OFFICIAL BULLETIN No. 17 July 2007 Edition in English FÉDÉRATIONFÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE Final countdown for World League, World Grand Prix and SWATCH FIVB World Championships July and August are key months for the 2005 edition in some of the FIVB 2007 top events. Berlin won by May Fans all over the world, sitting in Treanor - Walsh and Marcio Araujo the sports halls or in front of the - Fabio. television, thanks to the worldwide broadcasting contracts signed by the 2007 FIVB FIVB, will see the best show on the World Grand sand and on the Volleyball courts. Prix Last but non least, FIVB World League 2007 the 2007 World The 2007 World League is on the run, and Grand Prix will fill while this July issue is being printed, Kato- the August agenda wice will open the door of its «Spodek» with 4 weeks full of Fabio Magalhaes against Sascha Heyer in Berlin, in 2005. SWATCH FIVB World Championships hall with its 10,120 seats to the six teams spikes and passion, is now staged in Gstaad qualified. Of course, has a big with a total of 65 dream: they’ve never been on a World matches played by League podium and, aside from having lot some of the best women’s national teams player on the sand, too. The 2007 Youth of fans on the stands as host country, Raul on planet Earth. The very first referee’s SWATCH FIVB World Championships in Lozano’s team is one of the more powerful whistle is expected on the 3rd of August: Myslowice will be held in July (11th-15th), squads seen in the Pools. The competitors during the first, second and third week while the Junior SWATCH FIVB World are not there to watch and this 18th edi- each team will play 9 matches. Prelimi- Championships will take place in Modena tion promises to be one of the best ever. nary rounds will be organized in Japan (3), in September. , Poland, Macau, Hong Kong, Russia SWATCH FIVB World and Chinese Taipei. Quick Sets Championships The final fireworks are expected in Ningbo, World Volley News opens a new column The SWATCH FIVB World Championships where from 22nd to 26th of August the top with this July issue: «Quick sets», like the will live a superb edition, the first ever 5 ranked teams among , Chinese fastest Mikasa ball spiked by a middle- played in the Alps. Gstaad has shown in Taipei, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Italy, blocker, will tell short Volleyball tales from the past how great its organization can be, Japan, Kazakhstan, The Netherlands, around the world, reporting facts and having set up many SWATCH World Tour Poland, Russia, U.S.A. and the host coun- close-up faces. All the media around the events in the past. From 24th to 29th of try will give their best to find an heir world are invited to contribute, otherwise July tons of sand will be poured beneath to Brazil, 2006 champion for the third they’re welcome to contact the FIVB Press the mountains to crown the best men and year in a row and six times gold medal in Department if they need to have more women Beach Volleyball players, after the World Grand Prix history. details of these stories for their publica- The Ningbo Beilun Gymnasium, tions. designed especially for Volley- ball events, is expected to fill its 8,000 places with enthusiastic In this Issue fans, like it has been for the last Volleyball 14 editions. • 2007 World League: Top Events for future top weekends 3, 4 and 5 players Beach Volleyball The FIVB calendar also features • SWATCH FIVB World Tour the 2007 Men’s Junior World Championship (Casablanca & Development Rabat, Morocco, 7th - 15th July • AVC steps up developing 2007), the 2007 Women’s Junior Volleyball World Championship (Nakhon- rachasima, Thailand, 20th - 27th National Federations July 2007), the 2007 Girls’ Youth • British National Team players FIVB World World Championship (Tijuana join the Dutch League Grand Prix. & Mexicali, Mexico, 31st July Sassa spiking for - 11th August 2007), followed on • CEV awards in Vienna Brazil against the same site by the 2007 Boys’ Quick Sets Russia in last Youth World Championship from year final • News from planet Earth 15th to 26th of August. Young www.fivb.org Volleyball

