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Whether it pays to keep playing volleyball?

Volleybox 2018-11-12 • 1995 views
 

Referring to the chart of players finishing their careers published on Volleyball-Movies.net we are apprehensive about the future of our pretty sport.
More and more players are finishing their volleyball career. After last club season, 2017/18, 126 men and women volleyball players from our database finished their sport career. It's up to 59% more than after previous, 2016/17, season.

Just look on the chart below:

Volleyball players retire year by year chart

After 2017/18 season we said goodbye to such stars as: Sergey Tetyukhin (43 years old), Fabi (38 years old), Gozde Kirdar (33 years old), Brazilian trio: Dante Amaral (37 years old), Andre Nascimento (39 years old player who became team manager), Ricardo Garcia (42 years old).

Young players ends career

What's worse, 50 of that 126 players are under 30 years old. There is an increase of more than 117% in compare to previous season (23 players under 30 finished volleyball career after 2016/17 season)!

Among them we can mention:

  • Jasper Diefenbach (30 years old) - due to family reasons (he started a career in society)
  • Stefan Chrtiansky junior (29 years old)
  • Rudy Verhoeff (29 years old)
  • Asuman Karakoyun (26 years old) - due to knee injury
  • Irina Filishtinskaia (28 years old)
Volleyball players retire year by year chart

Full list of players who finished their career after certain season you could find here.

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