Posts by russia women's volley fan

Marichev interview: Scherban will play as libero in the GP! http://www.championat.com/voll…itogakh-kubka-elcina.html

OK, if it was Kutiukova, i'd understand - but Scherban??

He also said that Shlyakhovaya is still injured and that some players currently in the B team will move to the first NT. I don't know if it is in Nastya's place, but, IMHO, Zaryazhko certainly deserves a place in the A team. She's playing very well and can be an important weapon.

I agree with Incognito, I also don't like Lyubuchkina. USAvolleyfan wrote about it a thousand times here, but I'll repeat him: Dianskaya is much better than Lyubuchkina, but now its just history.

Pasynkova was a certainly good choice as "miss of the tournament". But Vincorouva is so sweet!

Quote from Bayer

Anyone has a link for Germany vs. Russia ?

Thanks.

They're already showing Azerbaijan vs Belgium, with a little delay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CPWWSpUCVY

So, they'll probably stream Russia vs Germany in the same link next.

It's do or die for Russia! Well, I guess they'll probably die...

Serbia vs Holland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7aje-cQ6gY

Finnaly Russia found an opponent who commits more mistakes...

Anyway, I liked the young libero Kurnosova. She has a good ball control.

And it seems that, at last, Pankov realised that Zaryazhko's attack is all about height, not fasteness.

Russia vs Isral will begin in about 5 min.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX2RKUUxkxw

Imho, Rahimova is the mvp of the tournament so far. BTW, she reminds me of Marilyn Mason...

Germany vs Serbia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=457gVXdsaQA

The replay of Turkey vs Italy is beginning right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZQS7M9YoMQ

Later on, they'll probably show a replay of Holland vs Croatia too.

Thanks Semisonic.

Now it will beggin!

this delay was providential, because I had to leave to lunch...

Anyway, does anyone knows why Pavel Pankov is not on the Rusian roster?

Germany vs Russia is about to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptbq90j3C_U

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It's that for Volleyball Cro-Srb or ?

No, it's the link for a male's game.
Sportbox has no link for Croacia vs Serbia. There's only 4 links for tomorrow's games: Germany x Bulgaria; Azerbaijan x Roumania; Russia x Holland; and Poland x Turkey.

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Russian girls getting ready for European Games 2015. Malkova, Bavykina and Nikolaeva are beautiful

I agree. And Anastasia Chernaya looks like a weird combination of Lou Reed with Boris Karloff...

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Any idea if there will be a livestream for Netherlands-Russia for tomorrow?

Russia vs Holland: http://news.sportbox.ru/europe…ssija_Volejbol_Zhenshhiny

Sportbox.ru will stream other games as well.

Kondzio, thanks for the correction. You know, I have a terrible tendency to confuse names. I probably switched Hill's first name for Hildebrand's.

Semisonic, I agree about Biryukova. Also, I neither understand all the "hype" around Olesia Nikolaeva. Gilyazudinov and Pankov praise her all the time, but I don't see nothing special in her. Her game vaguelly remind's me of Scherban's, but still in a quite lower level - and I'm not a Scherban's enthusiast either.

About Kutyukova, I know she's unlucky, but we need to keep the faith. So, next year in Rio, Kutya will astonish the world! Wait and see.

It's only a few days ahead to Yeltsin Cup. I confess that, since the announcement of Kutiukova's absence, I'm a bit sad about the Russian NT. I was expecting Kutya to make an real impact this season.

But we need to move on. The great enigma in the team is Biryukova. She arrived in the NT after a season where she began in the bench of the worst team in the SL - Voronezh, and ended as the best receiver in the final, playing quite well indeed. I'm still skeptical about her potential, but she's young, so, who knows? About a year ago, Kristin Hill was treated like trash by many people here, and then, few months later, she was the MVP in the WCH.

If Biryukova's potential is for real, she'll be a very important player in the future. She combines size (about 1'93"cm) with agility, something hard to find. More or less like Hill.

PS: Semisonic, is good to read from you again. You're our Russian Connection here. Please, stay in tune.

Bartek, please, in your text, are you saying that Irisova played as Opposite in the past?

In this case, she may be the replacement to the terrible Malofeeva. The only black hole in Uralocha is the Opp position. If they solve it, they may cause some damage next season.

I think Voronkova isn't ready yet. She still misses too many balls in position 4 - as we know, she was raised as an Opp.

But, imho, the main problem with her is physical. She's notoriously overweight, and, during the entire season, by the final part of longer matches, her game always declined a lot. In Montreux, we could see in the last game against Holland how she was exausted. Almost not jumping and with a very heavy arm swing.

Returning to the GP roster, I also can't understand why Abroskina isn't in it. In Montreux we all saw how a bad libero Romanenko is. But Kravchenko isn't even bad. She's just an invention. Marichev is always open to try new players, why not Abroskina?

The Russian federation released the 25 players roster for teh GRand Prix:

10. Ekaterina Kosyanenko
1. Yana Shcherban
2. Anna Matienko
3. Anastasia Bavykina
4. Irina Zaryazhko
5. Alexandra Pasynkova
6. Olga Efimova
7. Ekaterina Lyubushkina
8. Natalia Obmochaeva
9. Darisa Pisarenko
11. Ekaterina Gamova
12. Ekaterina Orlova
13. Evgeniya Startseva
14. Irina Fetisova
15. Tatiana Kosheleva
16. Irina Malkova
17. Natalia Malykh
18. Ksenia Ilchenko
19. Anna Malova
20. Anastasia Shlyakhovaya
21. Ekaterina Ulanova
22. Ksenia Kravchenko
23. Ekaterina Efimova
24. Lyubov Sokolova
25. Olga Biryukova

Source:http://www.russiavolley.com/67…nd-prix-sokolova-5-to-24/

2 points about the roster which caught my attention:

1 good new: Katya Ulanova is in it. Who knows if the Russian staff are trying to convince her to return?

1 sad new: Dianskaya isn't even in the wide roster...Why?

Finnaly, I discovered the reason of Margarita Kurilo's absence of the NT teams: she's pregnant.