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Quoted from ""Celso""

Brazil will play 4 friendly matches against Serbia as a preparation for both the Pan-American Games and the World Grand Prix.

These matches will be held in Rio. The fisrt one, if I'm not mistaken will be on June 30th and the others in the beginning of July.

hope some fans will post some games from pan american cup---never has the chance to watch the cup :wink2:

Are the 4 games in Rio? I read that there were 2 in Rio (June 30th and July 1st) and the other 2 would be held in 2 other cities. Well, anyway I guess we have to wait a bit more, because each people says something different, just like what would be the NT to play against Brazil. Maybe there isn't anything confirmed yet. I hope they define it soon because I'm looking forward to see this game, and since I'm not from Rio I'd have trouble if they sell the tickets like within 1 week before the games.

Colossus, about recording PanAm, I hope someone does record it, because I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it :cry2:
I'll "work" there so I don't know if I'll be able to watch and probably I'll depend of my family here to record it, and probably they won't

Pan American Games is different of Pan American Cup... :wink2: Pan American games are like "preview" to Olympic Games for America's countries, it's held in a chosen city of all the Americas (this year is Rio de Janeiro, last one was in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), and it happens every 4 years, always one year before the Olympic Games. If I'm not mistaken there are competitions in 36 sports at PanAm games.

Pan American Cup is not like that, I guess you have it on other sports too (just like you have Grand Prix of volley, formula 1 grand prix, etc...), but is just about volleyball and I'm not sure about its organization, but I guess it's a NORCECA championship, and it's smaller.

4 friendly matches between Germany and Japan.
Germany - Japan 3:1 (21:25,25:21,25:15,25:13)
Germany: Mareen Apitz, Heike Beier, Tina Gollan, Margareta Kozuch, Kathy Radzuweit und Corina Ssuschke und als Libero stand Atika Bouagaa auf dem Spielfeld.
Japan: Yoshie Takeshita, Miyuki Takahashi, Sachiko Sugiyama, Megumi Kurihara, Erika Arakia und Saori Kimura auf das Feld. Den Libero übernahm Sakurai anstelle von Kaoru Sugayama.





Germany - Japan 3:1 (25:21,23:25,25:23,25:15)
Germany: Mareen Apitz, Dominice Steffen, Maren Brinker, Cornelia Dumler, Kathy Radzuweit, Christiane Fürst und Heike Beier
Japan: Yoshie Takeshita, Miyuki Takahashi, Sachiko Sugiyama, Megumi Kurihara, Erika Arakia, Saori Kimura und Yuka Sakurai

Germany - Japan 3:2 (25:20,17:25,18:25,25:18,15:10)
Germany: Mareen Apitz, Tina Gollan, Christiane Fürst, Corina Ssuschke, Atika Bouagaa, Anne Matthes und Cornelia Dumler
Japan: Yoshie Takeshita, Saori Kimura, Yuki Shoji, Miyuki Takahashi, Megumi Kurihara, Asako Tajimi und Yuka Sakurai



Germany - Japan 2:3 (22:25,25:23,25:14,28:30,16:18 )
Germany: Mareen Apitz, Dominice Steffen, Christiane Fürst, Kathy Radzuweit, Margareta Kozuch, Maren Brinker und Atika Bouagaa
Japan: Yoshie Takeshita, Megumi Kurihara, Saori Kimura, Erika Arakia, Shuka Oyama, Sachiko Sugiyama und Yuka Sakurai

finished now brazil x servia. national team won 3x0(25/14-25/09-25/15). the next game will be thursday.

Quoted from ""paivavita""

finished now brazil x servia. national team won 3x0(25/14-25/09-25/15). the next game will be thursday.

Serbia team was tired, if I'm not wrong, they arrived one or two days before the game, and also they don't have the full team playing these friendly matches...
But I guess they'll be better on the other 3!
Also Brazilian players were amazing, especially Paula and Walewska.

the interesting fact about the friendly matches of germany is, that atika bouagaa played as a libero :?
Now i wonder if she takes that position for the whole season or if she changes back to spiker :? .... we'll see, we'll see

pictures of the first game servia x brazil

the secound game among brazil and servia was more diputaded. brazil won 3x0(25-22/25-22/25-11).

the next two game will be in maracanazinho, place of competion in pan american games.

Hey Celso, can you tell me how Ivana Nesovic (Nr 16) and Marta Drpa (Nr 17) played for Serbia? I've seen them in Junior team last year and I thought they're both very talented.

Quoted from ""Matthias""

Hey Celso, can you tell me how Ivana Nesovic (Nr 16) and Marta Drpa (Nr 17) played for Serbia? I've seen them in Junior team last year and I thought they're both very talented.

If I'm not wrong, they only played a little of the games... they're not starters...

I think Nesovic started for Serbia in the second match, that's what I understand from Serbian federation site.

nikolic say:

when I arrived in gymnasium, I think that enter in japan's ginasium. only there I see gyminasiuns biggest how this. and fans surprise me. I don't hope find people very happy, dancing at 10:00 a.m.



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Quoted from ""Matthias""

I think Nesovic started for Serbia in the second match, that's what I understand from Serbian federation site.

Ok, sorry I did not see the second match, only the first and third (I have recorded the 2nd, but had no time to watch it yet )
But in both games I watched, she was on court for just some minutes...

Today the game result was Brazil-Serbia 3:1, 25-12, 25-15, 26-28 and 25-17 .

Tomorrow it's the last game... :wink2: