There's not defined yet for that is that italy is biding
I read that germany wanted to redo in 2020 but idk if they still want this 2021
Berlin Recycling Volley mens club had the right to host it also this year, but have given up due to the issues aroud Corona. Therefore a new host is required.
Coach Bergmann: "The 34-year-old had slipped on a staircase last week and bruised her heel. She wouldn't have been able to fit into any shoes and wouldn't have been able to jump with this injury."
https://www.wn.de/Sport/Lokals…bkCJd-yvyzcGuoMUnpgwOhF5M
Such a ridiculous appearing injury - but why volleyball professionals should fare better than other people? Being sportive doesn't mean, that you are safe against such accidents.
Yes, for example Straubing was relegated for financial reasons a few years ago before they came back to first league later.
Irina Kololeva (-Zaryachko) is really a monster at the net. Anyway, Kazan won not unexpected.
Display MoreIn theory, today was the last round of 1st half of the season. Due to Schwerin's CL and the following quarantine, their matches against Vilsbiburg, Dresden and Stuttgart are missing, but they already played twice against Suhl. Here is the current ranking:
1 Allianz MTV Stuttgart 9 8 26:6 25
2 Dresdner SC 9 7 21:8 21
3 VfB Suhl LOTTO Thüringen 11 7 24:16 20
4 SSC Palmberg Schwerin 8 6 22:12 18
5 SC Potsdam 10 6 21:16 18
6 Rote Raben Vilsbiburg 9 5 19:15 15
7 Ladies in Black Aachen 10 4 18:23 12
8 VC Wiesbaden 10 3 15:25 9
9 NawaRo Straubing 10 3 11:24 9
10 USC Münster 10 2 13:27 8
11 Schwarz-Weiß Erfurt 10 2 10:28 4
Suhl definitely exceeds expectations, whereas Münster for me is the biggest disappointment. In the long run I think Stuttgart, Schwerin, Dresden and Potsdam will once again be the top 4 teams, behind them Suhl, Vilsbiburg and Aachen seem to be fighting for 5th place and Wiesbaden, Straubing and Münster for 8th place.
This is just the now useless official ranking. When mathematically reacting to the big differences in played matches due to COVID-19 through dividing the match points by the number of matches played, the following more realistic result of order of the teams emerges:
1. Stuttgart 2.78
2. Dresden 2.33
3. Schwerin 2.25
4. Suhl 1.82
5. Potsdam 1.8
6. Vilsbiburg 1.67
7. Aachen 1.2
8. Wiesbaden 0.9 SR 0.6
9. Straubing 0.9 SR 0.46
10. Münster 0.8
11. Erfurt 0.4
i.e. Suhl is slightly overrated for the moment and closely followed by Potsdam. Vilsbiburg is far ahead of Aachen, which is also far ahead of the four last, who were performing really weakly overall so far.
Display MoreWiesbaden - Straubing 3:0 (21, 23, 23)
http://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2020-21/Women/2009.pdf
MVP: Frauke Neuhaus / Sophie Dreblow
Potsdam - Vilsbiburg 1:3 (14:25 20:25 25:20 23:25)
http://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2020-21/Women/2055.pdf
MVP: Lindsay Flory / Luisa Keller
Suhl - Erfurt 3:0 (23, 17, 20)
http://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2020-21/Women/2058.pdf
MVP: Vedrana Jaksetic / Madeline Palmer
Vilsbiburg played amazing serve-block-defense-counterattack complex in the first two sets. Potsdam once again played better with Flory than with Ana Tiemi but still lost again a bit surprisingly. They might develop a Bavaria trauma after the defeats against Straubing and Vilsbiburg
When I calculate mathematically reasonably point ratios instead of points in absolute (doesn't make any sense for me anymore with those high differences in played matches) Vilsbiburg is ahead of Potsdam and Suhl in the table, not behind, so this is no too big surprise.
Display MoreToday
19.00 Wiesbaden - Straubing
19.00 Potsdam - Vilsbiburg
19.00 Suhl - Erfurt
All on sporttotal.tv, but Potsdam will provide a professional broadcast with 4 cameras and slowmotion
All matches could be quite interesting and balanced.
At least in the Thuringia derby between Suhl and Erfurt this time Suhl is clear-cut favourite due to the performances in this season.
I think at the moment VakifBank is the only club in the world, which might pose a real threat to Conegliano.
I'm satisfied with Stuttgarts performance so far: two tie-break, one lost, one won, and forgive them being not constant - half the team suffered from Corona too not too many weeks ago, impacting their stamina and rhythm for sure. This is no normal CL competition.
However, Stuttgart won the first set - or Moscow lost it, so they keep annoying their superiour opponents.
The Ecztigers have no real bite so far...
Our team of Stuttgart knows, that it has no chance especially against Eczacibasi in Istanbul, but will try to use it anyway 
. Anything but last place in this pool of death D with two Russian teams too would be a great success for them.
I read the totally weird press release by Potsdam regarding their surprising defeat against Straubing: nobody assigned a realistic chance to Straubing before (quotes were 1:12 in favour of Potsdam, nothing unusual), so this was kind of sensation I think. Potsdam admitted, that they had a bad day at least, and that every match must be approached seriously in this league is just a commonplace.
Straubing found a new MB to replace Szaboova: Noemi Oiwoh from Austria. She's also very young (2001), but I watched her in Austrian NT some time ago and she looked very talented, I'm looking forward to watching her in Bundesliga!
Straubing sticks to the young talents approach - partly for sure, because it is cheaper.
Display MoreSuhl - Stuttgart 3:2 (25:19 20:25 22:25 25:21 15:9)
http://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2020-21/Women/2089.pdf
MVP: Danielle Harbin / Maria Segura
Stuttgart again without Krystal Rivers, there hasn't been any info about the reason of her absence in Stuttgart's press releases yet
Suhl could have won even clearer, they gave away big leads in 2nd and 3rd set and in the end of 3rd set also were unlucky with referee decisions. Overall it was a deserved win for them!
Claudia Steger made her 250th match for Suhl in Bundesliga today
She plays for them since 2009 without any break (except almost a whole season because of injury), this is something very seldom nowadays! And she still keeps improving, this season she's very valuable for the team again.
Very bad match by Stuttgart: aside from the middles they couldn't kill the ball and had weak reception. Clearly Rivers was missing in this match. That Suhl is better as in the last seasons was visible the whole season so far on the other hand.
WTF is going on this season??? We're not even at halftime and already 3 coaches were fired (well, Athanasapoulos quit on his incentive officially), all of them without obviously sufficient reasons
Aachen got decent results so far, so I guess Beijl must have been unprofessional in some way.
Yes, a relatively well four set defeat in Stuttgart is no reason for this.
This season is 19th season for Vakif in CEV CL, and now in that respect they share first place with Cannes.
They are already legend - when we hosted them in Stuttgart, it was a great honour for us, and as expected we had no chance at all against them.
Eric Reitsma, who was coaching with him, will take over head coach position for the moment.
Wtf...
Because of one bad game
I don't know details (yet), but there has to be more than this one disappointment, I think.
And Wiesbaden wins
Deserved too! Apart from 4th set they played really well with great fighting spirit. Surely it wasn't a good match from Schwerin, but still Wiesbaden deserves praise for that performance
The reception of Schwerin is still rather vulnerable, and the as we are used to strong serving team of Wiesbaden could make a lot out of it.
