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Women's Volleyball FIVB Nations League 2024


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Pools have just been announced for VNL 2024. As a reminder, the top five unqualified nations in the World Rankings (including an African country, which is pretty much guaranteed to be Kenya as no African nation will be competing in events that’ll add points towards their World Ranking) after the end of the preliminary phase will qualify for Paris. 

Here’s the countries still in contention:

:ITA Italy (338.97 pts)

:CHN China (329.65 pts)

:JPN Japan (305.09 pts)

:NED Netherlands (287.94 pts)

:CAN Canada (265.66 pts)

 

 

:KEN Kenya (162.42 pts)

 

China and Italy seem safe to qualify. For Japan, it would take a disastrous VNL for them to fall behind both Netherlands and Canada, don’t see it happening. IMO it’ll be between us and the Netherlands for the final quota. Kenya has pretty much locked up the African quota.
 

Week 1 (May 14-19, 2024)

 

Antalya, Turkey
:TUR Turkey

:ITA Italy

:POL Poland

:JPN Japan

:GER Germany

:NED Netherlands

:BUL Bulgaria

:FRA France

 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

:BRA Brazil

:USA United States

:SRB Serbia

:CHN China

:CAN Canada

:DOM Dominican Republic

:KOR South Korea

:THA Thailand

 

Week 2 (May 28- June 2, 2024)

 

Macau, China

:CHN China

:ITA Italy

:BRA Brazil

:JPN Japan

:DOM Dominican Republic

:NED Netherlands

:THA Thailand

:FRA France

 

Arlington, Texas

:USA United States

:TUR Turkey

:POL Poland

:SRB Serbia

:GER Germany

:CAN Canada

:BUL Bulgaria

:KOR South Korea

 

Week 3 (June 11-16, 2024)

 

Hong Kong, China

:CHN China

:TUR Turkey

:BRA Brazil

:POL Poland

:DOM Dominican Republic

:GER Germany

:THA Thailand

:BUL Bulgaria

 

TBC, Japan

:JPN Japan

:USA United States

:ITA Italy

:SRB Serbia

:CAN Canada

:NED Netherlands

:FRA France

:KOR South Korea

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the :ITA 30-woman list announced by the new head coach, Julio Velasco

 

Setters

 

Carlotta Cambi

Francesca Bosio

Alessia Orro

Giulia Gennari

 

Opposite Hitters

 

Sylvia Nwakalor

Paola Egonu

Camilla Mingardi

Ekaterina Antropova

 

Outside Hitters

 

Alice Degradi

Caterina Bosetti

Elena Pietrini

Stella Nervini

Myriam Sylla

Rebecca Piva

Loveth Omoruyi

Martina Bracchi

Gaia Giovannini

 

Middle Blockers

 

Marina Lubian

Linda Nwakalor

Anna Danesi

Alessia Mazzaro

Sara Bonifacio

Sarah Fahr

Yasmina Akrari

Emma Graziani

Benedetta Sartori

 

Libero

 

Ilaria Spirito

Monica De Gennaro

Eleonora Fersino

Ilenia Moro

 

 

some of the illustrious exclusions by Pezz...ehm, Mazzanti from last year are back (Orro, Fahr, Egonu, Bosetti, De Gennaro), but not all those I expected

 

I mean, no Ofelia Malinov while Bosio is still there among the setters, no Folie nor Chirichella among the middle blockers :facepalm:

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Chirichella was clearly worse at the Novara than Danesi and Bonifacio. The only thing that appealed to her was greater experience. Folie ended her adventure with the national team in 2021 and she probably couldn't be persuaded to come back. Malinov also didn't want to return to the national team, from what I heard. The most important thing is that Fahr on this list- currently the best Italian middle blocker and let her be healthy.

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1 hour ago, copravolley said:

Chirichella was clearly worse at the Novara than Danesi and Bonifacio. The only thing that appealed to her was greater experience. Folie ended her adventure with the national team in 2021 and she probably couldn't be persuaded to come back. Malinov also didn't want to return to the national team, from what I heard. The most important thing is that Fahr on this list- currently the best Italian middle blocker and let her be healthy.

I don't follow club volleyball too much, but for what I saw in the Champions League matches of the Vero Volley Milano, Folie should have been taken back to the NT by force...she's been by far the best player and the key to success in CL

 

I know Malinov has personal/mental issues that might let her decide not to comeback, but at least not calling up Bosio after last year should have been a "must" :bones: almost like naming Orro, de Gennaro and Egonu

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