So it’s basically the VNL wide roster with Ogawa replacing Hamamatsu.
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Astemo just announced that Hawi Okumu Oba is leaving the team. I’m surprised she’s leaving too since Rui Nonaka is leaving anyway so she’ll have the Opp spot.
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Press Conference tomorrow
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No idea, Seems more like a SAGA girl but she's still got another year at Tsukuba
I won’t be surprised if she goes to SAGA also. She’ll be at SVLeague around January 2027, the same time as Rion Chuganji. She can eventually replace Sakae.
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Maya Ito and Maho Kudo are both leaving Aranmare. Big loss for this team.
Maya Ito is undersized but a solid player for Aranmare. She's the 3rd best scoring Japanese MB last season, next to Airi and Shimamura. Will be a big loss for their offense.
Kudo also had a good season and will be the best option as libero of Himeji among those available, unless Fukudome goes back to Japan and sign there imo.
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Do we know which foreigners will play in Japan next year?
+ Sami Francis. I don't know which team.
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I like that she said on her bio there that her strength is passing and defense. The other OHs in the roster can’t say that
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i cant remember but didnt airi play as opp during the allstars?
No, she played as OH together with Rui Nonaka then Rosamaria is their Opposite. Airi's passing in that match is tragic
I wonder if they will try Miku at OP. She’s the strongest hitter, except for maybe Wada on a good day, and one of the tallest players
She is in the Opposite blocking drills in one of the videos. But mostly training as OH with Mayu.
I'm optimistic about Kawamata. I hope she turns out to be good enough for a, actual VNL roster call up even just for a week.
We'll probably know more when the other players join, but on the videos so far, I've seen Nonaka and Kawamata at OPP most of the time, with Airi at OPP in some drills. Miku seen in an OPP drill just once. Kurogo and Okumu Oba who both plays OPP in their club teams are hitting on the left side and passing pretty much in all videos. NEC and Saga hitters not in the camp videos so far, except for one appearance of Wada and Yoshino when it was mentioned that they just joined. Probably we will see them in the next one
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New video update from the training camp. This is recorded before the NEC, Osaka, Saga, and other girls are in the camp. Only setter that time is Iwasaki so a male coach probably is playing as the other setter.
In one of the clips, Airi is playing as Opposite. I believe in the previous video, Airi is also doing blocking drills as Opposite and mentioned in her interviews that she is being tried in multiple positions.
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Ohh interesting, I can also see this match listed on VBTV.
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I'm surprised he's allowed to stay in Toray with his wife Aoyagi still active in the same team. I'm pretty sure that's against league rules.
Oh wow, I totally forgot that they are teammates now
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volleyb is there a video with valdes included?
I haven’t seen her in videos.
Also, there aren’t any setters in the camp yet In the last videos, no players from top 4 teams yet and no setters iirc. Maybe they’ll be more complete today as most of the club teams had their fans day event yesterday. -
My reading of Karen Moriki's bye-bye is that she isn't "retiring". I hope she isn't. It'll be hard to return to Hamamatsu tho. Their new setter is good
Breath Hamamatsu also announced her retirement from active duty.
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Mika Shibata and Karen Moriki are retiring.
Ana Luiza Rudiger is leaving.
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One of these transfers might also go to Denso. Denso now only has 3 OHs in their roster and they are rumored to get a foreign MB instead of OH next season - to play with foreign OPP. They will need to play 2 local OHs.
Saga with only 3 OHs left as well.So far, announced OH/OPP transfers (not all but at least the bigger names / with previous playing time)
- Nakagawa
- Niida
- Nishikawa
- Nonaka
- Shiina
