Japan Women's NT 2023

So the Iwasawa in the stat sheet is Meguro.

If Matsui is really playing in Brazil league next season, I feel bad for her for not being part of the roster in the Brazil leg

will we even see mayu in the first 3 matches? manabe doesn't like combining koga and mayu since inoue is a fixed starter

Safe to say Nishimura is now the main libero and Fukudome is probably eliminated

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Safe to say Nishimura is now the main libero and Fukudome is probably eliminated

i dont think anyone is eliminated just yet except for gromos since she isn't registered. if they flop here manabe has to swap certain players again. we'll know which girls have been eliminated by oqt.

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i dont think anyone is eliminated just yet except for gromos since she isn't registered. if they flop here manabe has to swap certain players again. we'll know which girls have been eliminated by oqt.

Fair enough

I would've wanted to see Airi

No one else finds it super sketchy that Manabe agreed to get Gromos into the NT purely for her height? it doesn't make any sense. It's almost like he was bribed to have her in this team. Unacceptable.

They should have gotten a less useless and equally tall player like VALDES.

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No one else finds it super sketchy that Manabe agreed to get Gromos into the NT purely for her height? it doesn't make any sense. It's almost like he was bribed to have her in this team. Unacceptable.

They should have gotten a less useless and equally tall player like VALDES.

i dont know if someone already posted it before but jva is part of a usa program where american players can play for japan. there were several american players with no japanese blood that were selected for the u-something i cant remember anymore. kelly gabriel? along with other girls from asij

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I'm happy with Nishimura but she's not making any buzz. Kojima made buzz in the forum here with Euros. Clayton Lucas was a Fukudome stan

im on twitter and i can honestly say it's crickets and tumbleweeds. none of the players are making any buzz. the most shoutouts the women's team got is vbw changing koga's name to nishida but that's about it. i'm abandoning twitter since my last 3 mutuals have crossed over to the men's side and i no longer have anyone to debate with over there

Phoenix I was waiting for you to post articles since nikkan officially opened a volleyball features on their site and it's not all about yuki ishikawa

Who are you stanning? Seki?

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Phoenix I was waiting for you to post articles since nikkan officially opened a volleyball features on their site and it's not all about yuki ishikawa

Who are you stanning? Seki?

Feel free to post it

I'm stanning Hanna Orthmann / Germany right now

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Feel free to post it

I'm stanning Hanna Orthmann / Germany right now

Are you mad cos i posted couple pics and you saw that miyu would rather be with her man i bet that's it

You guys nikkan officially opened their FREE volleyball features site. I might post the articles later

https://twitter.com/nikkan_volley

Was Watanabe always an MB? I thought she was an OH at Toyota and Hitachi

I'll post it sean1

Rough trans of the Nikkan article of Manabe with 2 other NT coaches of different sports.

I will only include this part since the rest isn't relevant but you can go ahead and check the full article if you want to read the other stuff they discussed.

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Manabe: This is common around the world, but the national volleyball team's activities last about six months starting in April each year. Because of the time period, the first one to two months after gathering are for observation, and from three months onward, the real team starts to get into place. Right now, we have only been together for about two months, so we are in the process of looking at and considering various things.

Although the national team activities for volleyball, baseball, and soccer are different, all three coaches share the task of assessing the members of the team.

Kuriyama: I heard that Angelina was selected by Manager Manabe. I thought that Nutobar would surely become a star player in the majors in two or three years, so I selected her for her ability, but she does not have a tremendous track record, does she?　She does not have a tremendous track record, does she?

Manabe: That's right. I played volleyball at an unknown and weak university. It all started when a person involved in basketball told me, "Ms. Manabe, there is a tall player in the U.S. who is a Japanese citizen. I received a video of him and looked him up, and found that he was 196 cm tall. Height is a great weapon, so I said, "I would love to have him. That was the beginning.

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I don't know what a Nutobar is. I didn't understand that part sorry.

"I received a video of him and looked him up, and found that he was 196 cm tall. Height is a great weapon, so I said, "I would love to have him. That was the beginning."

this can't be real wtf

Sarina mentioned she's playing until around 30yo.

why is he so proud though? does that count as an achievement? by next year she's not making it to this nt so what's the point