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ravens#7

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Wednesday, July 20th 2011, 5:25pm

WNVL 2011-2012

On its official Facebook page WNVL announced the 10 cities who will host the 10 franchises who will play the championship (Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington, Miami, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, New York and Phoenix), cities who will host pre-season matches (Portorico, Hawaii, San Francisco, Houston e Minneapolis) and the city who will host the All-Star Game (Omaha, Nebraska).


They also said the league will start in fall...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/WNVL/227152027325688?ref=ts

On official web site there's still nosthing.

http://www.wnvl.com/

No rumors about men's league too.

http://www.uspvl.com/
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Dares23

Spike It Forever!

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Favourite Team: Pallavolo Parma, Gonzaga Milano, Sisley Volley, Pallavolo Modena, Gabeca Pallavolo, Italy NT, Cuba NT, Poland NT

Favourite Players: Cristian Savani, Simone Parodi, Osmany Juantorena, Wilfredo León, Robertlandy Simón, Matej Kazijski, Leo Lo Bianco, Francesca Piccinini, Serena Ortolani

Location: Milano/Italy

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Wednesday, July 20th 2011, 6:06pm

Great!!!!!!!!!! :drink: :super: :super: :drink: :super: :super: :super: :super:
Non lasciare mai che la paura di perdere ti impedisca di partecipare!!

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joanamss

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Posts: 6,737

Favourite Team: FOPPA (Italy), Unilever (Brazil), Dresden (Germany) NT: Italy, Holland, Germany, Serbia, Croatia (women); Brazil and Poland (men)

Favourite Players: Ognjenovic, Piccinini, Fürst, Pavan, C.Staelens, Croce, Barazza, Kozuch, Merlo, Fernandinha, Weiss, Flier, Brakocevic, Paggi, Vasileva, Dijkema, Fiorin, Rahimova, Havelkova, Lloyd, Gibbemeyer, Apitz, Popovic

Location: RIO DE JANEIRO - BRASIL

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Wednesday, July 20th 2011, 6:27pm

This will be a professional league in USA????? So it is happening? Like NBA and that stuff?????
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ravens#7

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Posts: 652

Favourite Team: ITA (M) - USA (F/M) - BRA (F/M) - POL (M)

Favourite Players: Logan Tom, Piccinini, Savani, Dante, Murilo, Sheilla, Mari, Berg, Bruninho, Larson, Barboza, Richards, Khtey, Bartman

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Wednesday, July 20th 2011, 7:49pm

They want to create a sport league model like NBA, with frinchising, big halls...

This is not the first professional league in the USA, but the sixth one.
There were before:
- Major Volleyball League (MVL) 1987-1989 -> Debby Green won it 2 times
- Women's Western Volleyball League (WWVL) 1992-1993
- National Volleyball Association (NVA) 1994-1998 -> Scott won it - Tara Cross-Battle played in this league
- Professional Volleyball League (PVL) 1996-1997
- United States Professional Volleyball (USPV) 2002 -> Berg won it
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joanamss

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Favourite Team: FOPPA (Italy), Unilever (Brazil), Dresden (Germany) NT: Italy, Holland, Germany, Serbia, Croatia (women); Brazil and Poland (men)

Favourite Players: Ognjenovic, Piccinini, Fürst, Pavan, C.Staelens, Croce, Barazza, Kozuch, Merlo, Fernandinha, Weiss, Flier, Brakocevic, Paggi, Vasileva, Dijkema, Fiorin, Rahimova, Havelkova, Lloyd, Gibbemeyer, Apitz, Popovic

Location: RIO DE JANEIRO - BRASIL

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Wednesday, July 20th 2011, 8:23pm

Quoted from "ravens#7"

They want to create a sport league model like NBA, with frinchising, big halls...

This is not the first professional league in the USA, but the sixth one.
There were before:
- Major Volleyball League (MVL) 1987-1989 -> Debby Green won it 2 times
- Women's Western Volleyball League (WWVL) 1992-1993
- National Volleyball Association (NVA) 1994-1998 -> Scott won it - Tara Cross-Battle played in this league
- Professional Volleyball League (PVL) 1996-1997
- United States Professional Volleyball (USPV) 2002 -> Berg won it


Well I do hope they make it! :)
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brahmin

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Saturday, July 23rd 2011, 7:19pm

Guys, I would like to see it succeed, but a 36 game regular season? You are playing each team twice at home and on the road.

These teams will not be playing in big arenas to start. They need to find some 3 to 5,000 seat arenas, which are only one level tall.

I really doubt that these are franchises in the sense of the term. I think that the teams will be owned by the league, but have general managers to determine how they want the team staffed.

Is there a TV deal or even an internet TV deal? Who are the sponsors of the uniforms? Too many questions to be answered right now.

I worked as a ball boy with the late Portland Spikers in MLV in their final home game. My city Portland, Oregon has seen soo many minor league sports come in and fail. Here is a list: Arena Football League, US Football League, World Football League, Professional Indoor Football League, Continental Indoor Soccer League, World Indoor Soccer League, National Lacrosse League, American Basketball League and the WNBA.

The league needs to have cash behind it to succeed.
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ravens#7

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Sunday, July 24th 2011, 3:33pm

Brahim, Porland colors were red, white and black?

