2014 FIVB World Grand Prix

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Now I'm worrying because Bełcik is playing not as good as she could in the past, moreover Kajzer is still inexperienced and she has hot head maybe Gabriela Jasińska could join to the team...

In my views, she's just as terrible as Babeshina when she was Sheshenina It's funny because not many polish users criticize her despite her horrible performance, If Radecka did the same, she would have been so much criticized...I actually think Milena isn't that bad and she should have played better than Belcik.

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In my views, she's just as terrible as Babeshina when she was Sheshenina It's funny because not many polish users criticize her despite her horrible performance, If Radecka did the same, she would have been so much criticized...I actually think Milena isn't that bad and she should have played better than Belcik.

Of course Radecka would have played much better.. she is not a bad setter, they quality of her sets is good.. she is not missing players, nor screwing up actions.. she has just become a little bit boring or predictable, like Startseva.. on the other hand Belcik is a player who is technically on a lower level, at least now

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Of course Radecka would have played much better.. she is not a bad setter, they quality of her sets is good.. she is not missing players, nor screwing up actions.. she has just become a little bit boring or predictable, like Startseva.. on the other hand Belcik is a player who is technically on a lower level, at least now

I really used to like Milena though! When she was invited to NT by Bonitta, she was really good and promising, even when reception came up so badly she tried to run all the time and made creative sets. At the time she was better than Skorupa and any other polish setters. But somehow, probably after her second marriage she got a bit worse...lazy,boring,predictable,relying on one player (Skowronska or Glinka mostly in NT and Rourke in Muszyna...). I don't know what exactly happened to her, but hopefully she starts to play creatively just like when she was a newbie. Anyway I believe Poland should play with Wolosz who's develped a lot under a great coach. Belcik should as soon as possible get kicked out from NT and go back to Sopot's team training

so you mean her second husband is guilty of her shape in recent years ...

any news about other rosters we have Tuesday, while games start on Friday, it would be easier to make predictions we have Russia, Thailand, Germany, Brazil, Serbia, maybe Italy (source is not confirmed...) and maybe China (it's probable roster, not official though...)

Dominican Republic, Turkey, USA, Japan, Korea and USA are missing

Quote from kondzio

any news about other rosters we have Tuesday, while games start on Friday, it would be easier to make predictions we have Russia, Thailand, Germany, Brazil, Serbia, maybe Italy (source is not confirmed...) and maybe China (it's probable roster, not official though...)

Dominican Republic, Turkey, USA, Japan, Korea and USA are missing

Yeah I am waiting for that too.. especially USA to see if Larson is there so I can make my predictions

Dominican Republic roster

S: Niverka Marte, Camil Dominguez and Rosalyn Angeles
OP: Gina Mambru and Brayelin Martinez
OH: Bethania De la Cruz, Yonkaira Peña and Prisilla Rivera
MB: Annerys Vargas, Candida Arias and Marianne Fersola
L: Brenda Castillo, Winifer Fernandez and Ana Yorkira Binet

Very Probable Roster for SK:

S: Hyo-Hee Lee (IBK), Da-Young Lee (Sun-Myeong Highschool)
L: Yeon-Koung Kim (Fenerbahce), Song-Yi Han (GS), Jung-Ah Park (IBK), Mook-Hwa Baek (KGC), Jae-Yeong Lee (Sun-Myeong Highschool)
R: Yoo-Na Bae (GS)
MB: Hyo-Jin Yang (Hyundai), Hee-Jin Kim (IBK)
L(i): Ji-Yeon Nam (IBK), Hye-Ran Kim (HI-pass)

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Very Probable Roster for SK:

S: Hyo-Hee Lee (IBK), Da-Young Lee (Sun-Myeong Highschool)
L: Yeon-Koung Kim (Fenerbahce), Song-Yi Han (GS), Jung-Ah Park (IBK), Mook-Hwa Baek (KGC), Jae-Yeong Lee (Sun-Myeong Highschool)
R: Yoo-Na Bae (GS)
MB: Hyo-Jin Yang (Hyundai), Hee-Jin Kim (IBK)
L(i): Ji-Yeon Nam (IBK), Hye-Ran Kim (HI-pass)

Yang Hyo-Jin got injured a few days ago.

who are lee hyo hee and lee da young? are they good?

