http://www.volley.asso.fr/infos_com.htm
BEAUVAIS OUC defeated AS CANNES
3/2 >> 22-25 22-25 25-22 25-18 15-13
TOURS VB Lost to MONTPELLIER
0/3 >> 24-26 21-25 31-33
Great matches even the second match that went 3-0 had some good competition but Tours could not close out when they had the chances...
When I get back to the US I will upload some photos from both matches...
http://www.usavolleyball.org/VolleyballNews/news.asp?id=2079
USA Volleyball Announces Host Cities for 2008 World League
ANAHEIM, Calif. (Feb. 19, 2008) – USA Volleyball has announced that the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill., the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wis., and U.S. Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington, Ill., will host the three U.S. stops for the 2008 FIVB World League, which will be the final Olympic warm-up for the U.S. Men’s Volleyball Team.
The United States finished third at the 2007 World League, an exciting elite men’s volleyball competition in which the world’s best teams are divided into four pools and play for six straight weekends from June 13 to July 20. Winners from each pool will go to the final round on July 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, along with the host country and a pick from among the second-place teams in pool play.
The total World League prize purse is more than $20 million, with the winning team collecting a prize of more than $1 million.
"The World League competition is a crucial part of our Olympic preparation. We look forward to playing these important matches in Green Bay, Bloomington, and Chicago,” U.S. Men’s Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon said. “We have a very tough pool and I expect all of these matches to be closely contested and the level of volleyball will be very high."
The U.S. Men, ranked No. 3 in the world, will play in Pool C along with Bulgaria (No. 4), Spain (No. 6) and Finland (No. 22). Team USA will open domestic World League play against Bulgaria on June 20-21 at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, a northwestern suburb of Chicago. Both matches will be at 7 p.m.
U.S. outside hitter Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) made his debut with the U.S. Men’s Team at the 2007 World League tournament and got to play in front of hometown fans when the team played in the Chicago area.
“It will be great to play in World League again and try to improve on our third-place finish,” said Rooney, who played at Wheaton South High School. “I am looking forward to the support from the hometown fans from Chicago.”
On June 27-28, the U.S. Men will return to the Resch Center in Green Bay, where they played two World League matches against Japan in 2007, to play Finland. Both matches will be at 7 p.m.
On July 11-12, the United States will host Spain at the U.S. Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington, in central Illinois. Both matches will be at 7 p.m. Ticket information will be available soon.
“We are thrilled to be returning to a famous sports city like Green Bay and a great venue like the Resch Center,” USA Volleyball CEO Doug Beal said. “Our partners there put on a first-class event in 2007.
“We are also excited to be bringing Olympic caliber volleyball to the Midwest both in the Chicago area and in Bloomington, which may be the last U.S. city to see the U.S. Men play before they head to Beijing.”
The United States and Bulgaria have both qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games. Spain, which is the reigning European champion, still has a chance to qualify at a tournament prior to World League.
The U.S. Men have a 20-10 record against Bulgaria and most recently beat the team at the 2007 FIVB World Cup. Team USA is 12-5 against Spain, but lost to the Spaniards at the 2007 World Cup. The United States is 6-0 against Finland.
The United States has played in 10 editions of the FIVB World League since 1990. Its best results have been third-place finishes in 1992 and 2007. Brazil is the five-time World League defending champion.
For the second year, the U.S. World League matches will be broadcast, via tape delay, on ESPNU.
The USA Volleyball World League web site is http://www.usavolleyball.org/national/08WL.asp
The FIVB World League web site is http://www.fivb.org/EN/Volleyb…etitions/WorldLeague/2008.
2008 FIVB World League Pools
Pool A
Brazil
France
Serbia
Venezuela
Pool B
Cuba
Italy
Korea
Russia
Pool C
USA
Bulgaria
Finland
Spain
Pool D
China
Egypt
Japan
Poland
U.S. Men’s World League Schedule
June 13-15: USA at Finland
June 20-21 (both matches at 7 p.m.): Bulgaria at USA – The Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates
June 27-28 (both matches at 7 p.m.): Finland at USA – The Resch Center in Green Bay, Wis.
July 4-6: USA at Spain
July 11-12 (both matches at 7 p.m.): Spain at USA – U.S. Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington, Ill.
July 18-20: USA at Bulgaria
July 23-27: World League Final Round in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cup semi finals drawing of lot:
Beauvais - Cannes
Tours - Montpellier
Semi finals will be played on March 8th and final on March 9th in Paris.
