Argentina has recalled De Cecco for the last matches next week.
It's evident the coach got tired of watching every opponent hit over Sanchez in block and his substitute being so-so.
Posts by LDvolley
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The match was interesting, to say the least lol. Looking at the stats, the game was pretty much balanced, only 2-3 pts difference between all the scoring skills. Argentina committed way more errors though, 38 vs 23. Looking to see how they'll bounce back in their remaining games for this week.
Argentina making lots of errors is deadly because it's the ONE thing they can't afford against any top team. Since the team doesn't have enough power and blocking capacity they need low errors to compete with the best.
I would like to believe this "low energy" performances are partially due to the long trip to Asia but if it's not I fear about the future without Conte carrying the attack.
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Danani so frustrated to see his teammates are simply incapable of killing any ball he saves.
Lima is baffling, every year he plays worse. All the OHs are just so mediocre and streaky...
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how many errors the opponent made?
Opponent was Argentina and they made 20 errors if I recall correctly. So, not that crazy.
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Argentina: same squad. Which means Conte and De Cecco will not play any VNL.
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Volleyball world just hypes everything that gives them likes and views. That is, east asian teams and their legion of followers: Japan men (riding on otakus who watch that one anime), Thai women, China women... even Philippines (!) gets shout outs from them occasionally despite their level is very low.
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Very poor reception of float serves and Serbia wins.
Weird match, every set was a blowout.
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Argentina -finally- stopped making serve errors and now the game goes to tie-break. Loving Giraudo and Armoa.
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I think Japan-USA tomorrow could be a really good one. Both have played pretty low-level teams so it'll be interesting to see who can raise their own standard of play.
USA crushed Slovenia, that's not a low level team. In fact, it was an unexpected result for me (at least in the score).
USA will most likely beat Japan handily.
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Argentina so soft in attack...
If no big attacking talent emerges soon to replace Conte this team will be Japan 2.0
Palacios, Lazo, Lima and many others that make the larger squad are all basically the same player. Nobody that makes a difference.
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Too lazy to write or post a link.. Argentina's roster for the first week is everyone important except De Cecco and Conte, as usual in first few VNL games.
Surprisingly Mendez excluded his son from this roster (good news). The main young player I'm looking forward to watch is Manuel Armoa (OH), he looked great yesterday in a friendly with Netherlands in what was his international debut.
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So, when does Turkey play Holland? I need to know in order to plan my plane trip to Taiwan with a layover in Macedonia (the country of Alexander).
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Apparently Conte will join Club Ciudad in Argentina.
Since the league is a joke these days I guess this means that he wants to fully focus on the NT in the twilight of his career, like his dad back in the day.
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qué tal Palonsky en Francia? Tenía altas expectativas por él pero ya.
Other than results of the teams I have no idea how the players are doing in France (stats wise and so on) , it's not a league I follow at all.
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Yikes, why leave Poland when he's doing well and his team too?
I hope he at least lands in a Champions League team if he goes to Turkey.
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This is the wide squad to play this year in VNL and WCh...
Setters: Luciano De Cecco, Matias Giraudo, Matias Sánchez, Pablo Urchevich.
Opposites: Bruno Lima, Juan Barrera, Manuel Balague.
Outside hitters: Facundo Conte, Nicolás Lazo, Jan Martinez, Nicolás Mendez, Ezequiel Palacios, Luciano Palonsky, Manuel Armoa, Luciano Vicentin.
Middle Blockers: Joaquín Gallego, Agustín Loser, Martín Ramos, Nicolás Zerba, Franco Medina, Flavio Rajczakowski.
Liberos: Santiago Danani, Franco Massimino.
Pereyra, Poglajen and Sole have not been called to the team which would suggest all 3 are retiring but the press release from FEVA only said that "they will not be part of this stage" and that they "thank them for their service during all these years".
I think it's an implied retirement but they are waiting for the players themselves to confirm that on their own social media channels.
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Didn't the IOC set the new format, not the FIVB?
or am i mis-remembering
No, FIVB makes it, IOC gives approval.
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I think Turkey would have a real chance if we had a good coach.
It's between Turkey and Cuba, that's for sure.
Cuba has amazing players right now but a similar problem in coaching department.
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As Argentina fan, I'm perfectly fine with this change of system even if it's bad for our women's team.
-Nobody watched their games at the olympics (I think I watched one set of them and nothing else, and I'm a volleyball fan, not a "casual").
-It won't lead to any improvement in their level. Not even in sponsorship.
-It's a waste of public money in preparations, travel costs, etc.
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Display MoreThe main reason for the shift to four team groups is as follows.
6 team groups, 15 matches in pool play, a total of 30 matches in the pool play, 60 matches between both sexes (10 days)
4 team groups, 6 matches in pool play, a total of 18 matches in the pool play, 36 matches between both sexes (10 days)
Having 6 matches a day (per sex) was just bonkers. This now reduces it to 3 a day (per sex), which can be spaced out over 5 days. Also this way you could have men and women play on the same day, in the same section windows.
Probably will be 4 matches a day (per sex), or making sure a certain pool finishes on the same day.
Additionally, with fewer matches in the pools, you will still have tension on the last day/matches of pool play
FIVB/Volleyball World wants more equality, this would show that they are doing it at the Olympics.
While we may complain about it, it is good for the people working the games and at least allows them to go a little bit of rest during this hectic tournament.
Why don't they just hire more personnel and rotate them? Surely fivb have plenty money for that given the fortunes they rack up from the bids to host their shitty qualification tournaments.