WOMEN'S OLYMPIC SEMIFINAL POSTGAME 

Came across this channel a couple of days ago. What a find! Great analyses and discussions. Congrats! Naturalized players are everywhere. Italy has what...one? Antropova. Yet, she learnt to play volleyball in Italy, she speaks perfect mother-tongue-level Italian and loves living in Italy. During an interview they asked her mother whether she would have preferred her daughter to live and play in Russia. She said she loves the idea of her being free and happy to do whatever she likes, then she added that she is at her happiest when she is in Italy, speaks Italian and lives like an Italian. Fahr moved to Italy when she was 3. Sylla was born in Italy and so was Egonu. Dear you, Italy has a great volleyball tradition, amazing academies and passion for the sport. We all have immigration in Europe, maybe we are just better at developing the new potential we (Europeans) all have. Velasco is a fantastic coach, a great man and an amazing life coach. Many Italians consider him the best coach the country has ever had (any sport). His interviews are so genuine and engrossing.

Hello from Turkey. My introduction to volleyball happened in 2003 when sultans of the net played the Eurovolley final in Ankara against Poland. We took 2nd place that year but it was a starting point of what will become a phenomenon in Turkish sports history. In the following years I lost interest and didn't even know we took the 2nd place again in Ankara against Serbia in 2019. Finally in 2023, everything has become real. The team that has always lost on the verge of ultimate success, took everything. VNL, Eurovolley, World Cup. So, I became an instant volleyball fan and started attending the games of our local volleyball team in the Sultans League. You should realize that we Turkish people are very success driven and once we reached the peak, we can't accept a lower level. Having said that, I wasn't holding out much hope for any color of medal in this Olympics due to recurring injuries and bad form of a lot of players. However despite all this negativity, I was pretty much impressed by our team for reaching the semi-finals. This is what it takes to be a great team. They proved that it wasn't coincidence winning it all in 2023 and they are now one the best 5 elite teams in the world. 2024 is Italy's year. Champions League finals on club team level, VNL and now Olympic finals. They play like the way we played last year. Totally invincible. Kudos to them. I hope we took the bronze and prove that we are still one of the gold medal contenders and the favorites for the upcoming tournaments. Honestly, even if we don't, it still doesn't matter. Turkiye will compete for championships at least for the upcoming 5 years as we have a young team. Sorry for the long post. I like your commentaries and hope you keep up the good work. Cheers ! 😊😇💯🤟

Aww thanks. Actually thank you for doing this podcast. You make following all the games so fun. It’s the best debrief after a day of games and you bring so much background info for those of us who don’t follow this for the entire year outside the VNL and the Olympics.

As a Turk, I agree with most of what you say. Yet, I think if the Turkish players were in a better health condition,they could be easily playing for the gold medal in the Olympics today. For the same health reasons, I think Brazil 🇧🇷 is the favorite for the bronze medal (unfortunately).Brazilians are at their peak condition while the Turkish team has so many problems, and appears not so ready to me. Well, even if the Turkish team loses this match, the team is very promising for future tournaments & 2028 Olympics with young & talented elite players. Win or lose we love them anyways 🇹🇷❤️🙏

5:52 The married couple are fighting again - "this is what you always do!"

As an Eczacıbaşı fan, I am so excited to have Kathryn Plummer and Dana Rettke on our team this coming season 💪🏼

I didn’t predict it would be USA vs Italy, but I prayed for Brazil vs Turkiye to meet for either gold or bronze for the giggles and entertainment of it (i.e., fandom wars).

