Posts by RedOctoberSUI

Well, in deed your post led me to register here.
I am neither a "lover" nor a "hater" of Volero Zürich. I just think we should concentrate more on how to strengthen swiss volleyball than to fight each other.
Hence i must question if it is really a problem that a player of a club (or even the Club itself!) comments that it wants to play CL.... or maybe a very good thing.

vyz: yes. i suppose this is a part of the game too.

Quote from ozaki

I fully agree with you in that points.
But together with this article: http://www.volerozuerich.ch/de…stein_fuers_team_20132014
it sounds to me a bit too "self-confident" at such an early stage of the year. I've just had the impression, that they haven't any doubt about their ChL participation, reading it (maybe i'm wrong). Don't get me wrong: i'm not a "Volero-Hater", i really respect this team and i don't believe in the "conspiracy theories" concerning the cancelled match against VFM. You're right, the chance that Kanti will win against Volero in the Playoff Final and afterwards find rich sponsors to triple its budget (making the team able to play Champions League) is veeeeery tiny, but hey it's sport, you never know what will happen. BTW: i'm not that surprised that Kanti is better than NUC this season, they really have the deeper roster and therefore more options, Köniz was a bit dissapointing indeed (especially in the last weeks).

At least, my comment provoked you to register here in the forum, so i'm not the only Swiss Member here anymore. I hope you will be very active here.
Welcome

Quote from ozaki

I know, it's "off-topic", but just one remark following Voleros transfer-communication during the last weeks: How could they be so certain to play in the Champions League 2013/2014 already in January/February 2013? Do they have a "guaranteed" wild card every year? And they aren't Swiss Champion yet, the Playoff Final in Switzerland will be played in March.

First of all as far as i can read the article it was a statement of the player that her motivation to play in siwtzerland is the possibility to participate in the champions league. It was not a statement of the the club - and as we all know, if you want to play CL and live in switzerland there is sadly just volero. At the moment at least! I hope every swiss player would have such ambitions!

And the second thing is, that with the fact that NUC and Koeniz have already been knocked out in the fight for the swiss champions title it does in deed seem to be very realistic that volero will get the title again....
Furthermore, as we see the geographical policy of CEV in the CL over the last few years i would also not be to surprised to see a swiss representative in next seasons CL.

We should be proud that such players come to switzerland and with this enrich the swiss volleyball! Allez Suisse!!!!!

Red