Kurogo comback !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Japan - V.League V1 (Division 1, Women) 2021-2022
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Preliminary schedule for 22–23 is out and it looks like the back to back matches thing is going to happen again for the first two rounds of the 3 stage Round Robin format
Final stage with have top four teams advance to play a round-robin. No mention of Regular season bonus points yet, but the top two teams will advance to final.
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Yay! The Uni Rosters are out for Summer League. The Kanto Girls from the East are all exquisite
... there are of course a few glaring omissions, imo 
East -- Head Coach: Koichiro Imamaru ( TWCPE/Manabe NT )
Player Position Name School Year Shuri Kurata (C)
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倉田朱里
Tsukuba
4
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中川つかさ
Tokai
4
OH
住田帆志乃
Aoyama
4
OH
吉永有希
TWCPE
3
OH
佐々木遥子
Tokai
3
OH
石倉沙姫
NSSU
3
MB
足立溜奈
TWCPE
4
MB
江藤綾香
NSSU
4
MB
大山遼
Tsukuba
3
MB
佐藤黎香
JWCPE
4
OP
山下晴奈
Tokai
4
OP
川崎鈴奈
Kokushikan
3
L
川畑遥奈
Tokai
4
L
舩田璃々香
Juntendo
2
West -- Head Coach: Toyoji Kitada ( Aichi Gakuin )
Player Position Name School Year Sayaka Daikuzono (C)
L
大工園彩夏
NIFS
4
OP
岡村南奈
Tenri
4
OP
石倉愛梨
Ashiya
4
OH
横田希歩
Tezukayama
4
OH
名嘉山友愛
Aichi Gakuin
4
MB
横山真奈
NIFS
4
MB
栗原真愛
Nagasaki
4
MB
山下とも
Kobe Shinwa
2
MB/OP
三林愛理
Kogakkan
4
S
中尾千尋
Gifu Kyoritsu
4
S
大西 風歌
Tezukayama
4
MB
大久保真美
NIFS
4
OH
川添美優
Fukuoka
3
OH
山地梨菜
Intl. Pacific
2
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Rumor has it that PFU just renewed their contract with 4T for this upcoming season.
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Not VLeague but I don't know where to put it... but Kobe Shinwa University team will play in the Philippines as a guest team this August.
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Manami Koyama, who joined JT Marvelous last year after a (failed) star studded high school run as super ace of Kyoei Gakuen just ruptured her Achilles tendon. Out for six months or so.
That's a bummer, as JT is looking to retool this year after all the departures, she might've had a shot entering the lineup if she did well in the Summer League. Now it's likely she won't get a shot at anything until the 23-24 season
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Who will be JTs foreign player now that Drew's did not renew? I see Lowe following JT and other JT players.
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Who will be JTs foreign player now that Drew's did not renew? I see Lowe following JT and other JT players.
I think you answered your own question
... as far as anybody knows
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So just a hunch but Ameze might go to Denso following Yuka something from Tokai also joining them and Yoshino Sato possibly to Hitachi following Kurumi Takama's transfer there. Also Denso's new manager who was Hisamitsu Saga's former influential manager followed her on IG... just connecting the dots here could be totally wrong tho
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So just a hunch but Ameze might go to Denso following Yuka something from Tokai also joining them and Yoshino Sato possibly to Hitachi following Kurumi Takama's transfer there. Also Denso's new manager who was Hisamitsu Saga's former influential manager followed her on IG... just connecting the dots here could be totally wrong tho
Ameze is 3rd year at Tokai so I doubt she's joining anyone this year (Angry Fu is the only player I know of who dropped out of Uni to join V.League and/but her Uni life was not really real), but I'm wondering if you meant Tsukasa Nakagawa as "Yuka something from Tokai"?
It would be funky for Tsukasa and Tamaki Matsui to be on the same team. I think Tsukasa is one of the best setters in Japan but she's 2 feet tall
And Yoshino Sato is also 3rd year at Tsukuba ... so you are peering deep into the future
I support both of those transfers, however, should they come to fruition at some point
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I found this amusing:
NEC Red Rockets "invited Mr. Genta Okawa, a certified sports compliance officer (SCO) from Hopes Co., Ltd. as a lecturer to conduct integrity training"
"In Mr. Okawa's self-introduction, he said, "Actually ... I support you with home games." Mr. Okawa is also a member of the NEC Rockets cheerleader "SPARKLES"
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Ameze is 3rd year at Tokai so I doubt she's joining anyone this year (Angry Fu is the only player I know of who dropped out of Uni to join V.League and/but her Uni life was not really real), but I'm wondering if you meant Tsukasa Nakagawa as "Yuka something from Tokai"?
It would be funky for Tsukasa and Tamaki Matsui to be on the same team. I think Tsukasa is one of the best setters in Japan but she's 2 feet tall
And Yoshino Sato is also 3rd year at Tsukuba ... so you are peering deep into the future
I support both of those transfers, however, should they come to fruition at some point
This Yuka https://www.instagram.com/yuuuuka_2525/ Yuka Yamaguchi
Denso lost its core staff but during their annoncement of Miki Yoshida the former Saga manager they also mentioned that their new staff are former Tokai students who I assume don't play volleyball anymore or have taken other jobs in the sports field.
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HIsamitsu and Denso seem to have the closest partnership. Sakae was rejected by Hisamitsu after graduating at Coach Lovebunny's school with a longass name so she went to Denso but she eventually joined them at some point during Nakada's Trinity peak. Also when Kiyora Obikawa retired she worked for Denso's management division and now Rika Nomoto will be working for them too but I don't know what area.
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This Yuka https://www.instagram.com/yuuuuka_2525/ Yuka Yamaguchi
I was going to gripe about you posting an IG link for identification because I often can't get there without signing in, but somehow I got there, saw the pic of her with glasses, swooned, and/but when I went to open it/go to that page, I was rebuffed. So I used Downgram to download the image, and will take this opportunity to confess my undying stan for her ... she of the brightest smile on earth
Thanks for the wonderful post and the opportunity to get that off my chest sean1
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4T is on PFU's player page now, and it appears to be updated with 退団 or 任意引退 players removed and new players added. I think we got her
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4T is on PFU's player page now, and it appears to be updated with 退団 or 任意引退 players removed and new players added. I think we got her
A win for us
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I was going to gripe about you posting an IG link for identification because I often can't get there without signing in, but somehow I got there, saw the pic of her with glasses, swooned, and/but when I went to open it/go to that page, I was rebuffed. So I used Downgram to download the image, and will take this opportunity to confess my undying stan for her ... she of the brightest smile on earth
Thanks for the wonderful post and the opportunity to get that off my chest sean1
Cute. She has short hair now.
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4T is on PFU's player page now, and it appears to be updated with 退団 or 任意引退 players removed and new players added. I think we got her
Per local news, she signed with PFU for 2 seasons (22-23 and 23-24) at ~200k USD/season. Although fans said she should go to Turkey instead of being an MB for another 2 years in Japan, I wish she will play for PFU (or any other JPN club after 2024) as long as she can. 200k is an awful lot of money. I mean, being a champion in the annual Vietnam league only gets you 3k USD, and that's for the whole team lol.
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Cute. She has short hair now.
At least she still has the smile
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