It took so long to write a new post, but after the end of the season, I had a wedding to organize, my wedding.
I got married the 2nd of june 2007 with Tina and after that day I've spent a lot of my free time building a web-site with all the hundreds of pictures of that day.
Visit it, it´s great!!!!
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We made it, yes, WE MADE IT.
This team has been builted to move up to Elitedivision, and we did it.
It has not always been easy, too may times we were short of people, specially in practises (me first, I could not practise more than twice a week due to uncompatible working and training schedules), few times we had a bad game´s approach and it ended in losses (not too many....but enough).
We can celebrate one week earlier thanks to favourable results from the other games: Lyngby (who was in 2nd place) and PVC Lyngby (who was in 3rd place) both lost this week-end.
We needed just one victory in the last 2 games, and we got it at the first attempt.
This time has been Frederiksberg which gave us 2 points, but it has not been absolutly easy.
The first 2 sets went very well and too easy, we did the break when me and Henrik were serving and it says a lot about my pussy-jump-flot-serve´s afficiency: we won 25-17 and 25-12, the 3rd was on our way but a bad 2nd ref call made us nervous and we lost 5-6 points in a row.
We put things back togheter and we tied at 18-18, but we stopped playing there, we really did: we lost 25-19.
The fourth has been so full of passion, I guess we were feeling the pressure, or the so-call "Fear of winning".
The set has been tied till the 20s, but we got huge digs, effective blocks and wonderful transitions balls and on 24-20 Diego goes to serve.
He has the ball of the season in his hands, he asked the coach if he can jump serve, and the coach sadly answered NO!!!
But I was there, when could it happen again to have a Season-ball in my hands?
I took my responsabilities and I jumped serve!!!
UGLY serve, in the middle of the net!! It has been egoistic but I did because I was sure, in case of a serve´s mistake, we could have had 3 side-out to take the point we needed to end the season and to start celebrating.
We have one more game and we want to finish with 16 points, but already under the showers started the "Magic-volley Starting 6" for the next game: I left the room when the coach suggested to play with double setters, which would have been me and Niels. The ones who has the clearest set though, jehejhjehe
So, next saturday it would be an funny game and we can keep celebrating with all the others ASV´s team at "End of the season" party later that evening!!!
It was a friendly match, but it made me think a lot.
I arrived a little bit late at the gym as I was at work and I didn´t play the 1st set, which we won!!!
Mr Makoto YAMAGUCHI played only the 1st set, which they lost and later he "rested" watching the game from the bench.
It makes a better impression to say that you rested, in stead of facing the truth saying that you didn´t play for technical choice :))))
Was just a coincidence, or was it a SIGN that our time is close to be over?
Or was just our teammates that tryed to tell us something? Do they may be play better without us?
I actually think it´s time to give more space to young players, to let new Danish talents play....but where are they?
Great saturday in Copenaghen....
3-0 in 59 minutes and a lot of beers on the way home.
As the girls won 3-0 too in 60 minutes, we had double beers and double fun, ejhejehej
Not much to say about volley, they had a good start, they went in front 7-2 till 13-9 but after we adjusted our side-out, we made a couple of good blocks and the game was actually over: i think they got scared of beeing blocked, our transition was working great and they made a lot of unforced mistakes, they touched the net at least 15 times in 3 sets.
In the second and third set we just served and scored any time we had a chance....
After a nice beer under the shower, we had to see the girls who were with us on the bus, and off course everyone was waiting for a fast match: I want to be honest, I was waiting for a fast 3-0 for Amager, but ASV won the 1st....what a long evening it´s going to be. ASV won the 2nd too....Hope they are not going to tie-break or we come back in Århus at 2 in the night....and they got the 3rd.
A nice match we were wainting for, and a fast match it was!!!
How nice is to come back with a bok of beer waiting on the bus, and with 2 more added during the journey!!!! What a day
Purtroppo, una nostra amata squadra deve lasciare, nuovamente, il tanto ambito sogno europeo.
