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Brazil is still The BEST!
Despite not winning any major title in 2010, the Olympics Champs finished with 2nd in the 2010 Grand Prix and 2010 World Champs.
2011
Yearly Archives
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One Sport 3 Languages
Turkish setter NAZ AYDEMIR is a very talented girl! Watch this video to know what we’re talking about! The hosts ask questions in Turkish to Skowronska, Naz translates it for Kasia. Then Fofao answers in Portuguese, Kasia translates it to English and finally Naz translates Fofao’s answer/s in Turkish. Thank you Naz for the translation! […]
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Where is She?
Not good! According to a source, American player KATHLEEN OLSOVSKY returned to the US for the Christmas and decided NOT TO RETURN to her club team in Poland. The outside hitter informed Club LODZ via email, so now the team is looking for a new hitter halfway through the season. Lodz has filed a complaint […]
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A Successful Digs For Life!
Great job everyone! More than 300 supporters took part in the annual DIGS FOR LIFE volleyball tournament. The tourney was hosted by Brandywine Heights Middle School in Pennsylvania. The organizers are optimistic to raise more than $8,000 and they’re just $3,000 away from achieving this goal. Awesome! To READ more about the SUCCESSFUL event, click […]
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A Sweet Dutch Victory!
The Dutch team of Richard Schuil and Jon Stiekema won the FIRST ever CEV Indoor Beach Tournament in the city of Aalsmeer, Netherlands against Matysik and Erdmann of Germany ((21-17, 14-21, 19-17). The Bronze medal was won by Volkan Gögtepe and Selçuk Sekerci of Turkey. To READ more about the EVENT, click THIS. (image from […]
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Full Recap of the 2011 47th Gaucho Invitational Tournament hosted by UC Santa Barbara. Spoiler: Freshman Taylor Sander from BYU was named the as the MVP of the tourney.
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Video: Cuba vs Brazil
Cuba won the Gold, Russia took home the Silver and Brazil finished the tourney with a Bronze medal. Each team also booked a ticket to the 2000 Sydney Olympics with the same result.
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Czechy Calendar
We’re very impressed! Despite not being known as a world class volleyball team yet, Czech Republic’s female players had a great time posing for a 2011 calendar. (images from Idnes.Cz) This is really amazing! We love and support the idea! Hope to see more of you ladies!
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Coach Manabe is The BEST!
Congratulations to Japan’s coach for winning Volleywood’s The BEST Coach of 2010. Coach Manabe received 26.3% of the total votes.
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Ace’s Collection
Ace says… I just want to share more about my experience in Rome, Italy during the Final Round of the Men’s World Championship. I got to collect some swags, touched World Championship medals, tasted something which tasted like paper and many more! To SEE my COLLECTION on my personal blog, click THIS. I want to […]
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Good Luck Martin!
Our favorite Canadian Beach Volleyball Player, MARTIN READER, is currently in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands to compete in CEV’s first ever indoor sand tournament. BB is playing with this guy named Schalk. Martin and partner entered the touney as Wild Card winners representing Canada of course! In Round 1, the Canadian duo won a dramatic 3rd […]
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Thailand’s Nootsara Wins!
Congratulations to the Thai setter for winning Volleywood’s The BEST Female SETTER of 2010! Tomkom received 65.2% of the total votes.
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The Anderson Revelation
Back in 2009, Matt Anderson was en route to become one of the major young threats during the World League. During this season, Matt was one of the main outside hitters together with Sean Rooney and their team up provided team USA wins over The Netherlands and Italy in the early rounds of the World […]
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Queen Kozuch
Congratulations to Maggie Kozuch! Germany’s only scoring machine was awarded as the Best Female Athlete in 2010! (image from the FIVB) Expected! We hope Germany finds another reliable scorer this year! Just saying. Germany has 2 great middles, Furst and Ssuschke, but can’t do anything if the passing is not there. Imagine if Grun returns […]
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Cuba Honors Simon & Carcases
We expected Wilfredo Leon but Simon also deserves it! The Best Middle Blocker in the world, ROBERTLANDY SIMON, and scoring machine, KENIA CARCASES, have been awarded as Cuba’s Best Male and Female Athletes of 2010. We all know that Simon is not just one of the best middle blockers in the world but he’s also […]