It's interesting. On the VNL website, Tabacucks' nationality is France, not Germany.
On the CEV website in the list of Le Cannet, her nationality is Germany.
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And Chirichella should simply announce the end of her career in NT and that's it.
She has. After declining the invitation for joining NT, she mentioned that her NT career has finished during the interview.
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Isnt Alsmeier a Conegliano player that was loaned to Novara?
It was said that she signed a 3-year contract with Conegliano and then was loaned to Firenze last season. I think she was also on loan in Novara this season, just like Fersino.
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Cambi to Novara and Bosio to Scandicci... Big move from Scandicci.
Bernardi finally achieves what he wanted last year......He simply doesn't like Boiso, since the beginning
Novara indeed needs a better setter, but is Cambi the right choice? I doubt that. There are other better options. I just don't understand why Bernardi insists getting Cambi.
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The Italian men's and women's league are fully market-oriented. Men's volleyball is more popular than women's. The average salary is also higher.
The spectator numbers for season 2023-2024
A1 men (12 teams): 550,000 in total, 2,902 per match (https://www.sportefinanza.it/2…volley-budget/?refresh_ce)
A1 women (14 teams): 427,583 in total (https://www.volleynews.it/dal-…di-una-stagione-stellare/)
The spectator numbers for matches on 26th December, 2024 (https://www.volleynews.it/il-2…atori-tra-superlega-e-a1/)
A1 men (6 matches): 20,681 in total, 3,447 per match
A1 women (7 matches): 17,042 in total, 2,434 per match
The spectator numbers clearly showed that men's volleyball is more popular. The budget is also higher on the men's side. The total budget for 12 teams in 2023-2024 season was close to 60 million euros (mentioned in the link above). The total spend for 14 teams in women's A1 league was about 45 million euros (https://www.sportefinanza.it/2…e-giro-affari/?refresh_ce)
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Lazareva is choosing between Turkish and Italian club. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is between Novara and THY or Galatasaray. Club in Italy who can join the fight is Megabox.
The new contract signed between Akimova and Novara was 1+1. The option for 25/26 season is a much better choice for Novara than Lazareva.
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Alsmeier was not supposed to be starter in Novara this season.
Tolok-Ishikawa will be the starting duo OH for Novara as soon as Akimova is ready to play.
Alsmeier was signed as a bench player.
Orthmann supposed to be the starting OH. Even though she just recovered from a severe injury and hasn't played for a long time, she should have gotten court time. However, in the end, she barely played and chose to left.
The way that Bernardi manages the bench is very questionable. Villani and Mazzaro should get more court time as well. He just doesn't trust them.
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Balaso won MVP of the Coppa Italia. Well deserved.
The players that had consistent good performance on Lube side across the court time were Balaso and Nikolov. He also did a good job as the captain and the veteran of the team.
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Novara needs a better setter for next season. The reason is not that Bernardi doesn't like her. It's because she is just not a top level setter.
Bosio's level has dropped a lot this season. She wasn't selected for Paris because her incompetent performance during VNL. However, her performance during this club season makes her chance at the NT becomes even slimmer.
I did criticize Hancock a lot. But to be honest, Hancock is better than Bosio.
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Bernardi is very disappointing. The loss to Cuneo and Perugia could have been avoided.
Novara's roaster wasn't bad at all. Even though they were facing injury issues, their bench was able to cover all the positions. However, he just doesn't give opportunity to some players at all. Especially the OH lineup, he has been relying on Alsmeier-Ishikawa for almost all the time. Orthmann left, and Villani hasn't get much court time. Are they not good enough? Not at all. On the MB side, the 4th MB Mazzaro could have been starting MB in middle and lower level clubs. But she barely get rotating chances.
He brought his old habit in the men's volleyball to Novara. Now Novara suffers.
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just wow.
even Zhu is not paid that much (I think).
I wonder how much Plummer is making over there.
The Italian clubs are not paying as high as the top 3 clubs in Turkey.
Sources mentioned that Zhu's salary is less than 500k. Gabi and Haak are both earning more than her. One of the club owner/manager said Conegliano doesn't have any player earning more than 1 million euros during a interview in response to Bernardi's words.
I guess the only player earning 1 million euros or more per season in Italian league is Egonu.
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there is nothing wrong with Bosio... Bernardi simply doesn't like her: the rumor has been going around since last year... On the other hand, she is not a player who he wanted: she was Lavarini's choice and that's why the rumors of a Bosio-Orro exchange can be real...
It's true, Bernardi simply doesn't like Bosio. There was rumor last year that Bernardi wanted to replace Bosio with Cambi for 24/25 season. However, the club didn't like the idea, because Cambi wasn't in the club's plan at all. The club in the end extended the contract with Bosio for one more year until 25/26 season, shutting down the idea of bringing Cambi back for 24/25 season.
