VolleyRuller96

So , after 5 songs this is my top 5 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Well, i did not watch the semifinals, only the polish performance later, but so far I enjoy both songs that played tonight

Wow, nice starting song by

SEMIFINAL 2 ZENIT KAZAN 3-0 SIR SAFETY PERUGIA (25-20)

SEMIFINAL 2 ZENIT KAZAN 2-0 SIR SAFETY PERUGIA (25-20)

SEMIFINAL 2 ZENIT KAZAN 1-0 SIR SAFETY PERUGIA (25-22)

SEMIFINAL 1 ZAKSA KEDZIERZYN KOZLE 1-3 CUCINE LUBE CIVITANOVA (18-25)

SEMIFINAL 1 ZAKSA KEDZIERZYN KOZLE 1-2 CUCINE LUBE CIVITANOVA (15-25)

SEMIFINAL 1 ZAKSA KEDZIERZYN KOZLE 1-1 CUCINE LUBE CIVITANOVA (25-22)

SEMIFINAL 1 ZAKSA KEDZIERZYN KOZLE 0-1 CUCINE LUBE CIVITANOVA (21-25)

And if someone prefers to watch on TV, Here is also the list of TV channels in every country that would broadcast today's semifinal games and tommorow's medal matches TV_schedule_Final_Four_in_Kazan-_MEN.pdf

FINAL FOUR KAZAN 2018 SEMIFINALS (12.V) Cucine Lube Civitanova - Zaksa Kedzierzyn Kozle LIVE STREAM 15:00 CEST http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestream/zaksa-kedzierzyn-kozle-cucine-lube-civitanova-len STARTING LINE-UPS, STATS & LIVESCORE https://www.cev.eu/Competition-Area/MatchPage.aspx?mID=31288&ID=1033 SIR Safety Perugia - Zenit Kazan LIVE STREAM 18:00 CEST http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestream/sir-safety-sicoma-perugia-zenit-kazan-len STARTING LINE-UPS, STATS & LIVESCORE https://www.cev.eu/Competition-Area/MatchPage.aspx?mID=31289&ID=1033

The whole concept of giving "wild cards" (or rather, selling a quota) for the world/euro championship / champions league is wrong in any sport and should be immediately cancelled.

Yesterday, during the volleyball friendly game between and

well, the singing...

Pools set for #EuroVolleyU20M Finals in the Netherlands and Belgium Utrecht, Netherlands, May 8, 2018. The headquarters of the Dutch Volleyball Federation (Nevobo) in Utrecht played host on Tuesday late afternoon to the Drawing of Lots for the Final Round of the 2018 CEV U20 Volleyball European Championship – Men. The Netherlands will be co-hosting the tournament together with their neighbours from Belgium, with matches due to take place in the cities of The Hague, Ede and Kortrijk from July 14 to 22, 2018. The top two teams from this tournament will qualify for the 2019 edition of the FIVB Men's U21 World Championship. Apart from the co-hosts, the Netherlands and Belgium, eight teams secured their participation in the Final Round via the second-round qualifiers held in late April as they finished top of their respective pools. These are Italy, Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Portugal, Turkey and Belarus. Two more teams will qualify following completion of the third round of qualifications scheduled for June 28-July 1, 2018 involving the runners-up of the second-round qualifiers – i.e. Spain, Israel, Czech Republic, Latvia, Romania, Serbia, Greece and Poland. The composition of the two third-round Pools (I and J) and the respective organisers read as follows:Pool I in Belchatow (POL): Poland, Israel, Latvia, Spain Pool J in Zdar nad Sazavou (CZE): Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Serbia The head coaches of the Dutch and Belgian U20 national teams, Arnold van Ree and Kris Eyckmans The composition of the two preliminary pools for the Final Round reads as follows: Pool I in Ede (NED): The Netherlands, Germany, Belarus, Finland, Portugal, Winners of 3rd Round Pool J Pool II in Kortrijk (BEL): Belgium, Italy, Turkey, France, Russia, Winners of 3rd Round Pool I The top two from each pool will progress to the semis and play for the medals – whilst the third and fourth-placed teams from each group will contest the classification matches 5-8.The match schedule for the pool stage of the competition will be made available on CEV website on Wednesday morning. Poland won gold in the 2016 edition of the #EuroVolleyU20M held in Plovdiv and Varna, Bulgaria where Ukraine and Russia settled for the silver and bronze medals, respectively. Michel Everaert (left) and Geert de Dobbeleer (right) representing the Dutch and Belgian National Federations together with ESOC member Igor Dolinsek at the end of the Drawing of Lots This year’s #EuroVolleyU20M is part of a much bigger ‘Volleyball festival’ taking place mid-July in the Netherlands – including the 2018 CEV DELA Beach Volleyball European Championship involving the cities of The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Apeldoorn and the 2018 Sitting Volleyball World Championships.

