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here the live score, btw:

http://www.cev.lu/mmp/online/website/highlights/index_EN.html

Slovenia is leading 2:0 vs Austria, France 2:1 vs Finland, Slovakia 2:1 vs Bulgaria (all sets ended after 25), Russia got the girst victory of this ECh, beating Estonia 3-0.

that's it for now :)

edit: France won 28-26 ( leading 24-21! unfortunally Finland didn't make it!)

and about Italy-Belgium, image with the line-ups here:

http://dal15al25.gazzetta.it/post/25535278/alle-18-la-sfida-con-il-belgio

Numebrs and curiosity by Alessandro Antinelli (in www.dal15al25.gazzetta.it)

The oldest
SVK Richard NEMEC 39 anni, 4 mesi, 6 giorni
POR Manuel Silva 37 anni, 8 mesi, 12 giorni
SLO Sebastjan Skorc 37 anni, 6 mesi, 28 giorni
CZE Petr Konecny 36 anni, 6 mesi, 24 giorni
GER Stefan Hübner 36 anni, 2 mesi, 27 giorni
ITA Luigi Mastrangelo 36 anni, 0 mesi, 23 giorni

The youngest
AUT Lorenz Koraimann 18 anni, 4 mesi, 2 giorni
SRB Uros KOVACEVIC 18 anni, 4 mesi, 3 giorni
POR Ivo Casas 18 anni, 11 mesi, 19 giorni
BEL Sam Deroo 19 anni, 4 mesi, 11 giorni
EST Martti Keel 19 anni, 7 mesi, 10 giorni

the tallest
RUS Dmitriy Muserskiy 218
GER Robert Kromm 212
GER Marcus Böhme 211
POL Marcin MOZDZONEK 211
EST Oliver Venno 210
RUS Alexander Volkov 210

The lowest (eh, I'm not sure is the right tranlsation...)
FIN Jesse Mantyla 176
FRA Jean-FrançoisExiga 176
SLO Miha Plot 178
AUT Frederick Laure 178
POR Ivo Casas 179
CZE Martin Krystof 179

Highest spike reach
RUS Dmitriy Muserskiy 375
GER Georg Grozer 374
BUL Matey Kaziyski 370
ITA Luigi Mastrangelo 368
CZE Jan Stokr 368

Highest block
ITA Ivan Zaytsev 348
RUS Dmitriy Muserskiy 347
GER Georg Grozer 345
GER Stefan Hübner 345
BUL Teodor Todorov 345
BUL Metodi Ananiev 345
SVK Martin NEMEC 345
BUL Miroslav Gradinarov 345
GER Robert Kromm 345
SVK Emanuel KOHUT 345
CZE Peter Platenik 345
POR Joao Jose 345

Average age of the teams
BEL 24 anni, 0 mesi, 3 giorni
SRB 24 anni, 9 mesi, 4 giorni
FRA 25 anni, 4 mesi, 22 giorni
AUT 25 anni, 5 mesi, 10 giorni
POL 25 anni, 9 mesi, 3 giorni
RUS 25 anni, 9 mesi, 12 giorni
BUL 26 anni, 3 mesi, 22 giorni
GER 26 anni, 8 mesi, 7 giorni
TUR 26 anni, 10 mesi, 23 giorni
SLO 27 anni, 1 mesi, 0 giorni
FIN 27 anni, 1 mesi, 20 giorni
EST 27 anni, 3 mesi, 3 giorni
ITA 27 anni, 11 mesi, 11 giorni
SVK 28 anni, 3 mesi, 18 giorni
POR 29 anni, 0 mesi, 8 giorni
CZE 29 anni, 6 mesi, 5 giorni

Average highness
RUS 201,1 (what a surprise!! )
SRB 199,6
BUL 199,0
POL 198,9
BEL 198,1
TUR 197,4
SVK 197,4
CZE 197,0
ITA 196,9
GER 196,8
EST 196,2
SLO 196,0
FIN 194,6
AUT 193,8
FRA 193,7
POR 193,6

Belgio, Turkey, Slovakia, Portugal with only 12 athlets (by chance, one for each pool)
5 OH for Germany, Finland, Austria, Turkey, Portugal (Turkey and Portugal, with only 12 players, have only one opposite)

Berruto about the teams in our pool:

Belgio: strong serve, strong attack, but most of all very agonistic spirit of the team in general.

