lol
I’m pretty sure Italy won one, if not two? Sets in the friendly match between them
ITALIA - USA U17 1-3 (24-26, 25-18, 16-25, 21-25)
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Display Moredo you have the wide roster ?
I thought this is the wide roster.
https://www-old.cev.eu/Competi…aspx?TeamID=13445&ID=1573
My guess is that they will call Bolzonetti to replace Lolly's position.
It was narrowed down to 24 names.
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Horrible news for the player herself who was in excellent shape, But also for the team because there is literally nobody who can replace her.
Piva, Pietrini and Bosetti are out because of Velasco's decisions, the other OHs of the B team are not good enough to play the EuroChampionships. Maybe only Gardini(?)
Gardini is not in the wide roster. The only option left on OH are Nardo, Bolzonetti and Tanase.
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It’s such cruel luck that Italy will have to face the USA if they advance to the quarter-final.Ogubogu is gonna smack the balls like crazy.
If that would be senior competition than Italy would loose on purpose to Chinese Taipei to go away from that half of the bracket.
They were close to that though. I didn't see a match, and also do not think that in youth categories coaches calculate, care too much about medals and easier draws. -
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The Polish coach needs to realize that Przybyłkiewicz is not OPP material. Lange should move back to OPP (only for this tournament), with Derczyńska playing as OH. I am not a fan of Jucha. Karsznia has a higher ceiling in my opinion and she’s taller.
Przybyłkowicz*. She is OPP material but there is still long way to go. She is still 14, tall (189 cm) and left handed. She needs to work on her physicality. She is quite slow and without power. Let's wait and see how she will develop in the future.
I agree that Derczyńska should play with Wika as OH. With them our reception looks better. I don't know why Orlik doesn't even try Lange as OPP. He wants her to be OH so bad that he is trying everyone but her as OPP while it was Lange who played as OPP until last year... I mean, it is okay to change her position, she can make it happen but when Czerwonka was out from WCH (he planned her as main OPP of the team), it was obvious that we will need someone to replace her. Przybyłkowicz is ready to play only in front row, as double substitution. Majchrowicz is short and not solution. I don't get it. Orlik's decisions very often are questionable.
Karsznia is better server, blocker and left-handed. The issue is her setting. She is like Łazowska 2.0.
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They are basically the same as when Manabe was a coach, and he actually manged to win with Brazil in semifinal of VNL 2024. 2025? It was a year of renovation of most teams, they were lucky to get to the semis at WCH. I don't see any improvements. Sorry. The same old Japan.
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I missed seeing Tijana attacking from the left
Idk why Guidetti hates itWith these no rotation error changes there is no opposite that attacls from the left... Blame FIVB, not Guidetti.
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Or how Japan improved since he is a coach.
This is the biggest joke I've read today. Thanks for making me laugh.
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A debt is owed to the Poles—why isn't Maciej Dobrowolski the coach of Poland? After all, he won the U16 European Championship with this very same team.
Not sure. In one of his interviews he said that it was very tiring. He was responsible for selection too, when he started these girls were only playing like mini-volleyball, SOS. So he needed to do a lot of research and find these girls, then train. It was a process.
I guess he wants to focus onhis club in Olsztyn (many of these girls are there with him, some will go to Szczyrk this year). Also in Poland NT youth teams coaches are not moving forward with respective years they started. Current coach of U17 was a coach of U19 last year and this year U20 do not play anything in summer. He is also a full-time coach in Szczyrk so they gave him U17. Dobrowolski was only hired until ECH U16. I think he didn't want to stay nor take over U15 category.
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I believe the main reason for the men's national team's decision to withdraw from the 2027 World Cup is the fact that the tournament will be played in Poland...
Yes, but they also know that they do not need it. I think they agreed to withdrew taking into account high position in WR and then problems with their entrence on territory of Poland.
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It is said that Lavarini in Fenerbahce is a done deal. And Ferhat will replace him in Milano XD
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So next year, to bring the number of teams back to "even", there will be either two relegations and one promotion, or no relegations and one promotion...
I think that 20 teams is way too many.
Overall this shows how not well-thought and rushed was FIVB decision. Now they want to make up the things by allowing the teams of Slovenia and Finland to participate in VNL 2027. I wonder how they want to change competition format... We can assume that Russia will play different legs than Ukraine. It will make VNL not fair even more that it was now. Congrats.
Also Russia withdrawing from men's World Cup is XD. They just know that they do not need to compete there to qualify for LA28 due to high ranking position.
I am sure that they will participate in women's competition.
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Maybe this news should go in next year's thread...
Anyway, the Slovenian federation just officially announced that they're the national team promoted to the VNL group and will participate in the 2027 edition...
So?
What will happen with Russia: will it be a 19-team competition?
Yes, it is official that only in 2027 there will be 19 teams in both women and men's VNL.
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Cleger too
And Palacios, Gyselle Silva. I think those 4.
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that's probably off-topic, but remember when the Azeri league out of nowhere introduced the foreigners limit and 10 cubans suddenly appeared with Azeri surnames on their jerseys? haha
Yes, and Wilma was one of them ahaha Wilma Aslihanova
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Besides, even when Poland missed their 2025 VNL MVP, they still have the best MB duo among all teams this year. Who else has such depth? USA was even playing with Averill as starter who couldn’t block a single ball the whole day…
Well, this is another example of how other teams sucks rather than about depth of Poland. They pretty average, just tall. But it is what men's volleyball is about - height and strength. So no wonder they are doing good job
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No
That's bad. I hoped that Cuba can gain some points with this win and make it to WCH from WR in case they don't qualify directly from NORCECA.
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Wilmarie Rivera once more is awful. Good luck to Kuzeyboru. Moreno looks like Ognjenovic next to her...
Rivera should be second setter behind Gamze.
This is amazing for a team that has no money to make new uniforms with the right names on for its players (de la Pena was wearing another player's shirt today, she had Regla on her uniform).
Isn't Regla one of her names?
Luizomar is there from FIVB empowerment program or something like this?
Does this tournament count to World Ranking?
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I absolutely think Leon was used on pos 2 and 4 for attack and bigger block against Anderson and Hanes!
If so then he did not make his job. Anderson went 5/6 in 4th set and 3/4 in 5th. Everything good in block was when he was blocking in pos. 4, and luckily for Poland it was at the end of set 4 and most part of the tie-break because there was a service run of Komenda from 9-7 to 13-7. Bołądź is not bad blocker, he had 1 block (on Anderson for a record) and 5 touches in this match.
