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Mockery???
2007-11-11 19:44:00 An article from The Standard. I agree with the end of the article, that more needs to be done in countries who struggle, that Kenya need to put in more work for a better program, to bring juniors through and to have training opportunities for the women. Money needs to be invested in a sprt ... More About: Mock
A bit too much hope
2007-11-11 13:34:00 Perhaps teams outside of Asia don’t rate the Asian teams because physically sometimes they don’t look as big, but they pack a bit of punch and if you aren’t on your game and you are a top team, they will get you, because they have the skill. The Kenyan team seemed to think their game ... More About: World Cup 2007 , Hope
Peruvian Tale
2007-11-11 13:20:00 Read full article here When I see the Peru vian Volleyball team playing in Japan, each time I remember two peculiar story. The first one is bounded at the most thrilling Olympic final ever played. During the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, the gold medal match was played between USSR and Peru. At that time, the Volleyball was still ... More About: Tale , Peruvian
Todays articles
2007-11-11 13:18:00 The United States swept South Korea 25-21, 25-19 and 25-23 here on Sunday for its eighth win in a row at the women’s volleyball World Cup. Having an 8-0 record in hands and three matches to play, the Americans will go to the Nagoya climax as hot favorite to secure a ticket to the 2008 ... More About: Articles , World Cup 2007
Danielle Scott on Peru game
2007-11-11 13:10:00 Check out her latest post We are definitely on a roll. 8-0! Wow it really felt good to take care of business against Korea. Especially since they decided to rest three of their main players for the match verses Brazil because they thought they would have a better chance to beat USA. NOT! Not this time? ... More About: Peru , World Cup 2007 , Game , Scott , Dani
Semi Final action
2007-11-11 02:46:00 Semi final action from the Hong Kong Challenger tomorrow 28 11-Nov Jin J.Q.-Z. J. Jian CHN [14] Zhang Xi-Xue CHN [2] 27 11-Nov 10:15 Tian Jia-Wang CHN [1] Tenpaksee-Sannok THA [10] More About: Action , Final , Semi , Beach Volleyball
Kenyan Coach Interview
2007-11-11 02:45:00 Check out the interview with head coach of Kenya More About: World Cup 2007 , Interview , Coach
Danielle Scott on Thailand Game
2007-11-11 02:42:00 Read her latest post Today we are 7-0! We beat Thailand in four. Thailand was the first Asian team we have played against. They played well too. It seemed we would take off to a big lead as we opened up 4-0. They quickly caught up with strong serving. I tell you, I think that most ... More About: Game , Scott , Dani
Polish Coach head home
2007-11-11 02:41:00 The coach of Poland has headed home… read more from FIVB The 7th day of competition at the FIVB World Cup 2007 still maintains the same standings as yesterday: Italy and U.S.A. are topping the FIVB World Cup 2007 standings, after their 7th win in a row against Kenya and Thailand respectively. The big match of ... More About: Home , Coach , Head , Polish
Results from Saturday
2007-11-11 02:36:00 here are the results from Saturday Italy- Kenya 3-0 Serbia- Peru 3-0 Japan- Poland 3-2 Cuba- Dom 3-1 USA- Thailand 3-1 Brazil- Korea 3-0 More About: World Cup 2007 , Results
Loiola, new USA boy
2007-11-10 09:21:00 Brazilian Beach Volleyball er player Loiola has been successful in his bid to be able to wear the US uniform. FIVB reports. The FIVB has authorized the former Brazilian Beach Volleyball player José Loiola to represent U.S.A. in the competitions sanctioned by the FIVB. The player born in 1970 in Vitoria, Brazil, has completed his official route ...
Danielle Scotts latest post
2007-11-10 09:16:00 Danielle Scotts Latest post SIX and ZERO! That?s us? Granted our last match verses Dominican Republic was not pretty but I will take an ugly win any day. The tournament is starting to take it?s toll on our team. I am sure other teams are dealing with injuries too. Last tournament this plague hit our outsides. ... More About: Post , Dani
History
2007-11-09 15:44:00 There is a lot of history between the Italian and the Polish Team. Read on, from Andrea Zorzi. Eleven Italian players out of twelve have a special history with Marco Bonitta. All of them were coached by the Italian coach that currently is leading Poland. The eleven stories (Aguero excluded) are different: someone played with Bonitta ... More About: History , World Cup 2007
Pre Qualification Results
2007-11-09 13:20:00 European Pre- Qualification results and article from CEV Luxembourg, 9th November 2007. For the second consecutive day of the Olympic European Qualifications, 4 teams maintain their victorious path to win a ticket for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Solely Bulgaria was defeated by the team of Slovakia in Gabrovo, now counting only one leader, Romania, ... More About: Results
Results World Cup Volleyball
2007-11-09 13:07:00 Todays results Italy beat Poland in three, Brazil took care of the Thais in three. The USA beat the Dominican Republic in 4. Japan beat Peru in four. Serbia beat Kenya in three and Cuba beat the Koreans in a hard fought 5 setter. Cuba Coach Antonio Perdomo We keep having five-set matches, but at least we could ... More About: World Cup , World , World Cup 2007 , Results , Volleyball
More dramas for Kenya
2007-11-06 14:12:00 The players have been issued with a warning, deliver, or you are out. More dramas to add to the pile for the womens Kenya n Volleyball Team. All of which I am sure is not doing great things for the participation of the sport back at home. The technical bench of the national team to the International ... More About: Dramas , Dram
