The tournament is taking place on September 23, 2002 in Argentina... chek the link for more info :) :D


check out the link!!

http://www.fivb.ch/EN/Volleyball/Competitions/WorldChampionships/Men/2002/Index.htm#YUG

Savo you will keep us updated wont you that should be bigger than the Soccer World Cup and the Olympics combined

i will try to keep u updated :D

Yugo will win. I saw them at the olympics against holland (1/4 finals) and against russia (finals) and they impressed me both times. They're euro champions too arent they???

Originally posted by Parra Power
Yugo will win. I saw them at the olympics against holland (1/4 finals) and against russia (finals) and they impressed me both times. They're euro champions too arent they???

Yea man :D!! that was in sydney..an freat year for Yugo volleyball...they just finished 3rd in the world league....behind brazil and russia....this was the best result for Yugo in the world League!.....i dunt know about the euro champion ships... but i hope they do well....they have the young star Ivan Miljkovic!.. thanks for the comments guys.... i will try to keep u all updated as much as i can! :D

Heres some info on some teams!!


Argentina - The Argentine National Team on its way to Portugal to play the 3rd series of matches of the World League vs. Portugal and then going on to Lodz to play the fourth series vs. Poland.
The Team has got good chances after defeating Poland in San Juan in the two matches by 3 - 0 and standing behind Brazil, already classified and only team in the seed with 4 victories.
After two weeks in Europe the team will return home, July 22nd to face the matches in Buenos Aires and in Rosario (vs. Portugal and Brazil). For the eight teams that classify the play-offs will be played in Brazil the second weekend of August.
The matches vs. Brazil showed an Argentine team strong at the beginning but not strong enough to face such a dominant opponent, while with Poland, after some changes, Argentina stood better on the field. In both matches, two sets were played far beyond 30 points (36-34, 33-31) providing much excitement to the large of fans that gathered to support the Argentine team in San Juan, one of the sites of the 2002 Men's World Championships.



Croatia - The men's national team will play friendly matches against the visiting Australians in mid August. They then travel to Osijek to train and play against Germany. In early September the Croatian men will participate in an international tournament in the Czech Republic along with 3 other national teams- Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Germany. Following will be friendly matches against Spain in their home country, then on to Argentina for the final phase of preparations.

Czech Republic - The Czech men enter the final phase of their preparations with the following players: setters - Petr Yapletal, Jaroslav Skach, Blockers - Martin Lebi, Premysi, Michal Rak, Jiri Kral, Jifri Cerha, Attackers - Jifi Novak, Ivo Dubs, Petr Platenik, Opposities - Jakub Novotny, Ondrey Hudecek, Jiri Popelka, Libero - Martin Krystof.
The team will next play four matches against Canada and in the beginning of September will participate in an international tournament back home in the Czech Republi. Several young players appear to be in good form before the World Championship especially Rak, Hudecek and Krystof.

China - After a long-time break from the World League, Chinese men's team won four and lost eight at the World League from June 28-August 6. It finished third.
Chinese men volleyball scored a spectacular win over European powerhouse Italy at the League with an almost complete young squad. They made an eye-catching performance in matches against Spain and Venereal.
They will play a warm-up match against Denmark late this month for the preparation of the World Championships.

Greece - The Hellenic Men's National team now has some time off after the World League 2002 and will soon begin final preparations for the Championship. During this phase the team will play friendly matches against the USA at the end of August and will continue on to Argentina and play in a tournament against Argentina, Croatia, Spain and Australia.
The head coach, Stelio Prosalikas says, "We are satisfied because we played very well in the World League, in our second time in this event after a two-year absence. The 9th place we took is the base for the future. Our attention now is on the big event of the season, the World Championship and in the long run, the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. "


- YUGOSLAVIA - The chief executives of the Yugoslav Volleyball Federation have nominated a
new Selector / Head Coach of the Yugoslav National Team.
Veselin Vukovic shall sit on the bench of the Blue Team during the World
Volleyball Championships in Argentina. The other members of the
Yugoslav Staff are Aleksandar Senicic - Assistant Coach, Dragan Mihajlovic -
Trainer/Statistician, Dr. Ljuban Martinovic - Doctor, Aleksandar
Pocekovic - Physiotherapist, Vladimir Nikolic - Masseur and Dubravko Turk -
Conditioning Trainer.
National Yugoslav Team shall have its first part of their preparation
on the mountain Kopaonik, from September 1-12, 2002. The second part
shall be conducted in Beograd, after which the Team is scheduled to
leave for Argentina on September 21, 2002.


