Posts by theloneracer

Quote from avid

Is there a list of who will be a part of next season's tryout yet?

Two articles that came out this morning (April 13) have confirmed that Valentina Diouf, Kelsie Payne, and Bruna Moraes have applied to play again in the V-League. It was also stated that Anna Lazareva and Helene Rousseaux have decided not to return to South Korea next season.

The articles also mentioned a few players with previous experience of playing in South Korea like Belarusian Kristina Kicka (nee Mikhailenko) (played for Heungkuk Pink Spiders from 2017-2018), American Katherine Bell (played for GS Caltex from 2015-2106), and American Hillary Hurley (played for Korea Expressway Hi-pass from 2016-2017) have applied for the foreign players draft this year.

Other than Diouf, if the South Korean media are only naming these players then I am not expecting much of a list.

Sources: 1, 2

Quote from vlover

there's still no news about FA and the player that new team will pick? it almost near the dead line, can i assume that no one change team? lol

Yeah, no FA news yet. No news means that they are still wheeling and dealing with the players.

Rather than announcing the signing of each player one at a time, I think a team will announce the FA news all at once. I do hope we will get some news today but we may have to wait until the very last day of the FA period.

Quote from ian3373

I say Diouf is the same as Lutz, no way she will go through trial again....

There won't be any trial or tryouts like how it was before covid. This year, the teams will once again be selecting players based on video footage.

If the tryout were carried out as normal as before, I don't think Diouf would actually have to do practice matches and drills. This is because I can't remember seeing photos or footages of Alaina Bergsma in a practice match at the tryout after her first two seasons stint with KGC.

Besides, all the teams in the league know very well what Diouf can and can't do by now.

Quote from 4volley

Is there any news if IBK's coach Kim will continue or are they getting a new coach?

The news just out this morning (April 11) is that KIM Woo-Jae is no longer IBK Altos head coach. IBK Altos decided not to renew his contract and has instead appointed former Korea Expressway Hi-pass and KGC Ginseng head coach SEO Nam-Won as their new head coach.

Sources: 1, 2, 3

South Korean Women's VNL Squad (18 Players)

S: AN Hye-Jin (GS Caltex), YEUM Hye-Seon (KGC Ginseng), KIM Da-In (Hyundai E&C)

OH: KIM Yeon-Koung (Heungkuk), LEE So-Young (GS Caltex), KANG So-Hwi (GS Caltex), PYO Seung-Ju (IBK Altos), KIM Ju-Hyang (IBK Altos)

OP: PARK Jeong-Ah (Expressway), KIM Hee-Jin (IBK Altos), JEONG Ji-Yun (Hyundai E&C)

MB: YANG Hyo-Jin (Hyundai E&C), KIM Su-Ji (IBK Altos), HAN Song-Yi (KGC Ginseng), PARK Eun-Jin (KGC Ginseng), MOON Myoung-Hwa (GS Caltex)

Li: OH Ji-Young (KGC Ginseng), YIM Myung-Ok (Expressway)

Sources: 1, 2, 3

I have to say there are some surprises in the VNL roster. NT debutants are setter KIM Da-In and middle blocker MOON Myoung-Hwa. Myoung-Hwa has been named in an NT squad before but has never actually gone to a tournament. Shockingly only one play was chosen from Heungkuk and that is KYK. The rest of the NT consist of 4 players from GS Caltex, 4 from KGC Ginseng, 4 from IBK Altos, 3 from Hyundai E&C, and 2 from Expressway.

The team will convene at the Jincheon Athlete's Village on April 23 and they will head out to Italy for the VNL on May 21. Stefano Lavarini is expected to arrive in South Korea on April 29. Source: 1

Apparently GS Caltex Merete LUTZ will not be back in South Korea next season. The Spike confirmed that Lutz will not be returning to South Korea next season as she will not be re-applying for the foreign players' tryout. Source: 1

There is also some development with regards to the Lee Twins as reported by Channel A yesterday. The twins will be taking legal action because they claimed there were some inaccuracies about the things that they were reported to have done. Sources: 1, 2, 3

Nothing concrete so far but here are some news with regards to the 7th women's volleyball team.

