Men's Volleyball FIVB World Championship 2025

[copravolley 630]

[hoversaBR 835]

I still can't accept that we missed the eightfinals while these teams from Serbia and the Czech Republic advanced to the round of 16. It's a pure incompetence. 

 

This is all because Bernardo decided to forget the two OHs who carried us throughout the VNL. I hope Ricardo Lucarelli is not the captain of this team next year.

[George_D 1,571]

Quarterfinals

 

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[Monzanator 5,071]

beat 3-2 in the last R16 match.

[hoversaBR 835]

Thank you Iran for doing what we didn't have the decency to do. 

 

In any case, I hope Iran wins a medal. They're very successful at the U19 and U21 levels, but they haven't yet managed to extend that success to the senior level. Who knows, maybe now's the time. 

[MHSN 3,812]

oof, that was a hell of a match indeed a rollercoaster

 

After the terrible disastrous first round the expectations were very low for this match but they played much better today and deserved the win, probably even better than 3-2.

 

Iran deserved to get eliminated last round, The Philippines won that match (almost) only this moment saved the team, that fist touching the net after a clear kill block on match point.

 

that fist already gave us a 8th place finish. let's see how far that fist can carry us in this tournament

[copravolley 630]

So, on paper we have two clear favorites tomorrow: Italy and Poland and two very close matches on Thursday: 50/50%. Although I'm very worried about tomorrow's match against Belgium – the pressure will be intense for us, becouse second consecutive defeat to Belgium at the World Championship would be embarrassing. However, if we win, we can play without any pression, as no one in Italy expects us to beat Poland after our recent matches against them.

Edited September 23, 2025 by copravolley

[George_D 1,571]

10 minutes ago, copravolley said:

So, on paper we have two clear favorites tomorrow: Italy and Poland and two very close matches on Thursday: 50/50%. Although I'm very worried about tomorrow's match against Belgium – the pressure will be intense for us, becouse second consecutive defeat to Belgium at the World Championship would be embarrassing. However, if we win, we can play without any pression, as no one in Italy expects us to beat Poland after our recent matches against them.

And for Belgium it is very difficult to win Italy 2 times in a few days. 

[copravolley 630]

1 minute ago, George_D said:

And for Belgium it is very difficult to win Italy 2 times in a few days. 

But they will probably play without any pression...

[copravolley 630]

I'm feeling very fear before tomorrow match – I felt something similar before Italy's match against Poland in the Women's World Champ. in quarterfinals. I don't know why, but I'm most afraid of the 1/4 matches Anyway, as is my personal tradition, I won't be watching that match live tomorrow, but I will check the results a little later (I'm glad the match is already at 9:30 CET and there will be less stress throughout the day, unlike our women's team, whose matches started at 1-2 p.m. at the World Champ in Thailand).

Edited September 23, 2025 by copravolley