VOLLEYBALL MEN Rodrigao (BRA) and 2007 FIVB World League Kyoung-Min (KOR). The long way to Katowice Brazil has won four World League in a row The FIVB World Even with its stars back in the 12’s, Egypt League gets closer in Pool C wasn’t able to stop the spiking to its Final Round. machines from Russia. In Cuba, Serbia All over the world, started with a tie-break loss. Too many sixteen teams are errors and an outstanding match played competing for the by Michael Sanchez, nicknamed ‘The Rus- six places in Kato- sian’ (28 points), had the standing ovation wice: Poland as of the 15,000 audience. The Serbian an- hosting country, the first teams in each swer wasn’t far away: 1-3. Pool, plus one wild card chosen by the ’s home debut against Bulgar- FIVB. Brazil, Russia and Bulgaria are ia could even have been different, if the the first teams to get their tickets for young Argentinean team had not spoilt a the “Spodek” hall. Here is the story of 3-0 start in the fifth set (2-3). The Sunday three tough weekends. match wasn’t so similar: Bulgaria realized a perfect 0-3. Two wins for Poland closed WEEK 3 the week-end in China. 1-3 in the first match, then the Polish experience was disease, Paparoni was in. In Strasbourg, In Pool A, the first applause to Brazil came heavy enough to overthrow an 8-4 in the France gained 4 points, but Japan was from the Brazilian Sport Minister, Orlando tie-break (14-16) of the second match. 41 very close to getting another important Silva Jr., sat in the Ibirapuera Gymnasium points by Michal Winiarsky in two days. victory. French setter Pujol hurt his ankle, beside Ary Graça, President of the CBV. Loïc Le Marrec was setting for the second The time zone was an added player: the WEEK 4 game. Japan, driven especially by Nao- South Korean team was really tired and hiro, Koshikawa and Ishijima, had the closed the tour with no sets won at all. For Canada, the matches played in the tie-break chance but a 8-3 leading was Finland smiled after the 3-0 and 3-1 vic- Mineirinho gymnasium in unbeatable. tories with Canada that meant a second were ‘Mission Impossible 1 & 2’. In front Egypt managed to win its second set dur- place in the standings behind Brazil. Lahti of 13,120 fans, the opposite spiker Ander- ing the Sunday match against Russia, but was packed with a very young audience: son was particularly stirred to action with after the tour in Kazan still lacked victo- 10,300 in two days, most of all from a jun- 14 points, leading the action since Canada ries. Having to forget their start, includ- ior cup played beside the event. had only 4 team blocks. After this 3-0, the ing a set lost 25-8, Egypt played a good Pool B starts with two matches at the mir- Saturday match was a little bit better for second match: it ended on 3-1, showing ror. France - U.S.A. 3-1 on Friday, reverse Canada (3-1): but a terrific wave of 17.628 a nice battle between the two top scor- result on Saturday. Without captain An- excited spectators pushed Brazil to victory. ers, Semen Poltavsky (RUS, 19 points) tiga, recovering, France found a leader in With two 3-1 in a row, Finland beat Korea and Ahmed Abd Elnaeim (EGY, 18 points). Frantz Granvorka not just as a new cap- in Turku. The second match was tougher: Vadim Khamuttskikh, captain of the na- tain. But on Saturday the U.S.A. had a re- a strong Korea won the first set, and then tional team of Russia, stressed his worry- ally different attitude: Salmon (18 points) a quick Finnish team came back to close ing: “The Egyptian team has given a good and partners could be satisfied with the the game. lesson for us: never relax, always keep Lyon experience. The biggest surprise U.S.A. made a double strike against Italy. level, every match all the team, includ- came from Japan, where the eight-time In Chicago, Gardner and Priddy (18) were ing the ones expected to be sitting in the World League champion, Italy, fell in the nearly unstoppable for the ‘Azzurri’, who bench, should be ready to play and fight second Komaki match on the tie break. made 19 service errors and lost the first for every ball.” Two cities, Beograd and Memories come from last year when, dur- match 3-1. In the second match, Italy Novi Sad, and two completely different sto- ing the World League pools, Japan took an was forced to change the libero: having ries for Serbia - Cuba. Supported by more important scalp beating Serbia 3-0. Alessandro Farina out for a labyrinthitis than 8,000 people, mainly youngsters,

Week 3 - Results Week 4 - Results Week 5 - Results Date Teams Result Date Teams Result Date Teams Result Pool A - Intercontinental Round Pool A - Intercontinental Round Pool A - Intercontinental Round 08-Jun Brazil - Korea 3-0 15-Jun Brazil - Canada 3-0 23-Jun Korea - Finland 1-3 08-Jun Finland - Canada 3-0 15-Jun Finland - Korea 3-1 22-Jun Canada - Brazil 0-3 09-Jun Brazil - Korea 3-0 16-Jun Brazil - Canada 3-1 24-Jun Korea - Finland 2-3 09-Jun Finland - Canada 3-1 16-Jun Finland - Korea 3-1 23-Jun Canada - Brazil 0-3 Pool B - Intercontinental Round Pool B - Intercontinental Round Pool B - Intercontinental Round 08-Jun France - U.S.A. 3-1 15-Jun U.S.A. - Italy 3-1 22-Jun France - Italy 2-3 09-Jun Japan - Italy 1-3 16-Jun U.S.A. - Italy 3-0 23-Jun Japan - U.S.A. 0-3 09-Jun France - U.S.A. 1-3 16-Jun France - Japan 3-0 23-Jun France - Italy 3-1 10-Jun Japan - Italy 3-2 17-Jun France - Japan 3-2 24-Jun Japan - U.S.A. 0-3 Pool C - Intercontinental Round Pool C - Intercontinental Round Pool C - Intercontinental Round 08-Jun Egypt - Russia 0-3 16-Jun Russia - Egypt 3-0 22-Jun Egypt - Serbia 0-3 08-Jun Cuba - Serbia 3-2 16-Jun Serbia - Cuba 3-2 23-Jun Russia - Cuba 3-0 09-Jun Cuba - Serbia 1-3 17-Jun Russia - Egypt 3-1 24-Jun Russia - Cuba 3-0 10-Jun Egypt - Russia 0-3 17-Jun Serbia - Cuba 0-3 24-Jun Egypt - Serbia 0-3 Pool D - Intercontinental Round Pool D - Intercontinental Round Pool D - Intercontinental Round 09-Jun Argentina - Bulgaria 2-3 16-Jun Argentina - Poland 1-3 23-Jun Bulgaria - Poland 1-3 09-Jun China - Poland 1-3 16-Jun China - Bulgaria 0-3 23-Jun China - Argentina 3-0 10-Jun China - Poland 2-3 17-Jun China - Bulgaria 0-3 24-Jun China - Argentina 3-2 10-Jun Argentina - Bulgaria 0-3 17-Jun Argentina - Poland 0-3 24-Jun Bulgaria - Poland 1-3

