I guess I had the women’s equivalent, the World Grand Prix, on the brain, but I thought the FIVB World League started in the late summer or early fall, August/September or thereabouts. It actually starts on the last day of May.
I had thought for some time that I wanted to do some sort of introductory series on the teams involved in it, and I still do. I just kinda have to get it in gear first. It’s too late on to profile one team a week before the tournament starts (there are 18 teams, and the tournament begins in 15 weeks), but it’ll still be something like that. I don’t have a particularly strong base in discussion of international volleyball, so I’ll be going about getting one.
Tonight, Team Canada, one of the 18 teams (which is new this year, that number of teams) played Laval University of Quebec in what I described on Twitter as apropos of a World League tune-up, but it seemed much too early to actually consider it one. It probably still is too early for it to truly be a tune-up for a tournament that’s three and a half months away, but they probably are using it to get a sense of who to include on the World League squad. They won the match, as they really ought to have, in four sets.
So that’s a little heads-up on upcoming content here. I have somewhat neglected coverage of international volleyball in The Net Set’s first few months of existence (although that was partly out of necessity, being that we launched just after the Olympic Games and there have not really been any international tournaments of great significance since). That will not be the case going forward.
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