prix

Okay, I'll write a bit of my opinions here.

Germany - expected roster, I'd say. I hope Guidetti will test Anja Brandt and Berit Kauffeldt more and call Ssuschke only for the 3rd round or the final if they qualify.
Italy - Such a young roster. I personally don't like Signorile, so hopefully Mencarill will use Camera as main setter. She played a great match against D.R yesterday.
Poland - No Werblinska It was expected anyway...surely they are gonna miss her a lot. Since Bednarek and Tomsia being out, I guess Martalek and Tokarska will play as starters. The biggest question is who will be the OHs. Grejman and E.Skowronska more likely...
Netherlands - Very young team as well. only Flier is the experienced player, and the rest are young...(Steenbergen is 28yo but also hasn't got many experiences in Int Tournaments) I think we're going to see Stoltenborg,Steenbergen,De Kruijf, Buijs and Grothues as starters.
Serbia - I'm really curiuos if their OHs are all healthy right now. Nikolic, Malagurski and Molnar have been having some injuries.
Czech Republic - I'm very happy to see this team at WGP. Who knows? they're gonna surprise us
Bulgaria - Vasileva and Filipova... who else?

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As we can see in many teams we have big changes in rosters, I sum up who is absent from teams:
Brazil: Jaqueline, Paula, Mari, Sassa, Joyce, Fernandinha (only Jaque may have a more important role from these)
Bulgaria: Tanya Sabkova, Eva Yaneva, Kremena Kamenova, Elena Koleva
China: Qiuyue Wei, Linlin Fan, Jinling Chu, Ming Xue (Wei could be important, Xue last year was only in wide roster)
Cuba: Wilma Salas, Yanelis Santos, Rachel Sanchez, Leanny Simon, Yusidey Silie, Gyselle Silva (new group of escapers, like a starting line-up without libero)
Czech Republic: Martina Utla, Vendula Merkova, Sarka Barborkova (all not needed, however Utla can be useful)
Dominican Republic: Milagros Cabral, Cindy Rondon (Cabral retired, but was strong point, Rondon was useless) - it seems that Castillo won't appear in GP, but she's in roster
Germany: Kerstin Tzscherlich (retired), Angelina Grun (probably resigned from NT), Nadja Schaus (could be 3rd or 4th MB)
Italy: Sara Anzanello, Paola Croce, Giulia Rondon, Jenny Barazza, Paola Cardullo, Serena Ortolani, Francesca Piccinini, Eleonora Lo Bianco, Antonella Del Core, Simona Gioli (so many absents here, some will come back for ECH and WCH)
Japan: Megumi Kurihara, Hitomi Nakamichi, Yoshie Takeshita (retired), Yuko Sano (retired from NT), Ai Otomo (retired), Mai Yamaguchi, Erika Araki, Maiko Kano (changed position), Kanari Hamaguchi (also many absents, maybe permament change of team)
Kazakhstan: Olga Drobyshevskaya, Yelena Ezau, Cubans (Sanchez and Savin not registered this time, but may appear in further competitions)
Netherlands: Caroline Wensink, Debby Stam (both with injuries), Floortje Meijners (still not interested in NT)
Poland: Anna Podolec, Berenika Tomsia, Agnieszka Bednarek, Katarzyna Skorupa, Izabela Kowalińska (Żebrowska), Katarzyna Gajgał, Klaudia Kaczorowska
Puerto Rico: Alexandra Oquendo, Tatiana Encarnacion, Amanda Vazquez
Russia: Marina Akulova, Ekaterina Gamova, Liubov Sokolova, Lesya Evdokimova (Makhno), Yulia Merkulova, Maria Perepelkina
Serbia: Ivana Djerisilo, Ana Antonijevic, Danica Radenkovic, Jovana Vesovic, Sanja Starovic, Jelena Blagojevic
Turkey: Nihan Yeldan, Eda Erdem, Elif Oner, Meryem Calik, Nilay Ozdemir
USA: Tayyiba Haneef-Park, Lindsay Berg, Stacy Sykora, Heather Bown, Jennifer Tamas, Kim Glass, Megan Hodge, Jordan Larson, Nancy Metcalf, Logan Tom, Foluke Akinradewo, Carli Lloyd, Destinee Hoker, Mary Spicer (probably the biggest change of roster among all teams).