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Serbia managed to win after a disastrous to control and only the 12-15 Mikko Esko and start, stopping a Cuban match point in the tie-break put the word ‘the his Finland, a forth set. In the fifth set, the Serbs took end’ to a very tough match. surprise from the control of the game. But with 14 blocks, The U.S.A. defeated twice northern Europe Cuba was able to grab all three sets in the Japan 3-0: it completed an second match. “This was a game of cat 8-0 sweep of Japan in World and mouse” says Serbian head coach Igor League action for the past two Kolakovic. “Cuba demonstrated all of its seasons. Gabe Gardner and strength and potential. We let them have Reid Priddy were again the the initiative in the second part of the first leaders. Japan’s Yu Koshikawa set and we lost self-confidence.” on the other side of the net was Martin Stoev’s team is the first to qualify overcharged and played at its for the Final Round (except Poland, host- best, but the jump serves re- ing country). In Chengdu, too narrow cor- ception was not good enough. ridors were left to the Chinese team by The weekend in Paris ended the World Championship bronze medal in a tie between France-Italy: winners. Even tired after a 71 hours jour- 2-3, 3-1. An overheated audi- ney, Zhekov and his partners blocked 14 ence of 9,910 welcomed the times their opponents in the first game, first Volleyball game played in having a replay of 10 in the second one the mythic Sports Hall of Paris (both 0-3 matches). Even if China was re- Bercy in 4 years. The competi- ally better, closing sets with 22, 24, and tors rewarded the audience 27 points respectively. “Those very scores with a two hours match, and a long play- of more than 7,000 people (with the Presi- we lost” said Zhou Jianan, China’s head ing tie-break (17-19). The day after was dent of Bulgaria Mr. Georgi Parvanov in coach “shows the distance between our really different: thanks to a cunning heavy the VIP stand), Poland won the first match two teams.” Coach Raul Lozano beat twice serve and a much better presence of the on Saturday. As for Martin Stoev, coach his home country Argentina. The young middleblockers, France in front of 9,300 of Bulgaria, “this match is a real test for home team managed to win just one set cheering fans managed to take its revenge the Poland and Bulgaria’s level before the on Saturday, and then on Sunday they lost in four sets. finals.” In the second game, after many 0-3, not taking advantage of the bad at- Serbia overtook Cuba in the standings of equalizers in the fourth set, the guest team tacking mood showed in some part of the Pool C, thanks to a double 0-3 signed in managed to win again with Swiderski, match by Poland. Cairo, while Russia was doing the same Wlazly and Gruszka playing at their top. in Kazan against Cuba. Russia conquered China celebrated for its first 2007 World WEEK 5 the Final Round losing just one match in League wins obtained in Chengdu. Argen- Havana. But there wasn’t any reply from tina improved its game after the first 3-0, Brazil won Pool A one week early and got Orlando Samuel’s team during this Rus- but was stopped during the tie break after its ticket to the Final Round. ‘Mister World’ sian tour. It’s true that many sets could be having reached 11 points. China’s Head Giba (he was the best player during the turned in favour of the Caribbeans, but Coach Zhou Jianan: “It was an excel- 2006 World Championship) made his de- Alekno’s team always had perfect control lent match, both of two teams show their but with 13 points: together with Dante over the last ball. While Alexander Korneev strength. What we lack of is our capacity Amaral, he was the best scorer of the 0-3 was on the court, his wife was giving birth adapting match tempo, which we have to marked against Canada. The second game to their daughter, something to celebrate improve through the World League.” in Mississauga (10,500 audience in two together with a 2 points match. Egypt still days) was another 0-3. Finland reached lacked of victories after 5 weekends, play- Standings - After week 5 Matches its target, locking the second place in ing its first ever World League match un- Rk Country Points Pool A after beating twice Korea. In the der the supervision of an Egyptian coach Won Lost first match in Yangsan, 17 Finnish blocks (Ahmed Zakaria replaced the Polish Grze- Pool A - Intercontinental Round stopped all Korean aims (1-3). Korea was gorz Rys). Serbia needed 79 minutes to 1 Brazil 20 10 0 stronger in the second match: Moon Sung clinch for 3-0 its 2007 World League fifth 2 Finland 17 7 3 Min (best scorer with 25 points) was hard victory. A 17,700 audience in two days 3 Korea 12 2 8 wasn’t sufficient 4 Canada 11 1 9 to pull Egypt and Pool B - Intercontinental Round even the Sunday 1 U.S.A. 18 8 2 match had a Ser- 2 France 16 6 4 bian signature. 3 Italy 11 3 5 After weeks of lead- 4 Japan 9 1 7 ership, Bulgaria Pool C - Intercontinental Round lost the first place 1 Russia 19 9 1 in Pool D. The 2 Serbia 16 6 4 two top matches 3 Cuba 15 5 5 saw the Bulgarian 4 Egypt 10 0 10 team losing its first Pool D - Intercontinental Round matches (both 1- 1 Poland 20 10 0 3) against Poland. 2 Bulgaria 18 8 2 Raul Lozano’s 3 China 12 2 8 team is the only 4 Argentina 10 0 10 Sold out everywhere in unbeaten squad The organizer (Poland), the winner of Poland for the World League in the 2007 World matches. Here Kadziewicz and each pool, plus one wild card chosen by League together Gruszka against China the FIVB, to go through to the Final Round with Brazil. In front in Katowice from 11-15 July 2007.

