Kenya. Kenya won African Champs, Egypt runner up. Cameroon fell of a bit.
Kenya is on top of African teams in FIVB ranking but final ticket to be given in 17th June to highest ranked team. The same for Asian team. Now China is on top.
Kenya. Kenya won African Champs, Egypt runner up. Cameroon fell of a bit.
Kenya is on top of African teams in FIVB ranking but final ticket to be given in 17th June to highest ranked team. The same for Asian team. Now China is on top.
disagree, we lost against Thailand because of our focus at the beggining of sets
I played a little bit and believe me sometimes opponent team is playing over standard level. Additionally everbody incl. players expects win, you make few mistakes and suddenly other team is very dangerous till the end. Thailand is not bad and has always well defence. Polish team doesn't like to play against them, Japan and Dominican Rep.
Can someone explain to me why FIVB (and wikipedia as well) has not acknowledged Serbia as qualified yet?
Serbia is qualified already. On wiki tounaments results Serbia is marked Q.
yes, hun. They literally gave out 2nd set, can’t you see?
It's volleyball ! Fighting spirit first of all. Particular set doesn't matter.
Typical polish team, basically gave out the 2nd set
Are you sure expert ?
Congrats to all medallists. Semi-finals and final were just great. Italy played good but missed their chance in 4th set and ended outside top 3. Serbia and Turkey are on the same level but both teams are not perfect and can play beautiful volleyball or with a lot of unforced errors. Netherlands is a solid team if they are mentally prepared for hard game. Poland was on lower level but with some luck /other draw/ could go higher.
PS - sorry I really do not like behavior of Karakurt. She is female Zaitsev from Italy.
I agree, but this is classic Soviet-style or "old school". The coaches are trying to use very authoritarian means - such as screaming highly in the face - in order to inject a superior discipline in the team. Teams from the so called eastern block, such as Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Belarus, are the ones mostly famous for employing such tactics or strategies within the context of volleyball (and sports in general).
For Poland ended few decades ago ! Exclude us from Your list.
Last real example of such coach was Russian Karpol. He screamed to all players during Uraloczka game against Police. It was strange because after gane he was very calm. I don't remember anybody similar to his behaviour.
After the Poland Women’s team being “excluded” from the award ceremony, it’s so nice of Poland to have the Men’s bronze medalist standing on the stage together to receive their medals
It should be always that way !
Well balanced Polish team + fighting spirit! Good match ! Congratulations!
Looks like we are finally partly back in OG qualification system 80' :
1 host USA
5 Continental champions 2026 (old system)
3 World Championship 2027 best teams not yet qualified (v.good idea - in the past World Champion was always directly qualified)
3 World best FIVB ranked teams (Nation League will be also important)
My personal feeling - Continental Championships and World Championships will be finally on high level motivation and no additional qualification tournaments consuming time and decreasing value of core Championship tournaments.
https://en.volleyballworld.com…qualification-tournaments
Strange to announce host so early but nothing is comparible to FIVB
it was a good tournament for poland for sure but it was boosted for their public as other host did before
They are in great shape but let's see how they perform next year
I partly agree but what can you say about other host NED ? They had own public too.
Poland played with heart till the end. Thank you.
Congrats to Serbia.
Polish team smile and believe !
bec it is a relief to know that POL has no chance against Serbia
You never know. I've seen so many competitions in last 30 years and everything is possible especially with own supporting fans. The same was in 2003 when unknown Turkish team won silver ECH.
What a fantastic game of Polish team ! Blocks were amazing but team spirytus perfect. First set 0:5 and after a while such performance.
Display MoreOf course the FIVB is going to just host yet another tournament in Poland 😔 What an awful, shameful decision. The interest in hosting was huge. Australia, Qatar, Turkey, Serbia... But of course the FIVB chooses easy money over actually having to promote this event.
It's ridiculous what the FIVB is doing, awarding almost all the tournaments to their 3-4 favorite countries. I mean, I'm not even exaggerating. Since 1998 the World Championships have been held in:
1998 - Japan
2002 - Argentina (the only exception on this list)
2006 - Japan
2010 - Italy
2014 - Poland
2018 - Italy
2022 - Poland
LITERALLY no other federation is doing this. If Basketball or eveb Handball, which is by far a smaller sport, can host World Championship tournaments in a wide variety of countries, why can't volleyball?
Thank God at least CEV isn't afraid of giving the European Championships to smaller countries. It's clear that Ary Graca's FIVB would be fine with pretty much killing international volleyball in most of the world, as long as they'd get to leech money from the countries where it already is popular.
The interest here in Poland is not really even that big this time around. I remember the excitement for WC 2014. Now even the major Sport news outlets don't great this as Important news. Most people just shrug and are like "oh, so we have yet another volleyball tournament. Cool."
I rememer Bulgaria was co-host with Italy and now Slovenia is also co-host !
idk... i think only having Vakifbank/Rzeszow play a QF match is boring (I know there are way bigger problems than this).
really boring ?
When I saw her walking some steps again I thought maybe it's not that serious after all, but then I remembered a teammate of mine who tore his Achilles tendon in a match many years ago and drove to the hospital with his own car with that injury because nobody else from the team was old in enough to drive But coming back to Wasilewska, I wish her all the best and that it's less serious than it looked. Cansu Aydinogullari had a similar looking injury in Turkish league some weeks ago and is back on court now so maybe there is hope
I have had the same during volleyball match I could walk but felt pain. I even drove myself home and next day got message Achilles and operation within max 3 days.
Congrats to both teams for good match !