The 2016 World League concluded with Serbia winning their first championship (since Montenegro's independence).
For a review of the finals, see this blog
Stay Foolish 2016 World League Final, Serbia vs Brazil review
The MVP was Ivovic of the WS.
Personally, I would have liked MB's Lisinac (pictured) to win.
Lisinac was ranked 7th in the tournament as best scorer (1st for MB, Ivovic was 11th), 5th as best blocker, and 2nd as best server, but it seems difficult for MB to win the MVP.
Although the Serbian team won the championship, unfortunately they will not be competing in this year's Rio Olympics.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that it would be more interesting to simply allow more strong teams to participate in the Olympics, rather than sending a team like Mexico to the Olympics while talking about continental equality and all that.
Now, changing the subject, are you familiar with the term "the tragedy of those born in 1992"?
[Tragic] The tragedy of those born in 1992
Simply put, the term describes the generation born in 1992 (or, to be precise, those born between April 2, 1992 and April 1, 1993) who were unfortunate in many ways, as they were in elementary and junior high school during the heyday of relaxed education, their high school graduation ceremonies and university entrance ceremonies were canceled due to the Great East Japan Earthquake, and their first and second year students played a central role in the Koshien tournament.
Speaking of Japanese players, Suntory's Yanagida and Toyoda Gosei's Yamada belong to this generation.
However, even at this year's World League 2016, we could see glimpses of the poor performance of this generation.
This generation is currently 23 or 24 years old, an age where it would not be surprising if many of the players were already key players on the team.
However, all 12 countries and registered players in Group 1 of the World League 2016252The 1992 generation
Slightly6 people
The number of people who can make a team is just about right... (laughs)
By the way, the generation before and after this one, the 1991 generation22People, the '93 generation21He was a person.
The front and back are excellent!
Although the 1992 generation had a small number of players, the balance of positions was quite good and the team was put together quite nicely.
The two members of WS have quite a good balance.
The only problem is the setter.
Iran's Zarchob (not sure if that's how it's pronounced) has an "Unknown" position on his profile and is just registered but has never played in a match, so by process of elimination I decided to make him setter lol.
However, he is not that tall at 190cm, so it may actually be possible.
For reference, let's take a look at the selected members from the previous and next generations.
91 generation
'93 Generation
The '91 generation is crazy (lol). (By the way, 4 of these 7 people were born early in the year.)
In particular, opposites Vettori from Italy and Ga'Fur from Iran are also in the running.
Although the 1993 generation had many players, they were unevenly distributed across positions, and there was an undeniable shortage of players in the middle of the pack in particular.
I've never seen Okolic play as a midfielder rather than a pinscher for the national team lol.
I was also reminded that this generation is the Serbian generation.
If we were to include group 2, the picture would be different.
In any case, I hope that with the real generational change after the Olympics, the number of people born in 1992 will increase even a little.
Because we're the same age.
Photo: FIVB
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