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Posted by devo on July 28, 2008
Brazil miss the podium! USA takes gold.
For the first time ever in the FIVB World League history, the USA jumped on the highest step of the podium. The Americans are the sixth team in the 19 years of World League to win the competition, after the Italian and Brazilian domination. Serbia conquered the silver medal after losing the final 3-1. Russia gained the bronze, thanks to their 3-1 victory against Brazil. The host country of the Final Round didn’t manage to access the podium, after 7 gold medals, two silver and 4 bronze. The FIVB’s flagship annual Men’s competition closed this year assigning more than USD 20 million in Prize Money. Another joy came for the USA team with the MVP prize, awarded to Lloy Ball (also best setter of the Final Round). more@fivb ~ more@WorldLeague ~ more@Zorzi
World League 2008 Final standings
1. USA
2. Serbia
3. Russia
4. Brazil
5. Poland
6. Japan
7. Bulgaria, China, Italy
10. Cuba, Finland, France
13. Egypt, Korea, Spain, Venezuela
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Posted by devo on July 27, 2008
UPDATE 2: originally posted 23/07/08
Brazil out of World League!
The USA is at one step from its first FIVB World League title. In the first Semi Final on Saturday the Americans beat the host team Brazil 3-0 (25-23, 25-22, 27-25) to assure their spot in the gold medal match … The second spot in the gold medal match of the FIVB World League 2008 went to Serbia after a three sets battle against Russia. The Serbian team beat the European rival 3-0 (25-19, 25-19, 25-23). more@fivb news ~ more@fivb ~ Zorzi’s analysis of match ~ comments below by Dinosaur
See Markleb’s comment on this post for links to watch World League matches live.
The World League finals begin today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and will continue for the next 5 days. Brazil are looking for their sixth successive gold medal and joint-record eighth overall gold medal in 19 World Leagues. The Brazilians and eight-time winners Italy - not qualified for this final round - have taken part in every World League since the start of the competition.
With the Olympics around the corner, the competition here will be fierce.
World League site ~ coaches pre finals comments ~ Andrea Zorzi’s blog. If you haven’t seen Zorzi’s blog before, do it now. He has access to all the players and coaches. There are currently items on the site from the World Grand Prix (the women’s equivalent of the World League).
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Posted by devo on July 21, 2008
Serbia and Poland joined host Brazil, Pool B winner Russia, Pool C winner USA and wild-card Japan in the FIVB World League Final Round as the Intercontinental Rounds of the premier annual Men’s competition featuring the world’s best players came to an end.
For all the latest news on the 2008 FIVB World League go to the official FIVB website at http://www.fivb.org/EN/Volleyball/Competitions/WorldLeague/2008/
The World League, launched by the FIVB in 1990, is a spectacular showcase for the crème de la crème of Men’s Volleyball. The total attendance for the 2007 edition was 637,000 fans with total TV coverage of 2,244 hours. The Final Round in Poland was covered by 31 different TV channels, commented on in 23 in languages, beamed to 110 countries and had a TV audience of more than 1.1 billion. more@fivb
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Posted by devo on July 17, 2008
I get a bit of mail these days about volleyball - which is generally a good thing. Today I got this info from MediaSports.
The Puerto Rico Men’s Professional Volleyball League has just started, and you can watch the games FREE! and LIVE! at MediaSports. Price: FREE!!! Friday, July 18, 2008 1:00 am (GMT) (I make that 11am Saturday).
MediaSports seem to do a fair bit of South American volleyball - some is on a pay per view deal. I haven’t used it; so no guarantees. If you give them your email - they let you know when volleyball is being shown.
myp2p is also listing links to World League matches at the weekend - click on the Saturday and Sunday tags. You need to do a bit of reading about the set up on this site, and they don’t give you the final link until 5 hours before the match begins.
I would be interested to know if anyone has success, lack of success with these sites.
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Posted by devo on July 17, 2008
The sixth and final weekend of intercontinental round action in the 2008 FIVB World League is on this weekend, with two berths still to be decided for the final round in Rio de Janeiro.
The World League, the FIVB’s annual men’s competition, started in 1990, and in this year’s 19th edition teams are competing for more than USD 20 million in prize money. The intercontinental rounds are divided into 4 pools.
So who will be in the finals? Host Brazil, Pool B winner Russia, Pool C winner USA and FIVB wild card Japan are all confirmed for the July 23-27 matches. France and Serbia are battling it out for the qualifying place behind Brazil in Pool A, while Poland need to stay ahead of China in Pool D to clinch their place.
You can check out the pool results here@FIVB.
The “wildcard” position in the final has been allocated to Japan. They are currently last in their pool. So why did they get the wild card? Japan guarantees very good television coverage! fivb
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Posted by devo on June 13, 2008
The Aussie pairing of Barnett and Cook continue to do well on the World Tour, as they continue to accrue points to protect their position in the Olympic games competition. In Germany this week they won through their preliminary pool with 2 matches won to 1 match lost; this to the Brazillian 5th ranked team of Renata-Talit.
In their first round match they won: Barnett-Cook AUS [12] Faure-Sarpaux FRA [24] 2-0 (21-18, 21-15).
In the next round today they will face Ana Paula-Shelda the 4th ranked Brazillians for a chance to get to the third round and the weekends finals matches. You can follow all of the matches and scores on the fivb site.