Todays articles
2007-11-06 14:08:00 Some articles on the World Cup from around the World news.cn European champion Italy and four-time title winner Cuba claimed big wins on Tuesday at the 2007 women’s volleyball World Cup.Simona Gioli and Taimary Aguero scored 17 points each to lead Italy past Serbia 23-25, 25-14, 16-25, 25-17, 15-7 in a repeat of ... More About: Articles , World Cup 2007
Interesting Stats
2007-11-06 13:50:00 Here are some interesting stats from Andrea Zorzi. The rest of the post talks about the winning teams and why they won. Check it out again its a very interesting post. Take a look at Serbian Stats and remember that Terzic?s team won the first and third games (in bold): Attack Reception 1 set: 45% 67% 2 set : 11% 48% 3 set ... More About: Interesting , World Cup 2007 , Eres
Danielle Scott on Kenya Game
2007-11-06 13:44:00 Danielle Scott s latest Post OK win number FOUR? Let?s keep going USA! We did exactly what we wanted to today. And that is to use this match against Kenya to work on specifics of team USA. Except for the second game we really steadied our passing, served tough and just had a lot of fun keeping ... More About: World Cup 2007 , Game , Dani
Second Round Results
2007-11-06 13:42:00 Results from the first day of the second round. HERE More About: World Cup 2007 , Results , Round
Ricardo Out
2007-11-06 08:37:00 Volley country reports that Brazil have again dropped Ricardo . I checked out the Brazil Federation site, he’s not on their list. Brazil will miss setter Ricardo during World Cup 2007 in Japan. Brazilian setter was not nominated by B. Rezende into Brazilian rooster for the World Cup 2007. Ricardo will not play for Brazil after four years. ...
Coaches comments from R1
2007-11-05 15:47:00 Coaches comments from Round 1 Courtesy World Cup Website Osaka, November 5, 2007: The head coaches of the six Site A teams gathered at the team hotel in Osaka on Monday for the FIVB press conference. A rematch ofthe 2007 European Championship final between Italy and Serbia will start the action at Namihaya Dome on Tuesday. ... More About: World Cup 2007 , Comments , Coaches
World Cup Day 3 Round Up articles
2007-11-04 18:33:00 Click here for article from The Standard on Kenya Vs Peru Kenya?s bid to break the jinx of not winning at the Federation of International Volleyball events failed when they lost 0-3 (16-25, 9-25, 19-25) to Peru in a World Cup match at Hamamatsu Arena. This was Kenya?s third consecutive defeat at the tournament having lost 0-3 ... More About: Articles , World Cup 2007 , Round Up
Japanese Tactics
2007-11-04 14:05:00 Interesting view on the Japan ese tactics from Andrea Zorzi For example: the tiniest Japanese setter, Yoshie Takeshita (only 159 cm) is by far the main block target of any tactic. When Japan is serving and Takeshita is in front row, the three players stay very close to each other, not giving any hint at all. They ... More About: Tactics
Day Three Results World Cup
2007-11-04 14:01:00 The third days play of the World Cup is over. Japan lost to Serbia in a hard fought 4 set match, and USA beat Poland in 4. Click here for match reports and press conferences. Captain Vesna Citakovic: I am not guilty because I was on the bench the moment we won (holding up her hands ... More About: World Cup 2007 , Results
May-Treanor and Walsh get gold
2007-11-04 10:47:00 A perfect way to secure your qualification for the Olympics, May- Treanor and Walsh beat US pair Branagh- Youngs 15-13 in the third. The Chinese secured another podium finish beating the Germans. Final 1st Place 62 04-Nov Walsh-May-Treanor USA [1] Branagh-Youngs USA [4] 2-1 (21-18, 16-21, 15-13) 0:58 Final 3rd Place 61 04-Nov 13:30 Brink-Abeler-Jurich GER [14] Tian Jia-Wang CHN [2] 0-2 (18-21, 15-21) 0:3 More About: Gold , Beach Volleyball
Results so far
2007-11-04 10:43:00 Only two more games to go today…Thailand narrowly missed out on their first win of the tournament losing 17-15 to the Dominican Republic. Brazil just got over the line against Cuba 15-11 in the fifth. You don’t want to be playing too many 5 setters in a tournament like this. Peru beat Kenya in 3 ... More About: World Cup 2007 , Results
USA diary
2007-11-04 10:39:00 Check out the USA team diary here. Full match report, point by point! Playing the first match of the day at 12:35 p.m., the team had breakfast at 9 a.m., a team meeting at 9:30 a.m. and departure for the arena at 10:50 a.m. We will stay to see the match following ours ? Poland vs. ... More About: Diary , World Cup 2007
Danielle Scott on Game 2
2007-11-04 10:17:00 Click here for her blog. WOOHOOO! 2-0 that is us, USA team. We beat Cuba in three! Just kidding four would have been nice but we?ll take a 3-2 victory coming from behind in the fifth set! We were treated to McDonald?s for the victory. Can you believe I said no to McDonald?s fries and FRIED ... More About: World Cup 2007 , Game , Scott , Dani , Game 2
Kenya fall to Brazil
More articles from this author:2007-11-04 09:57:00 For full article visit The Standard. Former champions Brazil danced to the samba rhythm to outclass Kenya 3-0 (25-16, 25-7, 25-14) in a thrilling Federation of International Volleyball (FIVB) World Cup match at Hamamatsu Arena. Kenyans had vowed to contain the mighty Brazilians when they left their hotel and almost lived up to that promise by scaring ... More About: World Cup 2007 , Fall 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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