Done: bronze for Germany
It must have been about 22 clock on the evening of January 5, as national coach Vital Heynen the launch was for the big coup at the World Cup in the German national volleyball team Poland brought to the semifinals – the best performance in 40 years. At that time, in January, five minutes after the geschafften qualification, Heynen said his players in the locker room in the Ludwigsburg Venue: “I want a medal at the World Championships.” This is an ambitious goal – but actually they reached it, after losing in all honors semifinals game against the hosts and a brilliant 3. 0 at the final presentation, the third-place match against France
In May, at the beginning of the first training camp in Kienbaum, the team closed in a room and swore themselves to the Target: “We want a medal,” said the reaction of the players was. “It took a long time to even have noticed around us all, that we which are serious and can create.” Heynen, the enterprising 24-hour workers in volleyball, has a keen sense of the development of his team. At the Olympic Games in London, the Germans had set as a target nor the quarterfinals. When they reached it, the air was out and Germany was forced to retire unceremoniously. Heynen has learned from it and raised the bar.
© Reuters The Medal Maker: Vital Heynen
The Medal Maker: Vital Heynen
The fighting spirit was there: In the 1: 3 lost semi-final against Poland in Katowice completed three of four sets with only two ball points difference, and only when Georg Grozer failed with problems in his right thigh, the game tipped definitively in favor of the hosts. “The fact that it was so close, the real surprise,” says Heynen. “Perhaps the cleverness was missing, but perhaps a bit lucky,” Captain Jochen Schoeps, who came for Grozer into the game and his own performance commented, saying, “I did not have my best day.” After it was a big disappointment felt the defeat, “because we were so close,” said Foreign attacker Christian Fromm said: “The Poles have wobbled and then had a bit of luck on their side.”
It was missing the middle finger effect
Thomas Krohne, President of the German Volleyball Federation, nor offered another explanation: “We could have three: win 0. But at one point or another of Effenberg-Stinkefinger effect is missing. “The’ve always and necessarily wanted success, Krohne said,” for us is one or the other of the then still too nice. “But the performance in Poland remains a success that he wants to build: “Looking at the Olympics in two years in Rio we can, more serious than previously thought, actually win a medal.”
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Until then, the media entrepreneur from Munich has yet to edit another site. From the World Cup there were hardly any television pictures in Germany, fans were on the portal of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, sportdeutschland.tv, instructed its server failed repeatedly due to congestion or not working stable enough – so great was the rush. Also, because a short-term planned live broadcast on Sport 1 had just canceled the short term. Much to the chagrin Krohne: “The Agency Pitch, who works for the World Association, has sold rights, which it has not. Sport1 could not transfer the images on free TV. “A disaster for the volleyball friends in this country. “We had a station that wanted to do it, but other stones got put in the way by a crass error of a marketing agency.” Better prospects have the volleyball players at the beginning in Rome on Tuesday Women’s World Cup. The German games are free and live satellite on Sport 1.
The best volleyball World Cup history
All experiences change the fact remains that the German Volleyball is moved after a long break this summer once again into the picture. The tournament provided the perfect setting: The World Cup in Poland is found to be the best in the history of their place. 62,000 spectators at the opening match in a football stadium Warsaw, Public Viewing before the halls with more than 5000 fans at the Polish games a noise level above the threshold of pain, and yet the audience was always fair and sympathetic.
In the semi-final against the Germans the 12,500 applauded in the Spodek Hall, while playing the German national anthem before they sang their own without musical accompaniment. One of goosebumps moments, to the German player vacuumed up, which made too powerful impression with strong performances.
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