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.

Grethen / Zambon and Decker / Richtarik get the 2011 Champion title

 (c) Photos by Guy Erpelding/Tom Kirtz

This week-end, the national Beachvolleyball Championships took place in Capellen. This year, the competition was organised in joint venture between the FLVB and the volleyballclub of Mamer.

On Saturday, 6 women teams fought for the title in a round robin system where Grethen / Zambon, quite logically, won their 5 games and finished first of the tournament. Vice-champion is the team Mander / Risch who successfully defeated the younger teams. It seems that in beachvolleyball, experience can always make it about youth.

Congratulations to Anne and Norma, who deserve this title, as they are the only team to focus on beachvolleyball, all year long.

In the men's category, the title was played on Sunday. 11 teams registered

Luxemburgish Beachvolley Championships in Capellen

The 2011 luxemburgish championships will be organised by the VC Mamer in joint venture with the FLVB this weekend in Capellen.

There will be no constraints concerning the registrations of the teams, but, if every team is eligible to win the tournament, only teams with both players coming with a valid FLVB-licence can be declared Beachvolleyball Champion of Luxembourg.

Saturday 9th July will be reserved for the women's category where finally only 6 teams showed their interest. As there are few teams, the playing system will be a round robin, where each team plays against all the others. After 5 games the teams with the most wins will be declared winner of the tournament, without semi-final and final games.

World Championship 2011: Brazilian domination

After 7 days of competition, the winning teams of the 2011 Worldchampionship are finally known:

In the Men's category, the final game opposed two brazilian teams Alison/Emanuel and Ricardo/Marcio which was quite an interesting duel as Ricardo and Emanuel played together very successfully the last years. But everyone who has seen Emanuel and the "Mammoth" (nickname of Alison Cerutti) playing together, could not imagine one stronger team.

So the men's final was unfortunately a game without surprises, as tactically Ricardo/Marcio had a difficult position. Knowing the strenght of attack of Emanuel Rego against the block of Ricardo, they decided to serve on the block player Alison with his 2,03 m, 106 kg and incredible strength, relying on Ricardo's block. On the other side, Alison/Emanuel served on Marcio, who had big difficulties against Alison's block.