I am a fan of kovo league just recently and i pretty sure i don't know everything about the league. But, based on my research club team before was approved to have at least 2 foreign players for each team but the organisation believes that they need to priorities the local players that is why the league decided to have only 1 foreign player and i understand that.
But i also understand how foreign players feel. They are totally in a foreign country. Different people, team mates culture and language barriers. Would that be ideal to bring back their old rules which is to get at least 2 foreign player 1 middle blocker and 1 wing spiker. In this case local players will still have a chance and foreign players won't be homesick and lonely and at the same time decrease the pressure.
I heard alot of both negative and positive about the league and one of the positive feedback was good high salary but the pressure is very high and extreme expectation because they have to perform well.
Tbh i don't get the point of getting 1 foreign player only and then let local players play but still foreign players are getting more balls and getting more points where is the experience from the locals come from?
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Could I ask where you got the info about Korean team having two foreign players? From what I know, they have alway had a 1 foreign player per team rule since the inception of the Korean V-League in 2005.
The Korean women's league is very small with only six teams (smaller than both the Thai league and Philippine league). The 6 teams are allow to have between 14-19 players (incl. foreign player) so that means that from the pool of players playing at the highest level in the country is max of 108 players. To me, this is a very small pool of players to draw your NT team from. So if they allow another foreign player in each team that will mean 6 more local players will lose their place and the other remaining local players will get lest game time.
The protection of the local players would be more of decision from the governing organisations like KOVO and KVA whilst the desire to win by using the foreign player often in attacks during the game is a team decision.
Okay, I have managed to find one article confirming which players have shown up for the tryout.
From the 30 invited players, 4. Nikoleta Perovic, 20. Lianma Flores Stable, 21. Yunieska Batista Robles, 23. Verica Simic, 24. Natalia Dumcheva, 27. Tereza Vanzurova, 28. Slavina Koleva, and 30. Hanna Kyrychenko did not show up for the tryout.
Nikoleta Perovic gave up on the tryout because she was tired with visa issues. Whilst Yunieska Batista Robles, Verica Simic, Natalia Dumcheva, and Hanna Kyrychenko failed to get their visa to enter Canada.
And I think Lianma Flores Stable (?), Slavina Koleva (CS Stiinta Bacau, Romania League) and Tereza Vanzurova (?) can't make it to the tryout because they are still playing for their current club.
Sources: 1, 2
Some photos from the tryout:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw8S-vrg1T0/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw8UE4Vg7ep/
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