Wow, I will be in Paris visiting my son on March 8th. Is there a link to the venue and how to purchase tickets???
Luxembourg/Munich, 16th January 2008. The sportsman media group’, a sports and media rights agency based in Munich/Germany, and the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV) have concluded a cooperation agreement for the marketing and distribution of European Volleyball competitions, amongst others the Men’s and Women’s Indesit European Champions League, the CEV Cup (Men and Women), the European League (Men) as well as the NESTEA European Beach Tour.
The distribution agreement on CEV’s media rights includes worldwide television, internet and mobile rights. The extensive cooperation aims to enhance the media coverage and the international exposure of the CEV properties. A special focus is laid on the Indesit European Champions League, Europe’s top volleyball club competition.
In order to fulfil the common intention to develop and boost European Volleyball the cooperation agreement entitles the sportsman not only to market and distribute Europe’s top volleyball competitions, but also to show the events on the World Wide Web. The internet platform LAOLA1.tv, an affiliated company of ‘the sportsman’, hosts the ‘Home of CEV Volleyball’ on the internet. Commencing on the 22nd of January, LAOALA1.tv will present the Indesit European Champions League with live coverage and highlight clips giving the CEV’s top club competition a worldwide platform and the volleyball community access to watch their favourite sport and the best volleyball players in the world on http://www.laola1.tv.
CEV President Mr. André Meyer emphasised in particular that “this collaboration, which has been set up for the CEV competitions is to promote the image of male and female volleyball and its sponsor partners to the benefit of the overall development of the sport. In addition to the already existing TV volleyball transmissions, successfully generated by the different national TV channels, the complementary live broadcast on internet on http://www.laola1.tv helps to spread volleyball pictures all over Europe”.
“We are very honoured and proud that the CEV has granted us the rights to their most prestigious properties. We are excited to be given the opportunity to develop and be part of the long-term success of one of the most exciting sports” says Thomas Krohne, CEO of ‘the sportsman media group’.”
Please provide feedback on the quality of this file. The mpg file looks great but when I convert it to DIVX AVI it appears to have horizontal lines across during fast movement.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q0JEUCC6
92 Olympics USA-CAN-S1
Two Teams, One Ticket to Beijing: USA vs. Puerto Rico on MediaSports
Caguas, Puerto Rico - United States and Puerto Rico will play on Friday, January 11 for the only pass to the Beijing Olympics in the final match of the NORCECA Men’s Volleyball Olympic Qualifier, and it will be streamed LIVE! at MediaSports (http://www.mediasports.tv).
The game has the word REMATCH all over it. Puerto Rico has beaten USA only once in more than 30 years and it was in the 2007 FIVB World Cup. USA's loss to Puerto Rico's in that meeting prevented the Americans from a direct clasification to the Olympics.
Puerto Rico is determined to avenge last Tuesday's loss in front of their home crowd, and qualify to the Olympics for the first time in history.
Clayton Stanley vs Héctor Soto, setters Lloyd Ball and Ángel Pérez facing each other. Complete sell-out at Coliseo Héctor Solá Bezáres in Caguas, Puerto Rico. You can also be there, thanks to MediaSports just registering at (http://www.mediasports.tv) and then logging in. The game starts at 8:00 pm AST (Puerto Rico Time). The stream can be watched in PC’s, laptops, PDA’s and mobile devices with access to the internet.
January 11, 2008 – USA vs PUR
8:00 pm AST (Puerto Rico Time)
7:00 pm EST (North America)
12:00 am GMT (Europe)-January 11, 2008
Did you wacth some games from this live stream? Is it possible?
Yes, I was able to watch one pool play match and one semifinal. Tonight (US nightime) is the championship match between PR and USA...
Two Teams, One Ticket to Beijing: USA vs. Puerto Rico on MediaSports
Caguas, Puerto Rico - United States and Puerto Rico will play on Friday, January 11 for the only pass to the Beijing Olympics in the final match of the NORCECA Men’s Volleyball Olympic Qualifier, and it will be streamed LIVE! at MediaSports (http://www.mediasports.tv).
The game has the word REMATCH all over it. Puerto Rico has beaten USA only once in more than 30 years and it was in the 2007 FIVB World Cup. USA's loss to Puerto Rico's in that meeting prevented the Americans from a direct clasification to the Olympics.
Puerto Rico is determined to avenge last Tuesday's loss in front of their home crowd, and qualify to the Olympics for the first time in history.
