im guessing he’s the photographer‘s favorite and i get it cos look at that form! beautiful ✨ stunning ✨ ethereal ✨ drop! dead! gorgeous! 😌
📸 volleyball world
Coach Vital: *crashes interview* They deserve to win. We tried. But we made it difficult for you, yeah?
Coach Tillie: *scoffs in agreement*
Looking forward to more of team China! 💪🏼🫡
pretty sure this was supposed to be the public practice session after the press conference, but it ended up getting canceled 😭 kinda unfortunate considering so many players were already there.
"oui, chef" ??
please tell me that was tatsu’s idea 🤣
❗️ LAURENT TILLIE, SELEKCJONER JAPOŃSKIEJ REPREZENTACJI, WYWIADZIE DLA "MAINICHI".:
🎙: - Masahiro Sekita ma problem ze stawem skokowym. Nie bierze udziału w treningach i nie będzie go podczas pierwszych meczów fazy zasadniczej Ligi Narodów. Celem w przypadku Sekity są tylko i wyłącznie Mistrzostwa Azji.
🎙: - Stan zdrowia Yukiego Ishikawy jest bardzo dobry. Lepszy niż w poprzednim sezonie reprezentacyjnym. Jest gotowy do rozgrywek Ligi Narodów.
🎙: - Ran Takahashi jest lepszym zawodnikiem, niż był dwa lata temu jeszcze przed rozpoczęciem sezonu olimpijskiego.
🎙: - Kento Miyaura i Yuji Nishida są obecnie w podobnej formie. Tillie jest bardzo zadowolony z powrotu Nishidy, ale też Yamauchiego oraz Kentaro Takahashiego.
🎙: - Japonia traktuje Ligę Narodów bardzo poważnie. Od pierwszego turnieju można się spodziewać, że Tillie postawi na swoich najlepszych zawodników.
Foto: JVS.
#VNL2026.
Comment from Captain Yuki Ishikawa, towards this season's activities :
"As captain, I take this incident, in which a member of the Japanese national team was arrested, very seriously."
"We will win and rebuild a team that you can once again support."
"It will not be an easy road, but the entire team will work hard in our daily practices to achieve our goal"
The Japanese men's national volleyball team began their activities for the season on Monday, May 11th.
https://t.co/vA4KxuOBZN
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The President Shunichi Kawai, left another statement on ig regarding Sato's case:
"We have received reports on social media claiming that efforts are still underway to identify the "culprit" among the athletes who were with suspect Sato.
They were simply enjoying a short period of free time during their training camp.
The phrase "searching for the culprit" is inappropriate, and we ask that people stop trying to identify someone to blame and stop spreading slander and speculation.
Given the news, it is understandable that people may wonder who was with him. However, these players have done nothing wrong.
To reiterate, they were simply spending their free time.
I believe they are among those most surprised and shocked by the arrest of Sato.
The actions of one player, which were a significant departure from the expected code of conduct, are now causing various problems for the players and everyone involved.
This will also affect the matches they will play in the future.
I apologize, but I would be grateful if you could use your influence and support them as much as possible.
Thank you for your continued support."
rjn this year:
getting tortured by the 44-game svl
some of them either injured or recovering
only had like one week to practice before vnl
still carrying the trauma from wch
and now they basically HAVE to secure an olympic ticket 😭 truly a survival season at this point