9 May is a sacred day for all Russians, Victory Day over Nazi Germany. A holiday with tears in our eyes... Each new generation moves further and further away from those days, when the Motherland saved itself and the whole world from the brown plague at the cost of millions of lives. Almost no living witnesses left, and books and films cannot fully make up for Read more »
The youth team of Russia U-19 held the first two meetings at the World Championships in Tehran. 24 August, our guys with the main squad with the Surgutyan Maxim Kirillov as a setter defeated the strong Belgian national team 3:1 (23:25; 25:23; 25:19; 34:32). The next day, the Russian national team played with an experimental composition and Maxim Kirillov did not take part in the match against the Bulgarians. Victory, themes Read more »
Thomas Sammelvuo decided on the Olympic squad on the application flag. The difficulty was, that volleyball has been played for a long time with an application from 14 human, but the IOC is doing its best to reduce the number of participants in the Games, cutting out wherever possible. You can play volleyball - and the same people go to Tokyo 12 human, as for the Games, when Read more »
The League of Nations, held in a bubble without spectators, is a training tournament before the Olympics, where the result is not that important? Or the League of Nations is a respected, powerful competition with a solid prize pool, which teams are fighting for, not sparing my belly? True, normally, somewhere in the middle: training tournament for weighty interest. Therefore, you should not sprinkle ashes on your head Read more »
We look at the application of the Russian national team for the League of Nations and see, how the application for the Olympics shines through it. Now on the shortlist 15 surnames plus injured Ivan Yakovlev, will go to Tokyo 12 people - the IOC in every possible way limits the number of Olympians, they do not fit into the framework of the most prestigious competition on the planet. So compromises are inevitable. Thank God, we Read more »
Under a curtain of long New Year holidays of potential candidates for the Russian national team was waiting for the EMA - depth medical examination. The coaching staff is important to understand, He said at the end of the players busy calendar 2019 of the year. Event, so to speak, purely technical, but a remarkable list of participants - surely it wide seine captured those, who will qualify for a trip to Tokyo. Read more »
