Posts by Sidney

Quote from USAvolleyfan

Well American players have proved times and again they don't put too much effort in learning the language of the country they play in.. It's obviously not shade, and there are exceptions like Logan, who speaks perfect Italian and Portuguese..

Logan does speak Portuguese indeed. She played in Brazil in early 2000s and probably learned at that time, but I think she lost it (forgot most of it) by the time she came back (in 2012). She refused to speak in Portuguese everytime she was interviewed during that season.

Quote from Spyro

Costagrande MVP. IMO Carolina was the key player of Scavolini's achievements during those years

Yes she was.

Quote from Bogdan123

Brazilian Vercesi, but i dont know his name, he was in Turkey before few years, since that i dont know anything about him

Angelo Vercesi. He coached the Croatian NT for a while a few years ago.

Also Skowronska was supposed to be their OPP, she had renewed after the previous season.

I never thought she was this amazing setter. I think she won the MVP in Athens especially because she blocked a lot, just like Juma in the U23 championship (lol kidding)

Quote from QueenPiccininiLover

Eczacibasi way: lack of chemistry. The were also really unlucky: when they realized Kirillova couldn't do it anymore, they signed Kim Staelens and few weeks later she left the team, 'cause she found out to be pregnant.

OMG I didn't remember that

Was Novara better with Kun Feng?

How come this Novara was #8 in the lega? They were supposed to be a much better team than that.

I don't think there is a rumor of Rachel Adams coming back to Conegliano. It is Mackenzie Adams and some web sites made a confusion.

Quote from Mapuan

Hooker actually speaks the language. She posts in Portuguese in her Instagram and answers comments in the same language. There are also videos of her speaking during match interviews and such.

I've never seen any of these videos. Her posts are awful and google-translated with several amateur errors, it's very easy to realize that being a Brazilian. Dobriana's posts are much better and she actually did a live yesterday in which she spoke Portuguese very well. PS: I'm not comparing the two of them, just commenting.

Quote from Umu11

there was a video of her speaking in Portuguese, Is it an easy language to learn?

I don’t know Portuguese so I don’t know if she was fluent or not.

It's not. It's really hard actually (in my opinion), especially because of conjugation of verbs.

Hooker never learned Portuguese and she played in Brazil for 3 years.

However Dobriana came to Brazil already knowing how to speak a little bit and I'm sure she improved because she seemed to really want to learn. I didn't see Polina speaking so I don't know if she is fluent or not.

Polina Rahimova posted that she renewed with Sesi/Bauru. It is in Portuguese, I hope she knows what that means lol

Quote from taylor10

Kirilova vs Cacciatori. It was perfect setting performance from both setters.

I didn't remember Ritschelova, she played opp but stayed in middle for 2 rotations when she is in the front row(gioli in 2), hits slide attack, quick, high ball and receive in the back court. Another example of how diverse old generation players were...

She played some matches of the scudetto finals as MB. Potachova was switched to OPP and Pirv replaced her as the diagonal of Artamonova.

Zetova was just unbelievable.

This is not the final of the scudetto. It is the final of Coppa Italia.

thanks for the infos!

I thought Rinieri played in Bergamo with Picci. She was a bench player?

Who are the starters in Bergamo? I see Picci and Cacciatori

Quote from crovolley

Ooo my bad now I read it is not yet done deal, it just read topic (keeping base, including Sheilla)

https://www.worldofvolley.com/…er-including-sheilla.html

Ok, so this is still a rumor. I asked because I thought she or the club had said something. Thanks.

Quote from crovolley

Sheilla in Minas is official.

Can you please provide the source? Thank you

Quote from volleyball22

why do they want her ? IMO she is an average setter.

You don't need a great setter to play in a top team in Russia