BTW, WNVL announced the 2 conference:

WNVL National Volleyball Conference - Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington DC.

WNVL American Volleyball Conference - Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami and Phoenix.

I think it's a little strange Seattle in NVC and Miami in AVC...

Can't wait to watch WNVL matches!!!!! :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy:

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "ravens#7" (Jul 24th 2011, 3:40pm)

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brahmin

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Sunday, July 24th 2011, 7:23pm

For the Portland Trail Blazers NBA basketball team, they are Red, White and Black. The WNBA team we had were called the Fire.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en…ortlandFire.png

For the Portland Spikers, I do have a pamphlet at home, but I can't remember their colors off the top of my head.
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brahmin

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Favourite Team: USA Men NT, USA Women NT, Japan Women NT

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Sunday, July 24th 2011, 7:29pm

Quoted from "ravens#7"



BTW, WNVL announced the 2 conference:

WNVL National Volleyball Conference - Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington DC.

WNVL American Volleyball Conference - Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami and Phoenix.

I think it's a little strange Seattle in NVC and Miami in AVC...


Realistically the league would be split into Western and Eastern Conferences, but with only 4 teams west of the Mississippi River (Dallas, Phoenix, LA and Seattle), you could not do it easily.

I do like that they have put Chicago, NY, Philadelphia and Washington DC in one conference for big city rivalries. The choice of Miami to me just makes no sense, it is a front running sports city, so you better have some of the hottest women in volleyball on this team to draw well.
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ravens#7

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Tuesday, August 9th 2011, 8:12pm

First franchise officialised: Chicago Gales!
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brahmin

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Thursday, August 11th 2011, 3:25am

Great, they have already got rid of one city Miami for San Francisco.

"The WNVL has made the decision not to develop the Miami franchise at this point and time. Because of some recent developments the Miami Franchise has been replaced with the city of San Francisco. New plans in regards to the city of Miami will be announced in the next couple of weeks."
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Dares23

Spike It Forever!

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Location: Milano/Italy

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Monday, October 10th 2011, 11:33am

Realistically, when it will begin the championship?
Non lasciare mai che la paura di perdere ti impedisca di partecipare!!

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brahmin

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Favourite Team: USA Men NT, USA Women NT, Japan Women NT

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Tuesday, October 11th 2011, 7:59pm

There is nothing on Facebook about the days of the league starting, nor on the Twitter page, nor on the website.

Snowballs chance in hell is my guest on the league starting.
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estranged

The Witch

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Favourite Team: Polish NT, USA NT, PTPS Piła, Robursport Pesaro, Vakifbank Stambuł

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Location: blokaut.net

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Tuesday, August 21st 2012, 9:13am

Well, looks like the silver medal that girls got in London made some important people in USA Volleyball make up their minds about professional leagues in the USA.

http://blokaut.net/aktualnosci/pokaz/182…jednoczonych%3F

http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/usa_v…and_prix_sports

USA Volleyball has signed an agreement with Grand Prix Sports, a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based sports and entertainment company Grand Prix Entertainment, to run its indoor competitions until 2018.

The package includes the 'sanction, license and global broadcast rights' to all USA Volleyball men's and women's professional events, and comes as USA Volleyball attempts to capitalise on the sport's success at London 2012.


I hope they will make it, can't wait for more details :cheesy: :woohoo:
Forever trusting who we are... and nothing else matters

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ravens#7

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Favourite Team: ITA (M) - USA (F/M) - BRA (F/M) - POL (M)

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Tuesday, August 21st 2012, 12:03pm

We are all waiting for this!

I guess this league will be amazing! :cheesy:
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joanamss

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Posts: 6,737

Favourite Team: FOPPA (Italy), Unilever (Brazil), Dresden (Germany) NT: Italy, Holland, Germany, Serbia, Croatia (women); Brazil and Poland (men)

Favourite Players: Ognjenovic, Piccinini, Fürst, Pavan, C.Staelens, Croce, Barazza, Kozuch, Merlo, Fernandinha, Weiss, Flier, Brakocevic, Paggi, Vasileva, Dijkema, Fiorin, Rahimova, Havelkova, Lloyd, Gibbemeyer, Apitz, Popovic

Location: RIO DE JANEIRO - BRASIL

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Tuesday, August 21st 2012, 2:02pm

Great history! :super:
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brahmin

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Friday, August 24th 2012, 4:58am

Good portion of the agreement.

Grand Prix Entertainment has TV promotion experience
"Grand Prix broadcast special advisor and former president of CBS Sports Neal Pilson"

For the US, this is more important than anything else. If you cannot get a TV deal, the league will have difficulty surviving.

USA VB needs to get onto a sports network that needs programming. NBC Sports Network, which is affiliated with the TV channel that has the Rio Games in the US market, would be the most likely target in my mind. Plus NBC is owned by one of the larger cable companies in the US, so the access to the market is significant.

The women's league needs to be on in the spring, prior to the World Grand Prix, but after college basketball and after college volleyball seasons.
The men's league is going to be hard to figure out. With more men's sports on television, they need to play in the summer, but not during the World League.

Bad, still need to locate teams, arenas, players, sponsors, etc.
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