Volleyball 2021 Discussion Thread

[Vic Liu 1,701]

Anyway we qualify to WCH but it’s still shameful it’s so struggling and with a little bit of luck.

[MHSN 3,813]

Qatar is currently 4th best team in Asia, they deserved the quota. (well yeah I know they have lots of naturalized players, I was talking about their level)

 

they beat Australia twice 3-0 and they would beat Chinese Taipei if they had to play.

 

andddd 4th title for Iran 4th in past 6 editions, and it could be 6 out of 6 but our federation stupidly decided to send B/U21 teams to 2015 and 2017 editions

[dophuquy 45]

2 hours ago, MHSN said:

Qatar is currently 4th best team in Asia, they deserved the quota. (well yeah I know they have lots of naturalized players, I was talking about their level)

 

they beat Australia twice 3-0 and they would beat Chinese Taipei if they had to play.

 

andddd 4th title for Iran 4th in past 6 editions, and it could be 6 out of 6 but our federation stupidly decided to send B/U21 teams to 2015 and 2017 editions

Congrats for champions.

[hoversaBR 872]

Brazil is losing 2-0 to Colombia in the South American Women's Championship with our first team. 

 

And I thought that the shame of beach volleyball and men's volleyball were no longer enough. But life teaches that you can always get worse.

[LDOG 2,480]

All 24 qualified teams for women's world championship confirmed.

 

Hosts    

Defending champions  

CEV   

CSV   

Norceca   

CAVB   

AVC  

 

FIVB World Ranking                      

[thiago_simoes 1,458]

We didn't need any more evidence that Brazilian volleyball has hit the bottom of the barrel, but still our women's team wants to make it absolutely sure. They barely won the South American title, but they still lost the match against Colombia. What a crazy competition where the loser of the match wins the title, but even with the title it's still a shameful day for Brazilian volleyball, for sure.

[prso1000 738]

1 hour ago, LDOG said:

All 24 qualified teams for women's world championship confirmed.

 

Hosts    

Defending champions  

CEV   

CSV   

Norceca   

CAVB   

AVC  

 

FIVB World Ranking                      

Croatia and France first below the line 🥲. I believe if there was a normal Asian championship Croatia could have made it. But in the end own fault by losing to France in the crucial match. 
And I think that CRO and FRA are better teams than CZE and KAZ. 

[vinipereira 3,513]

6 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

We didn't need any more evidence that Brazilian volleyball has hit the bottom of the barrel, but still our women's team wants to make it absolutely sure. They barely won the South American title, but they still lost the match against Colombia. What a crazy competition where the loser of the match wins the title, but even with the title it's still a shameful day for Brazilian volleyball, for sure.

Okay sure, but does it matter that much? These women seemed so tired, and at least avoided the ultimate embarrassment of losing the championship.

[hoversaBR 872]

1 hour ago, vinipereira said:

Okay sure, but does it matter that much? These women seemed so tired, and at least avoided the ultimate embarrassment of losing the championship.

Looking only at this game, defeat is totally unimportant. Mainly that Colombia despite being a decent team, Brazil was totally tired.

 

But I think after all the recent results, the result of this tournament is not acceptable. The mess that was the beach volleyball in this Olympic cycle, the meager results at the base (which are not that recent), the mess that is our national league, with clubs full of debt.

 

What I'm trying to say is that our volleyball management is terrible. The players are not to blame, but someone else is.

[Grassmarket 4,305]

On 9/18/2021 at 2:17 PM, thepharoah said:

Rwanda was disqualified by CAVB after participating 4 ineligible Brazilian players in women's African volleyball championship , the day after the decision Rwandan authorities upheld the tournament due to Corona virus  

Can’t complain that the Rwandan Volleyball Federation are not taking this seriously.  

 

The vice-president of the Rwanda Volleyball Federation (FRVB), Jean de Dieu Bagirishya, has been arrested following the country's disqualification from the Women's African Championship.
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/africa/58636929