GSSE Liechtenstein: 1st day of competition

Good start for the luxemburgish team Grethen/Zambon against Monaco. Two years ago, the team from Monaco beat Norma and Jeanne in a very dramatic semi-final, but this year seems to be a better one. Norma and Anne won their first game in Liechtenstein quite clearly in two sets, each 21-13.

The game between Andorra and Malta was also clearly decided by Malta with an undiscussed 2-0 win. The third game of the day, where Liechtenstein was challenging Cyprus, the gold medal winner of 2009, in a game lasting more than an hour. After a hard fight, finally Liechtenstein won 2-1. Was this the first surprise of the tournament?

The competition will continue tomorrow with Anne and Norma playing their second match against Malta at 15:00 - results and game schedule for the following days by clicking here.

Keep on going girls....

Invitation for the Kiischpelt Beachvolleyball-Tournament

The club "Jeunesse Kiischpelt", organizer of the beachvolleyball tournament in Wilwerwiltz from 5th to 7th August 2011, have published detailed informations on their facebook-page.

LOCATION:

Wilwerwiltz near the train station

PROGRAM:

5. August:

Opening

15:00 - Beachvölkerball for children

21:00 - Party with Dj Dee

6. August:

12:00 - Beachvolley Mixed-Tournament 2x2

21:00 - Afterparty with the Coverband "Crossing"
7. August:
11:00 - Beachvolley Hobby-Tournament 4x4
Of course there will be music and animation for the whole week-end with DJ Fighter 

If you want to know more about this great event in Wilwerwiltz, just have a look on their page.

Beachvolleyball Championships - Ticket sale has started

Traditionally, the entrance for the Beachvolleyball Championships (just as for other tournaments) is FREE. Nevertheless, for the 2011 Championships in Rome the entrance is free only from 13rd to 17th June. For the final, 3rd-place-game (19th June) and the semi-finals (18th June), you have to buy tickets on sale on the internet, during the period from 17th May to 17th June.

But the prices are very reasonable and two price-categories exist: 1st row (10 EUR per day) and 2nd row (5 EUR per day). Your maximum expenditure will therefore be incredibly 20 EUR for the whole week-end of best sports action.

So get your tix', travel to Rome and have big fun....

Beach @ GSSE Liechtenstein - Schedule

The schedule of the competitions at the "Games of the Small States of Europe" (GSSE) have been announced officially and published online at www.liegames2011.li

The one and only remaining luxemburgish Beachvolleyball-Team Grethen-Zambon have first to dispute 3 games in a pool with Monaco, Malta and Andorra.

Schedule of the games:

31/05 - 14:00: Monaco - Luxembourg

01/06 - 15:00: Luxembourg - Malta

02/06 - 18:00: Luxembourg - Andorra

After these first-round-games, the first and second of both pools are playing the semi-finals and the third placed teams are playing a game for 5th place (Friday, 3rd June). On Saturday, 4th June, the game for bronze- and gold-medal will be played (10:00 and 13:00).

Good luck to Anne and Norma... May the ball fly for our team....

Beachvolley Tournaments 2011 in Diekirch

The invitation for the 2011 Beach-Tournaments (Beachvolley and Beachvölkerball) is now officially published.

09/07: Hobby Tournament 4x4

10/07: Beachvölkerball-Tournament

16/07: Hobby Tournament 4x4

Start will be 11:00 (AM) for the three days.

For further informations and inscription, please have a look at www.chev-vollleyball.lu

Beachvolley team selection for the GSSE 2011 in Liechtenstein

The "Comité Olympique et Sportif Luxembourgeois" (COSL) had announced on Monday 9 May his official selection of athletes for the Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE), to be held in Liechtenstein from 30 May to 9 June.

If the female beachvolley-team Grethen-Zambon has been confirmed, the big astonishment concerns the men's team Karier-Thill that has been withdrawn. It was not very clear, in the written press, if Karier-Thill declared themselves not to be ready for the games, or if the team has furthermore, as it seems, been withdrawn by the national federation FLVB, with or without some pressure from the COSL.

Grethen-Zambon reach Semi-Finals in Lubbeek

Après avoir joué le samedi 5 sets d’entraînement contre une équipe de haut niveau, à savoir le duo Horm/Lieckens, le duo Grethen/Zambon affrontait tout de suite au 1er match du tournoi à Lubbeek une autre équipe de haut niveau au championnat de Belgique, à savoir le duo Beken/Vandekerkhof. Dès le début nos filles étaient bien concentrées et mettaient leurs adversaires avec de services bien placés tellement sous pression qu’elles n’arrivaient pas à placer des attaques. Nos filles étaient bien placées en défense et remportaient inopinément le match avec 21-16, sachant que les rencontres de l’année passée étaient toujours très serrées.

Blog has moved

Thanks for visiting - but this blog will be no longer updated.

Please have a look at my new blog: http://lucertolabeach.blogspot.com/

The philosophy will stay the same - beach is life, life is a beach :-)

Beach-Tournament in Steinfort on 19 June

The club of Steinfort have launched the invitations for their 4x4 Hobby-Tournament on 19 June. For more informations, have a look on facebook or on the website of the club.

www.facebook.com

www.vcsteinfort.lu

Season start for Grethen-Zambon in Guldental

Le beach duo Anne Grethen/Norma Zambon commence sa saison avec la participation au tournoi à Guldental en Allemagne. Malheureusement le tournoi a été rétrogradé en catégorie B et les grands adversaires étaient absents. Uniquement 4 équipes de haut niveau y participaient.
Ainsi le duo grethen/Zambon remportait assez facilement ses 5 matchs de pool. Pour chaque mach, les deux filles se fixaient différents buts. Lors d’un match, elles se concentraient uniquement sur le service, lors d’un autre match elles devraient attaquer toutes les balles vers les lignes ou bien dans un autre match encore elles attaquaient beaucoup de balles sur les adversaires afin de pouvoir se positionner par la suite en défense.

A new start with a new blog

Hello, Beachvolleyball-Fanatics out there !!
A new season is in the starting blocks and so I start a new blog to give you some news about Beachvolleyball in Luxembourg and beyond its borders. For the new season, I wish you all a very healthy and injury-free summer 2011 being nice and successful.
May the sunny weather always be with you !!
If my old blog "luxbeachvolley.blogspot.com" has not been updated for some 2 years now, this has a reason as I engaged myself, with some helping hands, in the Luxembourg Volleyball Federation (FLVB). But after 16 months of really hard labour to try, inside the FLVB, to bring Beachvolleyball a step forward to a highly