Olympic Qualification Tournaments - Paris 2024

  • Sometimes it is said that Nikola Grbic as the head coach of Polish NT got the success due to the "luck" (Polish good volleyball environment, Leon returned NT and so on).

    Now, Winiarski also got the luck, didn't he? Just when Germany lost to China in VNL 2023, Winiarski was thought to be a loser as a coach by us...

    At least we don't think it is lucky that Grozer returned NT and just, Grozer, returned, German NT...

    My favourite roster of Chinese (in 2022)
    male NT:
    S - Yu Yao-chen, Chen Lei-yang
    OP - Jiang Chuan, Dai Qing-yao
    OH - Zhang Jing-yin, Yu Yuan-tai, Liu Li-bin, Fu Hou-wen
    MB - Zhang Zhe-jia, Peng Shi-kun, Li Yong-zhen, Jiang Zhen-yang
    L - Yang Yi-ming, Yang Tian-yuan


    female NT:
    S - Yao Di, Diao Lin-yu
    OP - Gong Xiang-yu, Sun Xiao-xuan
    OH - Li Ying-ying, Wang Yi-fan, Wu Meng-jie, Zhuang Yu-shan
    MB - Yuan Xin-yue, Wang Yuan-yuan, Zheng Yi-xin, Liu Yu
    L - Ni Fei-fan, Xu Jia-nan

  • Sometimes it is said that Nikola Grbic as the head coach of Polish NT got the success due to the "luck" (Polish good volleyball environment, Leon returned NT and so on).

    Now, Winiarski also got the luck, didn't he? Just when Germany lost to China in VNL 2023, Winiarski was thought to be a loser as a coach by us...

    At least we don't think it is lucky that Grozer returned NT and just, Grozer, returned, German NT...

    But Leon didn't play all matches, like VNL finals, so he was not the main factor. Grbić is a good coach and he has luck that Poland has many good players. So you need really many factor to win 3 competitions during a season.

    Also Germany growing up with their quality had also luck that Brazil or Italy lost their shapes, but anyway Germany was good at the tournament.

  • Retrospectively speaking, while Belgium has been (understandably) choking the whole match, originally they still could have taken down Bulgaria in the final moment when they leveled 13:13. What’s unexpected is that it’s Penchev burying their hope with a challenging OOS spike and then a block point. That’s not his normal standard :-)