Volleyball Explained

🏐🔥 The 1/2-finals of World Volleyball Championship 2022 are here! Poland, Brazil, Italy and Slovenia! In this episode of the podcast Ronnie and I commented on the 1/8 and 1/4-finals of the tournament and made our predictions for the Final Four 🔝 

✅ Overview of the 1/8-finals, surprises so far? 

✅ Italy - France, France is out + the opinion of Nicola;  

✅ Slovenia beat Ukraine, but Ukraine impressed; 

✅ Brazil - Argentina, can Brazil win a medal again? 

✅ Poland - USA - best match of the championship so far!  

😎😍 What are your predictions for the 1/2-finals? Write in the comments! And enjoy the podcast! 💥 🎧

🏐🔥 The 1/8-finals in World Championship 2022 start today and in this episode of the podcast Ronnie and I talked about the matches in the group stage and gave our comments for the upcoming 1/8-finals. 🔝 

✅ Overview of the group stage, hardly any surprises; 

✅ Slovenia - Germany & Italy - Cuba; 

✅ Poland - Tunisia & USA - Turkey; 

✅ Netherlands - Ukraine & France - Japan; 

✅ Serbia - Argentina & Brazil - Iran. 

😎😍 What are your predictions for the 1/8-finals? Write in the comments! And enjoy the podcast! 💥 🎧

🏐🔥 After a short rest Ronnie, Nicola & Bogdan are back with a preview of World Championship 2022 (Men) which starts on Friday (26 August). In this episode of the podcast we've had a look in all the pools and gave our predictions for the first stage of the tournament 🔝 

✅ Pool A: Ukraine, Serbia, Tunisia, Puerto Rico;  

✅ Pool B: Brazil, Japan, Cuba, Qatar; 

✅ Pool C: Poland, USA, Mexico, Bulgaria; 

✅ Pool D: France, Germany, Slovenia, Cameroon; 

✅ Pool E: Italy, Canada, Turkey, China; 

✅ Pool F: Argentina, Iran, Netherlands, Egypt. 

😎😍 What are your predictions for World Championship 2022 (Men). Write in the comments! And enjoy the podcast! 💥 🎧

🏐😍 Lorenzo Micelli has been the head coach of the Bulgarian national team (women) since several months and his first tournament in charge was VNL 2022. The Bulgarian team won four matches and stayed in the League also for next edition in 2023. During the last club season 2021/22 Micelli coached the French Volero Le Cannet and won both the League and the Cup. 💪😎 In the podcast Micelli shared: 

✅ How important is that the Bulgarian national team will play also in VNL 2023? 

✅ Why he decided to participate in the competition for the position of a head coach of Bulgaria? 

✅ VNL 2022 - results, difficult moments, progress through the tournament;  

✅ In which aspects the team should improve short-term and respectively - long-term; 

✅ Can we expect some of the players missing to be back for the World Championship? 

✅ Strategy for developing of young coaches - his Bulgarian assistants; ✅ Masters of VideoCheck - especially when it comes to block touches; 

✅ How is women's volleyball distinct in comparison to 2007 - 2009 where he won two European titles as an assistant in the Italian national team? 

✅ The differences between his volleyball philosophy and the philosophy of Massimo Barbolini who was the head coach of Italy back then; 

✅ How is coaching a club different from coaching a national team? 

Enjoy the podcast! 🔥 🔝

🏐🔥 In the last edition of "Volleyball Explained Podcast" for the club season 2021/2022 Ronnie and I discussed: 

✅ LUBE Volley - Champions of Italy for a third season in a row ❕❗️ 

✅ Cuban Volleyball Summer 2022 - Yant, Simon, Mergarejo, Lopez, Herrera 💣 

✅ ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle - winners in the Champions League in a second season in a row ❕❗️ 

✅ Vakifbank back at the top in the Women's Champions League 🔝 

Enjoy the podcast! 💥 🎧

🏐🔥 ZAKSA are again champions of Poland and in this edition of Volleyball Explained Podcast Piotrek from VolleyTime and I commented on the following topics: 

✅ ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle again 🔝 top of the league, new head coach, new setter, new libero, but a better team ❓ 

