Farewell 4th place then for Gala
They have no place for mess ups if they want to be among the top 4 but that seems like a very slim chance tbh.
Posts by Andreavillar
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Yeah local players would get a very competitive team they will be bench warming. It won't be only bad for current NT but also it will kill FUTURE of NT. 3 foreigners rule is the perfect sweet spot which keeps the league competitive enough to be best league in the world and win European cups while still having enough space for local players to be starter, improve and show their potential. Taking 14 players out of NT pool would be terrible decision but luckily federation thinks like I do so it won't happen anytime soon🥰🥰 go tell Italian federation to increase number to 5 instead 😂
Yeap and still Italy is a world and olympic champipn 🥰🥰
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But Gatina didn't get any opportunities with Zeren, nor in the Champions League.
She has, though. Against Lodz where she was okay-ish. And in the TL she played against Kuzeyboru and Besitkas from what I can remember and she was pretty meh. Idk who the other setter is but if you cannot bench Malinov, who isn't the greatest, then...
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Olaya is rumored to Brazil next season. I think Minas but I could be wrong.
Osasco
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I believe more in Eckl
Her block in my opinion is potentially on Carol's level, maybe even better
She was supposed to be in national long time ago but she has lost herself and I don't know why
I don't know what problem she has but she must resolve it
The only thing Eckl and Carol have in common is that both suck at attacking from the middle of the net LOL. Eck os a good blocker but Carol is in another level. Crazy how Brazil always produces excellent blocker - to think that even Adenizia broke records at Serie A1.
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It was reported by Balcerzak as a done deal.
As an OH I suppose given that they have Adis. He's been mid in Japan so far, hopefully he can show his best vball.
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Here's a look at middles/opposites block touch % and good block touch % (across all competitions)
(I excluded Markovic/Ortolani bc their numbers were really bad and skewed the graph lol)
Fahr 👸🏼🚀
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There's no way he would get any playing time there, I meant a team outside of the top6 teams (Modena, Piacenza, Civitanova, Verona, Perugia, Trentino).
Last year, he also had a very poor beginning of the year and then he thrived in the 2nd part of the regular season, and now the same - he was the MVP like in 4 of the last 6 games of Modena. Pretty entertaining to follow, he'll be a real deal.
he was also amazing during the VNL and I honestly thought he would be a starter over Bottolo but the way Bottolo played the whole WCH no one can't really complain.
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Good for Lukas Bergmann for having playing time vs Grottazzolina. Hopefully both Arthur and Lukas get more playing time like Darlan. As for Brazilians in Italian League, I hope we see Samuel, Matheus Pinta and Thiery in the future.
And he was amazing I can't even remember if he made any error. Hope he stays next season so Boninfante can rotate the OHs and I love that they are investing in young talent. A year or two and Manu Zlatanov will join and that be an even scarier team 😉.
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She'll definitely be in the VNL's wide roster and will compete for a spot in the European Championships...
This was definitely the year she showed her best: she has great potential, but it's hard to see how far she can go...
Her limitations aren't technical or physical, but rather her sometimes "flaccid" nature...
Let's see what Velasco can bring out of her...
It'd be a pity if a girl with such potential doesn't fully fulfill it. For me she was the true MVP of the U20, not that it was super competitive but still. I am hoping that with Kate leaving, she and Linda can be starters alongside Nervini
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Honestky Eczacibasi might snatch Fener’s “best serving team” title.
Antropova, Uzelac, Ebrar, Weitzel, Rettke, Elif, Yaprak, even Dilay is a good server.
That’s a SCARY serving line up
All 3 additions Atropova, Weitzel and Uzelac are a damn good servers.
Nah. On paper Fener still would have the strongest serving team - Arina, Vargas, AC (in shape), Orro, Eda, Kalac, Lubian (if true).
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Lol Pietrini was NEVER even close to Markova's level. Whats up with Italian users here having delusions about as if any Italian OH in the history of volleyball get any close to Markova level🤦 it just simply NEVER happened, and Pietrini is just a joke. She was an okay attacker with terrible receiver when she was young and nowadays her attack is as bad as her reception. Her name shouldn't be used even in the same sentence with markova
Lol. Agree that she can't be compared to Markova nowadays but saying she was an okay attacker and bad passer when she was the most prominent talent out of her generation when young is just absurd. Even when she had a very good season, being one of the nest OH at Serie A1 as an U19. That that didn't translate into continuity and development is another story. But ask any coach and they would tell you that back them Elena was one of these, if not the best young talents.
