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Post by #skoskers on Feb 12, 2015 17:51:46 GMT -5
Best Lookalike to Kristin Scott Thomas: Sonsirma Gozde Runner-up: Giovanni Guidetti
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Post by nativevolley on Feb 12, 2015 18:55:00 GMT -5
Best Lookalike to Kristin Scott Thomas: Sonsirma Gozde Runner-up: Giovanni Guidetti Ha ha ha... stupid.
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Post by VolleyTX on Feb 13, 2015 10:32:16 GMT -5
Giovanni Guidetti should be the winner of the look a like contest.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 11:23:47 GMT -5
Yes she did good yesterday.. I was not talking about a single game. I remember doing this conversation in the thread about Logan and Larson.. I follow TL whenever there is a streamed match and I haven't seen anything spectacular from her.. Being best scorer with hitting % lower than 40% is not something special.. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying she is not a great player, because she is. I am just saying she is not performing that great, and on the level Ecz staff thought she would when they signed her.. With the players they have they have to be dominant, and they are not.. Let's see how they'll perform in the next matches You said that she is not performing that great, or at least not on the level the Ecza staff expected, but unless you’re on their staff, I’m not sure if there’s any justification in that, because Ecza as a whole is doing well, since they’re in second place with the same record as Fener and Vakif. +1 No one expected Eczacibasi to walk all over the Turkish League. Fenerbache brought in crazy talent as well (see Kim and Montano) and Vakifbank went to the CEV Cup final last year. Everyone expected it to be competitive. And it has been. Ecz has beaten Vakifbank twice, Fener beat Ecz and Vakifbank beat Fener. ALSO, they've played very few games at full strength. Of Larson, de la Cruz, Furst and Poljak, one of them usually sat out in Turkish League competition.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Feb 13, 2015 11:27:02 GMT -5
Of Larson, de la Cruz, Furst and Poljak, one of them usually sat out in Turkish League competition. No duh. You're only allowed 3 foreigners in domestic competition. Sitting one of them IS playing full strength (also why these are all much better CEV teams than Turkish League teams)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 11:36:53 GMT -5
Of Larson, de la Cruz, Furst and Poljak, one of them usually sat out in Turkish League competition. No duh. You're only allowed 3 foreigners in domestic competition. Sitting one of them IS playing full strength (also why these are all much better CEV teams than Turkish League teams) Gotcha. I thought that was a rule but wasn't entirely sure. Also, I think that if one Ecz. player has been particularly subpar it has been Neslihan.
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Post by kc8413 on Feb 14, 2015 14:51:25 GMT -5
Does anyone have the schedule for next week's matches? Thanks!
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Post by ltfan on Feb 14, 2015 16:09:27 GMT -5
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Post by socalplayer on Feb 15, 2015 15:15:52 GMT -5
Switched to the Cannes-Zurich match. Didn't even have to look at the score to know things were going bad for Cannes when I saw Ebata playing. Cannes' setter and libero are weak. Maybe Hagglund can transfer from Zurich since she is not playing there anyway.
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Post by #skoskers on Feb 17, 2015 9:30:09 GMT -5
Interestingly, all the teams that hosted last week lost to their visiting counterparts.
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Post by #skoskers on Feb 17, 2015 9:32:14 GMT -5
Any updated predictions of which teams will advance to the next round?
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Post by #skoskers on Feb 17, 2015 9:39:07 GMT -5
Quotes from Guidetti and Naz about the upcoming showdown against Kazan:
“This is some kind of a final match,” says VakifBank head coach Giovanni Guidetti, “since the eventual losers will end their adventure here. Dinamo KAZAN is a world-class opponent and as we got to see in the first match, they have outstanding players and combine excellent defence with massive blocks. We have to win also this return match if we want to make the Playoffs 6. We need the support of our fans for this game and hope that the stands will be packed as this way we will get an extra boost of motivation and strength.”
“We have a little advantage from the first match,” adds VakifBank setter Naz Aydemir Akyol. “However, we have to win also the re-match here in Istanbul. We have to fight bravely and deliver a good performance to achieve this feat. Our only goal is to progress to the Playoffs 6 and I hope we can breathe a great atmosphere on Thursday night and eventually provide our fans with something to cheer about.”
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Post by #skoskers on Feb 17, 2015 9:43:23 GMT -5
Quotes from Fang, Ravva, and Baltic re: the matchup between Zurich and Cannes:
“RC Cannes plays above-average defence, which is what made it so difficult for us to score,” said head coach Dragutin Baltic of the away game. “Thanks to our weekend off from play in the NLA, we were able to relax and concentrate on preparing for Thursday,” Baltic explained. Volero needs to win by any score in this home game to advance to the Playoffs 6. In case, the Swiss team loses by 2:3, a golden set would decide whether they advance. “The key to victory will be our serving,” the coach stressed. “RC CANNES can play fast and varied, we have to be able to interrupt that. Then we can play to our strength at the net.”
