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No no no, there are some teams you just don't trash talk before the game is over and much less with one day of anticipation Still, you have guts, I'll give you that.

They still haven't updated the ranking after the China win, but I already know 100% they will go above sorry

All 24 qualified teams confirmed. Host Defending champions CEV CSV Norceca CAVB AVC FIVB World Ranking

Qatar could beat Taiwan if they were to play. Same Australia. Well, they weren't given the opportunity to play against them and prove it (or disprove it). Korea attended this competition with a B team so that was a bit lucky for them. Of course, this is completely circumstantial and does not invalidate your criticism against the ranking system. Just wanted to point out that maybe, by chance, we'll have the stronger teams qualifying at the end.

Yes, it was embarassing to watch our players spike ball after ball to nowhere but it is what it is. Our Opposite and Outside Hitters are simply terrible players. It's a pity because the setter and blockers are good but they can't do so much to win without attack and good passing from the others. Even our coach admits in every interview that the team can't hope to beat anyone at big competitions and criticizes the players for having poor fundamentals from youth categories Poor man never coached women's vball before this job, he just took it because they don't want to pay decent money to anyone prestigious to coach a hopeless team.

It's not really surprising, we're missing 3 starters in the roster. And the team sucks anyway so they can lose to Colombia in any bad day even with the best players available. The real surprise was Colombia losing to awful Peru. Colombia will qualify through ranking, tomorrow's result doesn't matter to them except for getting a better medal. Argentina will also qualify through ranking (if it comes to that) as long as they don't lose to Chile, which would be ridiculous.

Maybe the substitutes will see more minutes but they will definitely play to win.

No wait until 2022. China and Japan have already been selected as the 2 asian quota through continental ranking. The others (Korea, Thailand, etc) will have to wait for world ranking qualification at the end of this week. Oh BTW african championship has been cancelled so african quotas will suffer the same fate.

Australia and New Zealand withdraw from both junior world cups and pro league 2021/22. Argentina already got the invitation as replacement team for junior women's world cup... so, everything back on track for us after so much bad luck.

I wonder why FIFA thought Lithuania, who have never even played a futsal euro and are probably the european country least attracted to kicking a ball in general, would be a good host for this event. The attendance seems to be poor even for the home team.

Why the hell do the 2 pools lead by the top 2 ranked teams have the same semifinal bracket for the winners? Is CAVB stupid?

First time watching any of these players... This girl Sakkari is JACKED, she has the body of a MMA female fighter.

They are missing Kosovo now but damnnn you're right, completely overlooked them so they beat Bulgaria by one (missing and ). I can't even do this simple game correctly. Surprisingly, Estonia have also played half of Conmebol already

Balakov was the coach, he resigned after the 0-6 + incidents vs England. I remember that somehow

You played them in last euro qualification... they beat you 2-3 in Sofia.

Correct! they have even played Venezuela despite they have never qualified for the world cup. Naturally, all national teams tend to organize friendlies with familiar nations (well, at least it used to be like that before money took over). They have also played almost all hispanic central american NTs.

While you still think about the answer for that I'll give you another one (the last one, I promise): Who is the only UEFA team that has played all 10 Conmebol members at least once? This one should be fairly easy since you can find a reason for the answer without even googling the records of all the teams.

In case this helps: I only count current FIFA/UEFA member associations. What's the reason?

No. Haha but nope. Spain is missing some others as well. Nope.

They should be banned from international sport for a multitude of other reasons but not this.

Let's have little UEFA trivia... Still no european national team has played all other UEFA members at least once, but the team that is the closest to achieve this is still missing just 2 opponents (total UEFA members: 55, obviously they can't play themselves so it's 54 possible opponents). What team is it? (clue: this nation has at least 1 active member in this forum)

You're also toasted with the nations league quotas since it's not looking likely that Austria will be top 2 in their group. 2026 it is then.

[hide] Preliminary Round September 12th - September 20th, 2021 24 Nations, 6 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nation from each Group + the 4 best 3rd-placed Nations will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 12th 2021, h. 18:00 Kazakhstan 5 2 Costa Rica September 12th 2021, h. 20:00 Lithuania 1 3 Venezuela September 15th 2021, h. 18:00 Costa Rica 3 3 Venezuela September 15th 2021, h. 20:00 Lithuania 0 5 Kazakhstan September 18th 2021, h. 20:00 Costa Rica 4 3 Lithuania September 18th 2021, h. 20:00 Venezuela 1 2 Kazakhstan Group B Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 12th 2021, h. 16:00 RFU 3 1 Egypt September 12th 2021, h. 18:00 Uzbekistan 3 2 Guatemala September 15th 2021, h. 18:00 Egypt 4 1 Guatemala September 15th 2021, h. 20:00 Uzbekistan 0 3 RFU September 18th 2021, h. 18:00 Egypt 1 1 Uzbekistan September 18th 2021, h. 18:00 Guatemala 0 5 RFU Group C Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 13th 2021, h. 18:00 Morocco 7 3 Solomon Islands September 13th 2021, h. 20:00 Thailand 1 6 Portugal September 16th 2021, h. 18:00 Solomon Islands 1 12 Portugal September 16th 2021, h. 20:00 Thailand 2 4 Morocco September 19th 2021, h. 20:00 Solomon Islands 2 5 Thailand September 19th 2021, h. 20:00 Portugal 3 0 Morocco Group D Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 13th 2021, h. 18:00 Vietnam 0 7 Brazil September 13th 2021, h. 20:00 Panama 1 6 Czech Republic September 16th 2021, h. 18:00 Brazil 3 1 Czech Republic September 16th 2021, h. 20:00 Panama 2 4 Vietnam September 19th 2021, h. 18:00 Brazil 11 0 Panama September 19th 2021, h. 18:00 Czech Republic 4 1 Vietnam Group E Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 14th 2021, h. 18:00 Paraguay 0 2 Spain September 14th 2021, h. 20:00 Angola 2 3 Japan September 17th 2021, h. 18:00 Spain 2 1 Japan September 17th 2021, h. 20:00 Angola 0 2 Paraguay September 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Spain 6 1 Angola September 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Japan 1 0 Paraguay Group F Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 14th 2021, h. 18:00 Serbia 1 2 Iran September 14th 2021, h. 20:00 Argentina 5 2 United States September 17th 2021, h. 18:00 Iran 3 0 United States September 17th 2021, h. 20:00 Argentina 2 1 Serbia September 20th 2021, h. 20:00 Iran 2 2 Argentina September 20th 2021, h. 20:00 United States 1 4 Serbia Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation Portugal Argentina Spain [/hide]

They only left out Mikhailov from olympic team. I think they just lack motivation or fitness for this competition + Turkey is not so bad, they have been crushing everyone in the golden european league last few years. I don't think they are much less than teams like Netherlands or Bulgaria nowadays.

The return match in Spain could not matter for Sweden anymore... if they beat Georgia (away), Kosovo and Greece (x2) they will qualify.