Men's Baseball WBSC European Championship 2025

[phelps 8,278]

yes, GER is a lot better than FRA

 

GER and CZE (but also ESP) are better than UK (they've played well so far, but they're not such a strong team, at least not with this roster)

not to mention NED of course

[copravolley 498]

Remember Euro in softball, it's hard for me to take the Czech Republic seriously... I don't associate this country with baseball or softball at all, even if they've recently become popular there. Germany has always been worse than us, right?

Edited September 24 by copravolley

[phelps 8,278]

4 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Remember Euro in softball, it's hard for me to take the Czech Republic seriously... I don't associate this country with baseball or softball at all, even if they've recently become popular there. Germany has always been worse than us, right?

yes, but we're not the team we used to be, especially this year with only players from the IBL

 

and I'm ok with that, if this is the prize to pay to see a serious, competitive team at the next WBC

[copravolley 498]

10 minutes ago, phelps said:

yes, but we're not the team we used to be, especially this year with only players from the IBL

 

and I'm ok with that, if this is the prize to pay to see a serious, competitive team at the next WBC

The minimum goal for Italy was a top 8 in this squad?

[Josh 11,492]

5 hours ago, phelps said:

still, the only medal candidates were the men's volleyball and the 2 waterpolo teams (I don't consider the men's football tournament a serious thing to get mad about)

 

now we lost the women's waterpolo and gained the women's volleyball, so, nothing changed since then

 

however, team sports only award 2 sets of medals, it's way more important to develop the individual disciplines that give us the chance to win more medals

You don’t think your women’s waterpolo team is a medal threat? 

[copravolley 498]

43 minutes ago, Josh said:

You don’t think your women’s waterpolo team is a medal threat? 

There was a medal in 2023- bronze in World Champ., but that was a "incident of work". This discipline isn't developing at all in Italy for many years and we only maintain our position at the wide top because it's a niche sport. We have no vision for this sport. There are countries like the USA, the Netherlands, and Australia that prioritize physical forces, while others like Spain and Greece focus on technique. We have nothing. We are weak physically and technically average. We have had almost no junior medals for years, while countries like Greece and Spain win something practically every year. I don't see good that happening today. We need to do the same groundwork here as we did in women's volleyball about 10 years ago: it started with junior medals at every World Championship and European Championship and then it started to translate into senior success, but it took almost 10 years for gold medals to emerge. So far, I don't see that happening in water polo.

[phelps 8,278]

9 hours ago, Josh said:

You don’t think your women’s waterpolo team is a medal threat? 

not now, not anymore

we're clearly out of the top 6 right now

[phelps 8,278]

12 hours ago, copravolley said:

The minimum goal for Italy was a top 8 in this squad?

gotta ask the president of our NF 

[copravolley 498]

1-0 for Italy, who is watching?

[phelps 8,278]

6 minutes ago, copravolley said:

1-0 for Italy, who is watching?

did you waste your money on the paid wbsc streaming?