What a shameful and ridiculous night for my country
We couldn't sleep until 5 a.m because of bomb sounds, F-16's
For the real topic; France -Brasil will be very interesting
I thought you were Italian
Serbia Włochy 3-2
Brazylia Francja 3-0
Poland has Kubiak's curse.
I was born in Brazil, but I'm American citizen, Ive been in the US for the past 10 years.
The above sentence was for nicolettal not you @rdbfabio!
I fell asleep and missed most interesting parts of the match! (last 3 sets) My sleeping was lucky for Poland
grupa J
13-07-2016 17:30 Brazylia Włochy 3-1
14-07-2016 17:30 USA Włochy 3-2
15-07-2016 20:30 Brazylia USA 1-3
grupa K
13-07-2016 20:30 Polska Francja 1-3
14-07-2016 20:30 Polska Serbia 2-3
15-07-2016 17:30 Serbia Francja 1-3
Olympics composition is almost selected, only 1 OH must must leave
S: Saeid Marouf, Mehdi Mahdavi
Op: Shahram Mahmoudi, Amir Ghafour
L: Mehdi Marandi
MB: Mohammad Mousavi, Adel Gholami, Mostafa Sharifat
OH: Hamzeh Zarini, Milad Ebadipour, Farhad Ghaemi, Mojtaba Mirzajanpou, Javad Manavienejad
Saipa has negotiated with Lee
When is the deadline to application the list of players?
July 18th
Yes, on OG just one match could send you to "heaven or hell" but concentration of quality is much higher or better to say there isn't much space for mistakes
I mean in general not only for Rio.
If you compare Iran under Kovač and Lozano there is really big difference. I'm sure Lozano will do his job...
Iran clubs don't have any youth program or teams? How is that possible? So Federation is "recruiting" players and after that clubs are hiring them? It should be reversed
I can't believe what you said
I mean, Iran's results are miracle considering clubs aren't doing nothing. Also this explains Mirzajanpour's stagnation...
Yes effectively clubs are doing nothing. except for 3 or 4 clubs like Paykan and Kalleh. But people themselves are doing sth, there many private or semi-private volleyball halls or schools all around the country especially in the regions that volley is hot, like Urumia (city of Marouf and Ebadipour) and Gonbad (city of Ghaemi- turkmens live there it's near Turkmenistan border) and these activities are generally coordinated by each province volleyball committee which is under supervision of Federation.
Federation has a broad talent finding program which they select youth team from 10000 people and generally these people go to higher teams and clubs. It all started from 25 years ego where Ivans Bugajenkovs (2 times gold medalist from Soviet Union) came here and worked for 17 years in Iran as a coach for under age teams and programs. He even went to high schools in all the small cities all around the country to find players.
For sure from Norceca.
the rule is this: "If an allocated quota place is not confirmed by the NOC by the confirmation of quota place deadline or is declined by the NOC, the quota place will be reallocated to the next best ranked NOC, not yet qualified in the competition where the quota place was obtained."
but i read in a Polish site that Finnish director of WL matches in Finland said quota will be given to AUS or Puerto. maybe because if we there was no Cuba, Puerto should have gone to Tokyo. so they hold a match between them.
Volleyball.it reports that FIVB is seriously considering kicking Cuba out of Rio
Can you please give the link? I just have found this but I cant find what you say.
Display MoreAs I know (insider) players weren't satisfied with Kovač and his stuff
and rebellion was led by Marouf
But it's hard to replace Julio Velasco. Players connected with him as he built them as a team, had authority because his achievements and Kovač came without any big result. I have really high opinion on Velasco, IMO he was Iranian the best player and what's the most important he knew how to manage Marouf and other stars. Lozano is on the same path or at least looks like that. I'm sure they'll look better and better, ticket to Rio is huge boost and Lozano proved he can manage this team.
Iran's biggest problem, in my opinion ofc, are OH's. Mirzajanpour isn't developing for 2 years (that's club fault not NT coaches), Ebadipour is oscilating a lot, Zarini should retire, Ghaemi is typicall defensive OH (except on serve). Manavinejand is a revelation as his offensive skills are great, as well as block but he might miss international experience.
On other side I'm not watching their quality through WL results for several reasons and can't make firm conclusions. WOQT was extremly exhausting tournament, both physically and mentally, and it's logical they didn't care much about WL. Mahmoudi was "squeezed" like a lemon and obviously tired. Same goes for Marouf and Ebadipour. Second reason, Ghaemi & Ghafour didn't play at all due injuries. Third reason is time. Lozano didn't have too much time to get players better, preparations for WOQT were improvised and Lozano used WL matches to check different tactics and how to play in various ways.
Matches in Rio will show their abilities and quality
Thank you for this great analysis, as you mentioned Mahmoudi was very tired and had some injuries, like others. IMO this team is much better than Kovac's era, but some of the problems can't be solved easily because players don't experience a real professional life in their clubs.
Iranian League is actually a charity institute for the players and managers to earn a lot for just in 20 or 30 matches. and not a single player is introduced to NT by clubs, they dont have any effective talent finding/ educating programs except 2 or 3. All the players are found by federation itself from all around the country for under age NTs and then clubs hire them.
But what I think differently from Kazisky is that OG is not at all a good tournament to asses teams' real power. because of its format. WCH is a better tournament that we can say teams that are really more powerful can get to the semis. but at OG the only and the most important match is quarter final that sends you to the hell or heaven. Iran must play against one of the USA, BRA, ITA or FRA that normally they can beat Iran even if Iran plays good. but in that single match many things can happen
Having the host in the preliminary round is a big problem, I suggest for the host to have matches like others, but the results not to be counted, this solves many problems and the host can have preparatory matches like they have it now.
Japan is 11th but because Portugal which is in 12th place is the host for final 4, Japan should go (probably) to level 3. Japan missed everything this year and was very disappointing, and the coach is talking about 2020 Olympics in the press conference! I don't know what a coach could do more to be sacked. 
Elimination of horns and trumpets in Azadi was a big improvement, yesterday there was almost no noise from trumpets and watching matches was really enjoyable, they also cheered the other teams and they were amazed and excited. and lots of Mexican waves was really interesting for watchers.
Is Kevin Tillie injured or just given a rest? He hasn't been playing recently.
He was registered as a libero this week and two matches of last week, they had 5 OHs.
And he has some minor knee injuries
Behnam Mahmoudi and former teammate in Perugia (Sottile).
The system with the 'hawk eye' was stopped at the frontier, so they use the old methods.
They even had signed a contract with hawk's eye, but the company said that we can't come because of sanctions, (they belong to Sony that I think some of its stock belongs to an American company), although the sanctions are lifted.
Arman, do us a favor - beat azzuri. As said Marouf, when was in Kazan - Iran never lost when plays at home. Will see...
It was for trumpet's era...
Speaking about the Iranian fans, I appreciate that the hall was so full also for the previous match on a friday (in other countries is quite rare).
Well, they weren't cheering for Italy, but I will forgive them
Still, I keep wondering if this is a stadium suit for volleyball: the people in the short side of the camp seem very, very far also from the first row O.O
Well it has two reasons: First that Friday is a holiday in Iran .
and second that that ticket selling system is totally a mess in that stadium, there is no number on tickets and they sell more than capacity 
so people go there sooner to find a better location!
The stadium is originally for ice skating but rarely is used for that purpose.
