Posts by Hassan Kadem

  • 2026/2027 Transfer Rumors & Discussion ( Female)

    Quote from VBdiamond

    He was awful basically everywhere. Perugia, Piacenza...

    Yes and he has a terrible temperament anyone whose worked with him knows how chaotic and disorganized he can be throughout his career that's why it almost always ends in discord. He's not the worst but far from the top.


    I get why that user who is clearly biased says that, he is also revered by some locals because he's a role model nonno and in Italia no one questions nonnos lol

  • Italy - Serie A1 2026/27

    Quote from alvaro

    I skimmed through the article and I still don't get how they will get their own players involved? and what about those who are on the bench lol

    I doubt anyone knows yet but if I have to guess it's probably a collaboration among clubs and the players like on IG there's an original uploader and they can just add the players in the video or something like that. I mean, there are plenty of players who don't have that many followers to be posting every weekend:gone:

  • Italy - Serie A1 2026/27

    Quote from Helios

    LVF and Legavolley are two separate leagues. They sell the broadcasting rights on their own.


    I guess the conditions and terms from VBTV are satisfied by the men's league but not by the women's. The men's league has renewed with VBTV for multiple years.

    Viewership for women's matches this season far exceeds the men's actually so this is also a huge loss for VBTV.


    But ever since Nicole Junkermann entered the picture, LVF's directors including their consultants ION group by Pignataro have opted to follow a more social media trendy approach hence the partnership with Gameday and Spike Media.


    I'm not 100% sure how players will integrate into putting forth content but they will play a huge part of it just like in LOVB.

  • Italy Women's NT 2026

    Quote from Colinaddicted

    I think Caruso and the coach did the right choice of switching her to OH.

    She is not comfortable hitting from the right side, low efficiency in lots of matches.


    Interestingly she shared some passing responsibility when playing as Opp in the NT which is very rare in Italian NT case.

    She has the height and heave arm, OH might be good for her.

    Her reception is unstable. We'll have to see how she handles that moving forward but yes I didn't think she stood out as opp.

  • 2026 Women's VNL

    Quote from Colinaddicted

    So far this week cambi is terrible at setting to every position, creating chaos every time she is subbed in.

    Would love to see Eze playing, even for one week.

    I agree. Unfortunately for Eze it seems the timing of her recovery period lasted as long as the first 2 VNL legs. I doubt Velasco had her in mind at all. I was also hoping we would see her here but "experiment" phase is over so Velasco was not willing to gamble.

  • Germany NT 2026

    Quote from Matthias

    Interesting interview with Sarah Straube.


    Finally she talks about her return to Dresden: she didn't enjoy playing in Italy very much, the coach didn't speak English at all and she didn't like the city either because in summer it was full of tourists and in winter completely empty, so she didn't find many contacts. She never played volleyball for money and it's important for her to feel mentally well, so she chose to return to Dresden where she knows the club, the coach and the city plus her boyfriend lives there. She doesn't like to plan long-term, so it's completely open where she will play the season after, it's not excluded that she'll return to Italy at some point.

    Not sure what she was expecting. Cervia is a beach town so obviously it's a tourist destination. She could've done a little research lol. I don't know why she didn't get in contact with her teammates they were all hanging out during the holidays in Italy. Alsmeier Weitzel Weske even Jatzko who was in Roma.


    Conclusion homesickness. It's probably best she stays in Germany.

  • 2026 Women's VNL

    It was Antropova's decision to stop not Velasco's. After all she made it perfectly clear in another interview when they were in Brazil that she isn't comfortable playing as OH and Velasco will test her as long as she's down for it.

  • Setter players, but are they all bad?

    Ok but who is saying this "Straube, Seki, Van Aalen (and almost all the others) all terrible?" What category are you basing these bad setters from?


    All three had a good club season playing for mid to bottom teams not to mention it was Straube's first time in Italy playing for a newly promoted team where they had a grandma playing. I'd like to see your best setter Cansu play for San Giovanni and not have it relegated.