Volleyball 2021 Discussion Thread

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[rybak 3,421]

Both Men's and Women's National League 2021 will be played just in one city.

 

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1105360/fivb-volleyball-nations-league-italy

 

[rybak 3,421]

YES! ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle defeat Zenit Kazan in second match in semifinal of Champions League with winning golden set and makes the final, it's first time since 2014/2015 season that any Polish club makes the final there!  Itas Trentino will be final opponent.

[Federer91 3,375]

Almost a month is left before the start of the Nations League and we still don't have the schedule.   It's a round-robin, all 16 teams are known, it's going to be in one location, what are these people waiting for? A computer can make the draw for 5 minutes..

[rybak 3,421]

 Netherlands men's team will replace  China in Nations League due to "financial and covid" problems.

 

Source in Polish https://www.polsatsport.pl/wiadomosc/2021-04-26/liga-narodow-siatkarzy-holandia-zastapi-chiny-w-tegorocznej-edycji/?ref=modul_tematyczny_aside

 

Meanwhile few our players, from both men and women teams which will compete in this event + other staff members gets today their one dose vaccine Johnson&Johnson.

 

 

[Vic Liu 1,701]

19 minutes ago, rybak said:

 Netherlands men's team will replace  China in Nations League due to "financial and covid" problems.

 

Source in Polish https://www.polsatsport.pl/wiadomosc/2021-04-26/liga-narodow-siatkarzy-holandia-zastapi-chiny-w-tegorocznej-edycji/?ref=modul_tematyczny_aside

 

Meanwhile few our players, from both men and women teams which will compete in this event + other staff members gets today their one dose vaccine Johnson&Johnson.

 

 

Chinese women’s team will attend as scheduled. So the withdrawal of men’s team is more “financial”.  They may literally lose funding from federation due to bad performance.

[rybak 3,421]

ZAKSA Kędzierzyn Koźle just win Champions League by beating Trentino 3-1. Such huge success for Polish volleyball!! 

[rybak 3,421]

Meanwhile in womens Champions League Conegliano wins 3-2 over Vakifbank. I'm glad that Italian team win here as Polish player Joanna Wołosz is among their players 

[Jinzha 703]

10 hours ago, rybak said:

Meanwhile in womens Champions League Conegliano wins 3-2 over Vakifbank. I'm glad that Italian team win here as Polish player Joanna Wołosz is among their players 

I watched the womens final yesterday, a really close and exciting game! Wolosz really is one of the best setters in the world right now.

 

And I'm also happy Conegliano won, with Dutch player Robin de Kruijf

[hckošice 16,582]

Just passing here to mention the new absolute NR of volleyball.

 

Our Womens National Team somehow jumped into the 25th place in the world FIVB ranking. Nothing mega impressive or noteworthy you may say, however it is the highest rank of any SVK volleyball NT ever mens or women.

 

Until now the NR was the Mens 26th place in January 2012 & August 2017. So a bit worth to be mentioned for the girls, btw both our teams managed to qualify for the EURO this year, the W team by winning all matches and losing only 1 single set.