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I can't see her transferring since she's Okayama's poster girl and she will forever be associated with that team whether she likes it or not. So the way I see it either she rots in Okayama and continue playing until she's 50 and retire when nobody knows her anymore or retire during this Olympic cycle and still be remembered as one of the most promising setters that came from the current NT coach. There's no way Okayama is climbing top 5 any time soon

Nishimura retired from active duty and came back as the best new libero at Saga. Miyashita could've made that slip too. Momii is leaving JT. Miyashita could've gone there JS

Not Miyashita retiring oh my god I thought we were done with these news. That clown Kawamura or whatever is staying at Okayama whyyyy they should be the first to get a new coach

valdes can't receive to save her ass which is fine as long as she can crush and block. not everyone has to be a jack of all trades (master of none). still she needs to work on that. if nishida can receive a ball with the back of his fucking hands then she should at least be able to have the same determination during crucial moments

i personally wanted to see iwasaki matsui and kojima. nishimura has good coverage but her shuffling is not the smoothest and her pass is mostly flat. there are times when she can be fast but i dont know who would be the fastest out of the three

Quote from voly

That's ugh

Haikyu is JVA's kpop. Ran and Yuki Ishikawa are their BTS and Blackpink.

fine thats better

Quote from 777

How is that related to the board of directors having more power or involvement in the selection process sorry I'm having a hard time following you

think of haikyu as jva's taylor swift and ran takahashi is their travis kelce. isn't that right? Phoenix

Quote from Phoenix

She's a "trainee" this year like Alain de Armas last year. Her status isn't made public but most likely by next year her and Valdes will officially be eligible for selection.

Valdes is especially critical since the WNT is in need of a dynamic attacker.

I saw in one of Asahi's articles that JVA's board of directors had a 70% say on both Manabe and Blain's rosters this year so Valdes and Santiago aren't likely Manabe's choice. Also for comparison JVA's BoD only had 30% over Nakada's roster during Tokyo Olympics but that was before Shunichi Kawai happened.

But should (in theory) Yoshihara be the next NT coach then it's gonna be a breeze for Santiago

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can you elaborate the 70-30 control over rosters? why is that?

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Ouch

but do japanese announcers actually say prestige aranmare ive never heard it that way just aranmare. its a sign for you to call them aranmare

btw i was trying to rina's account but i found out that they have a handball team as well. didnt know that was a thing in japan

Quote from Hassan Kadem

I agree that Valdes may have a tougher time breaking through if she stays in PFU. That's like if Vargas played in PTT Ankara or the other Ankara whichever of the 2 is worse lol. No one's going to take her seriously.

1000% agree she needs to get out of there asap before the next NT turnover. It's possible she'll only be there until she's naturalized since they did help her with her papers and can finally transfer once she's officially eligible for NT selection

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This is also what I understand. In Valdes' case, since she did not play in another country's Senior NT, she can immediately play for Japan when she gets her citizenship. Say, she gets naturalized next month, then she can immediately play in the next tournament. It makes sense that she is training with them already.

It's a different case for Jaja since she played for the Philippine NT, and rule says there needs to be a 2 year residency after naturalization just like what Vargas had recently for players from other NT. Vargas was naturalized 2021 but had to wait until 2023 to play.

This is both assuming they are still under the old FIVB ruling and not the revised one. She can’t play at all if following the new rule.

I think Santiago's process should be a lot faster since she's married to a Japanese citizen

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Sportiva: I think you were on the bench for last year's Japan team, weren't you?

Mayu: Yes, I did. Until now, I have not always been on the court because of my role in the team. But now that I have spent the season in Italy, I want to "show what I have done as much as possible in the Japan national team. Because of my experience here, I have a strong feeling of 'I'm going to do it.

This is too vague. I wish she would have elaborated on what her role is. She also never mentioned any injuries as some of you suspected.

Mayu is the type to take everything seriously and it sounds like the failures of the NT really sucked the fun out of playing for her. Yuki isn't this austere but he has better control over members and who he can count on. I don't know how it is for Mayu since she kept it vague.

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notice how her answer to every question is about her as an individual and is detached from the national team. as in I WILL PROVE TO EVERYONE THAT I CAN DO THIS. perhaps it's the way the questions were asked so her tone sounds like she was alienated or something but basically everything in that interview is centered on the things she needs to prove.

could she not have done that last year? is it because inoue went to france even though she showed no significant growth but the fact that she played in france gave her the upperhand over mayu?

Quote from Hassan Kadem

I was thinking that since the NT are fighting for an Olympic ticket that they're gonna go all out with some heavy media exposure. Plus Japan is hosting again so they need to look good after they flopped in Nagoya last time.

nah heavy media exposure would require that they qualify during oqt like the men's team but they didnt so what are they gonna show lol... the london squad again? i dont think saori, yuko sano and shinnabe even care about manabe's squad anymore. only takeshita, sakoda and kano are the most involved but that's them standing on business and not a personal choice

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Manabe has been oddly quiet no press calls, pr help from london squad, or photos from victorina's training camp venue yet which is very out of character for him

no achievements = no noise.

i think its better this way, less annoying too.

Phoenix i thought you ghosted us already

3 of those girls will probably retire 2 will leave or 3 if hanai volunteers. take a deep breath saga fans your team will be just like toray next season. team saga tamago

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If I understood correctly, Kaori Ueno, Mizuki Yanagita and Hina Kawakami are retiring. Annie Drews, Manami Kojima, Kanna Hanazawa are transferring.

Manami Kojima to LOVB?

https://red.necrockets.net/news/20240311/

Let me know if it’s incorrect. Not surprised with Kaori and Mizuki though.

oh wow she's transferring how do you know it's overseas?

Quote from sean1

DREWS FOR SAGA

no lmao it's dani

I wonder if Nabeya will transfer again. Is there a limit as to how many times a player can change teams?

Quote from sitenoise

Fukazawa won two championships, both to empty arenas. Her training during that period was probably for shit because of the pandemic. She comes to V.League and gets the shit kicked out of her. The resiliency of youth wears off quickly

I don't like her, mostly because of her chin, but I don't think she's done anything wrong. She's probably crushed about it all

Her twin in Toray seems okay though by okay I mean not suffering and they have it way worse I suppose

Japanese kanji is so complicated that even their retirement terms are so hard to understand

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Be poetic if Prestige beat SAGA for their first V1 win. Long way to go tho. And don't try for any B Team sympathy bullshit

Who are their starters? Mandai?

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