My current squad:
Wolosz/Egonu
Thaísa/Eda
Zhu/Gabi
De Gennaro
My current squad:
Wolosz/Egonu
Thaísa/Eda
Zhu/Gabi
De Gennaro
To make it more difficult (as if it needs any more of that!), try to construct 14 player current squad with the limitation of only 1 player per country. Its more tricky than you might think because some of the best players right now in the world are in countries with more than 1 world-class players, and you have to think not just who are the best players in the best teams in the world, but which of the national players from the top countries are the most indispensable on their respective positions vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Here's my try:
Setters: Joanna Wolosz, Nootsara Tomkom
OH: Zhu Ting, KYK, Gabi, Samantha Bricio
OPP: Tijana Boskovic, Isabelle Haak
MB: Robin de Kruijf, Eda Erdem Dundar, Irina Fetisova, Chiaka Ogbogu
LIB: De Gennaro, Brenda Castillo
Display MoreTo make it more difficult (as if it needs any more of that!), try to construct 14 player current squad with the limitation of only 1 player per country. Its more tricky than you might think because some of the best players right now in the world are in countries with more than 1 world-class players, and you have to think not just who are the best players in the best teams in the world, but which of the national players from the top countries are the most indispensable on their respective positions vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Here's my try:
Setters: Joanna Wolosz, Nootsara Tomkom
OH: Zhu Ting, KYK, Gabi, Samantha Bricio
OPP: Tijana Boskovic, Isabelle Haak
MB: Robin de Kruijf, Eda Erdem Dundar, Irina Fetisova, Chiaka Ogbogu
LIB: De Gennaro, Brenda Castillo
So it should be with players playing right now?
Display MoreTo make it more difficult (as if it needs any more of that!), try to construct 14 player current squad with the limitation of only 1 player per country. Its more tricky than you might think because some of the best players right now in the world are in countries with more than 1 world-class players, and you have to think not just who are the best players in the best teams in the world, but which of the national players from the top countries are the most indispensable on their respective positions vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Here's my try:
Setters: Joanna Wolosz, Nootsara Tomkom
OH: Zhu Ting, KYK, Gabi, Samantha Bricio
OPP: Tijana Boskovic, Isabelle Haak
MB: Robin de Kruijf, Eda Erdem Dundar, Irina Fetisova, Chiaka Ogbogu
LIB: De Gennaro, Brenda Castillo
Wolosz/Boskovic
Thaisa/Eda
Zhu/Robinson
De Gennaro
Display MoreTo make it more difficult (as if it needs any more of that!), try to construct 14 player current squad with the limitation of only 1 player per country. Its more tricky than you might think because some of the best players right now in the world are in countries with more than 1 world-class players, and you have to think not just who are the best players in the best teams in the world, but which of the national players from the top countries are the most indispensable on their respective positions vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Here's my try:
Setters: Joanna Wolosz, Nootsara Tomkom
OH: Zhu Ting, KYK, Gabi, Samantha Bricio
OPP: Tijana Boskovic, Isabelle Haak
MB: Robin de Kruijf, Eda Erdem Dundar, Irina Fetisova, Chiaka Ogbogu
LIB: De Gennaro, Brenda Castillo
Really difficult to develop a squad of 14 players! I like the middle blocker position the most, so I want the best players possible at that position. In this way I came to the conclusion that all the middle blockers come from the best volleyball countries in the world Next to that I dind't want the same team as you, so this would be my squad:
Setters: Wolosz and Macris
Opposite: Egonu and Haak
Outside hitters: Hill, Herbots, Bricio and Kim Yeon-Koung
Middle blockers: de Kruijf, Zehra, Veljkovic and Yuan.
Libero: Castillo and Inoue
Such a shame I had to leave Ognjenovic, Thaisa and Zhu Ting out of my team
For me it would be:
S: Wołosz, Ognjenović
OPP: Boškowic, Egonu
OH: Zhu Ting, Robinson, Gabi, Herbots
MB: Eda, Veljković, Ogbogu, de Kruijf
L: de Gennaro, Stenzel
All the time:
S: Wołosz
OPP: Hooker
OH: Zhu Ting, Sokolova
MB: Eda, Gioli
L: Fabi
Current players and current form
S: Ognjenovic, Wolosz
OPP: Boskovic, Egonu
OH: Zhu, Robinson, Gabi, Parubets
MB: Thaisa, Eda, Yuan, de Kruijf
Lb: De Gennaro, Akoz
Current players and current form (1 player per country)
S: Ognjenovic, Wolosz
OPP: Haak, Lippmann
OH: Robinson, Parubets, Ishikawa, Herbots
MB: Thaisa, Eda, Yuan, de Kruijf
Lb: De Gennaro, Castillo
So it should be with players playing right now?
Yes, and in current form (otherwise I would have put Akinradewo instead of Ogbogu).
Display MoreReally difficult to develop a squad of 14 players! I like the middle blocker position the most, so I want the best players possible at that position. In this way I came to the conclusion that all the middle blockers come from the best volleyball countries in the world Next to that I dind't want the same team as you, so this would be my squad:
Setters: Wolosz and Macris
Opposite: Egonu and Haak
Outside hitters: Hill, Herbots, Bricio and Kim Yeon-Koung
Middle blockers: de Kruijf, Zehra, Veljkovic and Yuan.
