Team roster of Men’s National Volleyball Team of France revealed
The 2011 FIVB World League is scheduled to start in the last week of May, which means that it is just around the corner.
The participating countries are supposed to finalise the team rosters of their teams. In this regard, the mentor of French Men’s National Volleyball Team disclosed the 20-player roster. The 2011 FIVB World League will start off on May 27 and it will cover
its length on July 1. Philippe Blain, the head coach of France’ National team has put following players on his list:
Gérald Hardy-Dessources Franck Lafitte Romain Vadeleux Jean-Philippe Sol Pierre Pujol Toafa Takaniko Benjamin Toniutti Xavier Kapfer Mory Sidibe Baptiste Geiler Julien Lyneel Guillaume Quesque Nicolas Maréchal Guillaume Samica Samuele Tuia Antonin Rouzier Marien Moreau Marc Zopie Jean-Francois Exiga Jenia Grebennikov
After a careful analysis of players’ performances in the last season Blain the picked out 20 best players. The list of 20 players will further go through the selection-process and the 12-player roster will be defined official start of 2011 FIVB World League.
Some of the finest players of French squad have been dropped on account of their injuries. Reportedly, Gary Gendrey, Horacio D’Almeida and Ludovic Castard could not find a place on the 20-player roster this time.
Meanwhile, Blain stated, “Initially we included four setters which were reduced to three, by keeping Pujol, Toniutti and Takaniko. Yannick Bazin was already pre-informed and he will nevertheless continue working with our second group. Jean-Francois Exiga
and Jenia Grebennikov will be our liberos for the World League.”
The selected 20 players will attend the training camp, where they will get to showcase their skills. Eventually, the 12 players will earn the right to present France at the mega international event of FIVB World League. In addition to the training camp,
the French Training Team will also have some friendly matches with Cameron. French team has plans to improve their ranking this year.
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