Volleyball 2021 Discussion Thread

[Olympian1010 7,977]

 

[thepharoah 2,405]

Italy is women's junior World Champion after defeating Serbia in the final 3-0 , they only lost 2 sets in the whole tournament both from Poland 

[vinipereira 3,240]

After winning a silver medal in Tokyo, Fernanda Garay and Camila Brait announced their retirement from NT.

[vinipereira 3,240]

Kim Yeon Koung and Kimberly Hill also retiring from NT.

 

It's sad that Kim never got a medal at the world level with the Korean team, despite being one of the best players in the world.

[vinipereira 3,240]

New Volleyball Nations League format was announced, with 16 teams competing in pools of 8 (round robin phase) and 8 teams in the knockout phase.

[Federer91 2,797]

13 hours ago, vinipereira said:

New Volleyball Nations League format was announced, with 16 teams competing in pools of 8 (round robin phase) and 8 teams in the knockout phase.

 

This should be much better, after the abysmal past 2 editions. Playing 4 matches in 5(6) days is still overkill, but AT LEAST there is a week break after that.

[MHSN 3,625]

13 hours ago, vinipereira said:

New Volleyball Nations League format was announced, with 16 teams competing in pools of 8 (round robin phase) and 8 teams in the knockout phase.

I don't think they are dividing teams into two groups. it's more like sending 8 teams to Host city A and 8 other teams to host city B for each week.

 

after 3 weeks (and 12 matches) they will count all results together and top 8 advance to the QF.

[thepharoah 2,405]

Egypt lost to Kenya 3-2 in men's African volleyball championship in Rwanda, we really became garbage in all team sports only handball is raising the flag high, I'm really sad of how things ended that way 

[thepharoah 2,405]

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15 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

Egypt lost to Kenya 3-2 in men's African volleyball championship in Rwanda, we really became garbage in all team sports only handball is raising the flag high, I'm really sad of how things ended that way 

is this your complete team ? (I mean the best team possible) I watched the 5th set and it was really surprising. I remember Egypt beating our team not long ago (2 years ago actually)

 

credit to Kenya, they really played 10 times better than what I was expecting