Πέμπτη 8 Ιουλίου 2010
For Greece and Austria the curtain falls this weekend in Glyfada
The national teams of Greece and Austria are giving their last “rendez-vous” for the 2010 CEV European League in Glyfada’s “Makis Liougas” sports hall. Both teams are saying goodbye to the competition, since they won’t be present at the final four in Spain, but still they want to leave the competition on a high note.
The matches scheduled on July 9-10 will be a good opportunity for the players of both teams to play in a stress-free way and hopefully provide great spectacle to the audience.
The hosting team has three changes from the games held last week in the same court, as Aspiotis and Koumentakis are with the junior team in Spain for the 3rd round of the 2010 CEV Junior European Championship. Midoudis and Karipidis return to the team in their place as libero Papadimitriou does to replace Stefanou.
As the head coach of Greece Gordon Mayforth stated: “Our goal in these last matches is to help our young players gain experience. We have been doing so for some time now. We obviously want to win, even if we can’t qualify for the final four. As soon as the games against Austria are finished the players will have the chance to work individually on their physical condition and we will return to the preparation on August for the home and away matches with Turkey, for the qualification to the 2011 CEV European Championship”.
The matches scheduled on July 9-10 will be a good opportunity for the players of both teams to play in a stress-free way and hopefully provide great spectacle to the audience.
The hosting team has three changes from the games held last week in the same court, as Aspiotis and Koumentakis are with the junior team in Spain for the 3rd round of the 2010 CEV Junior European Championship. Midoudis and Karipidis return to the team in their place as libero Papadimitriou does to replace Stefanou.
As the head coach of Greece Gordon Mayforth stated: “Our goal in these last matches is to help our young players gain experience. We have been doing so for some time now. We obviously want to win, even if we can’t qualify for the final four. As soon as the games against Austria are finished the players will have the chance to work individually on their physical condition and we will return to the preparation on August for the home and away matches with Turkey, for the qualification to the 2011 CEV European Championship”.
Finland to vie for final round in Tampere
The City of Tampere has warmly welcomed the participants in Pool E that will be vying for the qualification to the final round of the 2010 CEV Women’s Junior European Championship. In Tampere’s “Ice Hall” the heat is on from Friday to Sunday between Finland, Belarus, Poland and The Netherlands. The hall is the same where Finland is used to play the matches of the FIVB World League. The best two of the four participating teams will go advance to the final round to be played in Serbia in early September. On the first day of the tournament The Netherlands will face Belarus at 4 pm local time and the home team Finland will match against Poland.
Finnish head coach Mariliisa Salmi, also a long time setter in the Finnish national team, says her team is not an outsider in this tournament. "Technically we are not very far from the other teams. We have had a good preparation. But in Finland we don't have yet the culture of qualifying in group of this age, but maybe now it is our time", stated Salmi.
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