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BEACH VOLLEYBALL MEN & WOMEN The FIVB SWATCH FIVB World Tour SWATCH 9 medals for Brazil, Europe claims its space World Tour and… the Tour June 6-10 - Women’s Open ing only for the third-time on the SWATCH Warsaw - Poland - Podium Finish circuit. The Estonians, who were captur- GOLD ing their first-ever medal in an Open FIVB 1 Larissa - Juliana BRA event, advanced to the finals with a 21- SILVER 19, 17-21 and 15-12 win in 60 minutes 2 Adriana Behar - Shelda BRA over fifth-seeded Dmitri Barsouk and Igor BRONZE Kolodinsky of Russia, who won the bronze 3 Xue - Zhang Xi CHN beating Austrian Schacht-Slack and even top-seeded Brazilian team of Ricardo San- Just before a downpour, Juliana Felis- tos and Emanuel Rego in Round 4. berta Silva and Larissa Franca claimed their 15th SWATCH FIVB World Tour gold June 12-16 - Women’s Open medal. The Agrykola Prak centre court in Espinho - - Podium Finish GOLD Mysliwiecka was the main court where Juliana and Larissa’s hard-hitting attack 1 Larissa - Juliana BRA produced a 21-18 and 21-17 win in 46 SILVER minutes over fifth-seeded Adriana Be- 2 Goller - Ludwig GER har and Shelda Bede in the first All-Bra- BRONZE zilian this season on the SWATCH FIVB 3 Renata - Talita BRA World Tour. Juliana, who was named the SWATCH most outstanding player, and It was a great day for Brazilian Beach Vol- USD 12,000 for their first SWATCH semi- her 25-year old partner Larissa rebound- leyball on the Praia da Baia in Espinho final appearance this season. ed from an opening defeat Friday to Tam- as two women’s tandems from the South sin Barnett and Natalie Cook of Australia American country captured medals in the June 13-17 - Men’s Open 24-22, 15-21 and 16-14 to win their next USD 400,000 Open of Portugal to join three Espinho - Portugal - Podium Finish GOLD five matches in the second annual GE men’s teams in earning podium spots. Ju- Money Bank Warsaw Open to share the liana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca 1 Emanuel - Ricardo BRA USD 32,000 first-place prize. This was joined rivals Talita Antunes and Renata SILVER also Juliana and Larissa’s 12-straight win Ribeiro on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour 2 Franco - Cunha BRA over Adriana and Shelda on the SWATCH podium for the first-time this season. Sec- BRONZE FIVB World Tour after losing the first two ond-seeded Juliana and Larissa captured 3 Fabio Luiz - Marcio Araujo BRA matches to their Brazilian rivals in 2004. their 16th SWATCH title to share the USD In the bronze medal match, Chen Xue and 32,000 first-place prize: with their 17-21, Brazil put on a show for the Praia da Baia Xi Zhang denied Brazil a podium sweep 21-16 and 15-13 win in 58 minutes over fans as the SWATCH FIVB World Tour gold as the young Chinese posted a 21-18 and 13th-seeded Sara Goller and Laura Lud- medal was won by Emanuel Rego and 21-14 victory over the third-seeded Talita wig of Germany, Juliana and Larissa have Ricardo Santos. With their 18-21, 21-17 and Renata in 39 minutes. now split USD 992,950 in SWATCH win- and 19-17 win in 69 minutes over second- nings since forming their partnership 42 seeded Pedro Cunha and Franco Neto, the June 6-10 - Men’s Open FIVB events ago at the start of the 2004 top-seeded Emanuel and Ricardo snapped Zagreb - Croatia - Podium Finish season. During this stretch, Juliana and their longest drought between gold medal GOLD Larissa have 33 SWATCH medals with 22- finishes on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour 1 Kais Kr. - Vesik EST straight «final four» finishes. In the bronze since forming their partnership at the end SILVER medal match, Talita and Renata out-lasted of the 2002 season, winning a record of 2 Heuscher - Heyer SUI 18th-seeded Vasso Karadassiou and Vas- 25 men’s FIVB titles in 60 international BRONZE siliki Arvaniti of Greece 21-15, 17-21 and Beach Volleyball starts together. Harley 3 Barsouk-Kolodinsky RUS 16-14 in 61 minutes. The Greeks earned and Salgado where stopped in the bronze medal match by With a Brazilian men’s team not participat- Marcio Araujo and ing in a SWATCH FIVB World Tour ‘final Fabio Magalhaes four’ for the first-time in 23 events, Beach (21-16 and 21-16 Volleyball tandems from Estonia and Swit- in 43 minutes). zerland won semi-final matches in the Both Harley/Sal- USD 200,000 VIP Open on the Lake Jarun gado (China) and centre court, in Zagreb. Both the teams of Marcio Araujo/ seventh-seeded Patrick Heuscher/Sascha Fabio (Italy) had Heyer of Switzerland and 16th-seeded won SWATCH gold Kristjan Kais/Rivo Vesik of Estonia had to medals earlier this win their way to the finals of the fourth season. Emanuel men’s event on the 2007 SWATCH FIVB and Ricardo went World Tour calendar through the elimina- on to win the Open tion bracket as both pairs dropped their of Portugal gold opening matches to teams from Japan medal for the third and Germany, respectively. While Kais time in the last five and Vesik were competing in their 51st A shot from Zagreb: the fury of Sascha Heyer years (2003 and with teammate Heuscher against Vesik from Estonia FIVB event together, the Swiss were play- 2004) on the Praia