From the meeting between Pepper Savings Bank (PSB), KOVO and the other 6 teams at the end of March, some of the things that was discuss were the recruitment of players, membership fee and special development funds that needs to be paid when the team is established, and where this new team will be located.

So from I can understand, PSB will be get to select 8 high school players. Unlike IBK who was only able to select the players from 3 specified high schools (Namsung G.H.S., Jungang G.H.S., and Sunmyung G.H.S.), PSB will be able to select them from any high school across the country. The part about recruiting from existing players from the other 6 teams is a bit hard for me to understand correctly so I am going to skip it and let someone who is more fluent in Korean to comment about it.

With regards to the membership fee and special fund, PSB will be look around to paid at the very least 1B KRW when they join. This is because when IBK was established 10 years ago, IBK paid about 1B KRW (200M KRW for the membership and 800M for the special development fund). So considering this was 10 years ago, PSB will be looking to paid this amount at least or possibly more.

PSB preference for where the team to be located was Seongnam City in Gyeonggi Province (near Seoul like Hyundai and IBK), However KOVO and the other teams have recommended for PSB to be based in other regional area to expand and promote the game across the country.

Gwangju City and the city volleyball association also visit KOVO HQ on the 5th and submitted a letter stating their desire to be the home city for the 7th women's volleyball team. The pros for Gwangju city is that PSB has a branch in the Gwangju and the city has the necessary facilities already prepared as they had previously tried but failed to lure men's volleyball team KEPCO to their city. The city has Yeomju Gymnasium which was recently convert to a volleyball-only stadium and Bitgoeul Gymnasium located nearby can be used as an auxiliary stadium.

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

2021 KOVO Official FA List

FA Start today and the deadline ends at 18:00 KST on April 15 (Thu).

※ Player's salary shown in table is the total of base salary and options.

• Group A player annual salary - 700M KRW ~ 100M KRW.
• Group B player annual salary - Below 100M KRW ~ 50M KRW.
• Group C player annual salary - Below 50M KRW.

• Compensation for recruiting Group A players is 200% of player's previous annual salary + 1 reward player; or 300% of player's previous annual salary if no reward player is selected.
• Compensation for recruiting Group B players is 300% of player's previous annual salary.
• Compensation for recruiting Group C players is 150 % of player's previous annual salary.

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4

Korea Expressway Corp. Hi-pass have announced today that they have renewed their contract with head coach KIM Jong-Min. Sorry, there is no word on how long this new contract is as the media outlets stated that the T&Cs of the contract were undisclosed. Sources: 1, 2, 3

Still waiting on news about IBK Altos and KIM Woo-Jae.

KOVO will release the official FA list on April 2nd. Below is a possible FA list.

GS Caltex: LEE So-Young (OH), KANG So-Hwi (OH), HAN Soo-Ji (MB), KIM Yu-Ri (MB), HAN Da-Hye (Li),

Heungkuk: KIM Se-Young (MB), KIM Mi-Youn (OH), PARK Sang-Mi (Li),

IBK Altos: HAN Ji-Hyun (Li),

Expressway: HA Hye-Jin (MB),

KGC Ginseng: CHOI Eun-Ji (OH), NOH Ran (Li)

KOVO Dodram V-League 2020-2021

Championships Series Match 3 (#228) - Heungkuk Life Insurance Pink Spiders vs. GS Caltex Seoul KIXX - March 30th, 2021

Highlights:

https://sports.news.naver.com/…o&id=783444&redirect=true (KOR VPN needed)

https://vod.afreecatv.com/PLAYER/STATION/70545275 (KOR VPN needed)

Full Replay:

https://sports.news.naver.com/…o&id=783450&redirect=true (KOR VPN needed)

https://programs.sbs.co.kr/spo…gue/vod/66992/22000407345 (A/C needed)

https://vod.afreecatv.com/PLAYER/STATION/70542921 (KOR VPN needed)

Match Photos & Videos:

http://thespike.co.kr/news/new…hp?ncode=1065621563572201

http://thespike.co.kr/news/new…hp?ncode=1065621281411893

Match Result:

Match Stats Summary:

Match MVP:

Championships Series MVP:

Oh wow. Championships Series MVP was awarded to Lee So-Young and Merete Lutz.

