Display MoreArgentina men’s volleyball team under fire for ‘slant-eyed’ gesture during celebratory group photo shot.
https://www.scmp.com/sport/oth…r-fire-slant-eyed-gesture
As they should be. How anyone is this dumb in 2019 is beyond me. How hard is it just to not make a racist gesture.
Very winnable game for Canada, they really dropped the ball there
So Mazzone is out, still no Cester
The chances of Italy missing OGs are getting higher and higher.
neither is as big as serbia missing podrascanin though
yeah soft is the best word to describe Yali. he is good because of his height but I don't think he improves much. he is not even such an important player for his club in the local league. there are better opposites in the league but Kolakovic picked him probably only because of his age. if Mahmoudi is in shape, Yali will lose his spot as second OPP.
btw that was a very good result for Iranian volleyball. but I didn't like the idea of using Hazratpour for example in this tournament. he was already exhausted after the VNL and there are still lots of tournaments this summer ahead of him.
I think if anyone is capable of playing a lot of volleyball games in one summer, it is a 20-year-old libero.
Russia's U21 Opp, Sapozkhov is very promising. Very tall too at 210cm
Someone was telling me he might be even taller than that. Like 213/14
Bahrain getting through to the second round while Poland, Cuba, and Canada compete for 9th at best is so frustrating.
Is this being streamed/televised anywhere?
with this roaster they will lose against brazil and iran i think very easily...
Brazil yes but I think that roster has a shot at beating Iran
Display MoreLooks like US sent none of their top players and instead sent their B and C squad players to the next round.
MB: Taylor Averill, George Huhmann, Price Jarman, Jeff Jendryk
OH: Torey DeFalco, Thomas Jaeschke, Jake Langlois, Garrett Muagututia
OPP: Ben Patch, Kyle Russell
S: Micah Ma’a, Josh Tuaniga
L: Kyle Dagostino, Dustin Watten
Makes sense, all the starters can just hang out in Chicago and train for two weeks. Surprised at no Stahl though
It should be Kyle Ensing. There're some hints in that video. He's a new guy in NT, and NCAA champion this year (Long Beach).
Averill is not the new guy. He's been with NT for a while, and he's a starter MB in some games during WCH 2018.
Also Averill has already signed with Olsztyn in Poland. Wonder if Patch will have to battle Ensing for the starting spot like Kyle Russell last season.
Tsvetan Sokolov (OPP), Zemchenok (OPP), F. Voronkov (OH), Valentin Golubev (L) in Zenit Kazan
So Golubev is the Verbov replacement. Probably the most obvious choice, but still a big downgrade.
Man how ballsy with Grbic have to be to start Todorovic over Jovovic in the rest of the competitions this summer.
The ball didn't got through, right? it was supposed to be Iran's point. The net touched happened after the 4th touch,
And Marouf is being rude once again. What else is new.
It looked like marouf grabbed onto the net while the ball was still live. Can't believe Portugal got a red card and not Iran. Shameful reffing.
Display MoreUSA Roster CHICAGO
S(2): Micah Christenson, Micah Ma’a
OPP(2): Matt Anderson, Ben Patch
OH(4): Taylor Sander (C), Thomas Jaeschke, TJ DeFalco, Garrett Muagututia
MB(4): Max Holt, David Smith, Taylor Averill, Jeff Jendryk
L(2): Erik Shoji, Larry Tuileta
Excited to see Jasechke coming back after the long rehab! Hoping for a 100% recocery!
And seeing Micah Maa as back up setter is a great news! ( not for shoji tho)
Damn Speraw really taking Muagututia over Langlois every week. Hope we see Ma'a at outside a bit
Canada about to throw a game to Serbia's B team, yeesh. I have yet to be convinced by them this VNL.
Also I hope Vucicevic manages to grab a spot as Atanasijevic's backup in the near future because god I wouldn't mind watching him whenever I can.
41 errors to 19 of Serbia sheesh. One of the worst games I've seen this group play. Canada is very talented but they won't make final 6 if they keep throwing up stinkers like this and the Bulgaria match.
Lol group D is absolutely stacked compared to the others
Canada roster for week 2:
T.J. Sanders, London, ON
Gordon Perrin, Creston, BC (Team Captain)
Steven Marshall, Abbotsford, BC
Nicholas Hoag, Sherbrooke, QC
Justin Duff, Winnipeg, MB
Stephen Maar, Aurora, ON
Jason DeRocco, Winnipeg, MB
Sharone Vernon-Evans, Scarborough, ON
Lucas VanBerkel, Edmonton, AB
Ryan Sclater, Port Coquitlam, BC
Graham Vigrass, Calgary, AB
Blair Bann, Edmonton, AB
Arthur Szwarc, Toronto, ON
Brett Walsh, Calgary, AB
Guess they are looking to sweep at home as this is probably the guys they will send to the Olympic Qualifiers (maybe jay instead of walsh & vandoorn instead of duff)
Display Morenews about roster?
Italy roster
Setter: Riccardo Sbertoli, Simone Giannelli
Opposite: Gabriele Nelli, Giulio Pinali
Spiker: Daniele Lavia, Giacomo Raffaelli, Oreste Cavuto, Oleg Antonov
middle central: Alberto Polo, Roberto Russo, Simone Anzani, Davide Candellaro
Libero: Fabio Balaso, Nicola Pesaresi
I guess they really want Giannelli to develop a connection with the new generation of players
I mean Ghafour could have been signed to be the backup for Rychlicki
I also had to intervene when you guys mentioned the experiment with Ma'a. They tried something similar with Daniel McDonell already last year when he was converted from MB to OH. Well, it wasn't really a tactical trick but I guess they just have a bunch of universal players. Ma'a played quite normally as OH and didn't do bad at all. Although obivously, apart from the second set when he scored 6 points, he wasn't trusted that much by the setter Tuaniga and was there mostly for the service and the reception. Still, I didn't know Ma'a is a universal player. This is not common in modern volleyball and impressed me a lot.
McDonnell just played OH out of sheer desperation though for a brief time. Ma'a legitimately can play OH and did so for a lot of the college season.
