Posts by Marsia

Thank you very much for the torrents

Anyone having the FIRST game (3/7) between Finland and Brazil ?

Israel Rodriguez to EAP (Patra) !!! There had been rumours but now there is an official announcement on the team's website.

I read on a Finnish site that Olli-Pekka Ojansivu will play for PAOK (Thessaloniki) next year! He 's the second opposite of the Finnish national team and he's a tremendous server.

Rafa de Souza Lins from Jastrzebie to PAOK Thessaloniki (unconfirmed though). There are also rumours that the Greek libero Dimitrakopoulos (EAP) will sign with PAOK.
I have always found Abramov somehow ...scary/spooky, but I 'm told from various people that he 's very friendly with fans etc. and an overall nice person. No doubt he 's a good player and a good transfer for Jastrzebie.

Thanks for the info, gee, I had no idea there were such problems within the Croatian Federation

LAOLA TV will broadcast the following matches this weekend:

MEN

Saturday, June 13th
16:00h CET Greece - Romania
17:30h CET Spain - Turkey
19:00h CET Great Britain - Croatia

Sunday, June 14th
15:00h CET Belgium - Germany
18:00h CET Greece - Romania

It looked like an ace to me.. and it certainly looked like an ace to the Czech receivers...

Meanwhile, Greece finally won a match

If I think in terms of "countries" I don't know whether Greece would deserve a wild card next season. But in terms of clubs, Iraklis definitely would...

Depending on what you mean by "sponsors". Iraklis is a sponsors based team, financed by commercial sponsors who regard the team as an investment for advertising. Olympiakos and Panathinaikos have sponsors in the old-fashioned meaning, usually a very wealthy bussinessman who for his own reasons puts money on the team.

Guys, I still can't believe how amazing that Czech channel is... Have you noticed the "TV quality" option? Respect!

Sorry I have no time to check if someone has posted that before, but there is online broadcasting of the tournament in Liberec (games in archive to watch/download)

http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/iv…209471291850004-volejbal/

Plus, he 's got a phantastic serve. I haven't watched him this season at all though.

Greece won 3-1 (15-25, 25-16, 25-21, 25-23). They played an extra set, which Greece also won 17-15.
GREECE (Arseniadis): Kurnetas 1, Hristofidelis 17, Karipidis 17, Rumeliotis 7, Pantaleon 14, Sultanopulos 4, Papadimitriu (l- 88%) / Armenakis 10, Psarras 1, Andreadis 3, Baev 6, Stefanu (l- 75%).
SERBIA (Kolakovic): Kovacevic 15, Petrovic 7, Janic 2, Stankovic 9, Podrascanin 4, Starovic 3, Rosic (l- 69%) / Maric 7, Radevic 1, Mitic, Dokic, Petric.

Quote from redhawkvb

What was the big disagreement about during the first set???? I never have seen an R1 (up official) lose control of a match like that before except at a juniors level tournament once...

Well, that's pretty much typical for a Greek derby

1/12/2008

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set2
set3

It was not a good match for Miljkovic.. he made some unusual for him errors, for example at the end of the first set, and while the score was 23-23, he crossed the 3m line twice in a row.
Speaking of Zhekov... yes, he was very good yesterday, but he was really impressive against Lamia last week (he was also MVP of that week). Lamia was leading 19-24, Zhekov went to the serve line and the set ended 26-24

Panathinaikos-Iraklis 30/11/2008

set 1a
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set 2
set 3
set 4a
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set 5

All Star Game this Saturday, 22/11/08, in Amaliada.
Greeks' team
Wing- spikers: Ilias Lappas, Marios Giourdas, Petros Petroglou, Kostas Ioannou
Middle blockers: Andreas Andreadis, Nikos Smaragdis, Giorgos Papazoglou, Kyriakos Kalaitzidis
Setters: Sakis Psarras, Jannis Livathinos
Opposites: Apostolos Armenakis, Nikos Roumeliotis, Aineias Tzelatis
Libero: Achilleas Papadimitriou, Thanassis Panoussos.

Foreigners' team
Wing-spikers: Plamen Konstantinov, Björn Andrae, Oleksey Gatin, Marek Novotny
Middle blockers: Andrija Geric, Matthew Denmark, Rolf Bergmann
Setters: Jeremy Wilcox, Andrey Zhekov
Opposites: Ivan Miljkovic, Boyan Yordanov, Bruno Furtado, Osvaldo Hernandez
Libero: Leonardo Caldeira (who's actually a wing-spiker).

Quote from Armel

On Cannes's website , Montpellier's coach Arnaud Josserand made this very hard statement about Rouzier:

I hope he will never become a great player and that he will read this wish on your website.

Oh boy, that's harsh. The funny thing is, when I first read the original (my French is worse than elementary), I thought he meant "I expect", but indeed in French the verb (j' espere) means "I hope" . Gee.