World Championship 2011: 1st day of competition

After defining the pools, the official game program is now also online on the internet. The games are starting today (Monday 13th June) at 11:35 in the women's category and at 13:00 in the men's category.

All actual standings in the different pools will also be published on the FIVB-Internetsite (Women / Men).

Join us in Rome and have big fun. If this is not possible for you, think on following the games on www.sportube.tv. If this channel is not available, the games can also be watched on www.laola.tv.

World Championship 2011: Pool compositions published

One week before the start of the World Championships, the composition of the different pools has been published on the official internet site (Women / Men).

The exact schedule of the games is not yet elaborated, but a global overview of the games time schedule can be found at the results page on the official internet site.

The Beachvolley World Championships live streaming on Sportube

Sportube, the official web TV of FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships powered by Smart Rome 2011, will broadcast daily streaming live of the best matches of Beach Volleyball World Championships. 

A 360-degree presence will ensure not only direct but also lots of entertainment based around the event rainbow: commentary, interviews with hot stars, interaction with the audience and backstage events. 

The World Championships of Beach Volleyball, scheduled from June 13 to 19 at the Foro Italico in Rome, will take advantage of the important collaboration of the web tv visible on the  website www.sportube.tv.

Thorsten Endres to assume management of CEV headquarters from next October

Luxembourg, June 4, 2011. Ten years after assuming the leadership and management of the CEV headquarters in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, CEV Administrative Director Olivier Mottier has decided to leave the European Volleyball Confederation to go back to his home country, Switzerland, in order to stay closer to his family and explore there some other professional challenges, expressing his wish to stay in contact with the Volleyball family. Mr. Thorsten Endres of Germany will take over his position but there will be a transition as Mr. Mottier will be fully responsible for the organization of the XXXII CEV General Assembly scheduled for next September 16-17 in Vienna and supporting his follower until October 1 in order to assure the needed transfer of knowledge and the smooth run of all future operations.

GSSE Liechtenstein: 5th and last day of competition

For Anne and Norma, this last day of the competition announced the game for 3rd place on the podium, the bronze medal. Their opponent was again the team from Malta, against which Anne and Norma had won in the pool-games-phase 2-0, but with a very tight score in the second set (24-22).

But the game for 3rd place was even getting harder and the luxemburgish team needed to go in the tiebreak to finally win the game in three sets 2-1, after 51 minutes of playing.

If the first set was won by Anne and Norma 21-18, the second one was lost 16-21. But the tiebreak was once again won with some latitude 15-10 and the bronze medal belonged to our beach team.