I´d like to say that yesterday game has been a great game to play, we have showed a good volleyball level for the lenght of the whole game, having a regular serve, a pretty good pass with a regular side-out, a solid block which helped a lot to play good transition volley: PVC has been ahead on the scoreboard only once, 1-0 of the first set when the ref judged my set double.
I'd like to say that with this 2 points we put almost definitly PVC out of the battle to win this group, but I CAN´T.
The result is sub judice. I don´t know if that´s how it has to be said in English, but those 2 Latin words mean that PVC complained after the game that we have played on a side of the gym, in a small court with just few meters between the court and the walls. We had to play there because few lights in the middle of the main court wasn´t working and it was really too dark to play.
Now we have to wait the answer of the Danish Volleyball Federation: they can accept PVC complaining or not. If they do, we have to play against them again.
Looking at our group standing, I think it would be better for us that we´d play this game again: without this loss, PVC still has a lot of chances to win this group and they still have to play against Lyngby, which is actually in the 1st position. If PVC wins all his games and we do it as well, we could re-play yesterday match at the end of the season, as the last match to be played and it would be a kind of final: who wins moves up to Elitedivision.
Let´s wait the answer of the Federation, in any case those are 2 points that we need to keep fighting to be the 1st.
In the past 2 years I´ve played away games almost in the same places (København, Aalborg and Odense), this year we are going west too. In the first part of the season we visited Esbjerg (better know here as Fiskeby), thursday we went to Bedsted. I never went that far before, I visited Mos, but I never entered Thy.
It was nice, a warm gym, great hot-water showers and a gym with tarmac instead of parquet. It´s since I was still playing in Italy I haven´t played in a gym with tarmac and a lot of memories came back that evening. Memories of great games, of wonderful team-mates, of battles over (but almost under) the net, of good players I´ve played against (many of them playing now in A2 or B1), of unforgivable losses: in few words, a different volley, based more on emotions, on fights, on energy, on power.
I don´t want to say that there are no emotions, no power, no energy here in Denmark, what I mean is that there are not as much as I used to had.
I wasn´t playing in a big national division, I´ve always played in C League and every year our goal was to reach the play-offs. Sometimes we made it, sometime we didn´t. We had 4 practises per week and games on saturday evening [the beauty of playing saturday at 21:00 is that you can go out crazy on friday night, and have a whole day to "recover" before the match....as I said, I didn´t play in a national division]: even if the level I used to play can be compared with the one of the Elite division, I´ve never had video sessions, never had statistics to study, never had hitting directions to remember or special block tactics. During the week we worked a lot on individual technic and game situations with the goal to improve our weaknessess.
Doing that, every point won during games, every set won during matches, every match won during a season, was felt as a personal achievement, we were really playing against someone we didn´t know how they would serve, where they would hit, how they would hit: it was like going to an exam without having studied. For this reason, every point was a great event, every seat needed to be celebrate, every victory was followed by a week of happiness because everything had been achieved thanks to our selve, thanks to our attitude to adjust our tactics every week-end, thanks to our wish to win: thanks to our abilities to find which was the best way to play to win that particular game. Victories tasted better down there!!!!
Here in Denmark almost everyone does statistics, (video sections, hitting directions, zones where to serve, setting tendences and so on) and it´s not a bad thing, I´m in charge of that in ASV now, I give suggestions to my coach about what would be our best strategy. What I wanted to say is that I have to opportunity to compare 2 different ways of game´s approach, where the volleyball level is almost the same. Doing that, I can say, once again, everything up here is too "cold": as there is not so much happiness for every ball won, there is not too much frustration for evey ball lost, but off course everybody prefers to remember good moments and good moments, for me, have been better in Italy.
This post was ment to talk about the match and I´ll do shortly as I have to get preprared for today's match.
