Milenkovic will miss Mediterranean games, so sad 
PS it’s sad if it’s an injury related due to this being non relevant tournament to get injured anyways..
Posts by Cofi
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Yeah I get it, with your logic Busa is better then LYY cause she won 2 OG medals and she is 2 times world champion as starter… LMAO
I’d also say Hande better then Gabi during NT season by your logic.. former won 2 VNLs while later didn’t
Or better yet, Derya>Gabi, both won CL but only one of them won VNL, the judgement is clear as day.
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Did we really need to bring this out of nowhere? Lmao.. you people, cmon.
I won’t let any slender here against Uzelac being compared to the likes of Hande, sorry not sorry. If there was Busa and Lozo that won WCH as starters, do you mean go tell me that they were better then Uzelac is, or even Cajic and formless Ivanovic. They were good enough but compare them individually to almost any OH duo of 2022 season and they’d lose.The team is far more beyond individual quality, best players don’t make the best teams. You can see that for years now with Brazilian NT, with Italian NT in the past and with Fenerbahce and Ecza superteams.
I am not satisfied with what Terzic is doing but let’s not pretend he is Abbondanza, Ferhat or Sullivan. He can still bring the best out of players when it matters, his methods, attitude and opinions are questionable for sure. -
I missed seeing Tijana attacking from the left
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Maja looking at Cajic and Uzelac and being like “Busa and Busa”
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Matveeva is rly overrated, it’s not just this game but in general
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Is that Maret Grothues sitting in the audience behind the court? What would she be doing there?
Yes it is, I only saw it now that they showed it again.
I think she is sitting with Tanja Grbic, don’t know if they ever played together
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I dont think so Marina and Arina can score 30 points and easily beat teams like Thailand, France, Serbia in the VNL
but Terzic will be the end of Serbia.
Too bad we don’t have any players to score more then 10 pts
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you wont be much different in the ECh anyway
poor us.. and Russia is gonna relegate from VNL as well it seems
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Our libero is taller then our best scorrer of the first set
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Oh Tijana, that was going out
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Both looks terrible
yeah I wish it was friendly or something that didn’t matter too much..
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Mina Popovic???
I forgot about herI wish Terzic did as well…
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I agree, Helena flopped when it mattered. Dangubic and Derya had bigger impact.
I am surprised Vakifbank got another OPP instead of OH.
I guess they want to have Aylin as OH. She is ready for A team at least to rest some players during league games, for a regular double sub as OP I’m not 100% sure but they’d have Brancuska there for that.
They will have Jegdic as defensive OH sub if they need. Aylin Acar also played ds regularly by the end of the last season.
They are already stacked with foreigners having 1 more then allowed even without Dangubic lol.I still wish they’d sign Kelsey, even aftee pregnancy I feel she still has more to give to international volleyball. At least for the first half of the season before LOVB starts, in hopes that Dangubic comes back for the second half.
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Kelsey is back in training after pregnancy
Vakif cmon
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Since this team was built, can anyone tell me a season that they played better than they did the previous one with Abbodanza??? Arina played the best season of her life, Hande also played the best season of her life ( until her injury) and Orro the same ( and also the first good season that she has probably in her whole life and certainly, since she started play for Vero volley). They won the double with Lavarini, but as a team they were far worst and the same goes with Terzic. Apparently from everyone here it wasn't Abbodanza, just the team played at their peak by themselves.
literally their first season when Arina and Ana were still teens (technically 2nd) with Terzic.
Aside from beating Imoco in qf of CL, they won 2 trophies that season, they won same with Lavarini and Fregnolio.
Funnily enough they won the least with Abbondanza (only supercup) so Idk what you’re talking about lmao.
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Display MoreI mentioned "exhaustion" because you implied they got injured due to playing too many matches, and that wasn't the case.
In the past, teams were penalized for fielding a reserve squad in the Grand Prix; Russia was banned in 2005 for that reason.
I agree there should be a longer break between the club season and the national team season, but I don't know what you want—one tournament a year?
The World Cup used to serve as an Olympic qualifier and had a much worse format than the VNL.
Can we surely say that 3 MBs got ACL just accidently in the same tournament? When we all know that VNL schedule is a mess.
We were talking about quality.. do you want 2 high quality tournaments per summer? Lmao, athletes aren’t robots, there is no other sport with that packed tournaments during summer. In Olympic year we would have 3 major tournaments in 4 month period… for anyone that thinks that is “okay” and “great” I must say you don’t really care about volleyball imho.
1 quality tournament per summer is more then we get in football and basketball.
We can have VNL but let’s not rant about the level of tournament, that was my original point.
VNL shouldn’t carry as much weight as it does in terms of ranking points especially now when OQT isn’t there anymore and VNL is the main mean of qualification. It’s forced importance and quantity over quality that results in low level games that are injurying players at big rate. -
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Karmen and Kudies didn't get injured due to "exhaustion"; it was just unfortunate collisions with teammates—the kind of thing that could happen in any practice session.
I used to agree that it was insane for the VNL to start the week after the Champions League, but this year we had a one-month break.
Some users talk as if there weren't far more tournaments back in the day—events like Montreux, the World Cup, the World Grand Champions Cup, and so on.
They seem to want just one tournament a year, with five matches total and three days of rest between each one lol
What would you consider injuries from “exhaustion”?? When they collapse in the middle of the court? lol
Those tournament back in the day didn’t carry as much weight on rank list and OG qualification process so no team took them as serious as FIVB wants teams to take VNL.. -
Can't wait for Russia to go back to shake these otherwise mediocre NT teams up. The decline in the level is concerning but maybe momentum will pick up close to LA olympics.
Teams just can’t afford to play full squad VNLs with this crazy schedule of WCH every 2 years and even if you don’t find continentals more prestigious they are still more important for OG ticket now that there is no OQT.
We’ve got no Gabi, Boskovic, Ebrar, Eda, LYY, Wu, Daalderop. Even some other players were barely there or played off and on like Orro, Egonu, Sylla, Uzelac, Cansu, Zehra, Poulter, Ogbogu.Not to mention that 3 of the best young MBs (Karmen, Kudies, Kirov) all got ACL injury cause teams are forced to play 4 games in 5 days every other week.
Players can’t sustain this crazy schedule and I refuse to give much attention to this tournament besides it being kinda fun cause we get a lot of games and a lot of mess. It’s just not high level and there are no high stakes.
This format is not sustainable and Russia wouldn’t change a thing, furthermore they are very unlikely to play A team also..
if things continue like this I expect more and more teams who are in no danger of missing OG to play B teams in VNL. Top level players can’t play full tournament few weeks after CL and league playoffs. Without top players you don’t have high level tournament.
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Btw Gizem went from not being in the NT to winning 2 VNLs, an EC, two best libero awards, silver at Worlds and being captain in this VNL in the span of 3 years
and even if she was in NT before that would still be all her medals
she cane back the same year Vargas joined, one of them is a great player and other is the difference maker for those medals.