I think YOO Seo-Yeun is like GS lucky charm. She only moved to GS last year and it is her first season with them and now they have won it. Seo Yeun has been to three different clubs already and has now won a championship at all three.

Edit: Sorry, I got mixed up the season Heungkuk last won the championship. Yoo Seo-Yeun has only won the championship twice, once with Hi-pass 2017/18 and now with GS.

Quote from ian3373

Their tag line "Noone is bigger than THE TEAM".. Nice...Low key a shade to teams that rely heavily on one/two key player.....:)

And the banner is hanging inside that team's homecourt.

Operation Mad Dog has been successfully completed.

Congratulations GS Caltex.

Quote from vlover

is volley rules the serve need to go middle court? Why Heungkuk keep serve to the libero in the middle? If not why Heungkuk not targeting lutz like they targeting miyeon?

No, they can serve anywhere as long as the ball land inside the court. Maybe Heungkuk's plan is to target the GS libero. Usually, the OP player like Lutz doesn't take on the serve receive. OPs player usually stands to the side or behind the receivers so they can't be target by the serving team. However, sometimes you see the servers managing to get the ball between two receivers and hitting the OP player as they're getting into position.

Kim Mi-Youn got benched and LEE Han-Bi who replaced her for set 3 has already scored more point than her.

GS servers are really going after Kim Mi-Youn. It's do or die now for Heungkuk.

Kim Mi-Youn performance tonight could be the key factor in deciding if this series goes to a fourth match or not. Park Mi-Hee will be praying that Mi-Youn will be stable on serve-receives tonight if Heungkuk wants to stop GS Caltex. It was pointed out in one of the articles today, during the postseason so far, if Mi-Youn serve-receives efficiency has been above 30% Heungkuk has won and when it isn't then Heungkuk lose.

Quote from ian3373

I wonder Hillstate's new coach will have new "style" in training and coaching, due to his experience assisting Lavarini...

Also in strategizing.. Lavarini and most Italian coaches like to carry drawing pad that they draw it in every TO to change pattern, etc...It will be interesting if KSH adopted this on court in the league ... That will be the first...

We'll just have to wait and see. I'm curious what the Korean and especially the Hyundai fans think about this appointment.

As a former OH for Korean Men's NT, I do hope he can at least help the OHs become strong in both offence and defence.

Also, in one of the article that I had looked at, it stated that he plans to select an OP at the foreign players' draft. So if this is the case, does this mean that GO Ye-Rim and HWANG Min-Kyoung will be the OHs pairing for Hyundai E&C? And will this also mean that he won't continue with Jeong Ji-Yun transition to a full-fledge OH too?

As previously mentioned, Hyundai E&C has officially announced the appointment of KANG Sung-Hyung (KSH) as their new Head Coach. KSH will officially take on the role starting on April 1st however he will be helping to train the South Korean Women's NT until Stefano Lavarini has finished his self-quarantine. Sources: 1, 2, 3

Quote from arevl

Whilst we wait for game 2 tomorrow, sharing the U18 AVC girls in 2017 vs Thailand.

Very interesting to see GS Caltex bench players like Lee Won Jeong, Park Hye Min, Moon Ji Yun, Kim Hye Bin all together and of coz Lee Ju Ah and Jeong Ji Yun when they were still sprouts but now have blossomed into key players in Pink Spiders and Hillstate. Only Sim Miog seems to have "disappeared" in the IBK bench.

PS if you look hard enough you would see Kwon Mi Ji maknae at the end sobbing tears of joy!

SIM Mi-Og got more court time this season with IBK than she ever did in her two seasons at Hyundai E&C.

I think only two players from that squad are no longer in the V-League, libero #19 KIM Da-Hee and the second setter #4 LEE Yun-Ju.

Surprisingly, the starting libero was drafted by Hi-pass as a trainee player only and after that first season, she was let go. LEE Yun-Ju joined IBK Altos but just like Da-Hee, she left after one season too.