VolleyRuller96

Go Venezuela 

Congratulations Poland. We were beaten fair and square.

YEEES THEY DID IT! We're in top 16! What an unbevielable achievement already!

YEEES THEY DID IT! We're in top 16! What an unbevielable achievement already!

and I think you wrote that before the last call in last 12 seconds on Slaughter . unbelievable.
 
but wow what a steal while I was writing this. Poland is still alive.

The referees are horrible in our match

The referees are horrible in our match

Good luck boys I think we can win this match against

OVERALL COMPETITION MEDAL SUMMARY
 
EDITION HOST COUNTRY 1st PLACE 2nd PLACE 3rd PLACE 4th PLACE 1 (1989) UAE Brazil Russia Bulgaria Iran 2 (1991) PORTUGAL Brazil Russia South Korea Czech Republic 3 (1993) TURKEY Brazil Japan South Korea Portugal 4 (1995) PUERTO RICO Brazil Italy Japan Puerto Rico 5 (1997) IRAN Italy Greece Japan Poland 6 (1999) SAUDI ARABIA Russia Venezuela Poland Saudi Arabia 7 (2001) EGYPT Brazil Iran Russia Egypt 8 (2003) THAILAND Brazil India Iran Czech Republic 9 (2005) ALGERIA Russia Brazil Italy Argentina 10 (2007) MEXICO Iran China France Argentina 11 (2009) ITALY Serbia Iran Argentina Russia 12 (2011) ARGENTINA Serbia Spain Cuba France 13 (2013) MEXICO Russia China Poland Iran 14 (2015) ARGENTINA Poland Argentina Iran Russia 15 (2017) BAHRAIN  Iran Russia Japan South Korea 16 (2019) TUNISIA Italy  Russia Argentina  Egypt  

unfortunately we lost the match 3-1 to Argentina whom we defeated them 3-1 in group stage 

I think only volleyballworld.tv has the stream, but it is paid.

Now it can't happen anymore because Italy has won the group... but Spain or Slovakia will be a sure win (yeah, Slovakia a bit harder at home but no way Italy lose against them) while Germany in quarters and Turkey or NED in semifinal would have been easier than Russia/Poland in quarters and Serbia in semifinal
 

Well the difference between both teams is galactic, we didn´t have a chance even for one minute in this match, but lol the celebrations after the match with the fans were amazing to watch even after such debacle everyone in the arena fans and our players seemed really happy and smiling. Again a huge aftermatch clapping, jumping and dancing celebrations session occured, the Russian grls didn´t understand what the hell is happening

If we lose to Italy and Russia beats Slovakia then we play Russia in the next round? Talk about stinking up the joint

Big congratulations to for securing a place in the semifinals They now have the chance to be the 1st African team ever to play the final match of U-19 World Championships, although the next game will be against so the task will be extremely tough. 

Also wow, barely won 3-2 over  in the 9-16th place quarterfinals

too strong for our girls, but still again a very nice team display from the girls resulting in winning a set against such one or even two levels above opponent. This team is really doing something special for the popularty of this sport in SVK, peoples starts to be slowly involved in 

3-2

3-0

Congrats Slovakia, I think at least 3rd place in the group is very possible now.
 
Poland survived against Ukraine, but it was a very chalenging match and we really need to improve soon.

Meanwhile I think we are pretty much done with this ECh. Maaaybe there's a chance that we can beat Croatia and save ourselves, but I doubt that we can win another match at this tournament. Hungarian volleyball continues to be an afterthought compared to the other team sports here and this ECh certainly isn't helping the sport or the Hungarian team's reputation. 

Well yeah, people who have 1% of decency do  

and the day after came the 4th win in history at a major tournament, during the first two days the girls equaled the amount of wins our womens volleyball achieved in all history so far until this ECh, but now I guess we slowly arrived to the end of the fairytale against BLR GER and RUS However the historic qualification for the knockout-round is very close and it´s already one dream achievement for us.
 