Libero: Castillo and Inoue
Such a shame I had to leave Ognjenovic, Thaisa and Zhu Ting out of my team
See, unlike you, I sacrificed MB position, in that it was the last position to be put together, which forced me to, besides de Kruijf and Eda, pick players I don't consider among the Top 8 (or even 10) MBs in the world.
try to construct 14 player current squad with the limitation of only 1 player per country.
S: Ognjenovic, Tomkom
Opp: Egonu, Haak
Oh: Zhu, Gabi, KYK, Vasileva
Mb: Fetisova, Eda, Ogbogu, Heyrman
lb: Kobata, Castilo
Display MoreTo make it more difficult (as if it needs any more of that!), try to construct 14 player current squad with the limitation of only 1 player per country. Its more tricky than you might think because some of the best players right now in the world are in countries with more than 1 world-class players, and you have to think not just who are the best players in the best teams in the world, but which of the national players from the top countries are the most indispensable on their respective positions vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Here's my try:
Setters: Joanna Wolosz, Nootsara Tomkom
OH: Zhu Ting, KYK, Gabi, Samantha Bricio
OPP: Tijana Boskovic, Isabelle Haak
MB: Robin de Kruijf, Eda Erdem Dundar, Irina Fetisova, Chiaka Ogbogu
LIB: De Gennaro, Brenda Castillo
This makes it so much more difficult. At least you are giving us something to do during quarentine
I'd agree with your roster mostly, some changes:
De Gennaro <==> Kotoe Inoue
Boskovic <==> Egonu
Tomkom <==> Maja
but idk, i was mostly focused on replacing tomkom with a taller setter (for blocking) and Maja was the first one that came to my mind. So then I had to replace Boskovic and then led to a bunch of replacements.
Limitation one player per country:
S:Wolosz,Nootsara
Opp:Egonu, Haak
Oh:Gabi,Bricio,KYK,Bartsch
Mb:Ni Yan,Eda,Veljkovic,De Kruijf
L:Castillo,Kobata
1 per country:
S: Ognjenovic, Wolosz
OPP: Egonu, Haak
OH: Zhu, KYK, Robinson, Bricio
MB: Eda, Thaisa, Fetisova, de Kruijf
L: Castillo, Inoue
Will make a 14-player roster one based on just my personal favorites of all time.
my absolute all-time dream team:
S: Fofão, Ognjenovic
Opp: Gamova, Sloëtjes
OH: Zhu Ting, KYK, Mireya Luis, Logan Tom
MB: Sachiko Sugiyama, Eda Erdem, Fabiana, Yan Ni
L: Castillo, Fabi
Starting 6+1
S: Maja Ognjenovic
Opp: Lonneke Sloetjes
OH: Kim Yeon Koung, Zhu Ting
MB: Thaisa, Robin de Kruijf
L: Fabi
Substitutes
S: Nootsara Tomkom
Opp: Paola Egonu
OH: Kelsey Robinson, Natilia Zilio Pereira
MB: Milena Rasic, Eda Erdem
L: Monica De Gennaro
S: Antoine Brizard (Micah Christenson)
Opp: Krisztian Padar (Viktor Poletaev, Jean Patry)
OH: Trevor Clevenot, Taylor Sander (Thibault Rossard, Timothee Carle, Yacine Louati)
MB: Bart Chinenyeze, Flavio Gualberto (Ilia Vlasov)
L: Jenia Grebennikov
So happy to see my girl Nootsara getting recognized in here!
Since this topic has been evolving for a while, I come up with another challenge:
Make a dream team of best servers and best blockers among active players!
I am huge fan of strong jump serves thus my team consists of only jump servers but feel free to include good float servers to your team
Best serving team:
Hancock-Vargas
Bricio-Herbots
Carillo-Eda Erdem
Best blocking team:
Naz Aydemir-Boskoviç
Zhu Ting-KYK
Rasiç-Fetisova
Best serving team
Hancock-Egonu
Bricio-Mihajlovic
Eda-Thaisa
Best blocking team
Wolosz-Egonu
Sylla-Zhu
Danesi-Eda
I will ad Best defence team with same rule
Fabris-Wolosz
L.Bosetti-Gabi
De Gennaro
I think most of us had neglected the most important player in our dream teams list. In my opinion, the head coach is the mvp of the dream team. You can have the best players in the world in your dream team. But if you don't have a decent coach, the team goes nowhere.
For me the best coaches for any dream teams are Lang Ping, Nicolay Karpol and Z Roberto Guimaraze. They had all very different style of coaching. But the reason why I choose them as the best coaches for the dream team is because they are able to bring some randoms young players together and nurturing them to become the world class champion.
Best serving team
Hancock - Brakocevic
Larson - Bartsch
Thaisa - Lohuis
CC McGraw (I add a libero because in NCAA the liberos are able to serve)
Best blocking team
Naz - Goncharova
Michajlovic - Natalia
Carol - Rasic
Best defensive team
Tomkom - Shinnabe
Balkestein-Grothues- Jacqueline
Inoue
Best coach
For sure Guidetti. He can build a really good team chemistry. Even if they don't have te best players, they will always fight for each other, no matter what!