Posts by Sebastian

6 players leaving Stuttgart:

Stautz: ‘The likelihood of me going to Suhl is very, very slim.’

Varela: To southern Europe (TR or IT)

Schaffmaster: Olympiakos Piräus

Mogensen: CSO Voluntari

De Paula: Likely to Fluminense

Martin: She had a lucrative offer last year but Stuttgart did not release her so according to Stuttgarter Zeitung everyone knew since then that it would be her last season in Stuttgart.

Everyone else will stay according to the paper.

They want to give their talents a chance next season:

Slacanin will be one of four OHs next season.

Jerkovic will be second setter after Kästner.

Source (Paywall):

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitun…90-bbf3-a57349576188.html

Sport1 is promoting today's match with "don't miss"... while showing darts instead of volleyball...

Despite the loss, Stuttgart just needs one more win for 1st place, they have home games against Wiesbaden and Münster next before going to Schwerin.

Both Suhl and Schwerin can reach Pos 2 without outside help if they win out , Suhl will play at Schwerin next, on Wednesday March 4th.

Dresden will likely end up behind Suhl now, but could still reach 3rd place if Schwerin loses one of their home games against either Suhl or Stuttgart.

With 4-5 matches left for the teams:

Stuttgart (48 pts) will almost certainly finish 1st

Suhl (37 after 15 matches), Schwerin(37 , 16 matches) and Dresden(31,15) are battling for pos. 2-4, Schwerin plays Suhl on March 4th in the most crucial match, both have a good chance to finish in 2nd place with a 3-point-win there, though Suhl could afford the loss if they win against Stuttgart on Feb 22nd. Dresden behind on points but with the easier schedule could still overtake them both if they win out.

Aachen and Münster competing for pos 5 and 6

Erfurt now the favourite for 7th place over Wiesbaden

It's game on in Stuttgart as they take the first set 25:23 against Gala after being behind the entire set

Stuttgart newspapers report that there are big plans in Flacht. They want to have some full-pro players next year and 11-13 pro players in two years. They plan to triple their current budget of 250.000€.

Source(paywall):

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.volleyball-bundesliga-blaubaeren-flacht-auf-dem-weg-zu-einem-team-aus-profis.eaacbe46-4b9d-4ec3-8f13-ce999c9199db.html

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Slacanin is injured according to the Stuttgart press (torn foot ligament). Expected to be back in February

The club just posted some information about the talents. Slacanin is already back in training with the team. Steinhilber is currently out with back problems , will be training individually for several weeks

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Stuttgart plays at home against one of the weak teams and neither Slacanin nor Steinhilber even is in the roster. It's a complete mystery to me

Slacanin is injured according to the Stuttgart press (torn foot ligament). Expected to be back in February

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And I remind, that Stuttgart could defeat several Italian and Turkish teams in the past in our own hall, while never winning abroad there. This makes an huge difference too.

Stuttgart's home matches in CL/CEV cup against Italian / Turkish teams:

25/26 THY 3:0

24/25 Scandicci 0:3

23/24 Fener 3:2 Conegliano 1:3

22/23 Fener 3:2 Novara 1:3

21/22 Busto 4:1 Ecza 1:3

19/20 Novara 3:1

18/19 Vakif 0:3 Novara 1:3

5 wins in 11 games, when Stuttgart lost the other team usually featured outstanding players like Antropova / Haak / Boskovic / Egonu / Zhu Ting...

If I'm not mistaken all away games were lost.

This season's results for comparison:

Stuttgart - Schwerin

25:15 25:16 25:19 (cup)

26:24 25:21 25:20 (league)

Stuttgart - Dresden

25:15 25:18 25:21

Quite a gap this season between Stuttgart and the rest of the league, totally unexpected after River's retirement.

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Also Brancuska with a very good game once again.

For Dresden (and German NT), Mette Pfeffer's development is a big pleasure as well. She scored "only" 3 blocks yesterday but is improving a lot in serve and attack. Also it looks like Rosemann has conquered the spot as 2nd starting MB for good, so Dresden now plays with two young and very talented German MBs all the time

I would love to see also Stuttgart developing their talents like Dresden does instead of overloading their roster with bench players every time

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2nd Cup Semifinal

Suhl - Dresden 3:2 (stats n/a yet)

MVP: Lara Nagels / Mette Pfeffer

So the Cup final will be Stuttgart vs Suhl I just hope it won't be too one-sided

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Stats: https://www.dvv-pokal.de/uploa…36-403b-bde1-8a783c83c998

Foley 19/26 , 73% in attack

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Sorry if this is sort of offtopic but i saw some debate on twitter/x about how to pronounce Straube's surname

is it

Strawbe - like Strawberry or Shtro-buh ? do you pronounce the E because right like you wouldn't pronounce the E in Porsche and it sounds like Uh... am I making sense

So how do you correctly pronounce her surname?

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The "e" in both Straube and Porsche is not really an "Uh" . It's more similiar to Italian "e" (and) or French "et"/""est"

In the Two and a half men episode where Alan buys a Porsche Charlie and Alan both get the pronunciation wrong😁

Stuttgart newspapers with a long article on the Flacht situation (paywall)

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitun…01-b0ef-2b8d2ed66ee8.html

Players lack the required physical strength, they will need to train harder which will be challenging for the players who are not full pros.

The manager is quoted saying:

"Wir müssen unser Umfeld darauf vorbereiten, das wir kein Spiel gewinnen, vielleicht ist mal ein Satzerfolg drin.“

(we have to prepare our environment, that we will win no match, maybe occasionally win a set)

Flacht's hall will be modernized, the town of Weissach has finally decided that they will spend 800.000€ on it (for improved fire safety and ventilation, so all users of the hall will benefit). This will allow up to 500 spectators.

https://www.tsv-flacht.de/inde…uf-halle-wird-ertuechtigt

They have also confirmed Britta Schammer staying on Insta (MB, has played in 2. BL for Stuttgart II , Ludwigsburg and Flacht)

Interestingly enough she only started playing volleyball seriously around the age of 18 and has played in 2.BL ever since (she's 28 now).

https://www.tsv-flacht.de/inde…rhofft-kommt-ziemlich-oft

Sparda Bank Baden-Württemberg will increase their engagement in Volleyball.

2nd league Pro will be called "Sparda 2. Bundesliga Pro" (weirdly enough none of the teams are in the area that this bank covers). There was a webcast about the partnership but it was very vague what they will do, the goal is to help clubs with development compensations (Ausbildungskostenerstattung http://www.vbl-wiki.de/wiki/Ausbildungskostenerstattung ) for young talents (but not pay the actual compensation)

Webcast:

StZ report (paywall):

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitun…7b-9780-4ca3f0fe6e35.html

Flacht have confirmed Frauke Neuhaus for the upcoming season.

According to their Insta, Büdenbender will stay in Flacht but transition to L (previously OH).

She had an ACL injury in Sept. 23 and missed a large part of the last two seasons.

Lea Finger (OH/Opp, played for VCO and USC Münster 2nd team) to Flacht

https://binderblaubaeren.de/wp…35255641721208_nfull.webp

Flacht has confirmed L Stäbler staying. In last year's thread I had posted a list of the players that I think will stay (i.e. the players that were not announced to leave)

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