RJX Rio de Janeiro - Sesi Sao Paulo (short cut)

HCLT I asked you for some links in PM before. Can you give me now ?

@Vatreni: Acupuncture.

Yes, Henrique, Suzano. I was typing too fast, and I wrote it like we sad on our language :) he also was talking about special treatments with needles I think for recovering players in Brazil.

Italian league is the BEST in the world by far. Period. A1 is freaking awesome, thanks to that league vball started to grow in western countries. Brazilian and Russian leagues are very good, both at same level, but there’s nothing like A1. Polish league? I prefer the Turkish. If weren’t for the financial crisis, the Greek league would be more interesting and competitive than the Polaco competition. Obviously the Polish league can’t be that good, they don’t have enough money to attract the main players. Last year, the most well paid Polaco player was Zagumny, but he made only 300,000 euros – I know this is a lot for Polish standards. Teams from Italy, Russia and Brazil pay much more to a lot of players. It’s impossible to raise the level without money. I saw lots of matches and the Polish teams make too many silly mistakes, have poor defense, and the game variation seems a challenge. Basil, teams in Brazil don’t give importance to club competitions outside the country. When Sesi went to Dubai, they were focusing on the competitions here, for several reasons. An important aspect is that teams here are more balanced – Sesi won Superliga last year, but was just eliminated in quarterfinals this season. In other leagues you see just two or three squads fighting for the title. Just as an example that we give little or no importance to international club competitions, on the women’s world championships Unilever would represent Brazil, but they didn’t have any interest, so the runner-up, Sollys/Osasco, was invited, but sent only subs to Dubai, still grabbing a bronze medal. I gave some links or key words to google and watch Superliga to a few girls here, I can send those to you guys, too. There’s an Internet channel called “Esporte Interativo”, but I think they only stream to South America – Zyta tried it once and couldn’t watch it in UK. Some links take you to TV broadcast, but as the TV channels discover, they take those links down – they do it constantly. :-( Vatreni, that team where Grbic played, coached by Ricardo Navajas, one of the best coaches I have ever seen, was fantastic. The name of that team was Suzano (not Susan) – it’s the name of a city. Grbic and Navajas were a great duo. They were fighting all the time, but became great friends. Immediately after winning the gold in Sydney, Vlad Grbic gave an interview in Portuguese (he speaks so well) thanking Navajas for everything. Their discussions during timeouts were simply hilarious.

I agree that Brasilian league is VERY interesting to watch to. It's very bad that there is so little information about it: matches, shortcuts, results. I am interested why brasilian teams compete with european ones so rarely. May be they like to be "closed" to keep their unique style? Anyway, if someone can, please upload any videos from Brasilian league to volleyball-movies.net. I'm sure that all users will be grateful to you.

I mean everything is a great, atmosphere, players... It is a pleasure for us vball fans that volleyball is so popular in such a big country like Brazil :) I remember when Vladimir Grbic was talking about Brazilian league. he said that was incredible experience for him, and it was fantastic to play. He was playing in Susan Report in 1996/1997 season.

@vaterni Yes, probably the most attractive volleyball league :)

for me, Brazilian league is most beautiful, and most attractive league in the world, for watching :)

The first was a team from Italian League, the second was a team from Polish League, the third was a team from Russian League... I mean: Top Brazilian teams seems to be a little worse in the matches with the teams from top European Leagues.

weeker in what ??? the technique level its the same but the diference compare to the other leagues is the foreigners players and well also the payment to the players its all SESI was 4rth in tha last world championship club 2011.

bardzo podobają mi się żywiołowe rekcje kibiców. atmosfera na hali jest super !

I think that Brazilian League is more interesting than European Leagues. It is a little weeker than Russian and Italian and compareble with Polish, but still more interesting :)

Two good teams ...