 

USA lost a friendly to Australia just now. 

Great atmosphere infront of the full stands in the opening match in the Bratislava group
 
 

This is how Google's Search Engine Metrics calculate the popularity of some of the Olympic Team Sports for the last 5 years, the results seem pretty realistic, but I wonder what Totallympics users think of their accuracy

Some quick side notes:
 
1) I decided not to include football, because it would surely take the 1st place in 99% of countries
2) This is a list mostly of summer sports, but I also included Ice Hockey, because other not included summer team sports like field hockey turned out to be barely noticable on the graph.
3) For the "Breakdown by sport" part I decided not to included data from smaller countries, because it was more difficult to tell different shades of colors apart.

If you're interested, you can check the interactive version here: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=20&date=today 5-y&q=%2Fm%2F018w8,%2Fm%2F03tmr,%2Fm%2F07_53,%2Fm%2F03krj,%2Fm%2F0crlz You can customize time range, check out the results from your own country or any other country (and even from small regions in each nation)  Overall pretty interesting tool

Info:


Time graph - here is a overwiew of how the popularity changed through time. You can easily tell when important competitions took place for each sport, and how it boosted its popularity. To the right is the average popularity each sport enjoyed during the last 5 years. Basketball is easily the most popular sport, then volleyball, then Ice Hockey.


Breakdown by region - This shows what sport was the most popular in what country in the last 5 years. Color depth represents advantage of interest over 2nd most popular sport. (I recommend visiting the Google Trends page, because some countries are barely visible on the map. Also, it provides deeper insight - if you hover your mouse over a country, you can get data about all the other sports.)



Breakdown by sports - finally here is a series of maps that provides information on how popular the sport is in a given country. Color depth represents popularity - the more deep the color, the more popular is the sport. As I said before, I did not include smaller countries, with low ammount of search info, because it would make it more difficult to view the map. The details on some maps are already hard to notice... Once again, I suggest clicking the link to get more in-depth information.

BASKETBALL

ICE HOCKEY

VOLLEYBALL

HANDBALL

WATER POLO

This is how Google's Search Engine Metrics calculate the popularity of some of the Olympic Team Sports for the last 5 years, the results seem pretty realistic, but I wonder what Totallympics users think of their accuracy

Some quick side notes:
 
1) I decided not to include football, because it would surely take the 1st place in 99% of countries
2) This is a list mostly of summer sports, but I also included Ice Hockey, because other not included summer team sports like field hockey turned out to be barely noticable on the graph.
3) For the "Breakdown by sport" part I decided not to included data from smaller countries, because it was more difficult to tell different shades of colors apart.

If you're interested, you can check the interactive version here: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=20&date=today 5-y&q=%2Fm%2F018w8,%2Fm%2F03tmr,%2Fm%2F07_53,%2Fm%2F03krj,%2Fm%2F0crlz You can customize time range, check out the results from your own country or any other country (and even from small regions in each nation)  Overall pretty interesting tool

Info:


Time graph - here is a overwiew of how the popularity changed through time. You can easily tell when important competitions took place for each sport, and how it boosted its popularity. To the right is the average popularity each sport enjoyed during the last 5 years. Basketball is easily the most popular sport, then volleyball, then Ice Hockey.


Breakdown by region - This shows what sport was the most popular in what country in the last 5 years. Color depth represents advantage of interest over 2nd most popular sport. (I recommend visiting the Google Trends page, because some countries are barely visible on the map. Also, it provides deeper insight - if you hover your mouse over a country, you can get data about all the other sports.)



Breakdown by sports - finally here is a series of maps that provides information on how popular the sport is in a given country. Color depth represents popularity - the more deep the color, the more popular is the sport. As I said before, I did not include smaller countries, with low ammount of search info, because it would make it more difficult to view the map. The details on some maps are already hard to notice... Once again, I suggest clicking the link to get more in-depth information.

BASKETBALL

ICE HOCKEY

VOLLEYBALL

HANDBALL

WATER POLO