In other fivb news - World League starts today
The 2008 edition of the FIVB World League, the annual showcase for the world’s finest Men’s Volleyball players who compete for more than USD 20 million in Prize Money, starts this weekend with some mouth-watering clashes ahead.
You can check out the fivb preview here.
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Posted by devo on January 23, 2008
Volleyball Canada has just lost some major government funding which will affect its ability to compete in World League next year. As the Aussie Women’s program knows only too well, government funding is crucial to success for minor sports trying to compete against the volleyball powerhouses of Europe and South America.
Canadian blog Bomberino directs its readers to two articles on the funding decision. The Volleyball Canada release is interesting as it details the costs of being involved in World League; the Friesen article puts the “how do you do it without the funding” argument. If you are successful - you get funding. But how are you going to be successful without funding.
It sounds so very Australian sport. And reinforces the knife edge that the Aussie men’s program is on. They can’t afford to fail.
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Posted by devo on September 29, 2007
Volleyball is a business - big business. And if you want to play with the big boys in World League then you had better have your business plan well and truly worked out. Number one item on your agenda - television rights and attendance figures. Not the coach; not the players; not the training regime.
… the World League 2007, which had more than 2000 televised hours and an 18% increase in attendance … From 2009, the countries that have the lowest numbers of attendance will be replaced in the World League competition by new Federations satisfying the TV and Marketing conditions requested by the FIVB … Since Argentina has not yet presented a TV contract, the European Champion Spain was admitted … The request coming from Italy was not accepted because the Federation did not provide a signed contract with a broadcaster. see the full FIVB release
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Posted by devo on July 16, 2007
Brazil have defeated Russia in the final of World League 2007. The USA took the bronze medal. All the results and pictures are on the FIVB site.
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Posted by devo on July 15, 2007
2007 World League Final Round. Russia and Brazil for the gold final.
On Sunday at 20.00 hrs Russia and Brazil will go on the court for the 2007 World League title. Bronze medal match will be played at 17.00 hrs between U.S.A. and Poland. Russia in the Semi Finals got rid of U.S.A. 3-1, while Poland lost 3-1 against Brazil in a full packed Spodek hall in Katowice. It was their first defeat in all 2007 World League. more of fivb article …
Brazil and Russia through to final FIVB Junior Men’s World Championship
The two favorites ahead and World champions Brazil and Russia played accordingly and booked themselves a spot in Sunday’s final of the FIVB Junior Men’s World Championship, after respective wins over Italy and Iran respectively. This will be a repetion of the 2005 gold medal match in India, were Russians beat Brazilians 3-0. Also this encounter will be the same between this two teams in the World League final to be played on Sunday in Katowice. more of fivb article…
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Posted by devo on July 14, 2007
2007 World League Final Round: Russia, U.S.A., Poland and Brazil for the Semi Finals
Third day of competition for the 2007 FIVB World League Final Round. The Pools are now closed. Brazil won 3-1 against Russia, but a small difference in point ratio (0,005) gave the victory in the pool to Russia. So Alekno’s team will play the first Semi Final at 17.00 hrs, and the opponent will be U.S.A. While Bulgaria, despite the same points in the standings, is out of the best 4 with its third place. Poland crushed U.S.A. in a tough 3-0 match to conquer the first place in the pool, pushed by the 12’000 of the Spodek hall. Tomorrow (Saturday) at 20.00 hrs, the hosting team will meet Brazil. France was already third, since they lost two matches.
more at fivb ~ results page at fivb
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Posted by devo on July 9, 2007
Spain is the new European League champion, claiming a hard fought tie-break victory (20-18!) over Portugal in the European League Final in Portimão (POR). The Spanish formation continued their string of success, showing no fear towards the home team. It was the best result for the Spaniards since their 4th place at the 2005 European Championship and their bronze medal in European League two years ago. Slovakia secured the third place with a 3:1 victory over Slovenia.
Gold medal match: PORTUGAL - SPAIN 2:3 (25-21, 18-25, 22-25, 25-19, 18-20)
Bronze medal match: SLOVENIA - SLOVAKIA 1:3 (18-25, 25-20, 19-25, 18-25)
Details here on the CEV site. Picture gallery here.
The World League finals begin in Poland on Wednesday. Details on the fivb site.
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Posted by devo on May 26, 2007
The FIVB’s premier annual international men’s competition, the FIVB World League, gets under way this weekend with the first of six intercontinental rounds. Each of the 16 teams vying for a share of the over USD 20 million prize money and a place in the finals in Katowice, Poland, from 11th to 15th July will play three rounds at home and three away, each round consisting of two matches against the same team on separate days over the same weekend. more at FIVB volleyball
You can get all the info for this tournament at the FIVB site, including live scores, current ladders, match comments, post match interviews, and pictures. This is fantastic.
Compare this to the Asian Youth Championships. The hosts Malaysia have no results on their web site. This should be a condition of hosting this event! The Asian Volleyball Confederation are a day behind, 2 days on the concluding weekend. Australia is several days behind. To find out how our Aussie lads are going, you have to rely on the Iranian Volleyball site (thankyou), or wait till 10am the next day when the internet news sites update. Not good enough!
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