Eurovolley 2023

    qualifications


    1st pool: Croatia, Israel, Romania, Faroe Islands


    2nd pool: Czech,Finland, Montenegro, Iceland


    3rd pool: Ukraine, Hungary, Portugal, Cyprus


    4th pool: Slovenia, Austria, Azerbaijan , Georgia


    5th pool: Slovakia, Spain, Denmark, Latvia


    6th pool: Greece, Bosnia, Norway, Switzerland

    I see that Croatia is listed on the qualification phase, so it looks like Germany and Belgium (lower ranked at EuroVolley 2021) will be two of the host countries.

    I also don't see Estonia, so they are the 3rd host country ;)


    So we have Germany-Belgium-Estonia (and I've heard rumors about Sweden wanting to host but I wouldn't be surprised if it is Luxembourg :D)

    I heard the Netherlands will be one of the hosts:/ Would make sense if also Belgium and Germany are the hosts!

    Quote from Elena Pietrini

    I think Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium maybe host country.

    But in such case Croatia which is ranked on 10th place wouldn't need to go through qualification process.

    12 teams have automatically qualified to the final phase (hosts + best teams form Euro 2021). For sure we need to have then 4 countries ranked lower than Croatia.


    So according to my calculations those are:

    Belgium (ranked lower than Croatia and is not taking part in qualification process)

    Germany (ranked lower than Croatia and is not taking part in qualification process)

    Estonia (ranked lower than Croatia, is not taking part in qualification process and confirmed they wanted to host)

    ?

    volleyball.it confirmed some months ago that estonia was going to be one of the host

    belgium medal matches? Generally is the best team that receive that,I tough it gonna be italy


    Well better for me I live in france so i could go,also i gknna visit italy that is my dream

    well some years ago she wanted to play for peru but she didn't get support by that federation

    Slovenia's roster for qualification


    Setters: Eva Pogačar, Sara Najdič

    Opposites: Darja Eržen, Naja Boisa

    Middles: Saša Planinšec, Mirta Velikonja Grbac, Nika Milošič, Klara Milošič, Tia Koren

    OHs: Eva Zatkovič, Mija Šiftar, Maša Pucelj, Fatoumatta Sillah, Lorena Lorber Fijok, Julija Grubišič Čabo, Selena Liban

    Liberos: Anja Mazej, Katja Banko


    Eva Mori is out of the team and it looks like Fatoumatta Sillah got slovenian citizenship

    Any idea why scuka is missing?

    Quote from serdar

    Any idea why scuka is missing?

    No idea. There is more missing names comparing to the roster from previous years. Maybe Bonitta wanted to have younger team

    Quote from Phil

    No idea. There is more missing names comparing to the roster from previous years. Maybe Bonitta wanted to have younger team

    I doubt that, Scuka is only 26 and some players in the roster are older than her.


    Slovenia was one of up and coming teams of europe couple of years ago when they reached the final of U23 tournament. Seems like after Chiappini left, the team has been dissolved. With this roster they couldn't even win silver European league

    Quote from serdar

    I doubt that, Scuka is only 26 and some players in the roster are older than her.

    They also don't have for example Ana Maria Vovk. Who is 24 and was great prospect few years ago.


    Look at age of their OHs:

    Šiftar - born in 2006!

    Pucelj - born in 2006!

    Fijok - born in 2003

    Čabo - born in 2004

    Liban - born in 2005

    Zatkovic - born in 2001


    The young players don't have anyone to learn from


    Edit: I forget about Sillah, who is from Gambia but got slovenian citizenship. She was born in 2002.