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| Issue 202 (02/10/2006) - Circulation: 2800 - Regular Items: Letters to the Editor / Tournaments / International News / Photos of Interest / On-Line Calendar. |
Hi all, Not much news around at the moment and a empty calendar, hence a very short newsletter this time. Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com |
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2006 Whitefield Womens Final now available.
The following match is now available on the volleyball video channel.
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Willesden Club Required.
I have been looking for the last couple of weeks at the Willesden Volley ball club, however the website has been under construction for a while now. As would like to join, as I live in that area (Dollis Hill.) Do you know who I can contact?
Thank-You
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Nottingham Volleyball Tournament Report.
Please pass on my thanks to all the participants at this year’s Nottingham Volleyball Tournament. Excellent weather and good level of volleyball made the day worthwhile.
 A full tournament report and a scattering of pictures are now available on the website (www.TheVolleyball.Net). Hope to see everyone next year.
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Spot Light on TheVolleyball.Net Web Site.
Welcome to TheVolleyball.Net the website is here to provide information to social and local volleyball clubs in the UK. There has long been a need for a dedicated volleyball website to assist UK volleyball clubs at a level lower than the nationally affiliated clubs. TheVolleyball.Net provides information on clubs and tournaments for you to join. If you run a volleyball club, there are drills provided to help you. As the new indoor season approaches for clubs, a series of volleyball sessions are now available. We will endevour to place a new set of drills on a weekly basis to assist coaches.
Enjoy!
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So what do they earn.
Volleyball Coaches, Executive director, Beer vendor, Rodeo clown etc. A look at the salaries from San Antonio, USA, sports figures — the high and low. So you want a job that keeps you connected, in some way, to sports? To make the really big bucks, you had better land one playing or coaching in the NBA or one of the other major pro leagues. Or you might consider working as the head of a non-profit organization or as the sports anchor of a TV newscast. The Spurs center collected a tidy $15.85 million for the 2005-06 season. Gregg Popovich, who led the Spurs to a franchise-record 63 regular-season victories, earned $6 million. But you don't have to have your face plastered all over ESPN to squeeze a comfortable living out of the San Antonio sports scene. The heads of the San Antonio Bowl Association, Golf San Antonio and the San Antonio Sports Foundation all made at least $123,000 annually. KSAT-TV sports anchor Greg Simmons brings home $250,000 a year. However, some sports-related occupations in San Antonio carry the cautionary warning about not giving up your "day job." Runner Liza Galvan pocketed $24,000 last year. Bowler Matt Cabanski and middleweight boxer Emanuel Ledezma made less than $7,000 combined. Then there's Henry the Puffy Taco, a fixture at Missions baseball games at Wolff Stadium. Henry's salary isn't much more than salsa — $75 per game. Duncan made $193,293 per regular-season game in 2005-06. Here's a random sample of how paychecks pan out for local wage earners whose labors intersect with the world of sports.
JULIA CASTILLO - Volleyball coach - Burbank H.S. - $56,526
TIM DUNCAN - NBA forward - San Antonio Spurs - $15,850,000
www.mysanantonio.com/sports/basketball/nba/spurs/stories/MYSA070206.1C.whattheyearn.1609e42.html
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Italy to host 2007 FIVB World League Finals.