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da Baia. Emanuel and Ricardo each have me to defend behind her block. Obviously, five Open of Portugal titles with different we were pointing to this match since Jia partners. Emanuel, who was also named and Jie eliminated us in Austria last year. the SWATCH most outstanding player, They are a great team, but we put a lot of claimed back-to-back Portuguese titles in pressure on them with our game plan to- 1998 and 1999 with Jose Loiola. Ricardo day.” Tyra Turner and Rachel Wacholder 2007 Men’s Top Ten Teams Code Points won the 2000 Open of Portugal crown claimed the bronze medal for the United on June 25 with Ze Marco de Melo before topping the States with a 21-17 and 21-16 win over 1 Emanuel - Ricardo BRA 2 900 podium against in 2001 title Loiola. the top-seeded Juliana and Larissa. 2 Fabio Luiz - Marcio Araujo BRA 2 180 3 Barsouk - Kolodinsky RUS 2 140 June 19-24 - Women’s Grand Slam June 20-24 - Men’s Grand Slam 4 Franco - Cunha BRA 2 100 Paris - France - Podium Finish Paris - France - Podium Finish 5 Harley - Pedro BRA 2 020 GOLD GOLD 6 Brink - Dieckmann Ch. GER 1 820

1 Walsh - May-Treanor USA 1 Emanuel - Ricardo BRA 7 Heuscher - Heyer SUI 1 740 SILVER SILVER 8 Kais Kr. - Vesik EST 1 580 2 Tian Jia - Wang CHN 2 Franco - Cunha BRA 9 Xu - Wu CHN 1 520 BRONZE BRONZE 10 Herrera - Mesa ESP 1 500 3 Wacholder - Turner USA 3 Lambert - Metzger USA 2007 Women’s Top Ten Code Points The United States’ Misty May-Treanor and The magnificent site in Paris also hosted Teams on June 25 Kerri Walsh ‘followed their game plan’ to the USD 600,000 Henkel Grand Chelem 1 Tian Jia - Wang CHN 3 060 gain revenge and to regain the top of the title for Men, with a standing ovation for 2 Larissa - Juliana BRA 2 660 podium in front of the Eiffel Tower to win the reigning Olympic champions Emanuel 3 Renata - Talita BRA 2 420 the women’s gold medal in the final match and Ricardo’s gold medal. The world’s No. 4 Xue - Zhang Xi CHN 2 340 of the USD 600,000 Henkel Grand Chelem. 1-ranked Beach Volleyball team defeated 5 Barnett - Cook AUS 1 980 With their 21-15 and 21-12 win in 42 Brazilian rivals Pedro Cunha and Fran- 6 Leila - Ana Paula BRA 1 400 minutes over third-seeded Jia Tian and co Neto before an over-flowing crowd 7 Karadassiou - Arvaniti GRE 1 280 Jie Wang, the second-seeded May-Trean- of 7,000 on the Champ de Mars center 8 Goller - Ludwig GER 1 240 or and Walsh avenged an elimination set- court. In securing the USD 43,500 first- 9 Schwaiger - Schwaiger AUT 1 220 Brink-Abeler - Jurich GER 1 220