We won 3-1 (15-25; 20-25; 25-20; 18-25), we didn´t play that well but they played worst, and I was enough to get 2 points. I can say that has been 2 easy points, and I hope (better, I wish) that Copenhagen´s teams will face more problems playing here, specially after a 6 hour journey.
After 2 days of snow, todays temperature is 2 C and it´s raining, the snow is smelting.
Bad saturday, very bad volleyball´s saturday.
Great job guys, now we have the reaming 2 games at home against Ireland and Wales....we would like to be with you in the field and help you all to win those games, but you are too big and strong, we just prefere to support you from the stands and in front of TV
Those are the pictures I did this morning, after I realized that I couldn´t go to work because there were absolutly no buses or trains. After a short pause, it started to snow agains, and they say it would go for one more day.
....the backyard (part I)....
....the backyard (part II)....
...and our special friends´ residence!!!
Hello everyone,
we have had 3 weeks with-out games, I don´t know what going on this year in the Danish Volleyball league game´s schedule, but there is no logic at all. We have 3 weeks with-out games, and we play 3 games in 7 days next week.
Well, the first one to come is Lyngby, and I can´t wait for that day.
The game is quite a no returnig point for them as they already lost 2 games, and loosing one more would definetly cut them off the fight for the 1st postion.
A victory for us means a lot, beeing first with 2 points in front of the others, who still have to come to play in Århus.
Friday evening there is a great volleyball match in Århus, SK plays against Marienlyst: SK wants to confirm that they are the 2nd best team at the moment, and Marienlsyt has to show that they are still in the game to win the league. They are coming from the loses in a row, I guess it hasn´t happened in years and they surely want to stop that tendency.
Well, people could enjoy some of the best volleyball in Denmark at Vejlby-Risskov Hallen of friday, and they can also have a taste of the "underground" volleyball, coming at our match saturday at 13:00 at Energi Stadion.
I want to congratulate my-self with Sisley Treviso who yesterday reached the Final 6 of the Champions League after beating Cuneo 3-0. They really played a great match, beating Cuneo in every aspect of the game, playing better in every situation and making a lot of problems to Giba, MVP of the last World Cup.
In the last years a lot of friends of mine have asked who´d have won the Italian Volleyball league, and I´ve always answered that it would be Sisley, if they reach the Finals. THEY ARE ANIMAL´S FINALS. In the last 2 weeks they lost 3-0 to Verona, who is at the bottom of A1, and won 3-2 to Trento, which is not the best that Italian volley can offer, and no-one would have pronosticated a clear victory yesterday night against Cuneo, 1st in the League. When the games are important, they reach the perfection, they play great volley until the 20s, and after that they are simply perfect!!! It´s a joy to see those games.
are the ones showed on TV, and consequently on bwin.Hello everyone,
as always it takes a lot this year to write reviews on our games.
Two weeks ago we played an home match against Amager, for me one of the most difficult matches topay because me, Ace and Ulrik couldn´t play as everyone had personal reasons for not beeing available toplay that day.
I wanna thank you all my team-mates for the great victory they achieved, winning the tie-break and putting 2 more points in our basket.
"The match against Amager was pretty intense, and luckly it came out to our advantage. We didn’t start well at all, and gave away perhaps 15-20 points in unforced errors in the first two sets. Maybe it was due to bad sets or bad passing. But the attack level we showed in the beginning of the 1st set, was not even good enough for the bottom of second division."
That´s a pretty hard comment from our libero, but in a way, just beeing in the back line rotation, he can see the game with a different point of view and I believe what he said is true.
" In general the match was played on a descent volleyball level. I think it could have gone both ways, but something happened in the fourth set that made Amager loose their faith in their own game. I was proberly our very solid block/defense, that made things difficult for their attackers. Fifth set was very even until 8-8 where we were very fortunate to gain a 3 or 4 point lead. Thanks to Amager for a great game ;-)”
Well Anders, I want to thank you one more time....
A week later, another gamein CPH. Game starts at 11 a.m.