Finland: there are few important personality that lead the team, first of all Mikko Esko that is actually the soul of the team, expecially from the tactical point of view, obviously. our goal will be understand him as much as possible to limit the hitters.

France: they are partially "new" for two reason: they have a new important player, Ngapeth, and they didn't perform very well at the WL, and when a good team doesn't perform well a the WL, there is always the need to proof his true value. Tecnichally, as always they express wonderful permormances in defense (and block-defense)

We... we are here hoping to surprise, to stay there until the 18th.
We did everything we wanted to did to prepare this ECh (the only little trouble was Zaytsev's injury), so now is the time to find out if it we planned these 5 weeks training in a way that will actually help the team. I'm proud that my guys enjoy being in this group and see the group as their best weapon. I like that, because the strenght of the group is smth everybody, even ifl expert about vb, can catch and love

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btw, speaking about high jump...

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=141906002552834&set=a.141042105972557.36701.141042032639231&type=1&theater
(hope you can see the photos...)

I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

btw this timetable is a bit strange to me. Why only in Vienna there will be matches in the evening? On Mondey aren't people working at 18.00 in Czech? O.o

@RevanExtasis: yes I know he is a musician too, he also did few concerts(1 or 2 I think). But... it's not my kind of music xD

Yes, I remeber that point very well, during the tie break Cuneo was leading 10-5! but Macerata didn't give up. My father was behind me when I was watching it and he was like "OMG! Look, watch what the hell they did!! bravi! fantastic!" and he kept watching the replay still mubling "oh, that was wonderful, bravi, bravi!"... xD then Savani closed the match with a lucky serve, if I'm not wrong ;)

don't worry, Berruto had already said that the teams we are going to meet are "calf" teams: because they beat you like a dog with all their strength and don't let you go away?

http://www.volleyball.it/notizie.asp?s=118&n=34123&l=0
Portuondo is in Sofia to speak with CSKA about a possible hire (on loan from Rome) for the next season.
In effect he didn't partecipate at the friendly match Rome-Club Italia, even if he was announced to be there playing as opposite as he did in the freindly match Roma-Perugia

uhm, I expected you'll say smth like that... I totally agree. Ok, may be it's good that he will have a last chance to work hard and use his talent to help the team, but it's hard to be confident it will happen... I'll hope so for him, but I don't trust him to much anymore.
And the fact that the journalist said it will be the best transfer of the season from my point of view is an insult for player like Parodi (to me this one was probably the best "scoop" of the market, considering that Macerata had to pay I don't know how much to hire him after he signed for another year with Cuneo), De Cecco, Conte, N'gapeth etc.

I kinda have the senstation that Modena public won't love him to much if he won't do everything in his power to help the team... I mean, may eb in Rome where is full of 13 years old girls could be different, but in Modena... I don't know, what do you say about that casamodena?

btw in the article it take it for almost garanted. and the author also added that it will be the best hire in the 2011 market ahahahahah =.=

@Akolita, where did you find this new?
in this sentence it's written:

"Kooy. The dutch is the one that will get the worst from this episode (?? may be it's mentioned in the previous part of the article...?), cutted out of the starting six and probably put on the market: but he has a brand new contract with Modena so it will be up to him to decide if leaving Casa Modena and - in that case- to decide where to go. Lollo Bernardi would like to have him in Poland, but he also has offerts from Italy, first of all from Sisley and Vibo."

Seems that sombody else is supposed to arrive in Modena and take Kooy's place in the starting six, but who? Martino? O.o

sorry for my English, I find quite hard traslating from Italy as litterally as possible..

ehy, chill out :) I don't think nobody meant to offend nobody else, here, both of you simply shared infos and opinion ;)

again, wonderful!

wonderful!!

I love his energy on court!!

I had the patient too, what a passionate post, I was emotionate at the end :)

thanks!! may be only one things more, male/famale ?