Women's Volleyball FIVB World Championship 2025

[hoversaBR 872]

3 hours ago, copravolley said:

There's only one change in the starting lineup from 2024: Nervini for Bosetti. Bosetti had a very poor season in Turkey, especially offensively and has always had significant limitations – at 179 cm heigh. Nervini doesn't necessarily have to be a weakness in this team – he's only 22, but the rest of the starting lineup is experienced: de Gennaro, Sylla, Danesi, Orro and Egonu. I believe Brazil is more weaknes due to the absence of Ana Cristina.

Our problem is exclusively the opposite. In Ana Cristina's absence, Gabi can take over as the main attacker, and Julia Bergmann stabilizes the reception, allowing us to use the middle blockers more.

 

Kisy was returning from injury and should be our starting opposite at the Wch. In the final against Italy (VNL), she performed well enough by our current standards. We'll see what happens in this tournament.

[copravolley 644]

1 hour ago, hoversaBR said:

Our problem is exclusively the opposite. In Ana Cristina's absence, Gabi can take over as the main attacker, and Julia Bergmann stabilizes the reception, allowing us to use the middle blockers more.

 

Kisy was returning from injury and should be our starting opposite at the Wch. In the final against Italy (VNL), she performed well enough by our current standards. We'll see what happens in this tournament.

On a specialized volleyball forum, someone user from Brazil wrote that their NT team has too little power on the attack to beat Italy without Ana Cristina. What do you think?

[hoversaBR 872]

1 hour ago, copravolley said:

On a specialized volleyball forum, someone user from Brazil wrote that their NT team has too little power on the attack to beat Italy without Ana Cristina. What do you think?

I agree; my bet is that Italy will win the championship. But I see that Egonu didn't have a very good VNL, and that Antropova really made the difference. Nervini could also be a problem.

 

And it's one thing to expect it, another to actually happen. Italy destroyed us in the 2022 VNL final and then lost to us twice in a row at the world championship.

[copravolley 644]

3 minutes ago, hoversaBR said:

I agree; my bet is that Italy will win the championship. But I see that Egonu didn't have a very good VNL, and that Antropova really made the difference. Nervini could also be a problem.

 

And it's one thing to expect it, another to actually happen. Italy destroyed us in the 2022 VNL final and then lost to us twice in a row at the world championship.

Italy under Mazzanti and Italy under Velasco are completely different teams. Italy under Mazzanti almost never had good form at the most important tournament of the season. In 2022, the level wasn't very high for me, as Serbia won. For me, Brazil was the favorite in the final then, but that team still hasn't broken the World Champ. curse.

[PHI2019 326]

Nguyễn Thị Bích Tuyền withdraws from Vietnamese team ahead of Women’s World Championship

 

https://tiebreakertimes.com.ph/tbt/nguyen-thi-bich-tuyen-withdraws-from-vietnam-ahead-of-womens-world-championship/344917
 

Fallout from what happened to the Vietnamese team at the Under-21 World Championships for Women.

[hoversaBR 872]

I find it incredible how Sweden has a team that shouldn't even beat Kenya on a normal day, but somehow Haak puts them a few levels above.

 

Anyway, today wasn't enough. But maybe they can beat Thailand.

[Gianlu33 6,029]

Thank you Slovakia for your kind participation in Italy's streak of consecutive successes, which now reaches 30 victories

Cuba on the shot for the 31th

[CCB 625]

2 hours ago, hoversaBR said:

I find it incredible how Sweden has a team that shouldn't even beat Kenya on a normal day, but somehow Haak puts them a few levels above.

 

Anyway, today wasn't enough. But maybe they can beat Thailand.

I. Haak was incredibly good today, but the level of The Netherlands was awful. Main problem for us: we are missing a good opposite (maybe Haak can change nationality, her name already sounds Dutch).

[copravolley 644]

1 hour ago, CCB said:

I. Haak was incredibly good today, but the level of The Netherlands was awful. Main problem for us: we are missing a good opposite (maybe Haak can change nationality, her name already sounds Dutch).

French, but she refuse propostal of they before Paris 2024.

[Federer91 3,386]

The most important match of the first round of play in the group stage is coming up in half an hour.  vs.  is pretty much a direct elimination match, as the winner is almost assured in getting to the 1/8. 

 

An interesting fact about the other team in the group  . This will be their first appearance at the women's WCH in 40 years and they have a player, who had been born when they last played, as they have a 45-year old in the roster.