Posts by Copravolley22

Quote from Andreavillar

Nervini should be a starter over Cagnin. I get that her passing needs work and Cagnin's is better at that but she has way more potential.

Regarding Gardini, girl needs to step up and improve that passing. Her passing has been really bad these last two games.

I would also include Omoruyi. Apparently, she will be a starter the whole season due to the foreigners limitation but she needs to be trusted more in attack. She's mainly the serving target and yeah she needs to improve her passing but pre-injury she was good enough.

I completely forgot about Omoruyi She is an Olympic champion after all, although her share in this success was almost zero,: on the level of Spirito.

Nwakalor unfortunately has limitations due to her height of 176 cm and she will not exceed a certain level. I think that we should invest in other players.

Quote from Jules

Hi

AFAIK she didn't play junior national teams

She's really experienced....she was one of the best in Serie A2 and mvp in a cup IIRC

I remember she was monza 2nd opposite when van hecke was there

She's good athleticism but nothing more...and frosini has big ups and downs

Who do you think will get called up to VNL 2025 from the attackers? Egonu, Antropova and???

Nwakalor? Mingardi probably not, because she is currently a reserve in her club- Scandicci, so maybe one of the two: Malual/Obossa?

https://www.legavolleyfemminil…ssa-josephine/OBO-JOS-99/

Does anyone know this player? She didn't play in the Italian junior national teams? It's a bit of a surprise to me that she plays in Busto's first team and not Giorgia Frosini.

Pierini was in the matchday squad today I'm pleased with the performance of Giovannini and Nervini this season. Until recently it seemed that the Italian national team would have a big problem at the receiving position and now it may turn out that there will be a problem but riches: Bosetti, Sylla, Pietrini, Degradi, Giovannini, Nervini. I'm also counting on the development of Gardini.

https://www.volleyball.it/2024…un-sogno-giocare-qui.html

Quote from VBdiamond

Totally forgot Lanier still plays for Imoco.

Why Zhu don`t play today?

Quote from Rhaemon

I remember her only as Kadochina (gosh they marry so young up there). But she seems to be starting well.

I just feel bad for Pietrini. Injury prone and mentally weak too. Such as waste of talent.

Zhu is probably just Imoco's poster for their market in China.

What happened to Pietrini again? Some new injury?

Quote from jelena

What are these pajama sets Imoco has on? Are these their official jerseys?

I hope not

Quote from Account

Does anyone know the formula in next stage of competition?

https://www.volleyball.it/2024…-gironi-della-1-fase.html

Quote from serdar

Can someone explain how Israël u20 has beaten Italy 3-0? is it Italy's worst generation in a decade or Israël has an exceptional generation?

This Italian age group won gold at the 2022 Cadet European Championships but this year they are playing very poorly. They barely qualified for these European Championships after losing to Israel 2-3 and winning to Norway 3-2 in qualification phase. This isn`t our best age group in last years but the results are indeed poor: 0-3 defeat to Israel, 1-3 to the Czech Republic and surprisingly a 3-1 win over the strongest in this group- Bulgaria. For me, this team is uneven and unstable + Israel has 2 talented volleyball players in this team.

Quote from Andreavillar

Also the Euro U18 was lost because the girls got too excited. They were 14-11 and thought they had in the bag. Belgium in the final was gift to Italy or Bulgaria.

Also considering that the setter for the u20 was new (still don't know what happened to Safa) and Lisa Esposito was missing them silver wasn't too bad.

In the men's competition the situation is slightly worse, as France is clearly dominating: both in the seniors and in the lower age categories.

The most important thing is that the Italian team doesn`t leave the podium of any international event in any age category. It doesn`t matter whether it`s the European Championship, the World Championship, etc. This year:

- gold in the European Championship U-22,

- silver in the European Championship U-20,

- bronze in the European Championship U-18,

- bronze in the World Championship U-17.

No team from Europe can boast such a series this year.

Quote from Andreavillar

So except for the middles, this is the Chinese team we will see next year at the U19?

We might as well just give them the gold straight away.

What will the Italy U19 team be like?

Quote from volleySrb

Not true, defense is usually terrible at that age. European teams have problem because they mostly used 2007 girls and now they need to play with a girls 2008 and some of this girls were bench to players 2007, other first time called.

Playing with teams from Asia is specific and for Italy it was probably the first match with a team from this part of the world. In the 3rd and 4th sets we fought more but it wasn't enough. I hope that tomorrow against Taipei we will play much better from the start. For me, gold or bronze doesn't matter here. The important thing is to be here and gain experience. It's a pity that Serbia is not here.

I remember match Italy-Japan from the 2022 World Champ. For 1.5 sets, the match looked like the beginning of today's match. Then Orro started to play high and correctly to Egonu and Italy won easy 3-1.

If Italy wants to win bronze tomorrow, we have to play like they did in the 3rd and 4th sets against Japan. Hopefully today's experience will help. I wonder if Japan will fight harder against China?

Quote from Jeniawithlove

Japan always waste their time on short players that have no future.

The question is, are there higher girls interested in playing volleyball?

Quote from sitenoise

This is what I thought the match would be like when I saw the size of the Italian girls. Turned out to be fun once Italy started blocking and figured out the tip game (and Japan started a campfire). It's not like Japan was jumping and hitting OVER the block in the first two sets

Italy is playing poorly in this tournament. Of course, we could have won against Japan but with a more stable form. I`m surprised that we won here against Turkey. I`m also not sure if an Italian team has ever played against an Asian team...

Quote from volleyb

Japan has a guaranteed medal this time! Their U19 and U21 both finished 4th last WCH

The lower the age category, the easier it is for teams with such a defensive style of play.