International season end... and a last training camp

This weekend, the last official FIVB Tournament, exclusively for women-teams, will end the 2011 Swatch World Tour in Phuket. The semi-finals having already been plaid, the last two games of the season will oppose Bawden-Palmer (AUS) and Cicolari-Menegatti (ITA)in the 3rd-place-game and the chinese team Xue-Zhang Xi will compete against the US-team Kessy-Ross, the 2009 world-champion, in the final.

The young italian team made an impressive 2011 season and we wish them good luck for this last season-game. In Phuket, they missed the final only by loosing 21-18 and 21-19 against Kessy-Ross in the semi-final !! Really promising.

Unfortunately, my favourite brazilian team, the Salgado-Sisters finished at the quite disappointing 13th place, loosing against Fendrick-Hanson from the USA. What proves again that it's easier to get to the top (5th place in the 2007 World-Championship in Gstad) than to confirm such great performances.

In Luxembourg, the beachvolleyball-season has already finished 2 months ago and it's time to begin thinking about the preparation of the 2012 season with some training-camps in spring.

But first a very last 2011 training-camp will be held in December in La Santa on Lanzarote. As for the last years, my friend Andreas Haak is organizing this event. There are still some places left, so call or write him to participate (T: 0049 / 157 780 717 62; mail@beach-camp.es; more infos on www.beach-camp.es).

It's always big fun and there will be 8-9 training units in 7 days on 2 courts. Size of the group will not exceed 8-12 participants, in order to maintain a good training quality and group-spirit.

Yesterday evening, the first cranes finally left our region for the warmer south and so I wish you all a very short winter and already a good preparation for the next beachvolleyball-season.

See you soon

La lucertola

Beachfeeling......

New page online !! Beachvolleyball Courts in Luxembourg

A new page is now online on my blog - with links to all the beachvolleyball courts in Luxembourg and abroad, outdoor and indoor.

For the moment you will find only the beachvolleyball courts in Luxembourg - 33 courts in 16 locations !! 

 

More courts in the greater region and the nearest indoor beachvolleyball courts will be added soon.

A lack of infrastructure is no more an excuse not to play beachvolleyball :-)

National Beachvolleyball Center in Esch/Alzette

After a longer period without any news from the project of a national Beachvolleyball Center in Esch/Alzette, finally last week there was a big step forward in this ambitious project. The city council of Esch/Alzette voted the project which will cost about 10,5 millions of EUR and will be composed of three major parts:

1) the beachvolleyball courts, that will also be useable for other beach-sports, 2) the locker rooms for the beachvolleyball players and the football players of the FC Jeunesse and a 3) hall for fencing sport. Beside these major parts, some other rooms (for meetings, and so on) will also be part of the project.

"Diekirch Plage" has opened again

As the last 4 years, "Diekirch Plage" has opened its doors on 9th July. The beach behind the swimming hall in Diekirch is open to public every day of the week from 14:00 to 19:30 from monday to saturday, and even from 11:00 to 19:30 on sundays.

500 tons of sand have been banked up and 4 beach courts are available for the public. If the sun is burning too much, you can go for a swim in the swimming hall. Entry fee is 3 EUR for adults and 1,50 EUR for children.

Animation will be guaranteed on several week-ends by the volleyballclub CHEV Diekirch with its Beachvolleyball- and Beach-Völkerball-tournaments.

So enjoy the luxemburgish summer with your feet in the sand of "Diekirch Plage" and savour a delicious drink at the beach-bar.