Now, I wonder why the Federation allows clubs putting games so early in the morning when the other club has to travel more than 3 hours.
We had to start from Århus at 6 a.m., and may be this is the reason why we played a great 1st set, and almost a very good 2nd set. In Italy there is a way to say: "do not wake up the sleeping lion"...and unfortunalty for Frederiksberg, we had to woke up too early, ejhejhej
0-3 in 1 hour and 7 minutes, I guess they realized they had to play volleyball at the beginning of the 3rd set, because before it looked like we were playing alone!!!
Big victory, pretty good performance, 2 more points that put us in 1st position at the moment.
Now we have 3 weeks break and we are waiting for Lyngby to come to visit us: THIS IS THE MATCH OF THE YEAR.
It´s almost sure whoever wins this match has more than a foot in Elitedivision.
Our team has been built for this reason, and now it comes a fundamental game to turn our season in a succex or in a failure, but I´m sure we will performe at our best that day.
I know, I know
I haven't written for a very very long time: it could be sound weird, but I have absolutly no time to do it more often.
Anyway, I´ll try to keep a regular overview on our matches.
Last week-end we went to København to play 2 games in 2 days....We had to live at 6 a.m. on Saturday and with us on the mini-bus there were also Ace´s girlfriend. They showed up with a baggage and I thought they would have spend the weeke-end togheter.
The first part of the journey was regular, no traffic at all and the big city was closer and closer. After crossing the bridge I started reading a book and I wasn´t caring what road we were taking but suddenly I opened my eyes and Kastrup airport was at our side. I actually thought we were driving there because Ace´s girfriend had to take a flight and we drove her there (that sounded to me as the most reasonable reason to be there), BUT I was miserably wrong.
AS USUAL, WE GOT LOST.
I don´t know what´s wrong when we drive to Copenhagen, but we never took the faster and the shorter way. We always had to come back, to ask infos to people in the cars next to us, we have to stop to consult the map....
My question is: "What´s wrong in using www.krak.dk?"
In the last 3 years I´ve played 4 times against Lyngby....and I´ve reached the gym from 4 different directions!!! At least next time I won´t have the pleasure to see a new way to go there, but who knows...???
The game was ok, we hadn´t played any game before that one and we hadn´t a regular rithme and a solid side-out, but at least we fought and we closed the match in 4 sets, in my opinion deserving those 2 points.
We had dinner downtown, hoping for some spare-ribes all-you-can-eat buffet....but we hadn´t!!! We have some good food and great sweed Swedish weatresses, but we had a bad surprise when we came back at the mini-bus. Some LOOSER broke the front window stealing Cluas´ bag.
Hopefully, they didn´t take my videocamera and my laptop!!!
The day after it was PVC. The gym´s roof had been painted and the gym turned to be one of the nicest of Denmark with a good lighting system.
Unfortunalty we lost 3-2, after leading 2-0 and a couple of match-balls...
I still have to see the video of the game, but the idea is that we played better than them, but too many serves mistakes kept PVC always close to us and inside the match.
Off course having played a game the day before didn´t help us so much, we were tired not physically but mentally, but it cannot be a excuse.
According to my opinion, we lost 2 points.
Ciao ragazzi,
alla fine ce l´avete fatta a fare questa cena!!!!
Io colgo solamente l´occasione per salutare tutti, i commenti di Ale erano cosí precisi, puntuali e realistici che quasi mi é sembrato di esserci stato in mezzo a voi....
La super risposta del D´Angelo (la "A" é maiuscola o minuscola?!?!?) é fantastica per ironia e sagacia!!!
Grande Leo, le tue foto sono sempre cosí puntuali che non meritano maggiori commenti....
Ehi Mic, qui stai facendo vedere la fede nunziale vero!!!!
Spero che questa foto non possa compromettere la tua carriera accademica....Basta che mi dici di toglierla e sará fatto!!!