Draw for #EuroVolleyU19W produces pools for Septembers Final Round in Albania Tirana, Albania, May 9, 2018. Following the U20 Mens draw yesterday, today it was the turn of the 2018 U19 CEV Volleyball European Championship - Women with the draw being held earlier today in Tirana (ALB) at the "Kastrati Hotel & Tower". As in previous editions, 12 teams will go head to head across a 9-day period for gold, starting in two pools of six teams before moving to the knock-out stage. Final Round matches commence later this year on 1st September, with the final being played on the 9th September 2018. The top two teams from this tournament will qualify for the 2019 edition of the FIVB Women's U20 World Championship. 34 teams started in the championship back in January and while eight of the Final Round teams are already known, the final four teams will come from the 3rd Round tournaments which are scheduled for the end of June and will be composed as follows: Pool H in Ploiesti (ROU): Romania, Germany, Norway, Belarus Pool I in Greece (venue tbc): Greece, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia As hosts of the Final Round, Albania chose to be in the top spot of Pool I, while all other teams were drawn - first those teams that were already confirmed, followed by those still to be qualified. The composition of the two preliminary pools for the Final Round is as follows: Pool I in Durres (ALB): Albania, Poland, Italy, Bulgaria, Winner of 3rd Round Pool H, Second placed team from 3rd Round Pool I Pool II in Tirana (ALB): Turkey, Russia, Serbia, France, Winner of 3rd Round Pool I , Second placed team from 3rd Round Pool H The top two from each pool will progress to the semis and play for the medals – whilst the third and fourth-placed teams from each group will contest the classification matches 5-8. The match schedule for the pool stage of the competition will be made available on CEV website shortly. Russia (pictured below) won gold in the 2016 edition of the #EuroVolleyU19W held in Slovakia and Hungary, while Serbia and Turkey settled for the silver and bronze medals, respectively.

Slovakia Finland Canada

My favourite club, PGE Skra Belchatow won Polish Championships yesterday after a win over Zaksa its the 1st time since 2014 and 9th overall Also, last time they won the PlusLiga in 2014, our NT won gold at the World Championships. Now they win again and it's the world championship season...

A pretty slow start for Olympic silver medalists

Most people probably know google trends service, where you can check the popularity index of almost any word,sentence et for almost each country or region. As in many places, even here on Totallympics, there have been multiple "most popular sport" lists without basically any information on methodology or where their data comes from exactly, I figured out that using there would be probably not be a better way to test the popularity of sports than to check how many times people actually searched for informations about them, especially since now we can compare up to 5 results. So I decided to try and compare the popularity of the 5 seemingly most wide-spread Team Sports (Football, Baskeball, Volleyball, Ice Hockey and Handball) and check out the results. I have my doubts ( for example i can't understand why for some countries the poplularity score of 5-10 is shown, while some countries with bigger scores are not shown by default,) and the results probably include those who just play the sports occassionally with friends and family without taking interest in the official competitions or stuff like "How to start playing XXX?" I think it still gives a pretty decent information about what sport is popular in each country, as the results are "produced" by ordinary people, not some unknown algorithm https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F02vx4,%2Fm%2F018w8,%2Fm%2F07_53,%2Fm%2F03tmr,%2Fm%2F03krj Obviously I am only posting this as a curiosity,probably only the IOC and the governing federations know what sports are popular and where they have the most fans

TEAM ROSTERS http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/arg argentina/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/bel belgium/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/bra brazil/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/chn china/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/dom-dominican republic/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/ger germany/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/ita italy/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/jpn japan/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/kor-korea/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/ned netherlands/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/pol poland/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/rus russia/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/srb serbia/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/tha thailand/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/tur turkey/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/women/teams/usa usa/team_roster

TEAM ROSTERS http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/arg argentina/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/aus australia/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/bra brazil/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/bul bulgaria/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/can canada/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/chn china/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/fra france/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/ger germany/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/iri iran/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/ita italy/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/jpn japan/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/kor korea/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/pol poland/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/rus russia/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/srb serbia/team_roster http://www.volleyball.world/en/vnl/men/teams/usa usa/team_roster

PARTICIPATING TEAMS: CORE(Can Not Be Relegated) Argentina Brazil China France Germany Iran Italy Japan Poland Russia Serbia United States CHALLENGER (Can Be Relegated) Australia Bulgaria Canada South Korea

Men's Volleyball FIVB Nations League 2018 Various Cities - 25 May 2018 - 8 July 2018 Totallympics Results Thread