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I got Serdars photo, at least.
Wtf Bartek ? Please do not post this type of thing in the future about users here. It's not funny or useful and really quite weird to be honest with you.
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Damn! That's 22 years of domination.
I really thought Federer will have longer longevity because the other 2 play rough but it was Nole lasted longer. I have a feeling that OG was his last major win.
You can actually take Nadal out of that stat. From 2003-2023 at least one of Federer and Djokovic have won at least one GS every year.
We are seeing greater longevity across most sports now but tennis is a particularly clear example. Djokovic has won 12 slams in his 30s, Nadal 8, Federer 4, even Wawrinka has 2. From the 1980s to 2000s there were only 7 such GS winners (Connors x2, Gomez, Korda, Agassi x2, Sampras), the oldest of whom was 32 at the time.
Heck even if we look at Federer’s contemporaries, the best ones were all retired (Safin) or considerably declined (Hewitt, Ferrero, Roddick) by the time they hit 30. -
She must be very strong that she went to the labour straight from the court
Are you retarded? ( no insults intended just out of curiousity)I wasn't going to act against anybody in this debate because it's incredibly difficult to tell who started it and who crossed the line, etc and since I was busy at the time I only came to read any of it hours later.
HOWEVER, this comment clearly crosses the line. I appreciate that there may be cultural differences involved in how accepted the term "retard" or a foreign language equivalent is, but it is considered a strong slur in many areas and is quite clearly being used here as an insult (despite the claim in parenthesis). I am left with no choice but to give you a warning.
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Due to popular demand, I have created a naturalisation topic. I hope people discuss the rules of the FIVB process and what changes they would like to see implemented in a fair and reasonable way.
If people really have to re-tread the tired old ground of the Vargas debate then please keep it here, there's no need for this discussion and all the classic counter-arguments of "But Antropova..." "But Boskovic...", etc. etc. to spill out into any other thread now - you can just write about it here.
That being said, this is not an excuse for people to insult and fight with each other. This topic is moderated just the same as any other.
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Display MoreYeah, there's a big chance that they'll identify as Italians or Italians-Serbians when they grow up, it's a sociological fact that vast majority of children of migrants have to same extent double identity nationality-wise.
Some examples that some of you are throwing in such discussions are really weird. Like there are things that are debatable and questionable, but is it that unimaginable that a girl living for majority of her life in Turkey ... feels Turkish?
I found this naturalization process worthy of discussion after this pretty radical change of rules/under current circumstances, as this is pretty new and we have quite significant interpretations of FIVB of those rules in the recent months, but it went into the weird and typical direction, so on my part sorry to everyone that felt bothered, lol.
And it's really interesting, as for example rules of federation of origin and first licensing were clarified etc. But, well, all the best.
please don't apologise for bringing sensible and knowledgeable discussion to this topic that is very worthy of being discussed.
But yes, it has now gone in a regrettable and useless direction. The next person that throws some useless, baiting comment into this thread will be warned, or if they have been warned already, banned.
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most disappointing for me is kelsey cook! 😕 how many times she played with the NT, has she been ever a starter since she started with the NT in major tournaments. Backup to Kim Hill, MBH and Larson and now avery and plummer. She played good in club but also because that team was also a powerhouse team with amazing top players.
Never at the OG but she was a starting OH at the 2022 WCH and of course the main libero at the 2018 WCH.
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Great news
wow now we have proof that money can't buy tradition nor being a powerhouse
Congratulations brazil
I get disliking the Turkish NT and wanting them to lose if you think they have an unfair advantage, fair enough. But the Turkish users have been mostly respectful through this tournament, let’s try to stay reasonable and not let the forum devolve into more useless bickering.
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I didn't see Drca perform any better than Ognjenovic honestly. Against China maybe but not v Italy and she was horrible against France. S Popovic just shouldn't have come back. People were acting like Serbia were cheating when she replaced Jegdic but IMO it was a downgrade. And the block was terrible.
Guidetti can (and should) be blamed for some things but the team simply isn't as strong as it was several years ago. 2022 was a false dawn that happened because many players played above their level, which may be Santarelli's influence.
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Stop blamming Guidetti. The team did not had rhythm. Simple. They did not wanted to play VNL and they pay the price. It is not possible for Boskovic to score 40 points per match to save their ass. They needed time together. They made bad choices and this the results.
Now about Italy. They play a solid but at the same time soft match. Really I want someone to explain me ( I really want it!!!) something. Do you think that the Italian block and defense are so stronge in a way to slow down all the teams which they face or they are just lucky and all play bad against them?
I rally think that If they had to face Brazil today they would have a bad defeat.
I won’t stop blaming Guidetti. He’s not the only reason for the defeat of course. Not playing the VNL could be a factor. Italy just having better players is also a factor. But Serbia was winning and playing well in set 1 when he a) interrupted a point to challenge for a floor touch when there was none and b) inexcusably repeated his earlier mistake by bringing in Milenkovic for Uzelac. The first is an understandable but unfortunate error, the second comes from his own inflated ego IMO. From the end of set 1, the team was never the same, which the players also deserve some blame for obviously.
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Yes. No one noticed.
End of a era for Serbia. Curious about the new faces next summer. I can see Zivkovic retiring with Ognjenovic. Stevanovic and Mina Popovic leaving as well. Silvija Popovic pretty much done. Milenkovic? Busa? Bad coaching from Guidetti in this tournament, but let's be honest, Serbia didn't show high quality and was not as good as in Tokyo.
To be honest, they weren’t good in Tokyo either. Italy managed to be a bigger mess than them in that QF but not this time. Now I hope Cate gets her gold medal but Brazil looks like the best team to me.
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Was it Boskovic?
Maja's setting and choices are quite poor anyway...
Yeah it was Boskovic. I think Maja was doing well but got a bit messy and desperate when Italy were making the comeback.
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Gio
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FUCK YOU BRUNO
OK, no need for such aggression. Please tone it down in future.
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There’s no doubt that Guidetti is a great coach in many ways but man I have no clue what he was doing with Milenkovic and the double subs and this is a pattern we see all the time with him. He wants to shake things up and make brave decisions but he ends up upsetting the balance of the team and ruining things.
Serbia was just horrible in sets 1 and 2, I couldn’t say that any player looked good. But then they really woke up and I thought all the main players looked good in sets 3 and 4. If they can keep that level from S3-4 then they will be there when the medals are decided IMO.
The US will be medal contenders as usual and clearly this is a good result for them but I wasn’t that convinced. To me it looked like this match was more about Serbia than USA which isn’t a good look. Wong-Orantes was fantastic though. -
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Don't make it cry or it'll post a hundred more scathing nonsensical comments on this thread. That's their only contribution lol.
And this is a better contribution? No, this post is designed only to stir the pot so stop it now.