I'm American but I always root for Canada when the USA is not playing, its so close to us and it just feels natural to root for them. I don't understand Everett's underlying bias against the US volleyball teams. I found this channel right before the vnl and the I don't remember it being this bad. The us men lost to canada and the us women beat canada, and still these guys vibed well. Now its pretty uncomfortable to watch. I feel like Rob can't even truly celebrate because everett started the whole thing very defensive and is psychologically subduing ROB. His whole tone in the matches before was the the USA is lucky that their opponents didn't show up. This is the olympics, and this is volleyball; if you prepare properly against a team, you WILL be able to shut down certain players. Last olympics we contained boskovic and egonu, this olympics we've contained egonu, stysiak and gabby. Its not a coincidence, these are the best players of the respective teams and thats who you are going to focus on slowing down. I think plummer has had a great career, every year she wins major club championships. The problem is she doesn't get to play her style of volleyball with the national team until now. They give her quick low sets where she barely has time to think about what she is doing, and often gets blocked. She doesn't need those sets; larson and robinson does because of their height (they need to beat the block). This match she got much better sets for her height and was able to tool alot and think about what shes doing. I still think they should use her in the pipe more. I am proud of her, people love to talk about her passing when the team loses, but she had a solid game today with the flu and you barely hear much. My biggest problem with the match for the USA is apart from plummer and washinton, the serves were not challenging enough at all. It really played into brazil;s game and kept them in the game. Otherwise I think we definitely have a chance against italy. This is not the same team from pool play, much less the same team from the vnl when italy easily beat the USA without plummer, and we still got a set. I wouldn't say Italy is unbeatable. The proplem is though, the USA will need to prepare for both egonu and and antropova. Its not as simple as shut down egonu and win the match anymore. Syllia's offense paired with both her and bosetti's passing is also going to be an issue. We will need everyone to serve good (and not in the net -_- ). I like our blocking so as long as wong is ready for the tips I think we will be able to take advantage of missed scoring opportunities from italy when we can. We were terrible at that in the vnl. Lastly, the bronze medal match is gonna be one of the most interesting bronze medal matches ever, as brasil and turkey are far from best of friends lol. I can hear ebrar's screams already (or goodness).

Lmao they didn’t even know Brazil won back to back in Beijing 2008 and London 2012. What a joke.

Your channel is amazing . I translated most episodes to Thai volleyball fans & they love it . Very insightful . Respect 🙏

Great video guys! Turkiye has too many issues with the injuries, and lack of coordination and team play due to those.. things will be better next time around. Best of luck to the all teams running for medals.

Brazil won 2008 and 2012

It’s definitely true that Ebrar Karakurt didn’t play well this national team season, but I think the biggest obstacle in Türkiye’s way this whole summer were all the injuries..

One of the best vball channels I've discovered this Olympics. Have always watched your lives and replays since that Kirch Kiraly clickbait video WHAHSHSHS. Always end my day with a vid from you guys. ❤️❤️❤️

Just for the record, Brazil was the last team to win back to back gold medals in the Olympics.

Brazil went back to back gold and beat us in both of those matches in 2008 and 2012.

You two have done an amazing job with this. This Olympic game is not the best for me, however it is a memorial and ineffable period time to me because of your show. The Olympic is almost over, thank you. Best wishes from China.

I think a part of why Türkiye and Brazil lost is that they are both super emotional peoples (I’m Turkish myself so I would know). That makes both countries susceptible to psychological ups and downs, thus affecting their game

Cuban Women won gold 3 in a row - '92, '96 and 2000 - wow!

Pls continue this on VNL and other world tournaments in the future

I will miss this daily regroup after matches

Thank you for addressing the haters and sticking up for immigrants ❤

I hope that Türkiye will get bronze medal today despite all the injuries during VNL and the Olympics this year. A bronze in our 3rd olympics is still a huge success and also a step forward to our shiny golden in 2028. 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷 We need to be at the stage, mostly for Melissa Vargas’ continuing effort and contribution for this team. 🥉

You guys are awesome. I like the objective comments that come out straight and you guys know a lot about the players and teams. That is impressive for Canadian & American moderators 😅😂 just kidding you guys are awesome.

