2023 U19 Women's World Championship

  • Do you remember Anja Spasojevic?

    We all do, that was one of the last dramas in our NT (aside from Terzic holding beef against Stevanovic for no reason) when she was cut from the team. It was said that Jelena Nikolic had beef with her,and since she was the star player and captain at the time, she influenced the decision for Spasojevic to be cut off the team.
    My fellow countrymen can correct me as I was too young and wasn’t really fan of volleyball back then, but she was one of our last complete OH (after that we went to dominant attacker+second libero)

  • We all do, that was one of the last dramas in our NT (aside from Terzic holding beef against Stevanovic for no reason) when she was cut from the team. It was said that Jelena Nikolic had beef with her,and since she was the star player and captain at the time, she influenced the decision for Spasojevic to be cut off the team.
    My fellow countrymen can correct me as I was too young and wasn’t really fan of volleyball back then, but she was one of our last complete OH (after that we went to dominant attacker+second libero)

    I remember from World Cup 2006: Spasojevic, Citakovic i Djerisillo. Only in 2007 at the European Championships she appeared Brakocević with his great form and destroyed Poland in 1/2. I was for Serbia because the Italians couldn't play against Poland under Bonitta at that time. Against Serbia in the final, it was already a easy 3-0 for Italy. Around 2008 I was like Ognjenovic because of her beautiful face :)

  • Spasojevic probably had some conflict with Terzic and that's why she suddenly disappeared from the Serbian team. Are you sure it was a conflict with Nikolic and not Terzic? Terzic had a very difficult character...

    Spasojevic and Nikolic appeared together to some events in recent years, but I’ve read speculation that there was beef between them at the time.

    Terzic does have difficult character, but he above all tries to please star players of the team (never benching Maja). But not inviting Stevanovic back to team after Veljkovic ended her carrier was personal beef because she asked to skip one tournament to rest, so he refused to ever invite her back. Don’t know if it was something similar with Spasojevic but I know of a story that Nikolic influenced that decision, could be complitely wrong. Thankfully we didn’t have such drama after that and seem to have created quite pleasant team spirit and atmosphere during recent years :win:

  • she will....


    but some of it may be for the other team lol

    too good :rolll:

  • Nope, chirichella was called to senior nt even before bosetti😉

  • why is turkey? or are they just better than the other u21s?

    Ipar Kurt who was MVP of this team won't play probably because of NCAA 🤦 so we don't have an opp. In Balkan tournament, an oh played as Opp, although she did good and got best Opp award I think Beren will be starter there. Also Melisa Bükmen who was the best outside hitter from 2004 generation is injured. I don't know if she will be recovered yet. Our setter of u21 is indeed very creative one but she is very short so it is no brainer that Dilay will be the starter after her amazing performance in this tournament so far. Only question mark for me if they will let Begum kaçmaz to play in u21 after she played in u17 and u19 in a month🤷

  • Ipar Kurt who was MVP of this team won't play probably because of NCAA 🤦 so we don't have an opp. In Balkan tournament, an oh played as Opp, although she did good and got best Opp award I think Beren will be starter there. Also Melisa Bükmen who was the best outside hitter from 2004 generation is injured. I don't know if she will be recovered yet. Our setter of u21 is indeed very creative one but she is very short so it is no brainer that Dilay will be the starter after her amazing performance in this tournament so far. Only question mark for me if they will let Begum kaçmaz to play in u21 after she played in u17 and u19 in a month🤷

    İpar is in USA. Just saw her in Stanford's photoshoot. So she won't be playing U21

  • And Croatia has beaten 3:0 Thailand and they won 5th place at U19 WCH.


    This is one of the best results for our youth NT.


    Congrats girls :heart: