After another lull this week, a new surge of club volleyball awaits us - tomorrow the second round of the preliminary stage of the Cup of Russia starts. While Gazprom-Ugra is testing the hall in Kemerovo, Let's see, what is the balance of the tournament at the moment. And he is, what to start, in fact, all over again. An unfortunate defeat from Tyumen in Surgut, Read more »
At the last European Championship, I would note two main storylines. The first is called "give way": Italians, naturally, merged before the French - what is the acute attack of "autism" from Ivan Zaitsev! French people, respectively, capitulated in their native walls to the Serbs. And then they lost to the Poles. Poles, in turn, suffered for ambition in relation to Slovenia - Read more »
In a few hours, the final of the European Championship will begin in Paris, the composition of which no one could predict: Slovenia vs. Serbia. In Surgut, there is increased attention to this match - our great friend Petar Krsmanovich plays in the Serbian national team, and another great friend, Slovene Sasha Gadnik, who played for Gazprom-Ugra, watched from the podium the game of his team with Russia and Read more »
Usually they say, that victory has many fathers, only defeat is an orphan. The opposite happened at the European Championships.: a series of "orphan" victories and one defeat, which one, in fact, many parents. The first layer is game We lost in volleyball, and not in the promotion of NATO to the East or who loves his homeland more. This is such a game, where important Read more »
There was a lot of volleyball in Surgut last week - there will not be so much this season. One side, the preliminary part of the Cup of Russia has always been considered, as an important stage of preparation for the national championship, on the other hand, the competition is quite official, with their tournament layouts and tasks. So let the volleyball still raw, but a certain picture Read more »
"Kuzbass" – "Tyumen" 3:0 The first match of the last game day was quite curious: "Kuzbass", yielded to the owners, met with Tyumen, the hosts who defeated. The intrigue visited this match sporadically - in the first and third sets. In the debut of the match, the Tyumen, yielding 7:11, cheered up a few unawakened Kemerovo residents with a set of six points in a row - 13:11. Those cheered up, caught up and overtaken by the efforts of Pakshin and Glivenko Read more »
"Tyumen" – "Magnitka-University" 3:2 In the first Saturday match, Magnitogorsk-University offered stubborn resistance to Tyumen. Opponents alternately took two sets, and the fate of the match was decided in a tie-break. The discount of the binder from Tyumen Sinitsa made it possible to designate an advantage - 6:4, and then the first pace of Magnitogorsk attacks out of bounds, 7:4. The distance of three points was preserved after the change of sides (8:5, 10:7), Read more »
«New» – "Magnitka-University" 3:0 The third game day was opened by Nova and Magnitogorsk-University. Representatives of the Superleague issued a master class, expressed in a two-fold superiority by the middle of the first set - 16:8. Only at the very end, leading 23:12, the Volga players allowed themselves a moment of weakness and took the game with a score 25:17. The first point in the second set was earned by Magnitogorsk, however, immediately received a response Read more »
The second day of the tour was long. Though, it would seem that, nothing foreshadowed - "Kuzbass" quite easily beat "Nova" in three sets. The teams entered the game with the same lineups., same as yesterday. Equal start (4:4), after which Glivenko realizes the first break, and on variable feeds of Sivozhelez "Kuzbass" forms a comfortable lead - 10:5. Actually, five handicap Read more »
"Gazprom-Ugra" – Lokomotiv-Izumrud 3:0 Let's start at the end: Gazprom-Yugra and Lokomotiv-Izumrud entered the Premier Arena as the third pair of the first game day of the first round of the preliminary part of the Russian Cup. maybe, the names of the Urals will say little to the fan, but Valery Alferov's team is, as always, fighting, interesting, uncompromising. And when there were others? Surgutyan starting line-up: Хабибуллин, Pirainen, Schadylov, Emma Bunton, Read more »
