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Lion King roars into 35th birthday Aleksandrs Samoilovs roaring at last season’s FIVB World Tour event in Latvia at Jurmala with partner Janis Smedins Jurmala, Latvia, April 6, 2020 – With the international season on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s elite beach volleyball players are hunkered down at home with […] More
Key Russian internationals stay put Fetisova (left) and Goncharova (right) are staying with Dinamo, while Havelkova (middle) is leaving Moscow, Russia, April 6, 2020 – Several members of the women’s national team of Russia have extended contracts with their current clubs. Soon after newly-crowned champions Dinamo Kazan secured the continued services of Evgeniya […] More
She had started out in volleyball at the age of 15 and it was with Penn High School that she became a two-time volleyball state champion, before being selected an AVCA High School American as a senior. Drews followed a rising career through college, making the USA Collegiate National Team in 2013. She debuted with […] More
Cuban Moreno loves Peruvian experience Moreno’s team finished sixth in the U23 World Championship in Slovenia attaining victories over China and Brazil Havana, Cuba, April 6, 2020 – Eight years after her first contact with the game at the National School of Volleyball, Cuban Gretell Moreno has tasted the experience of playing in […] More
Watch streams of your favourite matches – Monday to Sunday programme Lausanne, Switzerland, April 5, 2020 – Full match replays enter their third week across the FIVB’s channels. Join us on the Volleyball World and Beach Volleyball World YouTube channels and on Facebook for daily streams. While competitions around the world are stopped, […] More
This week in World Tour history – April 5-11 Adriana Behar (left) and Shelda Bede of Brazil in 2007 Lausanne, Switzerland, April 5, 2020 – Five Olympians celebrate their birthdays this week as the days in the first full week of April in 2020 also featured the first-ever FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour […] More
Lausanne, Switzerland, April 4, 2019 – The Fab Five have inspired a lasting revolution in Thailand bringing the volleyball culture to the forefront of their country’s consciousness and raising their profile further on the world stage with their distinctive style and game. Over the coming weeks we will put the spotlight on each member of […] More
Dominican Prisilla Rivera extends career Rivera played in the 2004 Olympics in Athens and the 2012 edition in London Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, April 4, 2020 – Prisilla Rivera has changed her plans to retire from volleyball. The 35-year-old now aims to stay on for an additional year to help the Dominican Republic […] More
