Posts by murina

Quote from hmetin

İtalians usually say Naz is perfect,amazing etc..This is true may be but she is very young also lastyear she was very bad only last 1-2 games played good.Seda is a high quality and Fenerbahce everytime trust to Seda gave the captain also played everytime.Seda is very important us also Eda In my opinion Eda is the 2. middle player and Furst best middle player.Everybody wants big player instead of Drixx Eventhough she is not perfect player but she made good job for last year.This year made upgrade Drixx and Alice Bloom with high quality players.Only need perfecr setter We will see on Sunday

I am NOT Italian (not that there is anything wrong with Italians )! I do know a little something about making volleyball players, and since Marco Motta left Eczacibasi it seems to me that everyone in Turkey is intend on sabotaging her career! Every time the flower sprouts a bulb, someone decides it isn't pretty yet so they cover it in dirt! If they had waited a week, the petals would have opened into a beautiful rose!

If you want Naz to stay "bad" as you put it, keep benching her. If you want to have the best setter in the world in a few years - play her now. You obviously don't understand how great players become great!. If players became great by watching others from the bench, then Gujska would be the second best setter in the world!

It is clear that Fenerbahce doesn't NEED a great setter to win Champions League with the rest of their team. I could probably win Champions League setting that team!!! I'm old, short, and have two surgically repaired knees! Feng would be the classic mistake. She is old and playing on one leg. She doesn't play like she did in 2000 anymore!

What the director of Fenerbahce should do is make Naz a star! She can play well enough, she is beautiful and she is educated! What more do you want??? Make her the star setter for a team of stars, put her smiling face on the side of every building, put her on tv in commercials, and on Fenerbahce TV every day and if you think Acibadem products were selling before...you ain't seen nothing yet!!!

Quote from SHABOVTA

Yes,they are playing in Kaliningrad,in a very big and nice new Complex!

I'm pretty sure they played in Dinamo Sports Palace in Moscow this past season. Have they moved since April?

Agree with you joanamss. I think Caserta left his most important problems out of the press release.

Is it only Fenerbahce? I see it as Fenerbahce together with Vakif, Kazan, maybe Rabita and Lokomotiv Baku...there are probably others I haven't listed also. Fenerbahce has been the most active and most visible for sure.

Novara has been a favorite club of mine for several years, and I am very sad to see Caserta leaving. He was great for volleyball, and volleyball is better if he is involved. That being said, I can't blame others for escalating the market value of players. It is sad that the cost is a great volleyball supporter stepping away, but maybe we are getting several great supporters of volleyball in return? That remains to be seen...

I love that the Turkish, Azerbaijani and Russian clubs are putting so much money into volleyball. I would never want to discourage that from happening. I have absolutely no problem with the top players leaving Italy (or any other country) if they can be paid more elsewhere.

The discussion, jokes, etc., center on Fenerbahce, because Fenerbahce is making all of the news! Every day we read about the next player Fenerbahce is about to sign - and it often becomes true!

I have a problem with any club hiring players in positions a team is already strong - especially if young promising players are being sent to the bench. This is the problem I have with Fenerbahce hiring Skowronska and Sokolova - it sends Seda to the bench. If Fenerbahce hires LoBianco or Feretti I would have an even bigger problem.

Potentially great players like Seda, Aydemir, and Erdem NEED to be playing in the important matches at this point in their careers. All have been successful in important, high stress matches before so there is no reason to think these players can't help win the Champions League. All have been champions of Turkey as starters, important to their team (Seda even in a position that is not suited to her!). They are playing successfully in the national team, and have even won medals in important international competition.

It seems that Fenerbahce has no confidence in the great Turkish players they bought from other teams! No excuses should be made for this! If you buy the top young Turkish talent - you should be obligated to PLAY them! Or else loan them out or sell them to another club.

Fenerbahce could make things right by loaning Seda (and Aydemir if they get another setter) to another club. Maybe a club that is in CEV Cup so they can get good experience there. I think Eda will play in all matches for Fenerbahce so that is good. If they loan out all their great young Turkish talent to other teams, they can hire all the foreign players they can afford as far as I'm concerned!

