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Time to start another one of my rants against the Cev, I guess :d But honestly, this just shows how well they are "promoting" the sport. In men's competition, we had 24 teams participating in qualification three years ago, 20 two years ago, 16 last year and now we're down to 10 :wall: Teams from Greece, the Netherlands clearly don't even care anymore :cry:

Hard to blame them. I mean, CEV having them go through 3 rounds (potentially 6 weeks) of travel and qualification and then giving only 2 of them a chance of playing the real tournament and winning the STUNNING price of 50.000 $ is beyond ridiculous.

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My favourite Volleyball position: LIBERO. You ask why? Look here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyIOarNAONk

 

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:SRB  has been officially confirmed as the first host of the 2021 Women EuroVolley. They will also be the "main" host, as the semifinals and medal games will take place in Belgrade. Allegedly :BUL and :ROU will host the competition as well.

My favourite Volleyball position: LIBERO. You ask why? Look here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyIOarNAONk

 

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Justo ahora, thepharoah dijo:

Historic victory for Peru over China in women's junior volleyball WCH

 

It's not historic lol, Perú has beaten China many times in the past in different categories.

 

This Chinese generation seems to be very weak, they lost all friendlies last week and also did very poor in the u18 two years ago. I predict the second place of this pool will finish 8th in overall rankings.

 

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