The FIVB is pleased to announce details of the prestigious men’s World League competition for 2007, with the Final Rounds to be staged in Rome, Italy. The two major changes to the tournament are Canada replacing Portugal in the 16-team line-up and a new decision by the FIVB’s World League Council which guarantees that the wild card will go to a second-ranked team from the Intercontinental Round. In 2007, the FIVB World League will once again be played in all five of the FIVB’s Confederations, with matches in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia before the final six teams converge on Europe for the fifth consecutive Final Round on the continent. The first Intercontinental Round will start on 25th May and the grand final will be played on 15th July. The competition format of the Final Round has yet to be decided. As the FIVB’s World League Council meeting concluded, FIVB President Acosta declared “I am very proud that the World League has now completed its 17th edition as a major success and I am very excited about what the tournament will bring to Volleyball in 2007. Thanks to the continued support from our sponsors and the world’s television and press for our flagship annual men’s tournament, I am proud that the FIVB can once again offer total prize money in excess of 20 million US dollars.” Defending champions Brazil have been seeded in Pool A together with newcomer Canada, and Korea. Canada’s head coach Glenn Hoag said “We are very excited with the news. As a coach you always look at playing good teams and World League will offer that. We will face tough travel and have to perform under pressure, which will make us grow as a group.” As the fourth team in the pool, Finland will once again have to face the strong Brazilian side after finishing third behind them and Argentina in the 2006 qualifiers. The 2006 silver medallist France leads the Pool B hopefuls and is joined by the USA, Italy and Egypt. After making it through to the Final Six in 2006 as the FIVB wild card, Italy will now have the certainty of automatic qualification for the finals in 2007 as host country. The USA will need a strong performance against the European sides to keep its hopes of qualification alive. Egypt was the first-ever African team to participate in the tournament this year and will be looking to notch up its first World League victory in the 2007 tournament after exiting without a win on its debut. Pool C comprises Russia, Cuba, Japan and Serbia. Russia took the bronze medal this year as host country of the Final Round, whilst Cuba missed out on qualification for the Final Six when Bulgaria beat it to the final slot on the narrowest of points ratio differences. Serbia will play its first-ever international Volleyball competition as a new separate state and is once again seeded in the same pool as Japan, who shocked them on their opening match of the 2006 campaign. Blocked out by the ever-dominant Brazil in 2006, Argentina will play Bulgaria, China and Poland in Pool D. Bulgaria already proved its strength this year by surprising Brazil with a straight-set victory in the opening match of the Final Round. Poland, on the other hand, suffered same points ratio heartbreak as Cuba and had to concede the final berth to Serbia and Montenegro by only the slightest points ratio margin. Finally, China will be looking to make a mark on the tournament a year ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games after failing to bag a single victory in the 2006 edition.
World League 2007 Pools
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Hitting Relations.
Hitting results are frequently indicated by + for a kill, - for an error or blocked attack and 0 for a neutral attack where the game is going on .In rally scoring the team having the service will make a point on following sequence 0+ 000+ 00000+ etc but also if the adversary makes first error by - , 00-, 0000- etc. Those terms follow a well known series of which the sum is 0+/ ( 1-00) and -/( 1-00).The simplifying assumption is made that the attack results on first service are constant during the game and hence also for attack in transition. There are little data available on this aspect. Following data were taken from the recently plaid final round of the world grand cup for women in Italy. Kill on first service 40.53 for 39.92 in transition. Total error 18.68 on service reception and 17.12 on transition. The assumption hence appears acceptable. Individual teams however may show interesting differences. Brazil who won the tournament and Italy which finished third place showed well equilibrated performance, Russia however showed clearly poorer results in transition while Cuba showed higher results for transition but showed great sensibility on quality of service reception with high errors on poorly received services. If attack results are known than an estimate can be made with above relations of the amount of points scored when having the service. This can be extended to the overall game by including service results which will lead to following formulae. SP = ( N-A-E)*? + A where N= number of services A= service aces and E= service errors and ? the factor calculated from attack data indicating number of service points per service excluding service aces and errors. The above relation can be used to estimate game results and examine relation between the various factors .A special application is the relation between aces and errors for constant number of setpoints SP. Working out will lead to following interesting relation A/ (A+E) = ?.or in other words the set points remain constant as long as the ace ratio is equal to ? which we may call the score rate. With the score rate on average in top volleyball at about 0.33 it concludes that one may make about two service errors for an ace. For players who make more errors than this ratio it is suggested that the justification be found in a more detailed results of the rotation in which the server is playing. Expierence show that many players make too many errors. A final application is the correction of hitting data for comparison in case the percentage errors are different. If + 0 and - are replaced by Y V and X for one team and y v and x for the other team than both teams will have equal scoring ability when vY+ x = Vy+X. It may now be assumed that the second team makes no errors hence x=0 working out this relation and simplifying with 1=Y=X+V and 1= y+v will lead to following equation from which the corrected kill percentage to zero errors can be calculated. y =( Y-X)/ ( 1-X) leovh rsv.sport.volleyball
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SWATCH-FIVB World Tour Gold Medal.
