Posts by LDvolley

Argentina for week 1:

S: Sanchez, Giraudo

OP: Kukartsev, Gomez

OH: Palonsky, Vicentin, Luengas, Conde, Diaz

MB: Gallego, Loser, Zerba, Maciel

L: Scarpa, Martinez

Watched a bit in the last two sets.

What is Vicentin doing in a team like this? he doesn't have the required technical level, missed a lot of serves like usual. I guess they let Mendez do whatever he wants because of the good previous season.

This tournament is quite silly...

The rosters of european teams, I believe, have no correlation to those that qualified. Many players are different.

Love this, Brazil 2008 is back many people's careers vindicated after this.

Quote from Paperoga

ARG will win against Germany

I hope so but don't think so. It's the kind of physical opponent ARG struggles with and they're peaking.

I will be shocked if Argentina wins more than 1 set in this tournament. Not getting any easier against Japan and Grozermany.

It's natural and expected anyway. Every player in the team other than Loser is a worse version of what they were 3 years ago. Feels like a music band doing a farewell tour.

5th set between SRB and SLO to decide whether SRB or ARG sneak in finals as 8th seed.

Our players already said they just want a week of vacations and don't care about VNL anymore, so, go Serbia I guess.

Cuba now they'll have to beat Poland or Slovenia.

Quote from andrea

The commentators pronounce Yant as "Jant". Is that the proper pronunciation in Spanish?

It would be similar to the english word "young" in most (not all) spanish-speaking countries.

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Serbia... I hope Serbia and Cuba will be higher than Argentina.

Serbia zero chance. We aren't good but they're worse.

Does Turkey really have that much money to throw away in Men's VB? the crowds in Antalya are non existent. Even when the home team plays it's not full.

Second match:

ARG 3-2 CUB (17-25, 25-21, 27-29, 25-20, 15-12)

Argentina: Luciano De Cecco (1), Pablo Kukartsev (16), Martín Ramos (), Nicolás Zerba (13), Facundo Conte (10), Ezequiel Palacios (5). L: Jan Martínez.

Also featured: Matías Sánchez (2), Luciano Palonsky (5), Joaquín Gallego (5), Manuel Armoa (5).

Cuba: Miguel Ángel López Castro (19), Mic Sánchez (7), Javier Concepción Rojas (9), Robertland Simon (2), Marlon Yant (7), Christian Thondike Mejías (3) L: Yonder García Álvarez.

Also featured: Alain Gorguet (L), Mergarejo Hernández (12), José Masso (11), Taboada Díaz Lyvan (1), Alonso Arce Roamy (3

I don't want to open a new thread so I'll just keep using this one

The roster for 2024 VNL (and pool of players for olympics) is basically the same as last season without notable additions or omissions.

There was a friendly against Cuba yesterday (today there'll be another one) before both teams travel to Brazil.

ARG 3 - 1 CUB (23-25, 25-23, 25-16, 25-19)

Argentina started with: De Cecco, Lima, Martinez, Vicentin, Loser, Zerba, L: Danani.

Cuba: López, Sánchez, Concepción, Simon, Yant, Thondike Mejías, L: García.

Basically the usual main team with the exception of Jan Martinez.

ARG tried its very best and played the best game in this QT but against Poland it's not enough...

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Netherlands with and without Nimir

Yes but Nimir hasn't missed that many tournaments so the data for the comparison is not that big.

Grozer has been absent a lot through the years (even when he was young he used to skip many events) and Germany looks like a very mediocre team each and every time he wasn't part of the roster.

Someone should do a chart comparing the german performances with and without Grozer. The difference is massive, I don't know any other team that inconsistent in relation to a single player.

Does Turkey always have injured players? I've been here for years and turkish users say that every tournament.

Useless victory vs BEL, it had to be in 3 or 4. Now, I'm afraid only the win vs POL can keep the chances alive.

The team is still bad, reception is off, block defense is off, and good god again a shit ton of serves were missed (Lima alone 8). Thankfully BEL also missed a lot of them.

Belgium looked really really good. Think we'll lose to them tomorrow, sadly.

So far shaky performances from all the VNL teams except the few that rested out or rotated players during it.

Victory but again not a good game from ARG. Thankfully Sokolov made a lot of errors in key moments.

The team in general doesn't look very lucid. Loser in particular is very out of form, ineffective in attack and with unusually low block numbers.