gold medal near the Eiffel Tower for the first time in three attempts after finishing ninth and third in their first two Henkel Grand Chelems the past two years. This title was also FIVB gold medal No. 26 for the 2003 SWATCH FIVB World champions along with Emanuel’s 62nd and Ricardo’s 42nd on the international circuit. “It is great to play in front of one of the world’s most famous sites,” said the 34-year old Emanuel, who was winning his 108 Beach Volleyball title since 1994. “It is even more special to win in Paris before such a great site. Obviously, the Olympic and World Championships are the best, but this one ranks among the best ever on this tour.” In the bronze medal match, 14th-seeded Mike Lambert and Stein Metzger of the United States posted a 21-12 and 21-17 win over sixth-seeded Julius Brink and The podium in Espinho: Pedro, Franco, Emanuel, Ricardo, Christoph Dieckmann of Germany to split Fabio, Marcio Araujo and his Mirela with her favourite SWATCH USD 23,000 for third-place. back to the Chinese in the Austrian Grand place prize with Misty May-Treanor Slam last August for the American’s low- a 19-21, 21-17 and Kerri Walsh: just est international finish since a 1992 ninth. and 15-12 win in in time for Gstaad In addition, May-Treanor and Walsh re- 71 minutes over gained the Henkel Grand Chelem title af- the third-seeded ter losing the 2006 gold medal match on Cunha and Franco, the Champ de Mars to Juliana Felisberta the second-seed- Silva and Larissa Franca of Brazil in three ed Emanuel and sets. A year earlier on May-Treanor’s 27th Ricardo captured birthday, the Americans defeated Juliana the first of five ‘ma- and Larissa in the inaugural Henkel Grand jor’ stops on the Chelem finale. “We were better prepared 2007 SWATCH for this match,” said May-Treanor, who FIVB World Tour was winning her 25th SWATCH title with calendar. In addi- Walsh and 28th FIVB crown overall. “Ker- tion, the Brazilians ri did a great job at the net that allowed were winning a

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VOLLEYBALL MEN & WOMEN AVC Board of Administration decides to step up developing Volleyball QuickSets Giba,G The Asian Volleyball Confed- the meeting and declared AVC’s strong a Brazilian fan eration (AVC) Board of Ad- solidarity with the FIVB and support of all WWaiting to step ministration meeting held in AVC members for FIVB President, Rubén upu in the 2007 June in Kuala Lumpur took Acosta. Mr. Wei stressed that the AVC is WWorld League, many decisions to develop Volleyball always putting FIVB missions as priority, ‘‘MisterM World and Beach Volleyball in Asia. and taking immediate measures in order GGiba’, MVP in the to fulfil them. The Presi- WWorld Champion- dent said that the meet- sship 2006, was ing would concentrate oone of the 31,000 on how to develop Vol- BrazilianB fans in leyball and how to draw BeloB Horizonte more teams to partici- aand he was doing pate in AVC events. A thet ‘ola’ among new competition format thet 22,000 in Sao called ‘Asian Cup for Paulo.P “I´d never Men’ and ‘Asian Cup bbeen present at for Women’ will be held a Brazilian game every two years: the top before. I always stayed in the court and eight teams will partici- never saw the show. At Sao Paulo and pate in the Asian Cup. Belo Horizonte I could see everything. The AVC Board of Administration last meeting It’s a wonderful show. The fans love us”. The Board suggested After the 2007 World League and the The meeting reviewed the progress in the remodelling the Asian Beach Volleyball summer, Giba will join Iskra Odintsovo, sport in the past year, especially: Championship in order to promote Beach moving to Russia together with his wife Volleyball and encourage more countries Cristina Pirv, former captain of Romania, L More and more AVC members actively to participate in the Championship. and their daughter Nicoll, born in 2004 participated in the AVC events, the just after the Olympic tie-break Brazil- Board especially noted that the Wom- The AVC President stated: “We have a Italy. en’s National team from Iran will take great potential in developing Beach Vol- part in the 2007 Asian Senior Women’s leyball. The AVC must put priority on A Beach Volleyball national Championship for the first time, which more participation and not on the prize tournament in Gabon shows the popularization of Volleyball money.” The meeting also requested the in Asia. FIVB to give more support to the AVC Beach Volleyball circuits. L Asian Volleyball made great progress, especially in the AVC Western Zone, The three FIVB development centres in where the sport is developing faster Asia are playing a great role in helping and faster. Asia raise the technical and management level: they will have more financial and L Beach Volleyball in Asia got more and material support and Indonesia will have more attention from AVC members. a new one next year.

The meeting also pointed out that Vol- The AVC will propose to the upcoming leyball in Asia is still not developing fast AVC general Assembly to create a Medical enough and that one of the most immedi- Commission for carrying doping tests for ate and urgent tasks that the AVC is fac- AVC events, composed by three members The new Board of the Gabon National ing is to raise the level of Asian Volleyball. (Thailand, Eastern Zone and Western Federation has recently introduced AVC President Wei Jizhong addressed Zone). Beach Volleyball in its activities. Thanks to the sponsor, Red Bull, the tournament In order to give equal chances to the registered 24 men’s team, 20 veterans All Contributions teams participating in the Asian Senior team and 12 women’s team. At the same Men’s and Women’s Volleyball Champi- time, youngsters come every Sunday to Welcome! onships, the meeting decided to change learn Beach Volleyball. Please send your comments the final round, which will be played on and articles by e-mail to: a round robin system instead of a cross Two Volleyball legends press@fivb.org match system. on the beach Two Volleyball legends, Cuban Mireya or by mail / fax to: The meeting asked the AVC Development Luis and Brazilian , played Fédération Internationale and Marketing Committee to concentrate Beach Volleyball together on a beach east de Volleyball its work on helping members from cat- of Havana to promote this sport among Avenue de la Gare 12 egory one and two, and also to encourage young people. The match was part of CH-1001 Lausanne - Switzerland the AVC National Federations to avail the a social program, ‘Initiative Building aid program from the Volleyball Coopera- Tel : +41 (21) 345 35 35 the Future’, supported by the Brazilian tion Programme, which is part of the FIVB Fax: +41 (21) 345 35 45 Sports Ministry and the Cuban Institute Volleyball World Vision 2012.

