Germany wins 2nd match vs France 3:2 (25:18, 22:25, 25:17, 18:25, 18:16). Grün did not play, Bouagaa was best German player. More details later.
EDIT:
Germany: Weiss, Steffen (17 pts), Bouagaa (22), Kozuch, Ssuschke, Radzuweit, Tzscherlich (L); Apitz, Gollan
France: Salinas, Larnack, Turiaf (16), Schleck (17), Lozancic, Maculewicz, Rochelle (L); Faesch, Querard
I agree with Celso, I've also seen exceptionally many referee mistakes in this tournament! Yesterday in BRA-DOM Thaisa Menezes stood at the net when her team served and held the hands up like all players do, then the reception of DOM flew into the net and the ball touched Thaisa's hands through the net (she did not play the ball actively, just held her hands up and this is perfectly allowed), and the referee gave the point to DOM. I thought it was scandalous and there were also a lot of wrong line decisions.
Another thing I have seen, referees are very inconsequent with ball handling calls. There were so many balls in this tournament which in my opinion were clear errors but the referees did not call them and other balls which might have been a little incorrectly played but still ok were called.
Marina Akulova's injury looked really painful but the way it happened was very untypical, she slipped on a wet spot and twisted her ankle inwards :?
Xue Ming scored 12 block points against NED 
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Germany wins 1st match vs France 3:1 (25-20, 25-20, 21-25, 25-19)
GER: Weiß, Grün (18 pts), Brinker, Beier (14), Ssuschke, Fürst (19), Tzscherlich (L); Apitz, Steffen, Bouagaa
FRA: Salinas, Querard (as OPP, I thought she is libero!), Kociniewski, Turiaf, Lozancic (16), Maculewicz, Rochelle (L), Faesch, Larnack, Schleck (16).
Looks like she tries to suffocate them 
No I think 4 might be Paula...
#1 certainly is Walewska
#6 is Heather Bown I believe and #8 looks like Liu Yanan.
Quote from "Nastja"Zetova might leave the team though
There are a few rumors that she is pregnant but it has not been officially confirmed I think...
Against France: 17.8. in Güstrow um 18.00 Uhr, 18.8. in Hamburg um 18.00 Uhr, 19.8. in Neustadt in Holstein um 17.30 Uhr
Against Serbia: 24.8. in Bielefeld um 19.00 Uhr, 25.8. in Wuppertal um 19.00 Uhr, 26.8. in Münster um 18.00 Uhr
Germany will play friendly matches with France and Serbia in the next two weeks. 15 players are in the team now:
Setters: Kathleen Weiß, Mareen Apitz
Opposites: Angelina Grün, Tina Gollan, Dominice Steffen
Outside Hitters: Atika Bouagaa, Cornelia Dumler, Margarethe Kozuch, Maren Brinker, Heike Beier
Middle Blockers: Christiane Fürst, Corina Ssuschke, Kathy Radzuweit, Stephanie Karg
Libero: Kerstin Tzscherlich
Quote from "Celso"In the first weekend the setter of the Dutch Team was Kim Staelens and maybe that's why they didn't have any chance at all against Brazil and Italy. From the 3rd match on, Riette Flederus was put in charge of the setting and they played a tough match against Brazil and now they beat Japan.
Fledderus didn't play today, she got a muscle injury yesterday in 3rd set. Kim Staelens is a baaaad setter but it looks like she performed well enough today.
It was definitely not Caprara's fault that Russia had so many problems today, their performance just was horrible. Any other team would have kicked them out of the hall today!!
DOM team has become sooooo poor...losing 16,12,14 against China and last week they lost against Kazakhstan too. Honestly I think it's a pity that teams like Kazakhstan, Taipei and DomRep are in WGP and other teams who could do much better are not...
Wow I thought they look like each other a lot
So it's unlikely that we'll ever see her in NT again?
She's the sister of Andre Nascimento right?
What is Luciana Nascimento doing nowadays? I remember her from 2002 National team and I thought she was pretty good back then, she was better than Sheilla. Does she still play?
I think I have seen you in the crowd in Eurosport I had checked the photo topic on that day and there was a strikingly familiar face on TV during one of the matches...
Justyna have you been in watching the matches in Rzeszów?
Italy team for first weekend:
Setters: Lo Bianco, Dall'Igna
Opposites: Aguero, Vitez
OHs: Fiorin, Ortolani, Secolo, Del Core
MBs: Gioli, Guiggi, Barazza
L: Croce
See multimedia section for reply :wink2:
She used a natural product against cellulite ( 
) and did not realise that some forbidden substance was in there. But as this substance is in many products and does not improve the athlete's performance it was a minor case of doping and she was suspended only for 60 days.
