At least great atmosphere in Kaliningrad, not always in Russia - and as usual, don't mess with the Russian middles... Koroleva and Fetisova are very, very strong...
Posts by StefanS
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Both teams now just 4 points away from Tokyo.
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Fetisova is now blocking machine, doing everything right and winning the set for Russia.
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That european qualification tournament will be very hard for every team. Probably in the middle of the club season.
It will be at begin of January, in the midth of club season indeed - and the participants and setting will be dependent of European Championship carried out later this month... and as always, this qualifier will be hard for the remaining not qualified best European teams and kind of mission impossible for all others...
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s. american spot could go to ARG but lately COL has been doing well too. they finished higher in the recent pan am cup (3rd, behind US & DOM). they beat ARG 3-0 in QF.
Peru is also not bad.
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That block of Zhu on Hanke must have been pretty depressing
Zhu Ting is a lot taller than Hanke, this is not meeting on the same height in any regard...
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I heard that Schwerin will have one more libero probably from USA.
Okay, this is the approach better safe than sorry of course.
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I think Lippmann is tired from playing way too many matches as main attacker at last. But anyway, it was clear, that the overall quality of Turkey is considerably higher than of Germany, so the four set win is kind of logical consequence.
For Germany the tragedy continues: it's long ago, that they could qualify for Olympics, and now effectively out of contention in this world qualifier they will face a more than hard time in the remaining European qualifier, which is by far the hardest of all continental qualifiers. And there will be likely at least Netherlands or Italy and likely Turkey again in contention, so German teams chances are rather dim.
Even Asian qualifier is much more easy, not to mention the other three, which are near or real jokes.
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Germany now already close of going out of race to Olympics (but they will have another small chance in European qualifer), no surprise at all.
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I love Germany's fighting spirit, they never give up. But they lack everything else you need in order to win!
Only when the best German roster is available and all players are in good shape they can threat Turkey - and Orthmann not capable of playing is one major drawback of course, more then Lenka Dürr, who finished NT career already before this tournament.
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Oh dear....she's just 19
Unusual timing of course - let's wait, how she will react after birth regarding career.
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I heard that they want some German options but no one from Germany want go to this small city
and maybe is not only city?? we will see about quality of Victoria.With Vilsbiburg we have a city in the league, which is much smaller than even Suhl. But of course both are countryside, so it is not for the players who like big cities with many offers of any kind...
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From NLB - hopefully she has the required quality?
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http://www.legavolleyfemminile.it/?p=104068
Planning of the season came out today. It's going to start on the weekend of 12/13 October, and it's ending with just one final game (so not best out of 5 games) in the 9th or 10th of May. Awful if you ask me lol.
Sounds like they want to make the championship more risky for title defenders Imoco Conegliano - as it was many years in France, when Cannes respective Tours were too dominant.
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It should start in late October.
Maybe a little earlier, because EC is relatively early this year.
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The schedule for the league round was finally published:
https://www.volleyball-bundesl…l#samsCmsComponent_226296
The first three top matches will be on 12. October Stuttgart vs. Dresden, 20. November Dresden vs. Schwerin and 21. December Stuttgart vs. Schwerin.
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There are some leagues special to CEV - so Italy/Busto Arsizio got an upgrade offending the CEV rules, I think. If you are not from the special leagues (Turkey and Russia being the others), you will never get such an upgrade, and I guess Beylikdüzü is not important enough for CEV to get a higher cup competition (the force in Turkey is with the well-known four Istanbul clubs, always getting the first four places in the championship).
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In Champions league Conegliano will be called Carraro Imoco. Antonio Carraro is a title sponsor of Conegliano volley and producers of tractors.
That's not allowed in European Cups, the city name has to be always in the official name (despite I don't like CEV, this rule is correct IMHO), so we get a rather long (at the limit) name A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO.
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Display MoreLink for VakifBank - Eczacibasi Vitra
Youth level finale.
1-0 for VB.
Derya Çebecioglu is playing for VB and Merve Atlier for Ecz f.e.
Like in Vestel Venus Sultan league: at the end VakifBank wins
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So not unexpected Minsk/Belorus was the only team eligible to participate in pool stage not registering for it and Salo/Finland inherited this berth.
The qualification teams are mostly very weak IMHO (no top league teams are anymore eligible for it!), only Olomouc/CZE and Vasas BUDAPEST/HUN can be expected to be not extremely weak and I consider them as favourites to qualify. If Khimik Yuzhny from Ukraine manages to get a reasonable team constructed, they may pose a threat to these two anyway.