Brazil's Juliana & Larissa Net "13th" SWATCH-FIVB World Tour Gold Medal
With their 38-36 and 21-18 win in 60 minutes over the fifth-seeded Renata and Talita, the top-seeded Juliana and Larissa shared the $32,000 first-place prize in winning their sixth SWATCH-FIVB World Tour gold medal this season and their 13th international title since forming their partnership at the start of the 2004 season. The 74 points in the opening set also set a women’s SWATCH mark for most points in a first set of a match since the start of rallying scoring in 2001. Juliana and Larissa were on the losing end of the highest scoring set in FIVB history (42-40, second set) in the Acapulco final against Americans Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh before winning the Mexico gold medal last October in three sets (28-26, 40-42 and 15-13 in 100 minutes). Sunday’s win moved Juliana and Larissa ahead of the legendary Brazilian team of Sandra Pires/Jackie Silva on the all-time SWATCH women's team gold medal list to rank behind Adriana Behar/Shelda Bede of Brazil (31 FIVB medals) and Treanor/Walsh (23). Sandra and Jackie captured the Atlanta 1996 Olympic gold medal before winning the 1997 SWATCH-FIVB World Championships in Los Angeles. Renata and Talia, who have now lost nine-straight FIVB matches to Juliana and Larissa, split $22,000 for the second-place and their best finish this season on the SWATCH circuit in 12 starts. Juliana and Larissa defeated their Brazilian rivals twice this week, including a 21-19, 19-21 and 15-12 quarter-final victory Friday evening. Juliana and Larissa, who have now won 13 of 14 SWATCH meetings the past two season against Renata and Talita, started the inaugural Porto Santo Line/TMN Open by clinching the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour season points title Thursday after winning their opening match against a team from Portugal. It is the second-straight SWATCH points crown for Juliana and Larissa after placing second to Adriana and Shelda in 2004. "It is a long season and we are very pleased with our results so far," said the 24-year old Larissa. "We have been playing since February and we still have six more events left to play this season, including three more SWATCH tournaments. Two SWATCH titles are great, but the work really begins next year with the Olympic qualifying process." Depending on the health of Adriana and Shelda, the two-time Olympic silver medalists, Brazil will have at least six "highly-regarded" teams competing for two spots at the Beijing 2008 Summer Games. Renata and Talita are currently the fifth-ranked team on the SWATCH tour behind Adriana and Shelda. Leila Barros and Ana Paula Connelly are sixth on the list for Brazil with the Salgado sisters (Carolina and Maria Clara) 26th. Three-time Olympian Sandra is expected back in 2007 to pursue her third Summer Games medal with a new partner. "In addition to the Olympics, all the Brazilians are competing for one spot for our country in the 2007 Pan American games to be held next summer in Rio de Janeiro," said the 23-year old Juliana. "We are fortunate that we have had so much success that we don’t have to face country quota and qualifying matches each week like the other Brazilian teams." After winning only one event in 10 SWATCH starts with $124,000 in earnings and a 52-17 match mark during their first season together, Juliana and Larissa have dominated the international circuit the past one-plus years. The Brazilians won six gold medals in 15 SWATCH starts in 2005 with an 82-14 match mark and a record $409,750 in earnings. This season, Juliana and Larissa are now 63-6 with $323,200 in winnings and six more SWATCH titles for 11 events. In the bronze medal match, second-seeded Tian Jia and Wang Jie of China rebounded from their semi-final setback to Renata and Talita to scored a 21-15 and 21-14 victory in 36 minutes over 22nd-seeded Helke Claasen and Antje Roder of Germany, who were competing in their first SWATCH-FIVB World Tour "final four" in 24 starts. The Chinese shared $16,000 for third-place with Claasen and Roder receiving $12,000 for fourth. The Porto Santo Line/TMN Open was the 10th and final women’s SWATCH-FIVB World Tour event in Europe this season. The 2006 campaign concludes with stops in Brazil (September 26-30 at Vitoria), Mexico (October 25-29 at Acapulco) and Thailand (November 1-5 at Phuket).