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Have any of these girls won gold and awarded best OH in international U-category tournament ?
Susio and Amoruso aren't even starting OH in their own generation in the NT during U19 and U17 WCH why are we pretending they are the promising OHs
Amoruso was on the roster for the U19 WCH but was later replaced by Bosso. She is having, alongside E. Esposito before she got injured, the best season out of all the 2005-2006 girls in serie A2 with Brescia.
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Nervini was the starting OH in U21 WCH and was awarded best OH in that tournament.
They weren´t called simply cuz they weren´t good enough.....
Not familiar with Susio, I have my eyes on Tosini. But judging from all these years´s performance, Amoruso doesn´t show the potential to be considered in NT.
Nervini was and I love her but let's not pretend that having the starting OH role for that generation was difficult. The 2004-gen has not produced any material, well maybe except Munarini and Piovesan both of which weren't on the WCH U rosters, for Italia NT. The most prominent was thr late Ituma but she really couldn't recieve although she was way better attacker from pos 4.
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Nervini was the starting OH in U21 WCH and was awarded best OH in that tournament.
They weren´t called simply cuz they weren´t good enough.....
Not familiar with Susio, I have my eyes on Tosini. But judging from all these years´s performance, Amoruso doesn´t show the potential to be considered in NT.
Actually, Nervini was benefited from when U20 was changed to U21 since she is 2003-born. For Loli's generation she was the 4th OH behind Gardini and Cagnin and saw barely any court time during the U18 and U20 Championships. Funny how Garnini trailed for the U21 and Nervini developed more out of the 4th of them.
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I don't think he's going to call any 2007 girl for vnl, high school finals are around first/second week of vnl and they should be graduating this year. 2006 is probably going to be the youngest he goes
Even from the 2006 gen he might only call Adigwe and Manfredini as the 2005-06 has the Euro U22 but last year he called the most promising A2 players for a week training and Esposito, Amoruso, Ndoye were there. I'm hoping to see Esposito amd Amoruso in training at least with the adult NT as they have been performing well in A2.
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Yes but Antropova-Adigwe is also incredible. Adigwe is a star in the making, no? I just double-checked her age: She is 19 yrs old. Holy cow. Her athleticism is really something special, she has the Egonu-aura.
She is and people criticize her height, which is fair, like all the elite OPP in the world are 1.9+ but she has the power, athleticism and technique to make up for it. In the games she's played as a starter at Serie A1 she's been great so far. Guidetti called her the next Italian star and Santarelli the Egonu 2.0 so let's see what the future holds for her.
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Velasco confirms Adigwe will join the senior team this summer
I also hope he told her to get out of Conegliano to a team where she can be a full-time starter.
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It will be very interesting to see to what extent Velasco will play with young players this year: when he was a coach of men's NT, he obviously won everything besides the Olympic Games, but he also gave as much space as possible to young players, so there was never a problem of continuity for Italy NT even when he left, and Bovolenta, Papi, Meoni, or Rosalba played World League finals even if they weren't starters at the main events of these years.
I don't think that he has as good depth now, but I can easily imagine playing with Antropova-Adigwe duo the whole VNL, or some brave choices on OH position like giving some chance to someone young (Susio?) very early. And I'm pretty sure that he'll make it work, so maybe not in terms of dominance, but nonetheless it may be quite entertaining VNL for Italy NT's fans.
Yeah I think that the Antropova - Adigwe duo can work quite well, with Merit being given chances with more accessible teams or even during the first weeks depending on the physical condition of Kate at the end of the season. I wonder if he would call other OPP names with more experience but young-ish (Malual has been having a terrible season, Frosini is in A2, Sylvia isn't considered bc she plays abroad, Obossa I doubt he would call). Regarding the OHs, I think he will start with Nervini - Omoruyi + Giovannini and tried to recover Degradi and Pietrini. Not sure how recovery is going for Piovesan and E. Esposito but those two names were on his radar last year. I see Gardini getting a call too as well as Piombini and Amoruso. I think these would be the 'young players' names he would try at the VNL, not sure he would venture to call any Club Italia players when they are 2007-born and younger.
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Speraw fired Pati Rolf.... yikes.
He went on a firing spree... fired most of their MarComm staff (not replacing them) and a bunch of other people in USAV Corporate... without the board of director's permission.
he sux.
What was his rationale?