Posts by Jeniawithlove

Quote from Shinya

Yes, but from A Team to B Team. B Team have just Asian Games to compete. A Team play VNL, Asian Championships and OQT.

From first Press Conference (April 7, 2023), the Activity plan, Nambu Masashi (Chairman of the Men's Strengthening Committee) said he want high experiences players to bring the power of new gen players, gives his own experiences for them to grow up in international level. The Plan is training the athletes who can play an active role at the next Los Angeles 2028, so they have to strengthen and develop the team at the same time. (Target athletes for Los Angeles 2028)

For A team seems like he was not in the plan, base on his stat from V-League, especially his block percentage, it's too low.

He is not from Team A to Team B. He is from Team A → Being Kicked Out → Team B.

Why do you deliberately ignore that he was kicked out of the national team?

He was the captain of team A, then was kicked out of the national team and didn't participate in the Olympic game. Philippe Blain openly criticized that his recpetion isn't good enough to be in national team. Then this year he got back to national team and becomes the captain of team B. Clearly, he was promoted back to the national team, not demoted.

Quote from Pancake

do you not understand what a demotion means?

Quote from Playmaker

How is it not? he's playing for the B team not with Ishikawa Ran Nishida Miyaura where the real action is. Stop lying to yourself

From being not in the national team to back to national team is a demotion? You guys are so funny.

Quote from Genius of the Sky

if i am not mistaken he was invited back this year

And it's not a demotion.

Quote from Phoenix

Didn't Yanagida get demoted to the men's B team?

You meant Masahiro Yanagida? Demoted? He was dropped from the national team before the Tokyo Olympics.

Quote from denzz

Anderson is leaving Russia and they are trying not to pay the compensation by using a FIFA rule.

More details in the link

https://m.sport.business-gazeta.ru/article/286442

Clubs looking to sign American players should take note. First Taylor Sander, Micah Maʻa, now Matthew Anderson. American volleyball players don't honor their promises.

Great that we won't see China again in the VNL.

Quote from brahmin

I mean you have to fill out the paperwork. Per US State Department, have to apply through Switzerland or Austria.

This is the second time that Iranians submitted documents. This situation had been lasted for one month. It's not like that they didn't know how to apply visa.

Meisam Salehi is so charming!

Quote from Phil

I know right, if people insist on allowing friendly matches to be able to gain world ranking points just like what football does, the system will be gamed. That's full of crap when the FIVB can easily control the K. Hahahahahaha!

That's how many world raning points your earn by winning an annual continental tournament.

Quote from serdar

Avc team would most likely be Australia or Korea, right?

Maybe Taiwan. Taiwan is the host nation for the AVC Challenge Cup.

I don't think Australia would send its strongest liun-up. I mean Lincoln Williams said he won't play for AUS this summer. Also, Australia won't participate in the Asian Championship this year, which should be the most important tournament for them since AUS didn't qualify for the Olympic qualifiers.

Quote from voulter

they're qualified to 2024 Challenger, not 2023

Oh, yes. Thanks for pointing that out. It's so wired. Mexico won this year and got to play next year.

Quote from Phil

Tunisia

Chile

Dom Rep

Team from AVC (Asia/Oceania)

Team relegated from VNL

What happened to Mexico? Did they withdraw?

Mexico qualifies to the 2024 FIVB Challenger Cup

Some crazy Iranians went to Ebadipourt's INS and told him that he has to be in the national team. Come on, crazy people, he just became a father for the first time in his life. Give Ebadipour a break.

Poor France. This match vs. Brazil is very important to thme to qualify to the finals. They just lost.

To be honest, Mousavi has passed his peak. If Iran isn't sending the best team to USA in week 3, Coach Ataei should just test all young squad. Iran is full of young potential players.

Quote from Colinaddicted

Herrera ended the tie-break and won the match for Cuba by serving 2 consecutive ace in the end

That shows reception is fundamental skill in Volleyball.

The fight for staying in the VNL is not over yet. If Iran can't send their best roster to the USA in week 3, Cuba and Bulgaria really have a chance to win against Iran. Also, considering the situation of Germany, both teams have chance to beat Germany too.

In week 3, Canada and China will face each other in the last match. It would be a deciding match for the last place as well.

Quote from mosi

I wasn't expecting more from this team with this dumb coach but 2 W and 6L is indeed terrible. and now people are realizing this guy sucks and it's still too early to trust a local coach to handle the NT. with some minor changes Iran could take more wins and lose less ranking points but not with this guy

but there is a good chance Iran's results in the next week won't be counted toward the ranking (because the team will be somehow incomplete). apparently IRIVF and FIVB reached an agreement (at least that's what IRIVF claims, yet to see the confirmation from FIVB) that Iran will send the team to USA under this condition. (IRIVF was about to boycott the last week for the reason everybody knows)

considering the poor performance so far, that would be blessing in disguise not losing more ranking points but who knows without this so-called "coach" we might end up winning some matches and regret this settlement

At lease, Iran got to practise young players.

The top five most viewed Volleyball World highlights on YouTube (updates: June 23)

The first Week 2 video into the chart is the insane match Japan vs Brazil.