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The closing stages of the 2006 World League.
The closing stages of the 2006 World League start on 23rd August with the first pool play matches in the Final Round. Defending champions Brazil face Bulgaria, wild card Italy plays France and host Russia takes on Serbia and Montenegro. After three days of pool play, in which each team will play against the two other teams in its pool, plus the same-ranked team in the other pool, the top two teams from each pool will go forward to the semi-finals. The matches in the FIVB’s 20 million dollar tournament will be broadcast in over 100 countries across the world by 30 TV channels. The matches will be held in the Luzhniki Sports Arena, the 1980 Olympic Games venue that celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. In the first match of pool play, defending champions Brazil will take on Bulgaria, who qualified ahead of Cuba as leader of Pool C on a slender one decimal point advantage in points ratio. Bulgaria’s head coach Martin Stoev said he was looking forward to playing against “the strongest team in the world”, since Bulgaria hasn’t played Brazil for a long time. Brazil’s head coach Bernardo Rezende admitted that, with his team already qualified before the final weekend of the Intercontinental Rounds, he had been fortunate enough to rest some players in the final week. However, he also pointed out that his team’s relatively easy qualification also has its down side. “France, Italy and Russia had to play in a tough pool, as did Bulgaria and Cuba, as well as Serbia and Montenegro. These teams have been tested, but because we played in a relatively young and inexperienced group, we are not sure of our level.” Brazil has won the title a total of five times and has three back-to-back World League titles since 2003. The day’s second match will see France face up to Italy for the fifth time in this year’s World League. Wild card Italy will be missing star player Alberto Cisolla, who returned to Italy after picking up an injury. Italy is the only team other than Brazil to have taken part in all sixteen editions of the World League and has the edge over the Canaries thanks to a record eight gold medals to Brazil’s five. With France also weakened by injuries, head coach Philippe Blain reckoned that the teams with the biggest number of fit players logically have the best chance, but stressed that “We are proud to have got this far.” With Russia as host country seeded top in the same pool, three of the teams in Pool E have already had chance to size each other up in Pool C of the preliminary rounds. France caused a stir in this pool by beating Italy twice at home, then splitting with Russia at home and away to finish second in the pool behind the host nation. In the day’s final billing, hosts Russia will meet Serbia and Montenegro in an encounter that Russia’s Serbian head coach Zoran Gajic insists will pose no problems of divided loyalty. Referring to the peaceful separation of the two nations, he jokingly pointed out that he was Serbian and was therefore not strictly facing his home country, which will only play as Serbia after the forthcoming FIVB World Championships. “Joking aside,” he said “we are all professionals. Maybe the fans will see this differently. However, it would be a lot easier for me if the team from my country was not so strong!” Serbia and Montenegro qualified as leader of Pool A after entering the final weekend of the preliminary round tied with Poland and facing tougher matches against the USA. “We have a lot of young players and hope they will gain strength from their experience in this tournament,” said head coach Ljubomir Travica. Russia last won the World League title in 2002 and, although the host countries have not fared well in the World League finals over the past few years, Gajic feels that the pressure can be put to positive effect: “There is pressure, but with a strong team and players, you can cope. Pressure can bring out the best in the team.” The 2006 FIVB World League Final Round will be broadcast by Host TV Broadcaster All-Russian TV Channel “SPORT”, as well as in 109 countries worldwide by 30 other TV channels.
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