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VOLLEYBALL MEN & WOMEN British Volleyball Federation has announced an exciting collaboration with the Dutch Volleyball team Martinus

The partnership will see players in the Sara Symington, Performance Programme GB men’s squad playing 28 League Consultant for UK Sport said: “It is great games in the Dutch Pro A League to see British Volleyball taking an innova- under the name of Martinus for the tive approach to the development of the season 2007 - 08. The players will men’s squad. Moving the players to Hol- be based in Am- land will provide a great opportunity to stelveen from Oc- accelerate the squad’s development in the tober through to coming months as they take another sig- of Sports. Luis, one of the greatest fe- April and train- nificant step towards 2012. We’d male Cuban Volleyball stars of the last 20 ing daily under like to congratulate them for spotting the years – member of the Olympic Cham- the direction of opportunity and Club Martinus for help- pion team in Barcelona 1992, Atlanta GB Head Coach ing to make it happen.” 1996 and Sydney 2000 – is currently Harry Brokking. chief of marketing for the Cuban Vol- Harry Brokking, Head GB Coach said: leyball Federation. Silva won the Beach With the London 2012 Olympic and Para- “This exciting partnership will allow play- Volleyball Olympic title in Atlanta 1996 lympic Games just five years away the ers to build on their training together and together with Sandra Pires, the first time British Volleyball Federation has put in work as a team regularly in a highly com- that this sport was in the Olympics. place elite development programmes for petitive environment, essential for the de- its indoor, beach and sitting disciplines velopment of the squad at this stage.” Maurizia through the support of UK Sport. CacciatoriC The team started a daily centre based retires The Dutch Federation (NEVOBO) has ac- programme based EIS Sheffield in June MauriziaM Cac- cepted this move and British Volleyball this year and will be based out of the ciatori,c the fa- Chairman, Richard Callicott, welcomes venue until the move to Amstelveen in mousm Italian their support. “We are delighted for the October. They will then return to Sheffield setters awarded support from the Dutch Federation and, of in May 2008 to continue their prepara- byb the FIVB as course Martinus in this development. This tions for a summer of International fix- BestB Setter after opportunity will provide an integral boost tures. Martinus already have experience thet 1998 World to our London 2012 preparations... To in working alongside the developments of ChampionshipsC have the support of a club with the status National Programmes as the Dutch Wom- ini Japan, has and history of Martinus is a huge boost to en’s team plays under the name of Dela planned to retire. During her career, she the men’s team.” Martinus. also had experiences as a model and TV show performer, and played Beach VOLLEYBALL MEN & WOMEN Volleyball, too. In 2007, she played for Mammadova, Wlazly and Muculescu Spanish Club Icaro in Palma de Mallor- ca, being promoted from second to first honoured in Vienna Spanish division. She’s now been offered a position as sport director of the team. During the European Volley- matches of the Champions’ League “And now it’s also time to plan: a ‘baby ball Gala in Vienna, where 2006/07 League Round, finishing on top Cacciatori’ and a new team for Palma” the drawing of lots for the of the ‘Best Scorer’ list. The Azerbai- says Maurizia. eighth edition of the Indesit jan was also ‘Best Scorer’ of the League European Champions’ League took Round 2005/06 (285 points in ten match- place, Natalya Mammadova and Mar- es played) and 2004/05 (196 points in ten iusz Wlazly were honoured as ‘Best matches played). Scorers’ of the 2006/07 IECL League ‘Best Scorer’ in the Men’s Indesit Europe- Round, and Stelian Moculescu re- an Champions’ League 2006/07 was Pole ceived the award for ‘Best Coach’. Mariusz Wlazly from BOT Skra Belchatow, booking 212 points during the ten pool Stelian Moculescu, 57-year-old Romanian matches. The President of the Polish Vol- known as ‘Stelu’, who coaches the German leyball Federation Mr. Miroslaw Przedpel- men’s national team since 1999 as well ski was present to receive the award. as the German club VfB Frie- drichshafen, managed to lead his team to their first Cham- pions’ League victory during the Final Four in Moscow in Andrea ‘Zorro’ Zorzi representing 2007. The German Champion the FIVB for IOC and Cup Winner has left Eu- The FIVB has chosen Andrea ‘Zorro’ rope’s top club competition Zorzi as its representative at the 3rd twice as second ranked (1996 International Athletes’ Forum that will and 2000) and once as bronze take place in Dubai, on 27th and 28th medallist (1999). Peter Kleinmann, Natalya Mammadova, CEV President André Meyer, Stelian October. (follow on page 8) Natalya Mammadova scored Moculescu and Miroslaw Przedpelski 160 points during the six

