Posts by voulter

    That's so long ago and she wasn't eleted to international tournaments then. Not very convinced of that. But I think she won't waste time on the bench of Imoco .

    She played on under competitions with the national team, it's not like there's been a lot of players of her generation on senior national team yet she's only 21

    Italy has a MB who is 204 cm and only 14 years old: Alice Pettiti - is she a promising prospect? https://women.volleybox.net/alice-pettiti-p239098

    Her team uploads all the home games on YouTube, if you're interested (just look for Volleyrò B2). She does get blocks because she's like a good 20/30 cm taller than pretty much everyone else but her movements are very goofy/uncoordinated from what i saw, which is understandable for a girl that young and that tall at her first "serious" season

    And tbh it's not like she's doing all that much outside of volleyball, comparing her to Sinner is particularly out there since he has so much more actually lucrative advertising contracts/sponsorships etc. (not that it's an issue with him either)

    Why did they hire Villani and then get rid of her? Scandicci's only success is that they brought Antropova in at a young age and gave her time and play. What's more, she probably wants to settle there for a longer period of time, because he bought an apartment in Florence. The problem is that Antropova can't win anything big with this club, which is so badly managed (she has already won the Cev Cup and Challenge Cup with them, but those are more like 2nd category tournaments).

    Villani wanted to leave, but anyway I'm definitely not defending Scandicci transfers lol

    Club - mem :wall:That's why they try to play with Mingardi... In the Champions League they will win the group but they won't go further than 1/4. In Serie A max is 1/2. How long is Antropova's contract signed for?

    They're using Mingardi cause they need the italians, they started using her even when Ruddins was still ok

    Isn't club Italia supposed to play one year at serie a and one year at second division? Did they abolish it or is it still happening?

    That changed a long time ago (last season Club Italia was in A1 was 18/19), they played just in A2 for a few years and now they're playing in B1 for a couple of seasons. Unless they bring up the age to 20/21 or so playing in A1 is out of the question, the league has gotten way better compared to what it was back then

    I wonder how true the rumour of LYY to Scandicci is. The Chinese league will end on 8/Mar next year, can Scandicci register a new player in mid March? They should already be in playoff phase by then. (I’ve the same question at the possibility of Arina being back to FB. Basically Tianjin & Shanghai are the two teams going to the final, meaning neither LYY nor Arina could leave China before March.)

    It's allowed only until the end of the regular season according to the rules, so yeah if the Chinese league ends that late it shouldn't be possible (unless there's something I'm missing)

    Also isn't Nervini already a Scandicci player?

    Potke has more than 15 seasons playing in Italy. I guess it depends on the number of years living in the country. It's not a naturalized player, but he has a double citizenship or something like that.

    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

    In male league, Marko Podrascanin was registered as an Italian to the league even though he played at the Paris Olympics as Serbian (so after rule change by FIVB) and I have no clue what was basis of that. Italian league (and other leagues obviously as well) will be in very tricky position now once sports federation and its change is prohibited as those rules (you're local only if you're formally eligible to play for NT now or in 2 years or you have sports nationality without citizenship like Antropova) are even more discriminatory towards 'formal' citizens than they were in the past, so maybe they'll be more liberal in assessing that? More discrimantory = as formally there's no option for 'naturalized' Italians like Podrascanin to get Italian sports nationality via FIVB. I mean, I know Podrascanin received his citizenship pre-FIVB change, but from legal standpoint he couldn't have changed his sports federation after Paris OG and yet for whatever reason he'll play as a local.

    Yeah i was thinking about Podrascanin aswell which was a weird case based on the current rules, so I'm not really sure how would it work, but Herbots herself said it's not going to happen on an iterview so who knows

    Not that it would be a solution, but I doubt Malinov would even be interested in going back to Scandicci tbh.


    At this point yeah, the best they could do would be trying to buy out a libero from another team, they should have done that this summer instead of getting Castillo but if they didn't think about it then (either that or getting Danesi or maybe even Chirichella instead of Carol) I doubt they will do much about it now.


    Gaspari will just rotate a bit more between Gennari/Graziani/Parrocchiale cause as usual he will do as he's told, they will get a 4th/barely scraped 3rd place on regular season and next summer it will be once again the usual transfer mess lol

    Some people on ig are saying that Scandicci were hoping to naturalize Herbots but it didn't work out? I never heard of that rumor, so not sure if it's a real thing or just BS.


    Still doesn't explain why they let Villani go to Novara and why they fired Antiga.

    The rumor was true, she's getting married soon to an italian so she should get citizenship and people were talking about that possibility, but with the rule change by FIVB I think they should have known already it was not possible? She was asked about it and pretty much confirmed it's not happening on the Rai interview after the Cuneo match