Right here’s some fascinating data so that you can have in regards to the occasions which can be going to be held in December
Polish famous person Wilfredo Leon might be one of many weapons of defending champions Perugia in Bengaluru (Photograph: SuperLega)
There are nonetheless two main occasions left within the 2023 worldwide volleyball calendar and they’ll each happen in Asia in December – the Males’s and Ladies’s Membership World Championships.
The boys will play first, in Bengaluru, India, from December 6-10, whereas the ladies will get on the court docket one week later, from 13-17, in Hangzhou, China. Each occasions might be streamed stay for VBTV subscribers all over the world.
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Membership groups from seven totally different nations and among the greatest gamers on the earth might be in motion and as you begin on the brink of comply with them, listed here are a number of bites of data that can make it easier to construct your information forward of the tournaments.
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Sir Sicoma Perugia will attempt to develop into simply the third group to efficiently defend their Males’s Membership World Championship title, becoming a member of fellow Italians Itas Trentino (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) and Brazil’s Sada Cruzeiro Vôlei (2015, 2016). The Italian giants have star setter Simone Giannelli and Polish nationwide group exterior hitters Wilfredo Leon and Kamil Semeniuk as a few of their major stars this season.
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Reigning Brazilian champions Dentil Praia Clube underwent considerably of a revamp forward of the Ladies’s Membership World Championship. The group misplaced the Dominican sisters Brayelin and Jineiry Martinez, Olympic medalist center blocker Ana Carolina ‘Carol’ da Silva and Dutch star Anne Buijs, however signed European exterior hitters Dobriana Rabadzhieva and Sofya Kuznetsova, Olympic champion center blocker Adenízia Ferreira and Brazilian nationwide group libero Natália ‘Natinha’ Araújo.
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The Suntory Sunbirds would be the first Japanese group to compete on the Males’s Membership World Championship. Pushed by a core shaped by nationwide group gamers, comparable to center blocker Taishi Onodera, setter Masaki Oya and outdoors hitter Kenya Fujinaka, the group will attempt to compete for a medal in India.
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4-time girls’s world champions VakifBank Spor Kulubu of Türkiye have gamers from six totally different nations on their roster this season. The record contains Brazil (Gabriela ‘Gabi’ Guimarães), the Netherlands (Sarah Van Aalen), Romania (Alexia Căruțașu), Serbia (Bianka Buša), the US (Jordan Thompson, Alexandra Frantti, Chiaka Ogbogu) and Türkiye (Zehra Güneş and Cansu Özbay, amongst others).
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One of many latest revelations of Brazilian males’s volleyball, Itambé Minas’ Arthur Bento lived in Canada for ten years, from when he was 5 to fifteen. The son of former Brazilian seaside volleyball participant Adriana Bento, the 19-year-old exterior hitter was a part of Brazil’s roster through the 2023 Volleyball Nations League and likewise performed within the U21 World Championship this yr.
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The winners of this yr’s Ladies’s Asian Membership Championship, Sport Heart I Ladies’s Membership have 9 of the 14 gamers that represented Vietnam at this yr’s FIVB Volleyball Challenger Cup. Amongst them is nationwide group captain and outdoors hitter Tran Thi Thanh Thuy, who already performed for membership groups in Thailand and Japan.
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Since they made their Males’s Membership World Championship debut, in 2012, Brazil’s Sada Cruzeiro Vôlei have by no means missed an version of the match. This season, Sada, who’ve Brazilian Olympic champions Lucas Saatkamp and Wallace de Souza of their squad, will seem within the occasion for an eleventh straight time – they received eight medals (4 golds, two silver, two bronze).
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Türkiye’s Eczacibasi Dynavit Istanbul made it to the rostrum in 5 of their six Ladies’s Membership World Championship appearances, taking gold in 2015 and 2016, silver in 2019 and bronze in 2018 and 2022 – they have been fourth in 2017. With gamers like Serbian world champions Tijana Bošković and Jovana Stevanović and Turkish stars Naz Aydemir Akyol and Hande Baladin, Eczacibasi appear poised for one more top-three end this season.
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Bengaluru would be the first Indian metropolis to host the Males’s Membership World Championship and the primary location in Asia to do it since 2012. Due to that, India might be represented within the match for the primary time and the group chosen to do it was the Ahmedabad Defenders, who received the nation’s 2023 RuPay Prime Volleyball League.
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Turkish famous person Melissa Vargas will make her second look on the Ladies’s Membership World Championship in 2023 after taking silver with Switzerland’s Volero Zurich in 2017. Now with hosts Tianjin Bohai Financial institution, the alternative can have Chinese language nationwide group stars Yingying Li and Xinyue Yuan amongst her teammates within the occasion.
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Making their Males’s Membership World Championship debut, Türkiye’s Halkbank Spor Kulübü can have two of the largest stars of the occasion in Tokyo Olympics MVP exterior hitter Earvin Ngapeth of France and Dutch reverse Nimir Abdel-Aziz, the highest scorer of the 2021 and 2022 Volleyball Nations League.
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Attempting to safe their third medal within the Ladies’s Membership World Championship, Brazil’s Gerdau Minas have a number of gamers who featured for the Brazilian nationwide group over the previous few years. The record contains Olympic medalist center blockers Thaisa Daher and Carol Gattaz, reverse Kisy Nascimento, exterior hitter Pri Daroit, center blocker Julia Kudiess and libero Nyeme Costa.
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