✅ Jastrzębski Wegiel - what could they have done more ❓  

✅ Aluron CMC Warta Zawierce and PGE SKRA Belchatow - third and respectively fourth in Polish Plusliga 💣 ✅ The positive and the negative surprise of the season ❕❗️ 

✅ Dream team of Polish Plusliga for season 2021/22 ❕❗️ 

✅ Expectations for the Champions League Superfinal ZAKSA - Trentino Volley - repetition of the final from last year, probably different result ❓ 

✅ Polish Roster for Volleyball Nations League 2022 - surprises, no Drzyzga, no Wojtaszek, debut for Nikola Grbic as a head coach of the team ❕❗️

🏐❤ Дойде време и за традиционния обзорен подкаст за събитията от изминалия сезон в българската волейболна Суперлига. Този път гости във "Volleyball Explained Podcast" са Борис Мутафчиев и Калоян Калинков, които имаха удоволствието и да коментират мачовете от Суперлигата по каналите на Diema Sport.  🔝 💪  💥 🎧 В подкаста с Борис и Калоян обсъдихме: 

✅ Толкова ли беше невъзможно някой да победи Хебър? 

✅ Близо, но и далеч - краят на ерата "Николай Желязков" в Нефтохимик; 

✅ Монтана ли беше хитът на първенството? 

✅ Проектът "Дея Спорт Бургас" - оттук накъде? 

✅ Ново начало за Левски - Николай Желязков вместо Андрей Жеков на треньорския мостик; 

✅ ЦСКА - финансова, но не и игрова стабилност; 

✅ Приятните и неприятните изненади в Суперлигата; 

✅ Дрийм тийм за сезон 2021/22; 

✅ Очаквания за националния отбор - лято 2022. 🎧 Приятно слушане! 🔥

🏐🔥 In this fully Italian edition of "Volleyball Explained Podcast" Ronnie and I discussed:

🏐😍 The next guest in "First Tempo" is the huge talent from Slovenia and top scorer of the regular season in his debut in Italy - Rok Možič. With the team of Verona he was the first outside hitter since Ivan Zaytsev almost 10 years ago to become the highest scoring player in the Italian Superlega 💪😎 In the podcast Rok explained about: 

✅ Start of his career, his father was also a player; 

✅ Why is Slovenia so good in sports and has he ever trained another sport? 

✅ Great performance in his first season in Italy - top scorer of regular season 2021/22; 

✅ Did he have other proposals and why did he choose Verona? 

✅ How is Radostin Stoychev different from other coaches he has worked with? 

✅ Communication in the dressing room - Italian, English, Stoychev speaking Serbian; 

✅ Combining successfully beach volleyball and indoor volleyball; 

✅ Activity in social media and the brand RM9.  

Enjoy the podcast! 🔥 🔝

🏐❤  Николай Марков е един от най-добрите български волейболни  журналисти, част от екипа на Volleyball World и Марица (Пловдив), както и  създател на единствения специализиран български сайт за волейбол https://bgvolleyball.com,  въпреки че вече не е част от него. 🔝 💪  

💥 🎧 В подкаста Николай разказа за най-младия член на волейболното  семейство - зимния волейбол (волейбола на сняг)❄️⛄️ и по-конкретно: 

✅ правилната терминология: "снежен волейбол", "зимен волейбол" или  "волейбол на сняг"?  

✅ как възниква зимният волейбол - исторически бележи от 20-те години на  20-ти век до днес, признаване за официален спорт от волейболното  семейство; ✅ правилата на зимния волейбол - брой играчи, смяна, тактика, размери на  игрището; 

✅ екипировка - обувки, термобельо, ръкавици; 

✅ първи турнир по зимен волейбол в България - 1-3 април 2022 г.,  Перелик, Родопи; 

✅ водещите сили в зимния волейбол; 

✅ бъдещето на зимния волейбол - част от Зимните олимпийски игри, част от  забавленията в зимните курорти. 

🎧 Приятно слушане! 🔥  

☑️ "Зимен волейбол" във facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SnowVolleyballBG/.❄️☃️ 

☑️ Група за зимен волейбол във facebook (български език): https://www.facebook.com/groups/snowvolleyballbg. ❄️⛄️ 

☑️ Snow volleyball facebook group (English): https://www.facebook.com/groups/snowvolleyballplanet. ❄️☃️