Clayton Stanley vs Héctor Soto, setters Lloyd Ball and Ángel Pérez facing each other. Complete sell-out at Coliseo Héctor Solá Bezáres in Caguas, Puerto Rico. You can also be there, thanks to MediaSports just registering at (http://www.mediasports.tv) and then logging in. The game starts at 8:00 pm AST (Puerto Rico Time). The stream can be watched in PC’s, laptops, PDA’s and mobile devices with access to the internet.
January 11, 2008 – USA vs PUR
8:00 pm AST (Puerto Rico Time)
7:00 pm EST (North America)
12:00 am GMT (Europe)-January 11, 2008
http://mediasports.tv/portal/i…on=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Welcome to MediaSports.TV
Video Streaming Schedule:
Puerto Rico Game Schedule (First Round)
January 6, 2008 – PUR vs BAR (7:00 pm EST)
January 7, 2008 – PUR vs DOM (8:00 pm EST)
January 8, 2008 – PUR vs USA (8:00 pm EST)
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Registration is free. Click Here.
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MediaSports to stream NORCECA’s Men’s Volleyball Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Caguas, Puerto Rico – MediaSports, an internet company dedicated to live streaming of sports events, has reached an agreement with the Puerto Rico Volleyball Federation to stream live all Puerto Rico games and the Gold Medal game in the NORCECA Men’s Volleyball Olympic Qualifying Tournament.
The event, which will be held in Caguas, Puerto Rico from January 6-11, 2008 will award one spot for the Olympic Games to be held in Beijing China this next summer.
Together with the host (Puerto Rico), teams from Cuba, Canada, United States, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago will compete for the gold medal of the tournament, which will award the pass to the Olympics.
Puerto Rico will face Barbados, Dominican Republic and United States in the first round. The Quarter Finals will be held on January 9, the Semis on the 10th and the Gold Medal Game on the 11th. All Puerto Rico games plus the Gold Medal Game can be accessed live at http://www.mediasports.tv or through the Puerto Rico Volleyball Federation’s "Official" site http://www.fpvoleibol.com. The games can be viewed via internet on PC’s, laptops, PDA’s and mobile devices.
Puerto Rico Game Schedule (First Round)
January 6, 2008 – PUR vs BAR (7:00 pm EST)
January 7, 2008 – PUR vs DOM (8:00 pm EST)
January 8, 2008 – PUR vs USA (8:00 pm EST)
8th World Wonder (remix) - Kimberly Locke
QuoteIf he want's to play volleyball, I could ask a few clubs here ...
Thanks. I will mention this to him. He has been playing year round since he was 13. He currently plays on his university club team but their regular season will be occuring while he is in Lux.
He will probably be busy with traveling during his free time but he does love to play volleyball and may be looking to get into a gym some afternoons/evenings for a change of pace.
"Lost & Found" featuring Jael - Delerium
Happy Birthday from the USA...
As a youth, I played american football, baseball, football (soccer),basketball, track & field. While attending university (college), I played american football and ran indoor and outdoor track (60m, 110m & 400m hurdles). After graduation, I was introduced to volleyball. In the past ten plus years, I have only played volleyball. I occassionally watch the Chicago Bulls basketball and the Chicago Bears american football. I do watch the Super Bowl or at least attend a Super Bowl party with others! 
My 21 year old son will be studying in Luxembourg the next five months. He will be staying with a family in Luxembourg City and the school is in Differdange.
He will be free most Friday afternoons through Sunday night and is looking forward to traveling with some of his classmates to a different city-country on many weekends . He will have a Europass and could maybe can afford inexpensive airfare for some trips. He is already planning on traveling to Italy during one of his breaks and will go to Greece the week after his finals.
Suggestions anyone?
Yes, thanks so much, redhawkvb! (anxiously waiting for more...)
I am working on it! 
Who is the coach? Is that Doug Beal?
Yes, and the assistant coach is Bill Neville.
I have the links to the entire 4th set now posted at the same page. It includes a MegaUpload link...
I have posted a couple of minutes of a 1981 USA vs. CUB match. I need help in ID'ing the players according to jersey number.
Anyone with a good memory?
You can find a 6 minute AVI file and a shorter 2 minute WMV file on the following page:
I will warn you that the AVI file may take forever to start or download. If you get frustrated with it then try the WMV file.
Post your players name suggestions along with the jersey number in this thread. I already figured out the coach with the curly hair! 
I also think Sinjin (#8) and Berzins (#12) and Dvorak (#?) are in there.
Thanks...
