VolleyRuller96

Yeah, imagine a fair game! The horror. 

Davy Klaasen did his best to eliminate them, but somehow this is apparently not a goal 
 

 
I mean, the line ref was far away so it's understandable he couldn't see it  

SLOVAKIA !!!!

Cristopher Columbus discovered America.
Witold Waszczykowski discovered San Escobar   
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/11/polands-foreign-minister-mocked-naming-non-existent-country/

Wow, now we can even follow updates from the glorious nation of San Escobar using social media 
https://www.facebook.com/sanescobarcountry/

Cristopher Columbus discovered America.
Witold Waszczykowski discovered San Escobar   
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/11/polands-foreign-minister-mocked-naming-non-existent-country/

This will be the last post from me in this discussion, because it's pretty clear that we're too far away from eachother to have much reason to discuss and I don't really feel like discussing politics here, but:
 
Really? You're pulling the "if every single person with problems come to Europe" argument?
Only a tiny bit of the refugees end up in Europe and we will never end up in the situation where everybody does.
Of course we have to work for more help in the areas close to the disaster/war areas, but if we can't take the ammount of refugees/immigrants coming at the moment, I feel pretty worried about the future of the area.
With that being said, we can agree that Serbia is taking more than it should and a solution should be found, but that's just as much about several European countries barely taking anybody (in my opinion Denmark could surely take more than we've done)

C'mon... Frist, How many serbian was immigrate? And why a Sirian that escape from the Russian bomb or a Nigerian that escape from Boko Haram can't try to have a better future? 

There's definitely a problem with immigration, there's just no denying that, but every time a far right candidate loses, it's basically good news. 

Well, no offence but the solution is easy - stay in your country then. Clearly the people in Austria do not think their country is changing into an "islamic empire" if they choose pro EU candidate over a far right one. 

For the Austrian TV the ex-green and pro-EU Van Der Bellen is the new austrian president   
Bye bye Hofer, i hope that all the extreme-right in Europe will have the same destiny  

Dortmund 8-4 Legia the highest scoring game in competition history ...... CHAMPIONS League
 
LEICESTER CITY qualified!!!!!!!

I just noticed it's not actually they're debut  
 
They competed in the 2013-14 season (both Dobbin brothers once with Daniel Nation and once with Reyon Kay), but there were no A/B-divisions in the team pursuit at that time  

116 year old competing.
 

I'm surprised that apparently it is their A-division debut 
 
They've got a seriuosly good team, especially if Kay can improve a bit more. Dobbin is already there for a while but seems to be on his way back a little, but especially Michael is seriously world class. It wouldn't even be a huge surprise if he medals in Pyeongchang

I'm a bit confused right now.
 
I don't know what happen but I went to sleep on 2016 and now I wake up in 1933! 

Sadly, yes, Legia's fans or rather hooligans are well known for causing havoc on the streets, especially when a derby or match with especially hated rival is coming, and that unfortunetly is the problem with many football teams' "fans" here. This problem is so big it happens also on non-football matches, just a few days ago hooligans from football clubs Ruch Chorzow and GKS Katowice fought with police near our Spodek Arena in Katowice, where martial arts competition took place. They fought using knifes, axes and even Molotov Cocktails.

They aren't arrested because, sadly there still is silent agreement for this kind of behaviour in our country. I don't want to create some sort of argument aout politics, but especially now with our current government they feel like they have nothing to fear as long as they pretend they are patriotic. The decisions of club boards and players are the problem too - in many cases they instead of trying to fight the hooligans they seem to be fine with them, even calling the normal fans "picnics", some people even say they have made deals with the pseudo-fans in many occasions. Plus the punishments are pretty low so they aren't scared.

Personally I dont think a Polish club should be allowed to play in European Competitions until we have the situation under control.

Yes, the volleyball federation is talking to Arena da Baixada (the stadium in Curitiba) to host World League matches there. Is probably our only Football stadium that could host something like this (since it has a roof). This match have proven to be a comercial success (cheapest tickets were R$100 - R$50 for students), with more people than any Football match held in that arena in 2016, so of course they will try to replicate that in the future. I just don't know if they could fill the same stadium in THREE matches - maybe they should host the other matches in a smaller arena and only the Sunday ones in the Football stadium.
 

It's not arguable, it's a fact  you can just look at the rules to see that it is much more important than World Championships, because
1. Unlike the World championships it offers an olympic place
2. There is a smaller group of better nations, so the level of competition is higher
3. To qualify to world cup, you have to either win World championship ( so the championships are basically a qualification event to the world cup ) or be in the top 2 teams in continental championship.
4. To win it or just qualify to Olympics, you have to be in good shape for the whole tournament and possibly win all the matches ( polish men's team learned it the hard way last year)
What irritates me the most is that it always gets hosted by Japan, so it kind of  makes their way to the OG much easier then the other teams. Not to mention that this year Japan also hosted the World Qualification Tournaments, which meant they only had to win like 4 matches in the WQT to go to Rio, while the Polish team for example has had to play more then 20 games. Talk about fair rules... 
 

Well, its FIVB/CEV. They always do stuff like that, even in World Championship/ Olympic Games .  Instead of standard group draw, they prefer the stupid and outdated serpentine system, which is elementaly flawed - most of the time we have one good group and one weaker group, like in RIO, and then when it comes to decisive matches like quarterfinala the teams from the weaker group are doomed . In this years' olympic games in men's volley we had 4 teams from each group in QF, but only 1 team (Russia) from the weak group A and 3 from the better group B in semifinal. Also the World Rankings are so badly maintained I can't even say... After Euro Championships 2015 Slovenia advanced to 25th place in the WR. then the next edition comes out after this years edition of World League, and Slovenia suddenly drops to 29th place. The strange thing was that according to the official rankings they did not drop, they advanced a few places. So it seems like the ranking is either fundamentally flawed too, or the person respinsible for it can't count

Mimo okropnych wyników udało się przełamać klątwę 10 medali, jej  Teraz może być już tylko lepiej, szkoda że nie mamy praktycznie już żadnych szans  

I am nearly in tears right now 

hmm yep..well definitely thats a lot of bad things for one team..I understand that many of mentioned things must be frustrating..what can I say ?..hope you´ll at least enjoy the last days of Rio 2016 and somehow catch some positive emotions too
 
Good luck neighbors

Ok, I understand that, I defended him back in 2013-2014, but  I am really disapointed with what happened after WC. I dont know what is wrong, I dont think 4 players leaving would cause such fall in play, Antiga + Blain are a good duo, but they obviously don't know how to reach our guys anymore besides they still commit the same mistakes they did back then - very late substitutions and time outs , being overall too calm, playing all tournaments with badically one team - even tonight, perhaps he SHOULD have screamed at the guys, or even change all of them after second set

What a crazy situation in group A Who would've thought Canada will play so well, with Brazil and France on the edge of elimination after group tage ( honestly, I can't imagine whay feeling must Brazilan volley fans have, knowing that the next match can very well be their last at the OG ). In the group B both Argentina and Iran showed they can take on anyone, and although the results are not that unexpected, there were some nice surprises, and even Egypt won an olympic game
Overall I must admit I was feearing a rather weak tournament, but so far many matches were amazing,and the situation, especially in group A is unbevieleably exciting, I can not wait to see how it will resolve. Personally I am cheering for Canadas qualification, though
One thing for certain - I am not going to sleep tonight