Netherlands - Olof van der Meulen has made a return to the Dutch national team. The opposite hitter and member of the Netherlands line-up at both the 1992 and 1996 Olympics - where the Netherlands came home with the gold medal - is the only surprise name in the "Orange" formation ahead of this year's World Championship in Argentina.
Setter Nico Freriks, captain Reinder Nummerdor, outside hitter Guido Gortzen, opposite Richard Schuil, libero Joost Kooistra and middle blockers Sander Olsthoorn and Mike van de Goor (brother of Superstar Bas van de Goor) form the line-up for most of the preparation matches.
Bas van de Goor, the team captain until 2000, recently announced that he will no longer be available for the Dutch national team. He is known to have suffered from health problems but says his decision to step down is not related.
The Dutch line-up will be able to flex their muscles in the 2002 World League.

Russia - The Russian side of coach Gennadi Chipouline includes several young players, including Taras Khtei, 20, and Semen Poltavsky, 21, as the squad prepares for a major tournament in Italy at the beginning of June. A number of the Russian stars are already well know to Volleyball fans in Italy, as they participate in club competitions there.
Roman Iakovlev, Alexei Kazakov and Igor Choulepov were still involved with club matches when Chipouline and his new assistant coach first gathered the squad together in May in the Russian city of Belgorod (800 km from Moscow). From June 15th, all of Russia’s elite players will continue with their concentrated preparation for the World League intercontinental round, culminating with the World League finals in Brazil at the beginning of August.

Tunisia- Tunisia's National Men's team has a good program to prepare for World Championship. They will play four matches against France's A' team this week after playing with Italy on 6 July and Italy won 3/0 (25/19-25/19-25/23). Starting from the 22nd of July the team will travel to Finland to play four matches against the Finnish national team. They will then participate in the Arab championship in Amman, Jordan from 2-8 August with Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

USA - The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team has a record of 9-11 after posting a record of 7-1 in a pair of four-match domestic tours against Australia and Canada in Louisville, Ky., June 26-July 7.
The team went 4-0 against Australia, posting wins of 3-0, 3-0, 3-1 and 3-2. Team USA then lost its first match to Canada (3-0) before winning the final three meetings on the tour: 3-0, 3-2, 3-0.
"This has proven to be a very beneficial tour for us," said Team USA head coach Doug Beal. "We have a lot of young guys that gained valuable international experience. There was enough playing and practice time that we were able to make significant evaluations of all the players. We certainly have a good group from which we can prepare some players for the 2002 World Championships and beyond. There is a lot of work to do, but this tour shows that we are headed in the right direction."
The United States now has more than a month off from competition before leaving for tours in Bulgaria and Greece in mid-August. The U.S. will then host Italy in a domestic tour in September before departing for the 2002 Men's Volleyball World Championships in Argentina Sept. 28-Oct. 13.

Egypt - The Egyptian men start an important stage in the preparation for the World Championship in Argentina on 19/8/2002 by participating in a friendly tour in Sofia, Bulgaria with USA, Slovakia and Bulgaria from 20,21,22,and 23 August. The team returns back to Egypt where they will begin a training camp until 11th September then leave for Brazil to play 4 warm up matches, They then leave to Argentina to play another 4 matches against some teams of the finals

Since there is no Australian team, im goving for Holland and Yugoslavia second

I was thinking to post this thread before. But, hey, thank's to Savo for starting it. I love volleyball. :)

Originally posted by internazionale
I was thinking to post this thread before. But, hey, thank's to Savo for starting it. I love volleyball. :)


lol .... i do too :) thats why i started it :D .... Np bro :)

i think i will go with yugoslavia
their libro is amazing the dude can take every ball
no matter where does he stand and where is the ball landing!:crazyboy:

thanks coco!! :D :)

Its true... vujic is an awesome liberal!!

The tournament starts tommorow :D :D :D :D

the games are on the 28-29-30 of sept ... :d ....... thats when it is starting!

warm up match for yugo

Jugoslavija - Poljska 3:1 (22:25, 25:23, 27:25, 25:12)

we won :D

next ....

Yugo won today in warm - ups aigain aigaint bulgaria

3-1

We lost 3-1 to Argentina :mad:

i know ...... :mad: :crazyboy:

Australia were leading 1-0 i have never heard of the players before

Results:

ARG-AUS 3-1
POR-CHN 3-1


ITA-CRO 3-0
POL-CAN 3-1

TUN-FRA 1-3
BUL-RUS 3-0

JPN-KAZ 3-1
ESP-YUG 1-3
JPN-ESP 2-3
KAZ-YUG 0-3

VEN-BRA 0-3
EGY-USA 1-3

NED-GRE 3-0
CZE-CUB 1-3
GRE-CUB 3-0

Yugoslavia victouris in both games :D :)

Originally posted by Savo
Results:
POR-CHN 3-1


:rockman:

Portugal surprises and gets his first win! (H)
One of our players is from my town. He's one of the best "liberos" of the world. :)

Originally posted by INFESTA
:rockman:

