No changes in the South Korean's roster for week 5. Despite rolling her ankle, Jung Dae-Young was still included in the line-up.
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Sorry, KVA still have not yet posted the roster for week 4 on their website. However, from various Korean reports (1, 2, 3), the team is basically the same as week 3 with the addition of MB Jung Dae-Young (JDY). Due to MB Kim Su-Ji been ruled out because of injury (pls refer to my previous post), JDY who was supposed to be rested for week 4 has decided to return to the team.
Here is the likely roster for South Korea in week 4 of the VNL:
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Unlucky Sth. Korea, they just had to run into China A team with Zhu in it. 
The GS and KGC trade is now official.
I didn't get to watch as much of the KOVO as I hoped but I remain a dedicated KGC fan and am bummed by this news
Although I think GS is my 2nd favorite team, so we'll see how this works out.
You can catch up on KOVO matches when you are totally bored with no volleyball during this international period. SpoTV on YT (playlist) have most of the games (but they have forgotten to geo unblock some of the videos). The Naver video links will all work but you will need a VPN.
KGC losing HSJ might be more of a bigger blow for them than they have realised. HSJ successful blocks contributed to a little over 30% of KGC total blocking stats for this past season.
IMO GS got the better end of the deal.
As mentioned in my previous post, KYK, An Hye-Jin and Han Soo-Ji were added to the team roster for week 3 of VNL in Lincoln, USA.
Here is the South Korean NT roster for week 3 of the VNL:
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BTW, the three players (LEE Hyo-Hee, JUNG Dae-Young, MOON Jung-Won) who were omitted for Week 3 are all from Korea Expressway Hi-pass.
ICYMI the news update in the Korean V-League thread, middle blocker Han Soo-Ji (formerly of KGC) was traded to GS Caltex yesterday (pending medicals for all players involved in the trade).
In the news video below, it looks like KYK was training with Hyundai E&C in order to prepare for VNL. Hyundai is based in Suwon and if I recall correctly, KYK's home is also in Suwon. Also, MB Yang Hyo-Jin is still recovering from the finger injury she got just before the V-League season ended and had to have surgery for.
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BTW, as a result of LJE retirement, Korean volleyball fans are speculating that KGC will now try to make a trade with GS Caltex who now have Lee Go-Eun (which they re-signed in FA period), An Hye-Jin and Yeom Hye-Seon (reward player for lossing OP Pyo Seung-Ju to IBK).
For me, it feels like Nakata has taken the Japanese team back a step (or maybe two).
I, on the other hand, feels like the settings are slower than it used to be. Also, the coverings of the ball from the rebound off the opponent's blocks ain't as good as it used to be either. I know my criticisms might wrong but this is how I see it.
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Will KYK play next week ?
maybe somewhat different from week 1, according to some rumors
No, KYK will not play in week 2 and the latest news update (above) back this up. I am also curious to know where you read/heard these rumours from.
I was wondering why I read they lost 3 out of 3 games with only win 1 set in the 1st week...
Turn out because No KYK, Lee JY, Yang Hyo Jin, Park JA , and no Lee SooYoung as well.. basically no hitter.. no wonder....
With new coach team, young players, I hope they get better in week 2 and move up from the bottom rank....
Korea has no chance in this year VNL. At the moment, they are missing their top four OHs and in my opinion, they will be lucky not to finish dead last.
Lee Jae-Yeong and Park Jeong-Ah are definitely out for the entire VNL. As Lee So-Young did not fly out with KYK, AHJ, and HSJ to meet up with the team, I feel like there is now a big question mark on whether she will take part in the VNL at all. But hopefully, KYK will be back for week 3 as planned.
As long as Nakata remain as head coach, I don't see Miyashita getting back into the NT anytime soon. IMO she is now like Nakata's 5th choice setter. Same goes for Koga too.
I agreed, Mai Okumura is not playing well at Montreux. From what I saw, a lot of her spikes are getting blocked.
It is very worrisome how the Japanese have collapsed multiple of times.
What do you guys think of Nakata so far? Has the Japanese NT progress or regress under her reign?
Here is the South Korean NT roster for week 1 & 2 of the VNL:
From the remaining training squad players, setter An Hye-Jin and middle blocker Han Soo-Ji was omitted from the NT for VNL week 1 & 2.
Team and individual photos:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxfSHHxgn_Z/
So Koga, Miyashita, and Nagakawa got benched by Nakata at Montreux.
Further bummer news for the Korean NT.
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The 17 players for 2019 Montreux Volley Masters have now been confirmed on the JVA website,
The JVA has not yet announced the players who will be going to this year Montreux Volley Masters (May 13-18th), but according to Getsuvolley.com, this is the squad (17 players - 7x Wing Spikers, 5x Middle Blockers, 3x Setters, and 2x Liberos):
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Do you know how they created a team? Is it 1 team represent per city. Because Philippines and thailand i believe they have teams from sponsors like products that is why they have a lot of teams.
Sorry, I have no idea how they created a vb team. I do however know that the six women's teams are own by the Korean companies that they are named after (pretty much the same as most of the Japanese teams). IBK Altos is the youngest and was created after the league had started, so I going to take a punt that IBK invested a whole lot of $$$ to start up the team after getting approval from KOVO. Some of the teams do have additional sponsors whilst other team have support from their cities.
How's the tryout so far? Any links pls
Looks like KOVO will stream the foreign player draft via instagram. Please note that the date and time shown on KOVO instagram post is in Korean time and not the Toronto time.
In Toronto, the draft should commence around 6:00PM (stream might start earlier) on May 3rd.