Bernardi has his obvious preferences. He didn't like Chirichella as well. Once Bonifasio recovered from the accidental finger injury last season, Chirichella started to seat on the bench all the time, which leads to her leaving Novara after playing 10 concective seasons.
The newest example is Orthmann. The club wanted her to be the starting OH, even waited for one year after her injury during ECH2023. However, Bernardi didn't even give her chances. In the end, she left in the middle of the season.
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Monza now ranks the last in the league. The roster indeed downgraded from last year, but shouldn't performing so badly.
The biggest issue comes from the OH lineup, especially reception. Moreover, Fernando's setting didn't adapt to the new team system. The bad reception amplifies the lack of precision in Fernando's setting.
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The website iVolleyMagazine.it reports that Igor Novara is looking for an OH to give the two starters a breather, waiting to bring Tolok back to place 4 as soon as Akimova returns...
Again, according to the source cited by the site, the Madi Skinner track is unclear at what point it is...
So, at this point, Villani would seem out of the Team's and Bernardi's thoughts...
Is she going away? Does she remain to do the fourth designated OH?
I don't understand why Bernardi doesn't even give Orthmann an opportunity. She hasn't fully recovered, or simply the coach doesn't believe in her? The OH lineup of Orthmann + Villani isn't bad at all.
The club waited for Orthmann for one year, but the coach doesn't even give her court time. It seems that the club and the coach are not in line at all. It seems Bernardi has preferences. If a player doesn't fit into his requirement, then this player will be benched all the time, unless someone else is performing badly. The old example was Cristina Chirichella. After Bonifacio backed to court last season, Chirichella became a bench player for the rest of the season. In the end, she left Novara where she had stayed for 10 years.
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I doubt any player in the German Bundesliga makes 200k in an entire season, it would surprise me a lot. In general the best players make like 50-60k per year in Bundesliga. Some teams have like 500k budgets and then like 200k is reserved for salaries for an entire squad. And the same goes for the French League, hardly any player makes in excess of 200k per season there.
I believe Krystal Rivers makes a good salary. However, I don't know how high it is. Maybe StefanS can answer it.
Schwerin and Stuttgart have good financial status. Their budget should be larger than 2 millions.
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Boninfante is just 20 years old. I can understand if he has inconsistent performance.
Bottolo is already 24 years old. His performance is like rollercoaster. When it's going down, everything sinks, attacking, reception, defense......
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I thought the weakest link in Lube would be Boninfante, but it turned out to be Bottolo. No reception and defense, mediocre attack and serve. Moreover, there are always silly mistakes from him.
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Nope - in the past, to change your 'nationality' you had to change your sports federation that was directly related to NT eligibility. In other words, Stankovic or Sole are in fact eligible to play for Italian NT, but they won't as they changed their federation for league purposes. But from legal standpoint, there's no difference between Sole, Kooy or Rychlicki, they all went through the same process.
I didn’t mention Kooy and Rychlicki because they had the intention to play for NT. Kooy was eligible because by the time he changed federation, he fulfilled the requirement. However, there used to be the rule only one naturalized player allowed in the NT, and it had been taken by Juantorena. So Kooy didn’t have the chance. Rychlicki is on the way, but not yet eligible. I’m not sure the current rule, but it seems it will work.
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For some leagues, if a player is granted with this country’s passport, he or she can be counted as a local player. However, for Italian league, passport is not enough. To play as an Italian player in the league, they need to get an Italian passport and change Federation.
Changing federation means they cannot play for their mother country’s NT anymore. So players change their sports nationality after they retire from their previous NTs to play as Italian players in the League. The examples in men’s league are Solé(Perugia), Stankovic (Modena), Podrascanin (Civitanova). Podrascanin could only start to play from 4th round due to delayed registration, which was caused by changing Federation after the Olympics (I believe that the process started earlier in the summer but paused because Serbia got the last Olympic spot. The rumor started circulating much earlier, during the VNL time)
Moreover, changing federation is different from changing NT. Non of these players are eligible to play for the Italian NT. They just want to acquire local player identity to play for the league. FIVB doesn’t prohibit it.
Some players hold Italian passport but don’t change federation to play for their NT, like Brazilians Bruno and Rosamaria. There used to be a rule that these players can be counted as EU players. I’m not sure if there is still non-EU player limit.
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It's two different issues though, he has italian citizenship cause he lived here since forever so he could get it, but by current FIVB rules he shouldn't be allowed to change federation cause he already played for a different senior national team. That's what's unclear, how did he get the change approved
He changed Federation to play as a local player at Italian League. However, he is not eligible to play for Italian NT.