Brazil NT 2021

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No, they're just longtime friends. Gabi is with Sheilla.

are they official?

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are they official?

No but no one has any more doubts about it

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No but no one has any more doubts about it

Good for them. I can finally move on from Shari. 😂

So are they known as Shabi? 😂

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#FreeDaniLins

You can have her in AU if you want

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Sorry for being offtopic, but it made me curious: how can we have access to this Lang Ping movie? I remember people talking about it a while back, but then I stopped paying attention and didn't know it was already out.

By the way, not that I am super confident about this, but just for the sake of argument: contrary to Brazil_lover and Serdar's point, I do think there's a reason for having players like Ana Cristina, Fedorovtseva and Naz when she was younger to be moved back to the younger categories. It's not a technical point, but an attitudinal one. When a young player has the opportunity of playing with the senior NT and then comes back to their age group, they come back more experienced. Then they can use it to improve their leadership skills while playing in their age group. They become a bellweather in the group and I think that's important for their development as a multi-skilled player.

Trying not to astray away much from topic, we can think of a number of Brazilian players who've gone through that. For instance, Natália. She played U-18 World Championship in 2005, won the competition and was awarded MVP. In that same year, Zé Roberto called her for the adult team, to play World Champions Cup, and then he kept calling her during the next two years. In 2007, she played the U-20 World Championship and helped the team win again. That same year she was called again to the World Cup and she could've played the WGP, but I think Zé Roberto and the staff considered it important for her to play the U-20 thing. Eventually, she was not called to the OG 2008, but that was a choice. IMO she was definitely ready to be in the team already, and by then she was also co-leading Osasco along with Paula Pequeno in the Brazilian league. Anyway, there's a bunch of other examples.

So I think there's a point here. I find these experiences, with mingling in and out of age groups interesting.

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Sorry for being offtopic, but it made me curious: how can we have access to this Lang Ping movie? I remember people talking about it a while back, but then I stopped paying attention and didn't know it was already out.

By the way, not that I am super confident about this, but just for the sake of argument: contrary to Brazil_lover and Serdar's point, I do think there's a reason for having players like Ana Cristina, Fedorovtseva and Naz when she was younger to be moved back to the younger categories. It's not a technical point, but an attitudinal one. When a young player has the opportunity of playing with the senior NT and then comes back to their age group, they come back more experienced. Then they can use it to improve their leadership skills while playing in their age group. They become a bellweather in the group and I think that's important for their development as a multi-skilled player.

Trying not to astray away much from topic, we can think of a number of Brazilian players who've gone through that. For instance, Natália. She played U-18 World Championship in 2005, won the competition and was awarded MVP. In that same year, Zé Roberto called her for the adult team, to play World Champions Cup, and then he kept calling her during the next two years. In 2007, she played the U-20 World Championship and helped the team win again. That same year she was called again to the World Cup and she could've played the WGP, but I think Zé Roberto and the staff considered it important for her to play the U-20 thing. Eventually, she was not called to the OG 2008, but that was a choice. IMO she was definitely ready to be in the team already, and by then she was also co-leading Osasco along with Paula Pequeno in the Brazilian league. Anyway, there's a bunch of other examples.

So I think there's a point here. I find these experiences, with mingling in and out of age groups interesting.

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I disagree with you on this for two reasons:

1- It is not good for development of young star player. She should play and train with high level players to get challenged and improve. So joining to a VNL or ECh is more helpful for her than playing lower level tournaments against lower level players

2-it is not good for development of other youngsters in the team. Youth and junior level competitions are not about getting medals. It is about developing 1 or 2 youngster who can contribute to the senior NT. mostly what happens is, the team relies on their star youngster at these tournaments. That’s why others don’t take enough responsibilities. When Naz skipped junior WCh the team failed drastically while they played final at youth level with naz. Because they were relying on her too much. Russian youngster would get the chance to shine and show their capacity better when Arina is not around. Someone else will Have to take initiative at clutch points and this is very good for development of a young player

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2-it is not good for development of other youngsters in the team. Youth and junior level competitions are not about getting medals. It is about developing 1 or 2 youngster who can contribute to the senior NT. mostly what happens is, the team relies on their star youngster at these tournaments. That’s why others don’t take enough responsibilities. When Naz skipped junior WCh the team failed drastically while they played final at youth level with naz. Because they were relying on her too much. Russian youngster would get the chance to shine and show their capacity better when Arina is not around. Someone else will Have to take initiative at clutch points and this is very good for development of a young player

Yeah, I see your point. But I think it's a two-way-street. The coach/staff should worry about the team, but also about each player. I believe these young stars are not fully developed yet, so I think it's important for the team to handle responsibilities as much as for the wunderkinds to experience situations where they are the "go-to-guy/girl".

Let's take another example. I know it's not the same thing, but it's analogous. Some people criticized Rosamaria these past 2 seasons for choosing to go to weaker Italian teams, because while she would get to be a great scorer, she wouldn't be improving her skills as much, with not so great teammates. Ok, that's one point. Maybe she wouldn't improve so much solely on a technical standpoint. But she experienced the necessity of being a leader, being out of her comfort zone, and this was important for her development as a player. Now she gets to move on to a bigger challenge, facing Ebrar to see who gets to be starter in Novara. And I just think that, for younger players, it would be ideal to expose them to a variety of experiences, so they can learn different attitudinal skills.

I can't wait to see Lorena playing in NT. She has improved A LOT! There is no need of calling Bia anymore

Diana has potential but don't seem to improve, at all... She's the same player from 2 years ago... Ze likes her a lot and we know he sees something in his players that no one else can.. I don't think she's NT material, but, who knows... Lorena's case shows that we don't know anything about volleyball so everything's possible

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Just saw that Lorena scored 19 pts today. Those are... Thaísa numbers. I'm not saying she's as good as Thaísa though, just making that very clear. lol

But yeah, Diana seems slow and clumsy, while Lorena seems agile and strong, while also being a big jumper. I hope Minas gives Kudiess more chances this year too -- let Gattaz and Thaísa rest for some games, it won't even matter. If we can get these two on a good level + Carol and Mayany, that's a strong group of MBs.

When I wrote my first post she had just blocked for the 3rd time in a row.. if there's one thing that make me proud of my country is our MBs, oh they're good

Brazil has a bunch of evergreen MBs. I don’t know how y’all do it.

Tandara spoke for the first time ever since she let out that official note right when the doping scandal broke out. You can check it here.

There ain't much news, though... She spoke to Vogue (!), which is somewhat unusual. She pretty much just reaffirmed what she said in the past, that she's innocent, she doesn't know how this happened, but she's positive it's a mistake. She speaks about how painful it was for her missing the rest of the Olympic Games. She says she's grateful to Zé Roberto, cause he always believed in her innocence from the very beginning and mentions Camila Brait and Adenízia among the friends who sent her positive messages. She also says she's been dealing with anxiety because of this whole thing.

There's no news regarding when the much anticipated B sample will be disclosed, though. At this point I just wonder if, by the time they disclose it, and in the case she's acquitted, will there be able time for Tandara to rejoin the NT to train for the WCH'22.

interesting pamela accepted as she's chilean too

I like lorrsyna and mb,the rest uhm

https://www.instagram.com/reel…1tn/?utm_medium=copy_link

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I dont have instagram. What is that? 😭

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I dont have instagram. What is that? 😭

it was a clip of Roberta with her medal.