“We handed that game to Volero ZURICH by doing nothing, but standing around and watching during the fifth set,” complained captain Victoria Ravva following the game in Cannes. “Volero may be stronger on paper, but we kept it pretty close until the end when we did too little to win.”
Yan Fang, the head coach of RC CANNES, explained the tough fight for playoff qualification by the fact that he is integrating young players into the team and has had to relieve some of his regular players several times. In addition, the French champions have suffered a few injuries in their squad. Most importantly Juliann Faucette, the team’s best attacker, has slowly been returning to action from an injury in November. Back in late December she was still a spectator.
“There are no more big or small teams in the playoff phase. If we want to advance to the next round, we have to play a perfect game against Volero,” Yan Fang added with an air of competitive drive.
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Post by #skoskers on Feb 17, 2015 9:46:44 GMT -5
Moscow vs. Piacenza: The Muscovites have been coping with a tight and demanding schedule, playing one match after the other. After scoring that away victory in Italy, they played arch-rivals Dinamo KAZAN in the Russian Superleague and lost that match in four sets. “We did not perform that well in the third and fourth sets of our match with KAZAN, and so we have to pay attention to the upcoming fixture with PIACENZA,” warns head coach Andrey Podkopaev. “Last week we won in three sets, but I expect this return match to be closer and more vibrant,” he adds. “We played Dinamo KAZAN, one of our toughest opponents in Russia, just in between our Playoffs 12 matches with PIACENZA, so that was not very convenient because every game we play with the Tatars turns into a long and exhausting battle. However, I have to admit that this match helped us keep the pace high as we are about to go for the remake of our first game with the Italians. And the good news are that this season Russian teams won’t be playing each other before the Final Four tournament as it happened last year and two years ago,” he concludes. www.cev.lu/Competition-Area/CompetitionNews.aspx?NewsID=19606&ID=739
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Post by #skoskers on Feb 17, 2015 9:49:12 GMT -5
A nice feature over Dresdner's Michelle Bartsch:
Extreme flooding began in Central Europe – and also in the city of Dresden – after several days of heavy rain back in June 2013. Michelle Bartsch has her personal story to share about that subject. She didn’t know Dresden yet at the time but she also had to deal with extreme flooding on June 22 of that same year.
Just on her wedding day. It was supposed to be the perfect day. A vineyard in Illinois, six bridesmaids, 200 guests and everything that completes the picture of a perfect wedding. A torrential rain started as the couple was attending the ceremony, and the chandeliers in the tent started to sway. Her uncle tried to find a solution for that problem, but couldn’t quite manage that. He undressed himself except for his underwear to seal the entrance with his suit. But there was a way too much water coming down from a close hill and nobody could stop it.
“We were in the middle of the ceremony, everything happened extremely quickly. Two chairs were brought to us, we were standing on them. It wasn’t really romantic,” admits Michelle Bartsch and grins. In the meanwhile the best men of her husband Corbin rolled up their trousers legs. After they tied the knot, everyone attempted to help and they eventually moved to another building just nearby. “Despite everything it was an amazing day. Just the DJ was annoyed because his equipment went wet. Without our friends it would have ended in a big mess.”
Many women would despair or panic. But not Michelle Bartsch, she is unflappable. This has been noticed also by her teammates at DRESDNER SC. And of course her coach Alexander Waibl observes as well: “Michelle is a really balanced person and she’s resting in herself.”
In a young team like DRESDNER SC there are hotspurs but for the right balance you need a few players radiating tranquillity as well. Before the match on Saturday against the VolleyStars THÜRINGEN the 25-year old wasn’t be particular excited. “Some girls are listening to music before the game, I don’t need that,” says the outside spiker who played last season for Rote Raben VILSBIBURG. “On the field others are more emotional and play more spectacular.” Coach Alexander Waibl thinks that she is a complete player, without lots of weaknesses. “She is keeping the overall picture in her mind.”
Not a big surprise if you know about her time before she started playing in Germany. Michelle was working as an assistant coach in a male team. She even led the college team of Irvine to a national title back home in the US. “After ending my career I want to work as a coach,” she says. For better understanding the game of her team and herself she watches a video recording of every match. “You can’t know everything, but I want to understand more.”
When her teammates are taking free time for going out, she is staying at home and analyses videos. In Dresden-Löbtau she is sharing an apartment with her husband. Corbin is a computer scientist and therefore quite flexible. “It was clear from the outset that he would join me to Germany to support me.” When she is coming home exhausted from training, he is cooking for her. Both love Mexican food, and Corbin is doing the best “Pico de gallo”, a sauce for eating Tacos. As a way to relax after her Volleyball duties, she usually goes for a walk. With her dog Champion she is walking on the shores of the Elbe or through the parks of the city. A new passion she has discovered is knitting; her teammate Lisa Stock showed her some handholds. For her birthday she is hoping to complete her first set. She seems to have the right hands for that too.
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