I hate this new trend of treating NTs like they were clubs. This girl has ZERO connection to Serbia. It makes a mockery of everything.
Thanks god Cuban federation is getting their shit together with professionalism in the last 2/3 years and this won't happen anymore with future players.
Ezequiel Palacios moves from Italy to Montpellier.
Also all the cubans from Argentina league will leave, mostly to France too!...
Osniel Mergarejo and Jesus Herrera will go to Chaumont, Julio Cesar Cardenas to Tourcoing, Jose Carlos Romero to Ajaccio.
Some cubans to other countries too: Miguel Lopez, as said before, will go to Brazil. Javier Concepción to Olsztyn.
Basically there aren't any players left in Argentina except juniors. The league is a joke now.
Any confirmed news about Loser?
Confirmed to Tourcoing as well 
Also Gauna (MB) to Arago.
12 argentinians in France next season, crazy.
And there is still more exodus to come in following weeks...
Luciano Palonsky (OH/OPP) to Tourcoing as well...
French league will basically have all the substitutes of Argentina NT next season.
Argentina league still getting looted. The next season is basically a youth league because clubs can't pay experienced players anymore (currency devaluation + coronavirus).
Uriarte (S) and Ramos (MB) to Narbonne, Alexis Gonzalez (L) to Montpellier. Also Matias Sanchez (S) moves from Brazil to Tourcoing.
And there is still more exodus to come in following weeks...
Ivan Castellani won medals in youth/junior level WCh being important in all of them but then didn't really took off with senior NT or clubs. He had a million injuries too.
I personally believe De Cecco is a downgrade for Lube, I don’t think they will be able to have the chemistry they need with him.
I thought Leal in Lube was done deal, where is he going?
Anyone is a downgrade from the best setter in the world.
Name an objectively all-around better setter they could have hired that isn't already in the top 4 italian clubs.
Which team do you think will benefit the most and suffer the most due to the change in date?
I guess Brazil since they won't have any starter under 32 years old except Lucarelli? They all still look in good shape though.
All other teams have more or less have similar age average, don't think it would make much of a difference.
If they go for Rossini, they'll still able to have a foreign player as the second WR. Is Danani worth playing with Kooy? I'm not really familiar with Danani's skill.
Don't know if it's worth it, but he had the best stats of any starter libero this season. Even over Rossini and Jenia.
De Cecco confirmed during Instagram live that he will move to Lube.
no offense, but i wish, instead of CAN and VEN, it was SRB/BUL/SLO.
You mention those 3 teams but not Germany who were actually the ones that just missed the ticket 
Anyway, don't think BUL or SLO would add something better than CAN to be honest. And SRB... they were simply pathetic in all qualifiers. They don't deserve to be in the games.
No thread for this so I will just leave it here...
Sada Cruzeiro wins the south american championship, again.
Good fight from UPCN. I'm surprised they made it to the final defeating both Taubate and Bolivar since they aren't exactly having a good year in the league (they are not even top 4 in the table currently). On the other hand Bolivar who are still unbeaten in the league was pretty bad (they were also bad at the Libertadores, I think Weber's poor coach skills are exposed when he's outside his "league safe space").
Taubate was also relatively poor, but their unpaid players probably lack motivation for anything...
Hopefully FIVB will invite an argentinian team to club WCh this time... I was really pissed off with that shitty 4 team tournament last year.
Pool B is tough, but not that bad for class-A teams. France only need to beat Argentina and Tunisia to advance to 1/4.
It's extremely similar to their Rio group:
Brazil = Brazil
USA = USA
France = France
Russia = Italy
Argentina = Canada
Tunisia = Mexico
IMO although they would be favorites over ARG I can see France and Russia flopping from this one. I think only Brazil and USA are sure bets to advance.
Yeah, the 12 players Canada will take are probably the most obvious out of all the teams.
So do we have the official pools now?
It's already on this page...
I'm not sure if I got everything right but if Cuba wins 3-1 and Puerto Rico beats Canada there is still chance we see Simon in Tokio?
Yes.
Congrats Venezuela. Just win a set in Tokyo, please.
Yeah, let's get back to how many European teams should be at the OG.
Or to investigate if x player is gay/lesbian the only two topics discussed in the forum these days.
Does Chile have any chance left to qualify?
Nope. They are quite literally only there to screw Colombia 
I hope the colochos make it, I feel bad about their loss in the women's and it would be a special first time for them. Also, because VEN or COL wouldn't make any difference for the level of OG.
Btw, Turkish volleyball did not start yesterday, it started in 2003 women's european championship which Turkey hosted and came 2nd. After that, women's volleyball has always been popular in Turkey which explains why new girls keep coming with potential and Turkish league became so popular in world.
So yeah, yesterday...
They didn't play any WCh before 2006 and this will be only their 2nd olympics. Not to talk about Men's team, which has done literally nothing.
Compare that to Brazil, USA, Russia/USSR, Italy, China, Cuba, Japan, even Korea. Only Serbia has a similar short history like them but at least they have a strong men's team since a long time ago.
I mean, no disrespect, it's good progress for such a little time. But they are in diapers still.