I was rooting for Fenerbahce last season in both Turkey and Champions League even though I believe that playing Dirixx was a bad decision (for Fenerbahce as a club, and for Aydemir). I understand why de Brandt might reasonably have chosen Dirixx last year, so I can forgive one season. I hope I can still root for Fenerbahce next year!

I LOVE that Azeri clubs are willing to spend big money to bring their players back to Azerbaijan. The young talents in Azerbaijan are still going to get to play and they will be better for playing along side the great players.

Quote from Saybia

So I'm asking to moderators, am I allowed to speak like that person do? That is clearly an insult, defining a team as a circus, so i want an answer back. Then if it is okay, I'm gonna react way different!

I thought it was funny. Don't take everything so personally, have a sense of humor - especially about Fenerbahce.

You have to admit, with all of the rumors about what they are trying to do, they are easy to make fun of.

Quote from Muh

Karpol book I want buy , somone read ??? Is good ?

It's very good! Buy it!!!

Does anyone in Brazil know if Transformando suor em Ouro will ever be translated into english or italian?

Quote from SunsHine90

I think dirickx leave FBA im sure, but fba need a great setter naz plays one match good the other mach bad. it would be a risk

It amazes me that anyone still doubts Aydemir. All she does is win Turkish national championships!!! Fenerbahce probably wouldn't have won this one without Naz and Blom rescuing the team. She has done everything that could reasonably be expected from a 19 year old and MUCH more.

If you want her to never become the great setter that people hope she can be, then don't play her. Keep sitting her behind players who are only a tiny bit better, or who are not as good as she is - only "more experienced." If she is to become the incredible player that many think she can be, she needs to play now. She will never break through and become consistent if she is sitting on the bench. Maybe you risk not winning Champions League - but they didn't win CL anyway! Besides, the Aydemir has never taken a team of FB quality into the CL - maybe she would have won.

The risk is not playing Aydemir now. In order to develop players need to be constantly challenged and constantly tested. The only place in Turkey where Aydemir can be challenged is in the lineup of a first division team. Sitting this season was not in Aydemir's best interest, but it doesn't have to destroy her career. Sitting her next season would risk ruining the career of one of the most promising young players in the world. I hope the people in Turkey realize this - but it isn't clear to me that they do.

Thank you so much Valentine!

Can someone please post the roster (with shirt numbers) of the Evergrande club that is coached by Lang Ping? I can't find it in Roman letters.

Thanks!

Quote from TRiNiTy

Didn't Logan Tom also turn pro before her college eligibility expired? If I recall, she signed with Brazil after the 2002 Final Four.

No, Logan played all four years.

Manuela Di Crescenzo from Pesaro to Club Italia Progetto A2
Monica Ravetta from Busto to Club Italia Progetto A2

Quote from yates

China just defeated Poland 3 x 2.

Guys, i don't mean to be really negative, but judging by these first matches, I'd actually say the level of Grand Prix this year's really weak. I actually thought that was the case with some of the teams that played in Brazil last weekend, specially Puerto Rico and USA, but now, after watching China and Poland's game, I think it can be said overall.

Why would you expect teams to be strong this year? The year after the Olympics is always a bad year. Teams are often making player and coach changes so the level is usually bad. There are several teams making major changes this year - USA, China, Poland, Russia, Japan and Germany are all bringing in a new main group of players or a new coach. Warning: 2013 will be a weak year. So will 2017, 2021 and 2025.

I think girls volleyball is more popular in the USA than you are stating. There is no professional volleyball (NCAA Division I teams should be considered professional but are not), but there are hundreds of thousands of girls playing across the country. Nearly every jr. high school (11-13 year olds) has at least one team and sometimes as many as four teams. Most often these teams are not selective - every girl who wants to play makes a team. Almost all high schools (14-18 years old) have two teams and often three teams. These teams are selective.