In rest teams: Algeria, Argentina and Thailand rosters are almost the same, without important changes.

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Additionally in DR team Lisvel Eve is missing, which is recovering after her injury.

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Additionally in DR team Lisvel Eve is missing, which is recovering after her injury.

I know it, but I didn't mention her, because she's in wide roster and I wrote only these, who aren't on lists

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I see very badly, but Hodge is not the USA roster?. I understand Larson and Akinradewo were to win a break, Megan played Pan American Cup.

Megan is getting married this week so time off from volleybal this summer is understandable.

So We will expect an easy Brazil Win in this tournament - who can really beat them?

I'm expecting another final between Brazil and USA.

Brazil is missing just some players. USA won even last year without the main players. Who knows?

I can't wait for WGP!

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I'm expecting another final between Brazil and USA.

Brazil is missing just some players. USA won even last year without the main players. Who knows?

I can't wait for WGP!

I think Brazil wont miss any players actually, Sheilla, Fabiana, Thaisa, Fabi are back training with the team...so maybe they wont appear in all group phases, but they will probably all be there for the Final Round. Only Jaque is really missing.

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I think Brazil wont miss any players actually, Sheilla, Fabiana, Thaisa, Fabi are back training with the team...so maybe they wont appear in all group phases, but they will probably all be there for the Final Round. Only Jaque is really missing.

How do you think who will be the second OH on the starting 6 together with Garay? Will it be Natalia? I hope Pri Daroit will play more and it would be so interesting to see Gabi on this level. Do you think she'll have a real chance?

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How do you think who will be the second OH on the starting 6 together with Garay? Will it be Natalia? I hope Pri Daroit will play more and it would be so interesting to see Gabi on this level. Do you think she'll have a real chance?

I suppose that Ze Roberto prefers Natalia to Priscila, however both should find place in 12

no yang jungjin?

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I suppose that Ze Roberto prefers Natalia to Priscila, however both should find place in 12

Well, I think Priscila and even Gabi will be able to have a chance first...cause I dont really know in what conditions Natália is right now. Well, yeah still one month to Grand Prix, so maybe she will recover in time..but she just came from two little surgeries to take off some screw from her knee, from old surgery. they were not very invasive surgeries of course, but there is always a time to recover the cut..so she hasnt play much this National team season...I dont know in what conditions she is. She is training with the girls again..but maybe Zé will prefere to start with players that were already trianing and that are in better shape than her. We will see.

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Well, I think Priscila and even Gabi will be able to have a chance first...cause I dont really know in what conditions Natália is right now. Well, yeah still one month to Grand Prix, so maybe she will recover in time..but she just came from two little surgeries to take off some screw from her knee, from old surgery. they were not very invasive surgeries of course, but there is always a time to recover the cut..so she hasnt play much this National team season...I dont know in what conditions she is. She is training with the girls again..but maybe Zé will prefere to start with players that were already trianing and that are in better shape than her. We will see.

i thought that surgery was a joke?

yah joana is confusing us, in the uniliver 2013/2014 thread it was saidd that the picture with a screw was just a joke now in this thread the injury was serious

the history that she fall in the street in a construction area was a joke, the surgery no...the screw was not from the street, but from an old knee surgery she had done in the past, so she has now to take of these screws...she had two small surgeries to take them off.

Like I said ..they were not big surgeries, not to invasive....but there is still need time to recover the cut and everything.

Kremena KAMENOVA back in the list of BUL GP

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Kremena KAMENOVA back in the list of BUL GP

From where you have this information ? In bulgarian medias doesn't have nothing about it.

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From where you have this information ? In bulgarian medias doesn't have nothing about it.

http://www.fivb.org/EN/volleyb…x/2013/Teams.asp?Team=BUL

Let's start to predict. For me the Gold medal is for Brazil, and the other two medals are for Germany and China - Usa always a agood team but too many absences. What do you beleive?

It is too early to predict which team will win but my candidates for final stage are:

-Brazil
-China
-Turkey
-Serbia
-Germany
-Russia

Bear in mind Japan is the host(: