Volleyball 2020 Discussion Thread

[EupenM 150]

1 час назад, Federer91 сказал:

In what are rare volleyball news these days, CEV are going ahead with the European U19 girls and U18 boys championships.

 

Today they had the draw for U18 girls, which are competing 22-30.08 in Croatia and Bosnia

 

Wow! It's surprise for me to see France here

[EupenM 150]

The schedule of VNL 2021:

https://www.fivb.com/en/about/news/2021-schedule-builds-anticipation-for-vnl-return?id=91266

[rybak 3,432]

Despite still ongoing pandemic today in  the Men's Volleyball League (PlusLiga) has started. In first match Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle defeated 3-0 Stal Nysa which advanced from League I.  

[NikolaB 452]

Cuban star Melissa Vargas, one of the best opposite hitters in the world, become Serbian citizen. She will get the right to play for Serbian women's national team from 2022. 

[phelps 8,736]

we all know that nowadays "La Gazzetta dello Sport" is more a "gossip gazette" rather than the great sports newspaper it used to be in its glory days...

 

so, to try and keep their more recent title, they did publish a not-official ranking of the highest paid Volleyball players in both our top tier men and women's League...

 

the numbers reported are not official, since the contracts are not publicly disclosed (formally and legally, we are not talking of professional leagues with strict obligations in terms of public accounts)...

 

however, as expected, Wilfredo Leon (900k €/year) among the men and Paola Egonu (400k €/year) among the women are a class apart...on the court and off the court, in their respective bank accounts...

 

here is the top 10 in both the men and women's division (the article is in Italian, but names and numbers are basically the same for everybody, with very few exceptions )...

 

https://www.oasport.it/2020/10/volley-quanti-soldi-guadagnano-i-giocatori-di-pallavolo-la-classifica-degli-stipendi-wilfredo-leon-e-paola-egonu-in-testa/

[Vojthas 949]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

we all know that nowadays "La Gazzetta dello Sport" is more a "gossip gazette" rather than the great sports newspaper it used to be in its glory days...

 

so, to try and keep their more recent title, they did publish a not-official ranking of the highest paid Volleyball players in both our top tier men and women's League...

 

the numbers reported are not official, since the contracts are not publicly disclosed (formally and legally, we are not talking of professional leagues with strict obligations in terms of public accounts)...

 

however, as expected, Wilfredo Leon (900k €/year) among the men and Paola Egonu (400k €/year) among the women are a class apart...on the court and off the court, in their respective bank accounts...

 

here is the top 10 in both the men and women's division (the article is in Italian, but names and numbers are basically the same for everybody, with very few exceptions )...

 

https://www.oasport.it/2020/10/volley-quanti-soldi-guadagnano-i-giocatori-di-pallavolo-la-classifica-degli-stipendi-wilfredo-leon-e-paola-egonu-in-testa/

Bosetti (one or the other) worth more than De Kruijf, Herbots or Chirichella... with all the respect - senza commento.

[phelps 8,736]

3 hours ago, Vojthas said:

Bosetti (one or the other) worth more than De Kruijf, Herbots or Chirichella... with all the respect - senza commento.

well, most likely it all depends on when those contracts were signed...

 

I guess a couple of years ago there were a lot more money available for many teams (for instance, it's not a coincidence that Zaytsev last year -summer 2019, I mean- went back to Russia when he was asked by Modena to cut good 2/3 of his salary down...and obviously he didn't accept that)...

 

more recent deals have surely suffered the general economical crisis of the Italian sports, especially team sports other than football...

[Grassmarket 4,311]

Dunno if many of you have access to,US College sports, but here in the UK we are suddenly getting a lot of College Volleyball on ESPN.  Half a dozen matches this week.

[mrv86 3,269]

Qualification system for 2022 World Championships

 

• Hosts:  &  (W)  (M)
• Current Champions:  (W)  (M)
• Top 2 teams in each 2021 Confederation Championship (if qualified above, then place go to next ranked team)
• Top 11 (W) & 12 (M) highest World Ranking teams at the end of 2021 season.

[rybak 3,432]

My hometown team Verva Warszawa wins two of three matches in first leg of CEV Champions League  they lost only to Modena by 0-3.

 

Next matches in all five groups will be played in February.