Portugal surprises and gets his first win! (H)
One of our players is from my town. He's one of the best "liberos" of the world. :)

Same here ... Mijic :) :D

Originally posted by zul-aid
Australia were leading 1-0 i have never heard of the players before

I didn't even know we were playing until i saw the result! :D

Portugal beat Australia 3-1 (25-20, 25-27, 25-21, 29-27) - :rockman: :Bow:

Portugal beat Australia 3-1 (25-20, 25-27, 25-21, 29-27) - duration 2:01
30-Sep, start time: 18:40, end time: 20:41 - Attendance: 3,500
Portugal virtually qualifies for second round
Despite injury of its star player Hugo Gaspar, Portugal posted a hard-fought victory over Australia, leaving the European side in an ideal situation in the Group A standings.
Portugal's exceptional striking combined with poor reception by Australia, left the Down Under team still winless after two matches.

BUT

Portuguese star Gaspar injured, may miss rest of championship
San Juan, Argentina - Portugal suffered a massive blow Monday when its star player Hugo Gaspar injured his right ankle midway through the fourth set of the European side´s 3-1 victory over Australia.
Gaspar, who scored 19 points during the match, may miss the rest of the championship, according to Portugal´s head coach Juan Diaz of Cuba.
"I think it may be a serious injury and that he may have to sit out the rest of the championship though it has not yet been confirmed," Diaz said. "The team is going to miss Gaspar as he is an important player."
Gaspar was taken to the local Rawson Hospital in San Juan for X-rays. It is suspected he has a sprain.
Portugal has won both of its matches so far, having defeated China 3-1 on opening day. The team has virtually qualified for the next round.:(

And I thought the whole point behind Volleyball was to watch sexy women play it on the beach dressed in skimpy clothing. :D

Yugoslavia vs. Japan 3-0

Yugoslavia murded Japan 3-0 Zip (H) :crazyboy:

Next Stage :

Grupa G: Italija, Bulgaria, Argentina, Japan

Grupa H: Portugal, Spain, Poland, Russia

Grupa J: Brazil, Czechs, Holandija, France

Grupa K: Jugoslavija, Grcka, USA , China

Originally posted by Savo
Next Stage :

Grupa G: Italija, Bulgaria, Argentina, Japan

Grupa H: Portugal, Spain, Poland, Russia

Grupa J: Brazil, Czechs, Holandija, France

Grupa K: Jugoslavija, Grcka, USA , China

No australia :f***: :kader: :rockman: :crazyboy:

Originally posted by Parra Power
No australia :f***: :kader: :rockman: :crazyboy:



sorry min .. they didnt have a good enuf record to go on

JUGO 3-0 GREECE

JUGO 3-0 CHINA

(H)

:rockman:

Portugal makes history and goes to the QFs!:rockman:

Portugal 3-2 Spain [Fantastic comeback]

Portugal 3-1 Poland [Sorry Kader. Portugl beats Poland on both World Cups :p]

portugal lost 3-0 today i think

next game is Yugo - Portugal (H) :crazyboy:

god is this still going.... ESPN is loving it, everytime its on I change the channel

Originally posted by Savo
portugal lost 3-0 today i think

next game is Yugo - Portugal (H) :crazyboy:

I saw Yugo smash us last year (I was on the pavillion) by 3-0.
Prepare for revenge!:rockman:

Originally posted by INFESTA
I saw Yugo smash us last year (I was on the pavillion) by 3-0.
Prepare for revenge!:rockman:

ehehehe lolz :p :D
u wish !!!!! :crazyboy: :D

sorry hugo .... BUT YUGOSLAVIA IS STILL UNDEFEATED


:D Jugoslavija - Portugal 3:0 (25:20, 25:23, 25:16):D

Bring the GOLD home boys!!

Damn.:(

It was anybody's game in the first 2 sets., though. Yugo has a terrific team. It's no surprise if they go all the way.

Hows USA doing?

The link savo had is broken.

Originally posted by xxxFLYERxxx
Hows USA doing?

The link savo had is broken.

oooo .... the us lost to Yugo the other day lol


:crazyboy: :D

Brazil won 3-1 over Yugo :mad: :kader: :| :f***: . I don't like being wrong.

Originally posted by Parra Power
Brazil won 3-1 over Yugo .I don't like being wrong.

**** i know man .... :( This was Yugos tournament :( ... we were undefeated until this game :( :f***:

GO BRAZIL! :rockman: :) :crazyboy: :) :rockman:

lol...Yugoslavia lost for the 1st time. :D

that sucks were eliminated, and we were the best team on there!!:kader: :kader:

lol, when we've beaten Italy ppl started thinkin about medals. Then there was 2-3 with Russia which we could have won and suddenly - bang! - 2:3 with Portugal :kader:
well, shlt happens... but happens all the time to us :'(