Bulgarian roster for tournament in Porec, Croatia

S: Diana Nenova, Lora Kitipova
OP:Emiliya Nikolova, Kremena Kamenova
OH: Elitsa Vasileva, Dobriana Rabadzhieva, Eva Yaneva, Slavina Koleva
MB: Hristina Ruseva, Tsvetelina Zarkova, Nasya Dimitrova
L: Ivelina Monova

With the team wasn't captain Filipova who will rest instead of Nasya Dimitrova and Desi Nikolova which is injured from tournament in Mexico. Slavina Koleva, Nasya Dimitrova and Ivelina Monova are the only three players who played in Mexico and after only 5 hours in home they go in Croatia. Captain of the team will be Diana Nenova.

Nenova as captain? does that mean she will be playing as starter? I don't really like Kitipova either but she's better than Nenova by miles...

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Yang Hyo-Jin got injured a few days ago.

I also heard that

Hyo-Hee Lee is a veteran and Da-Young Lee is a Rookie,

so, kind of a harmonization of the old and the new

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Nenova as captain? does that mean she will be playing as starter? I don't really like Kitipova either but she's better than Nenova by miles...

I think that captain doesn't necessarily mean starter. I assume that Nenova is reserve captain because of her experience and age. Also Yaneva and Zarkova are more older that the others and can be captains.

Rousseaux made a vlog for Belgium first week in WGP.

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I also heard that

Hyo-Hee Lee is a veteran and Da-Young Lee is a Rookie,

so, kind of a harmonization of the old and the new

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So which MB can be called additionally it would be weird having only Hee-Jin Kim as nominal C maybe Su-Ji Kim, Joon-Eem Ha or Hye-Jin Kim can join I saw that Yoo-Na Bae was also tried as MB in the past
on the other hand nothing will surprise me because Peruvian NT had only one MB in last weekend and Ortiz had to play as MB...

The Italian roster is quite official !

" le alzatrici Ferretti,
Malinov e Signorile; gli opposto Centoni e Diouf; le centrali
Arrighetti, Bonifacio, Chirichella e Folie; i martelli Caterina Bosetti,
Lucia Bosetti, Del Core, Fiorin, e Piccinini; i liberi De Gennaro e
Merlo."

So we could see this starting 7, at least against Brasil !

Ferretti / Centoni
Arrighetti / Chirichella
L. Bosetti / Del Core
De Gennaro.

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Very Probable Roster for SK:

S: Hyo-Hee Lee (IBK), Da-Young Lee (Sun-Myeong Highschool)
L: Yeon-Koung Kim (Fenerbahce), Song-Yi Han (GS), Jung-Ah Park (IBK), Mook-Hwa Baek (KGC), Jae-Yeong Lee (Sun-Myeong Highschool)
R: Yoo-Na Bae (GS)
MB: Hyo-Jin Yang (Hyundai), Hee-Jin Kim (IBK)
L(i): Ji-Yeon Nam (IBK), Hye-Ran Kim (HI-pass)

Did Kim Sae Nee retire from NT?

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The Italian roster is quite official !

" le alzatrici Ferretti,
Malinov e Signorile; gli opposto Centoni e Diouf; le centrali
Arrighetti, Bonifacio, Chirichella e Folie; i martelli Caterina Bosetti,
Lucia Bosetti, Del Core, Fiorin, e Piccinini; i liberi De Gennaro e
Merlo."

So we could see this starting 7, at least against Brasil !

Ferretti / Centoni
Arrighetti / Chrichella
L. Bosetti / Del Core
De Gennaro.

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Do you think this line-up could have blocking problem ( Ferretti+ Bosetti+Del Core)

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Do you think this line-up could have blocking problem ( Ferretti+ Bosetti+Del Core)

This Italia 2014 is much more attractive than Italia 2013 !
But you are quite right ! Probably a team far than perfection, especially at blocking with 2 or 3 rather "weak" (at high international level) blockers !
I hope these players can do their best and both Mbs could be at the top of their shape.
But the main goal remains WCH of course For all teams, but especially for Italia.