The "problem" of USA right now is try to stop a team that is playing their first Olympic final ever in their peak condition. That's a HUGE factor to include in your mental preparation. Fighting a hungry Italy. I suggest to call an exorcist against the Italian girls 😂

You really need a moderator for cchat, please don't allow bullies. There are so many racist comments by calling the Turkish team Cuban because of Vargas. Especially user called Enticinmay and others need a reminder. When Turkish fans try to explain to them that his comment is absurd by giving examples that no team has all Italian players and that immigrants can be superior players because of their physical characteristics, they label them as racist. In Italy Egonu is a star athlete we all admire, every team has star players, immigrants or not. Just get over it! We don't cry because other teams have star players. We appreciate and admire them. IT IS A TEAM SPORT! IT IS DISRESPECTFUL TO OTHER PLAYERS. Please stop bullying Turkish team or fans over Vargas. (If you are jealous and can't get over it, go cry about it at home and write in your diary) Last year Turkiye managed to be a good team with Vargas when they didn't have so many injured players, this year they are out of form and couldn't make it. The same with Andropova, Bosckovic, Gabi, they are just amazing, and Turkiye has Vargas. This year Turkiye played with 4-5 players injured. Italy played great as a team with a great system. Congratulations to Italy team from Turkey!

Totally agree on naturalized players..however Zaytsev is not a good example as he was born in Italy..Antropova or a few years ago Juantorena would be a good example..thanks for your coverage folks..love it

Italy is really strong, big congratulations to them from Turkiye! The match could have been different if Turkiye could win the first set, who knows. It has been a difficult summer for Turkish team because of many problems. I hope we will come back stronger with no injuries in the next tournament. Bronze medal match will be very difficult with a lonely setter.

The ITA V USA bronze medal match is just stuck on replay available soon. Anyone else have this issue?

Gabi not showing up until set 4 is what beat Brazil... but then she woke up and went into beast mode, but was a little too late. If she had been playing like that from set 1, it might be a different story. The US women stuck together as a group with big contributions from Carlini and Thompson off the bench.

I love how you guys are roasting each other 😅

Congratulations to USA and Italy. Good luck to all the teams fighting for medal this weekend. Makes me sad that the international season is almost over :(

You all didn't believe me when I said the US would jump Poland off the court and beat Brazil to make the finals. Do you believe now?

Everett is so stubborn, anyway

Ivan Zaytsev was born in Italy. His father was playing there for years. But i agree that theres no problem using players that are honestly naturalized. But buying there services is just rong. In 2008 two brasilian players,😂 Renato Gomes and Jorge Terceiro, played for Georgia in the OG (got 4th). They changed there names to "Geor" and "Gia". Join there names and see how stupid some naturalizations can be.

Italy wins gold and Brazil wins bronze. Both games 3-1.

Ill be happy if they win Gold...but the way Italy is playing now...its going to be tough. Initial prediction for them is just bronze. If they win silver its huge.. And ill be happy as well.

You didn't see it (I did btw and explain it on my pre-game video, which is Turkish) because you missed two very important facts about Brazilian team. First one is the one that Rob said at 8:20. The second is the fact that Brazilian team's offensive leader has been Gabi who is the best all-around outside hitter. But she is not a player who can lead a team in the attacking department on this level. If a team relies on Gabi's attacking performance before Ana Cristina or opposite, that team cannot reach high enough maximum speed to pass a powerful opponent.

Turkiye's done her best under these circumstances. Beaten but proud.

Your prediction of usa is wrong

Come on USA and beat Italy 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Kudos to the USA women's for knowing how to close a match unlike the men's who chokes when they're so close to the finish line.

For me main reason why 🇹🇷 lost today was elif & how she wasn't able to make 1 decent pass to Vargas 🫣🫣🫣 it was just unbelievable to watch 🫣🫣 she & Santarelli are two of the main reasons why 🇹🇷 didn't get to play their game, like they played against 🇨🇳

Hi, Everett! How does that silver medal in beach volleyball taste ? Brandie lost both the gold medal and the wrestle to Ana Patricia. 😂

Not reliable because you alwaysget your facts wrong. Lol

I think you should really have a moderator for chat. Someone called enticingmay is a provacator, insulting people and teams in different ways.

why did we abandon "finding the daddy" tradition?

Karch Kiraly, greatest of all time? Phew booooo

Congratulations guys for what you say about racism in sports. The so called "natural players" bullshit.

Turkish players were pathetic and full of excuses. Reality is except Vargas they don’t belong to Olympics level. Especially that Gunes and Karakurt 👎 They have bad stats in every category, lol. Their fans must be delusional. Shame on them.