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Men's Volleyball FIVB World Championship 2025


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13 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Ok, but for example, ask someone from Brazil what they know about hockey... The same goes for Iran, Egypt, Argentina etc., and everyone knows football...

Fair enough. 
 

Doesn’t really help that to watch hockey, the streaming isn’t very accessible outside of North America. 
 

I love both sports almost equally, but naturally I might be a little bias being Canadian and having played/watched it as a little kid, so I really shouldn’t be the one to argue a case for it but… :p

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8 minutes ago, Josh said:

How did we end up talking about hockey in a volleyball thread? :lol:

It started with my question to Kosice, that hockey would still be number 1 team sport in their country if football was at a higher level there: for example, at the level of the Netherlands or Belgium.

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23 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Ok, but for example, ask someone from Brazil what they know about hockey... The same goes for Iran, Egypt, Argentina etc., and everyone knows football...

Well, to be fair, it's a sport outside our reality. Most Brazilians aren't familiar with hockey, not even in its summer versions (field and indoor). But during the Winter Olympics, curling usually enjoys greater success. :p

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6 minutes ago, hoversaBR said:

Well, to be fair, it's a sport outside our reality. Most Brazilians aren't familiar with hockey, not even in its summer versions (field and indoor). But during the Winter Olympics, curling usually enjoys greater success. :p

In Italy we only became a NT team for Top 10-12 on the world in this sport thanks to players from the USA and Canada of Italian descent – in the early 1990s. In that time our league had 8-10 clubs? Currently, there are maybe 2-3 professional clubs, which play in a international league with Austrian teams, because there's no point in creating a league for 2-3 good clubs:lol:

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13 minutes ago, Josh said:

Fair enough. 
 

Doesn’t really help that to watch hockey, the streaming isn’t very accessible outside of North America. 
 

I love both sports almost equally, but naturally I might be a little bias being Canadian and having played/watched it as a little kid, so I really shouldn’t be the one to argue a case for it but… :p

tbh, hockey streams are really accessible around the world

actually, nhl.tv is the cheapest OTT service among the 4 big North American sports

and there's also a lot of free stuff on youtube

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3 hours ago, George_D said:

i am nostalgic of the past :) in all sports so thats why i think 1996 was the greatest

I didn't watch that match, as I was still living in Poland and I don't think there was even a broadcast, or even if there was, I probably didn't even know:lol:(Poland was weak in the sport back then, and interest was low and I was only 9 years old ). In 1998, I remember the World Champ. final: Italy vs. Yugoslavia- the broadcast was replay several hours later, but there was no internet, so I didn't know the result – only teletext was available back then. It was the last tournament in the old 15-point system and points were scored only on your own serve (does`t libero position etc.).

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3 hours ago, hoversaBR said:

Because it wasn't the London 2012 tests that condemned them, but the 2013 Russian League tests. From what I understood, that was it.

Era just before the coming of first Rezende :)

 

 

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