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I think that to Roninho, however Italian League was always the best league for top volleyballers, always Italia Italia and Italia, but now more leagues (ofcourse ritch countries ;) ) are coming up. Russian league was a poor league, but the Ritch Russian owners pay a lot of money trying to get top players into their league. You think Dante, Stanley, Ball would go to Russia if they would earn almost the same as in Italia, Brazil, Greece? With a lot of money you can, you can do everything in sportworld :) Like Marshall is making big money, in Turkish League, wich is a very leveled league, because their the 1st can loose from the last one in the standings, it's better for the clubs because than there is always a topmatch at every weekend. In Italian League, no offence, but this time of the year, i don't think Trentino and Cuneo would loose from the 2 lowest ranked teams in the standings ;) Top players are moving towards the big money :) BUT i don't think this a bad thing that the Italian League is getting weaker every year. For CEV Cup and CL, it makes the matches more interesting. 4,5 years ago, everybody knew that at least 2 Italian Teams would be in Semi- Final (sometimes 'just' Quarter-Final) So in my eyes it's good that other volleyball Leagues are getting bigger and better. More topmatches, more fans, more money, bigger stadions, and ofcourse more TV attention. In Italie, Poland, Russia, Brazil this isn't something special because in Brazil sometimes there is more volleyball on TV than Football, and that is very special in Europe. But in countries like Belgium, France, Germany,.. this is a big problem. Their we see maybe one volleyball match in 2 months, and not the whole match, every set begins from 16 - 16 or something. :s We just see a live match when we play at home in Cl, for the rest nothing. I know most people will say, pff what do we care about Belgium, Germany, France? It just Maaseik(BEL) is now in Final 6 of the CL, but even now we don't see the away match on television or Belgian, German links on pc. Now is the time to promote volleyball, instead of 9/10 of the world youngsters are going to play soccer, again... :)