In addition to the school program there are litterally tens of thousands of club teams. Probably 25.000 or more. Some of the club tournaments are incredible! Nearly 100 courts under one roof, 4 teams per court in the morning, and 4 more teams in the afternoon! These tournaments last for two or three days at a time. Sometimes they can't run all the age groups at once, so they have 16-18's on one weekend, and 12-15's on the next weekend.

Count the courts in that image, then imagine there are between 80 and 120 courts total, 8 teams per court, and so many teams entered that you have to run the tournament over two weekends!!! This happens about 15 times a year in the USA and probably 80% of the teams are unique to each event.

There are many smaller tournaments the teams play in also.

There are more than 1000 university, college and two year college teams for girls 18-23ish. Many of the top university teams draw 1000 or more fans per match. Some like Nebraska, Hawaii and Wisconsin (and others) regularly draw well over 3000 fans to each home match! Hawaii averages about 6000 fans per match. Nebraska has sold out almost every home match for 10 years - their gym seats about 4800.

If you have satilite tv, you can usually find 5 or 6 games/week during the college season (September-December).

Mens volleyball in the USA is tiny. Maybe 1/100th of the girls. Baseball, (American) football, and basketball get all the boys in the USA.

According to the articles on the league website and vb.it, Willoughby lied to Perugia about why she wanted to return to the USA so quickly after they were eliminated from the SerieA playoffs. Willoughby told Perugia she had "family emergency" in Hawaii. Willoughby actually went to Puerto Rico and joined a team in the playoffs of that league. Perugia believes KW lied to them about the reason for her quick departure, and may even be due some compensation for the use of a player they have rights to.

The article goes on to say that this is the latest in a pattern of bad behavior and cites a few things including that she often broke team rules, refused to participate in team testing, and accumulated several hundred euro worth of violations in the club car without telling the club or paying the fines! The club is not happy and now feels the need to get the federations and their own lawyers involved.

Oh, and she tested positive for a performance enhancer on the second to last day of the regular season! Nandrolene is not something that can be explained away by claiming she was taking it for medical reasons - she was doping. She is a "piece of work!"

Pavan has been a full Italian citizen for about 18 months now. It has already been more than 2 years since she last represented Canada in a national team. She can represent either nation at this point. The only people who have talked of Pavan representing the USA are wishful thinking Americans!

I can't imagine Pavan representing Canada ever again. The Canadian national team program is in bad shape and showing no signs of being able to improve itself.

I don't think Pavan is considered a naturalized citizen by Italian law. She accepted Italian citizenship that is her right by "jus sanguinis" (parent is a citizen). She only had to claim Italian citizenship by a certain age. I don't know if the FIVB would consider her a naturalized player because she previously represented Canada, or if the FIVB would not because by Italian law she is not naturalized.

Quote from volleytx

Yes.... typically one of the Middleblockers does not serve, and the Libero serves for them. In other words, the middle blocker goes out of the game 1/2 rotation sooner than usual.

Here is how it works.

The libero can serve in any of the six rotation spots - this does not need to be declared until the libero actually serves. Once she serves she can only serve in the same spot for the duration of the set. Once the libero's serving spot has been determined either the libero or the person legally in that rotation spot can serve.

Quote from Jorenk

Why is the libero serving?

In the NCAA the libero can serve in one position. NCAA teams also have 12 substitutions with no limit on how often the same player can go in and out of the game.

Eire, if you are out there, please drop me a line on the private messages.

Anyone else who can help, please do the same.

Thanks

Quote from odin

kamanao was better in her prime than mcginnis.

I LOVE Kanoe Kamana'o. Let me state that for the record. Great setter, great girl. I wish she was still playing. She would be a very good professional setter.

I must disagree with odin on the point above though.

Speaking from experience, Kanoe is more exciting to watch, but McGinnis is much harder to play against. You can count on mistakes from Kanoe (location on quick and back sets, and she could become more predictable than she needed to be). McGinnis doesn't give you much! Angie keeps the opponent under stress the entire match, where as a defense you can often feel comfortable that you are doing the right thing when playing against Kanoe.