Former Japanese national team player Yamaguchi Mai will retire from her volleyball career in May

Former Japanese national team player, Yamaguchi Mai will retire after the 68th Black Eagle Flag All Japan Women’s volleyball tournament on may 1th-6th. Yamaguchi performed her first-ever V-league official match in 2001 and join the […]

FIVB World Cup 2019 Men’s and Women’s participating temas and venues are confirmed

The Japan volleyball association (JVA) has just announced the 12 men’s and women’s teams of participating and the venue of FIVB World Cup 2019, which will be held on14 th September to 15 th October […]

Five Legends to be Honoured in the International Volleyball Hall of Fame

The International Volleyball Hall of Fame will hold a ceremony to induct the 5-member class on Saturday, November 10th, at the Log Cabin in Holyoke. The five members include University of Minnesota head coach Hugh […]

Serbia defeated Italy and won the Gold medal of FIVB World Championship in history

Serbia wrote history today at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball World Championship when they beat Italy in the final at Yokohama, while China swept the Netherlands for a consolation bronze. It is the very first time […]

FIVB released qualification system for Tokyo Olympic 2020

FIVB recently released the criteria for the qualification system of the Olympics 2020 including the team quotas and the qualification events. One big change is that: the Champion of 2019 World Cup will not clinch […]

Goncharova may miss out the rest of the games in World Championship 2018

Today has begun the second round of the FIVB Women’s World Championship 2018. One of the opening matches has wowed the world of volleyball fans especially Russian ones -“where is Natalia Goncharova?” Who was not […]

Japan won 3-1 against USA in the friendly match, Lowe and Nagaoka returned

USA and Japan met in a friendly match on 27 July in Tustin, California. The two teams have been playing practice games for the past week in preparation for the FIVB World Championship. On Fridya night, […]

Comeback of Erika Araki in World Championship

Women’s national team of Japan has recently revealed a tentative team roster for the upcoming World Championship as follows: Miyu Nagaoka長岡望悠 Sarina Koga 古賀紗理那 Nana Iwaska 岩坂名奈 Erika Araki 荒木絵里香 Yuki Ishii 石井優希 Uchiseto Mami […]

FIVB Men’s World Championship 2018: Drawing of lots on 30 Nov in Florence

The drawing of lots for the FIVB Men’s World Championships 2018 will be held Thursday 30 November in Florence, in the splendid location of Palazzo Vecchio’s “Salone dei Cinquecento”, starting at 16.00. The 24 qualified […]