Resovia is going to Italy without some crucial players
This week Polish Champion will try to get revenge for the last failure. However, three important players will miss that game. Piotr Nowakowski, Olieg Achrem and probably Grzegorz Kosok will not visit Cuneo at home. This is a quite serious issue, as both Nowakowski and Kosok are middle blockers. Andrzej Kowal explained: “For now their…
Trentino Diatec crashed out of the Champions League!
The Club World Champion and one of the major candidate to win the 2013 CEV Champions League, Trentino Diatec, has been eliminated already in the first playoffs phase. The Italians outclassed Dinamo Moscow 3-0 in the regular match, however, they were obligated to play the “golden set’’ due to losing the first game last week…
Bundesliga: Fleet semis portend an enigmatic final
The expectance for a long and interesting battle between last year’s vice-champions Generali Unterhaching and VfB Friedrichshafen was refuted on Wednesday evening in the southern Munich suburb when the visitors closed the series. The same did Berlin Recycling Volleys after a relatively facile home encounter. We will have to look back to 1997 to find…
World League Inter Continental Round 2013 Surprises Galore
As Albert Camus put it “you cannot create experiance, you must under go it”. I have long believed that the best way to learn Volleyball is to play a lot of it. Iran has been the surprise packet among the eighteen teams which battled for a place among the five to qualify for the World…
WGP: American nightmare runs on. They wasted 4 matchpoints!
Valentina Diouf (31 points) led Italy to the first victory in Sapporo during World Grand Prix Final 6 having beaten USA in thrilling tie-break. In the fifth set, U.S. National Team pissed four chances for win away and finally had to come to terms another failure. Italy – USA 3 – 2 (19-25, 25-22,…
Part one: PlusLiga is coming! What can we expect?
Now when the international season is over, the new excitement is heading our way. National leagues begin a very long journey and for a lot of teams the goal is the same – gold star. In Poland we have some significant changes this year… First of all, the crew of PlusLiga has been enriched with…
Finals are blocked
Volleyball is a rising sun in Turkey compared to other team sports. This season Turkish volleyball teams gained its success in the European Cups and that really needs to be honored. In both men and women categories they’re having very successful season. What happens at the end of the final match is unknown, but…
HOT NEWS: Polish volleyball president arrested
Yesterday, November 13., the Polish Central Anti-Corruption Bureau confirmed that Miroslaw Przedpelski, Polish Volleyball Federation’s president, was arrested due to corruption accusations concerning WCH 2014 organisation. The whole operation was carried out yesterday during Przedpelski’s way to WCH summary in Katowice. It is said that a big security company (which CEO was also arrested) paid…
J. Weber: Technique Will Always Overcome Power
“Players will evolve in their technique because always but always the technique will overcome the power,” says famous Argentinian volleyball coach Javier Weber in our exclusive interview. You played as one of the few players in the world 5 world championships and 613 games for Argentine national team. How could you manage it? What is…
Covid-19 : plus de 7 Français sur 10 redoutent l'arrivée d'une seconde vague
Si l’heure est à la détente et aux sorties après une difficile période de confinement, beaucoup de Français craignent l’apparition d’une seconde vague épidémique de Covid-19 dans le pays dès cet automne, révèle un récent sondage réalisé pour MutuelleSanté.fr Alors que la Chine annonce une recrudescence du Covid-19 dans sa capitale Pékin (plus de 100…