Posts by AndreC

With Arina and Voronkova playing on this level and Goncharova also with great perfomances in Russian League, it's such a shame they can't represent Russia on NT tournaments

Sheilla giving Brazil's medals

Quote from KVB

Boskovic - Back to back World Championship MVP

Only Regla Torres have achieved that before, right?

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no Busa???!!! no Stevanovic??? or maybe it's because of the #of total blocks?

I think that's the only explanation

Lonneke

Congratulations, Serbia! You played great the whole tournament and deserves it! Boskovic MVP one more time . Brazil, you did great, but this team really needs to learn how to play a final match. 0-3 in the Olympic final, 0-3 in the VNL final and now another sweep. You can lose, of course, but playing far from your best everytime is weird.

I hope Zé keeps Roberta for the 3rd set. I still think there's more room for improvement on Brazil's side. Serbia is making many mistakes because they play this way, forcing their serves, and this contributes a lot to their blocking party so far.

Great 1st set, Serbia did great, but I see more room for improvement on Brazil's side. Gabi didn't play her best, Macris didn't envolve Gattaz on the match yet. Nice set by Nyeme

Gabi and Carol, you are phenomenal! Zé Roberto, I don't have words for you. But someone I feel I really should praise right now is Carol Gattaz. Going for her 3rd WCH final, for the 1st time as a starter at 41 years old and playing GREAT and always clutch. On the VNL final against Italy, I think it was pretty clear the importance Gattaz has to this team, since the rotations with Julia K. on the net were the ones Brazil suffered a bit. Gattaz might not be a great blocker (even though her block on Lubian today when it was 24x24 was something out of this world), but her greatness in the slide attack can't be underestimated, especially in a team that doesn't have a well defined opposite starter and played many games with Tainara, who was clearly didn't have the best connection with Macris to do some balls from the back row. Proud of you, Gattaz. Proud of the whole team of Brazil!

Rosamaria has been doing great in defense since Japan's match

I think if the quarterfinals were just like in the Olympics, with the 2 groups crossing, Japan would've had advanced to the SFs and we would be watching a better match than this one.

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japan please i hope you learned from that semi final in 2010

What a historic match. But I hope they didn't

It looks like Brazil is surprised with Ishikawa's and Japan's good serves. Didn't they learn anything from the 1st game?

Brazil should play with Darlan instead of Wallace, and Flavio also has to improve his performance

Everytime I decide to support Italy, I regret, they simply don't like to win. I hope they prove me I'm wrong.

On the other side, France is far from convincing me, I think they are far from playing what they can, even though they are 1 set away from the semi-finals.

Nyeme, I always liked you, but you're now my favorite!

They're winning, but I don't see Vakif playing that well, especially Cansu, who has ruined Vakif chances of killing more than one free ball sent from Fener with some imprecisive sets

Cansu, what's wrong with you???

Cansu starting this 5th set doing exactly what didn't work through the match: Haakball

VakifBank is not dead till it's definitely over. Not my favorite team, but impossible not to admire the fight spirit this team has.