Posts by VolleyOrange

Celeste Plak appeared in a podcast a couple of days ago. Some highlights:

- Things she want to improve in her game; to be able to hit more (sharper) angels and improve blocking skills. And to enjoy the game more. And to improve her tipping game, not just smashing the balls through the court

- Plak said she was more close to quiting the game than pursuing her career, but talking with a sport psychologist helped a lot

- She doesn't know what her new role in NT will be like after Lonny's departure. Previously it was being a substitute energy bomb when needed, now she needs to find out again what her role on the court will be

- One of the reasons she loves to play again is that she plays a new position now. She received a lot of critics on her passing, but is glad she doesn't have to do it anymore and for example her trainings look different too now

- Several "smaller" things led her to take a break. One of the first moments she remembers is when she won CL final. Everyone was extremely happy and she stood there on the podium without a feeling. Of course smiling for the camera but deep inside she felt nothing. Tokyo Qualification Tournament pulled the trigger. After that she was completely done with everything

- She's very positive about her future and the team

- Big goal is to qualify for Paris '24. But it's gonna be very hard

- She tells about the voluntary charity work she is doing for young girls

My overal impression: Celeste grew a lot as a person and is now fully motivated to shine again. She has such a nice personality and I hope she will be amazing again this season and in the future. She deserves the best

So both women and men teams win EuroVolley. I'm happy for them

Great and very exciting match with a lot of long rallies, well done Slovenia and Italy

I'm also patiently waiting to see the drama

I'm sorry but those skirts

Quote from Umu11

Was she in Italy to join Kelsey’s wedding? Kelsey asked her to be her bridesmaid but that was before covid.

I think she was. I couldn't see her in the pictures so far, but I recognized her bf

Quote from WZP

Why Fabian Plak has to leave Dutch NT? He broke some rules but what rules?

It's because he broke rules related to covid. Nimir talking about it (in Dutch): https://nos.nl/video/2397682-a…e-spelersgroep-over-gehad

About the Douglas situation

https://worldofvolley.com/late…jnMq6BtxOHPoAsd0LsW5KPBKg

Amsterdam/The Netherlands showing themselves from the most bad side once again

Maja Ognjenovic and Itziar Ituno, the actress who is Raquel Murillo in La Casa de Papel. I can't unsee it while watching series 5

Dream Team is one big joke. It gives us just one insight; Turkish fans are the most active online members. Kudos to them

But CEV please get rid of this pathetic "poll" and give is normal dream team

Quote from KVB

As a fan of Rasic, I feel sad that her final year in NT is such a big flop that I really didn’t expect it to be coming

I'm sorry but her final year in NT is not a big flop

3rd place in Olympics and 2nd in EuroVolley despite all those other very competitive teams are well valued medals which she an the team can be very proud of

Congratz to Italy! Besides the last set I really enjoyed the level of the match, but it's hard to watch Serbia like that. Boskovic deserved to be the winner but she just couldn't anymore in the last part of the game. Maja was once again sublime tonight. But I have never seen this generation of Italy playing this good, literally everything worked for them in the last 2 sets

(I don't wanna be salty but do yall remember the last Olympics? )

Jk, congrats to Italy, Serbia and Turkey!

It's been a long time that we've seen Italy playing this good

S. Popovic found her old self and is doing amazing up to now

Boskovic and Maja were great but Lazovic stole my heart

What a performance under high pressure

No one:

Me who tuned in at 30-30 in the 1st set:

They got 4th place in the U20 tournament this summer, which is a very good achievement. I think it now all depends on the development of the individual players who indeed have potential! It's a good team for sure

I'm excited for the NED-ITA match for tonight

I think they key for the Dutch will be in the opposite and MB position. The setters/OH/libero position performed pretty good this tournament so far. In this match it really depends on if MB duo will be able to stop or slow down Egonu. And even more important the amount of fire power coming from the OPP. Dambrink is offensively not a player yet to rely on, which is okay because she's 18. For Plak I don't really know wh⁹at to think. She either is not as powerful as before, or she changed her attack approach, because it just looks different than the 2018 version of her to me.

Italy isn't stable this summer but their match against Russia was great, so that scares me a bit

Anyway, with this young team the Netherlands already exceeded my expectations and the match is gonna be valuable whatever the result will be. Hoping for a competitive match tonight