Ehi Emi, a cosa pensavi? Se fosse stato meglio mantenere la promessa oppure defilarti per tenertela tutta per te?!?!?
Io vi ringrazio per tutte le e-mail che mi sono arrivate, non so quanto consapevolmente. Mi sono divertito a leggerle e, se devo essere sincero, anche un po´ rammaricato. Mi sarebbe piaciuto poterci essere venerdí scorso cosí come alle varie feste di tesi, o al matrimonio della Mic, ma al momento in cui feci la scelta di andarmene sapevo quali erano i vantaggi e gli svantaggi di quella decisione, quindi vi ringrazio per il solo fatto di essere ancora nella vostra mailing list, e di sentirmi ancora parte di un gruppo di ragazzi che hanno avuto la fortuna di condividere la stessa aula per 3(o 5) anni, di soffrire le stesse pene, di essere cresciuti insieme.
Qui aggiungo una mia piccola foto tessera...la macchinetta mi ha colto di sorpresa e sará per questo che la foto mi sembra piú naturale e carina...per quanto di carino ci possa essere in uno con una faccia cosí!!!!
This post doesn't have a title, it's just an opportunity to say something to someone who read this blog.
Hej Nathan,
I saw your comment, I tryed to answer but you don't have any blog!!!
How you doing in Germany? Do you like the city? How is the team? Do you have good time? Do you like your practises?
I met last week the two guys from Australia who play in SK this year. Do you know who they are? I know that Aidan is a libero and Nigel is a huge center player, he's 2,04 m and he hits hard, really hard!!!
About my decision to change club, it happened before summer. This club came with an offer and with the opportunity to be assistent coach. I asked SK what were their plans for this season, and there were just 2 players 100% sure to play for the club.
That's why I switched, and I'm glad that after me has decided to join my club the libero and the second setter; Niels (from Aalborg) and Ulrik (from Middelfart) have moved to Aarhus and they prefered to play for us. This makes our team pretty good, even if we still have to reach the volleyball level we could have.
Hope to heard from you soon
Hej ME,
gli italiani all'estero, da un punto di vista pallavolistico sono apprezzati perchè veniamo fuori da scuole di pallavolo di buona levatura, e soprattutto abbiamo la posibilità di vedere ogni fine settimana partite di un livello altissimo. Ciò permette alla nostra cultura pallavolistica di arricchrsi e di poter avere così un metro di paragane reale su cosa ci sia tra il nostro livello e la serie A1.
Per esempio, quassù la serie più alta può essere paragonata ad una media B2....la differenza è che qui non sanno cosa ci sia più in su, non si immaginano cosa voglia dire vedere gente che serve palloni a 100km/h o che sta un secondo per aria, può vedere dov'è il muro e decidere dove attaccare. Ogni tanto lo si vede in televisione, ma non è lo stesso che essere a bordo campo o in tribuna!!!
Volevo informare che Ryanair dal primo di novembre inaugura una nuova rotta Pisa-Billund (80 km da Aarhus), 4 voli a settimana. Praticemente mi arriverete tra le braccia.
Da settembre abbiamo nuovamente cambiato casa, questa volta casa con 3 stanze, cucina bagno e laundry room. Ovviamente garage e giardino privato davanti ma soprattutto dietro casa.
C'era una foresta quando siamo entrati e finalmente giovedì siamo riusciti a piantare l'erba!!!
Quindi ora gli ospiti avranno la proprio stanza qualora avessero voglia di venire quassù.
Tra poco farò anche delle foto, ma per il momento grazie a questo link enorme è possibile vedere la foto satellitare della casa.
La casa nostra è quella alla destra del punto blu, quella più vicina alla strada e quello dietro è il giardino!!!
Dato che il link è lunghissimo, qui si sono semplici istruzioni su come vedere la foto:
aprire il link http://www.krak.dk/Kort.aspx
I just finished to understand the comment on our last match....I appreciate the good words for me.