FIVB World Volley News No.17 July 2007 7 Calendars

Technical Courses and Seminars Calendar - July-August 2007 QuickSets DATES COURSE PLACE SPONSOR July 1-5 Technical Seminar Players FIVB July 1-12 Coaches Level I Maldive Islands FIVB July 5-16 Coaches Level I Tunisia FIVB July 11-22 Coaches Level I Iran FIVB July 16-20 Volleyball Information System Thailand, Kingdom of FIVB July 16-27 Coaches Level I Somalia FIVB July 25-Aug. 6 Coaches Level II Tunisia FIVB July 28-Aug. 8 Coaches Level I Virgin Islands FIVB August 1-12 Coaches Level I Sudan FIVB August 6-10 Technical Seminar Young Players Venezuela FIVB August 7-12 Beach Refereeing IRCC Liechstenstein FIVB August 8-21 Coaches Level II Barbados FIVB August 9-17 Beach Refereeing IRCC China FIVB August 11-19 Refereeing IRCC Poland FIVB August 18-22 Technical Seminar Defense FIVB August 18-29 Coaches Level I Bahrain FIVB “Zorzi – says Dr. Rubén Acosta H., Presi- August 18-30 Coaches Level II Malaysia FIVB dent of the FIVB – is an excellent rep- August 19-30 Coaches Level I Dominica FIVB resentative for our sport and the inter- August 19-30 Coaches Level I Nicaragua FIVB ests of Volleyball and Beach Volleyball players”. Zorzi, one of the most famous Volleyball Cooperation Programme Calendar - July-August 2007 Volleyball spikers, left the Italian team in 1996, stopping his career in the DATES COURSE PLACE clubs in 1998, when he began to work as a journalist and TV commentator. July 1-6 Young Players Lebanon July 4-9 Refereeing Bhutan July 6-11 Beach Volleyball Mozambique Tang Miao injured July 11-18 Coaches Solomon Islands The 25 year-old Chinese player Tang July 16-21 Teachers Paraguay Miao suffered a terrible injury in St. Pe- July 16-21 Beach Volleyball Vanuatu tersburg during a training session. The July 30-Aug. 4 Teachers Togo July 30- Aug. 4 Teachers Seychelles August 1-6 Refereeing Congo August 6-11 Beach Volleyball Côte d’Ivoire August 6-11 Teachers Rwanda August 6-11 Beach Volleyball St. Kitts August 10-17 Coaches Congo Democratic Republic August 12-19 Coaches Botswana August 14-21 Coaches Cameroon

2007 Global Calendar - Competitions and Events - Volleyball and Beach Volleyball DATES EVENT COUNTRY CONF. M/W

June 26-July 6 Boris Yeltsin Cup Russia CEV June 30-July 5 VIII. International Baltic Cup for Juniors and Youth 2007 Pobierowo (POL) CEV July 4-8 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Open Montréal, Canada FIVB M/W spiker, one of the best Chinese players, July 5-8 NESTEA European Championship Tour Swiss Masters Lucerne, Switzerland CEV also included in the 18’s selection for July 6-8 CAZOVA Beach Volleyball Tour Trinidad & Tobago NORCECA M/W the 2007 World League, was in Rus- July 7-8 European League Final Four Portugal CEV sia with his club team to play a friendly July 7-15 Men’s Junior Volleyball World Championship Casablanca/Rabat, Morocco FIVB M match when he seriously injured his July 4-14 U-20 Caribbean Championship (CAZOVA) US Virgin Islands NORCECA M/W neck. Tang Miao is the husband of July 4-14 U-21 Caribbean Championship (CAZOVA) US Virgin Islands NORCECA M Zhou Suhong, the captain of the wom- July 9-15 U-21 Central American Championship Costa Rica NORCECA M en’s national team. July 10-14 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Grand Slam Berlin, Germany FIVB W July 11-15 World League Finals Katowice, Poland FIVB M July 11-15 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Grand Slam Berlin, Germany FIVB M Top Philippine player killed July 11-15 SWATCH FIVB Youth World Championships Myslowice, Poland FIVB M/W The Volleyball family is in mourning July 14-29 XV Pan-American Sport Games , Brazil NORCECA M/W after Ronie Borlagdatan, the 22 year- July 16-20 NORCECA Mini Volleyball Championships Colima, Mexico NORCECA M/W old star of the ’ national July 17-21 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Open Marseille, France FIVB W team, was shot dead together with two July 17-22 Pan-American Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil NORCECA W friends on 4th June by July 18-21 European U18 Beach Volleyball Championships Brno, Czech Republic CEV July 18-22 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Open Marseille, France FIVB M unknown robbers. July 20-27 Women’s Junior U20 World Championship Suphanburi, Thailand FIVB W He was a graduating July 21-28 European Youth Olympic Festival , Serbia CEV Criminology student at July 23-28 Pan-American Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil NORCECA M the De La Salle Univer- July 24-29 SWATCH FIVB World Championships Gstaad, Switzerland FIVB M/W sity, in Dasmariñas. July 31-Aug. 11 Youth Girls’ Volleyball World Championship Baja California, Mexico FIVB W July- August African Volleyball Gala TBC CAVB M/W

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