Here I past just few lines, but if you are really really really interested in reading the whole article you just have to open our club's web page www.asv.dk
- "Søndag den 1. oktober 2006 0-3 (18-25, 13-25, 20-25) Flot holdindsats og eminent italiensk centerspil..."
-"...Efter hver kamp kårer vi sædvanligvis de to bedste spillere; og her var libero Anders Aarkrog på et meget højt niveau ligesom centerspiller Hr. Diego Cella."
- "...Lyseng havde mere end stor respekt for vores centerspillere: Thomas Lund og Diego Cella."
- "I kampens løb var det sjoveste for Tindbæk, da Aarkrog kommer skraldgrinene ud på bænken, og siger, om Diegos spil: han holder jo legestue! Og Tindbæk supplerede: måske er han er taget til Djurs Sommerland med gratis entré og buffet m.m."
Non è uno scherzo, le cose possono andare male anche nei paesi da fovola della Scandinavia dove tutto funziona e tutti fanno di tutto perchè le cose vadano bene....solo che il governo lo scorso mese ha deciso di chiedere più soldi ai comuni.
Ancora non hanno detto perchè vogliono più soldi, lo scorso anno hanno pagato tutti i loro debiti e cominciavano già a mettere da parte: voci dicono che vogliono costruire un ponte fino alla Germania. Lo so che già confiniamo con la Germania, ma il ponte lo vogliono fare dal punto più a sud dell'isola centrale dove c'è Odense...chissà perchè!?!?! D'altronde noi lo facciamo sullo Stretto. Già nessuno usa quello per andare in Svezia, costa una sassata e tutti vanno in metro. Neanche in treno, perchè c'è il metro che da Copenaghen arriva dall'altra parte a Malmoe!!!
Fatto sta che i comuni, non avendo possibilità di negoziare e/o di trattare la cifra da pagare, hanno ben deciso di tagliare fondi ad asili nido, scuole e case di riposo.
Ed ecco che i danesi si sono svegliati da quel limbo di perfezione nel quale si trovavano e si sono riversati nelle strade con striscioni, bandiere e pugni al cielo!!!
Sono 2 settimane che asili nido e scuole elementari, medie e superiori (che poi qui le scuole sono tutte insieme!!!) sono chiuse. A dire la verità non sono chiuse, essere sono aperte però i professori scioperano per protesta e i GENITORI occupano le scuole o impediscono ai professori di entrare!!!
E dice che andrà avanti per un'altra settimana
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Questa foto è stata scattata ieri davanti al comune, dove c'erano circa 20.000 insegnanti che protestavano perchè il comune facesse tagli altrove. Se si considera che in città siamo 300.000, si può dire che fossero davvero tanti.
La risposta del governo? "Coloro che protestano sono rivoluzionare e socialisti, che non fanno altro che dannegiare il proprio paese!!!"
Parole già sentite dalle nostre parti, o sbaglio? Non gli hanno chiamati comunisti solo pechè i comunisti non ci sono mai stati, ma paragonarli ai socialisti forse è ancora più grave!!!
It has been a pretty easy game so far, even if I admire their coach. [Hi Ole, it's always nice to beat a good friend, jejeje).
If I have to be honest I thought they were better, during the warm-up they were serving very well and this made me think that also their pass would have been pretty stable....It took few serves during the match to realize that my impression was wrong. Also their serves during the match have never been that good as the ones the made during warm-up....I hope the coach gets this suggestion to work on that!!!
Now we have two week-ends without games and I hope we'll use those 3 weeks of practise to improve our serve level, to make our pass better than how it is now and to be always more confident with our sideout and transition phases.
Our block has confirmed that at the moment is one of our best qualities (personally I did 5 blocks and touched 7 more hits)...
Well dear coach, (Ole, Im talking to you!!!), before the match you said that you knew all my tricks...but I'm wondering if you told them to your players....
I'm just kidding, the ItalianStylian one more time appeared in the court and it was as usual pretty fun!!!
