In this post you find the video interview to:

Sheilla Tavares de Castro

To watch the video clic HERE or over the picture on the right

To read a complete profile take a look HERE


Below you'll find the questions I asked her.

1) Where were you born?
2) Where?
3) Tell me more on Belo Horizonte..
4) Any other sportsmen in your family?
5) When did you start playing Volleyball?
6) Why Volleyball?
7) How was your first coach?
8) Did you improve fast?
9) Brazil is an extraordinary country…
10) Brazilian fans ever waiting for success, is it difficult?
11) Why so many Brazilian youngster do sports?
12) Do you travel a lot?
13) Which is the most important victory?
14) …and the worst defeat?
15) You play opposite but…
16) Do you spend a lot of time training?
17) Do you feel a sort of comparison with Brazilian men team?
18) How do you spend your spare time off the Volleyball?
19) Are you married?
20) Which is the favourite team for 2008 Olympic Games?
21) What about your Volleyball future?
22) Being player and mother at the same time is difficult?
23) …Italian or Brazilian food?

Bye bye andrea zorzi

In this post you find the video interview to:

Massimo Barbolini

To watch the video clic HERE or over the picture on the right



Massimo Barbolini

Born in Modena on 29 August 1964, Massimo Barbolini had his first taste of coaching with men's teams, starting as assistant coach to head coach Julio Velasco for Panini Modena. After this experience he became head coach in Agrigento and then in Modena. He started working with women's teams in Matera in 1993-1994, remaining there for three seasons. In the 1996-1997 season he was in Rome where he stayed for a year, then moving to Perugia, where he is still working, in 1997-1998.
Evoking the 2007 World Grand Prix, he says "we want some young players and other players who didn’t play with the National Team in the last years to gain experience but still for the team to give a good performance."

His goals for 2007 and 2008 are to make it to the podium of the European Championship and to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.


Below the questions I asked to Massimo Barbolini


Where and when were you born?
In which position did you play?
Would you tell me something about your parents?
Has your wife always followed you?
Which is the best memory as player?
When did you start coaching?
How much important was to be Julio Velasco’s assistant?
You coached man and woman, would you compare the two experiences?
What is the most important to coach?
Do you speak a lot with your players?
Do you like “modern” Volleyball?
Which “style” do you think Italian Team has to follow?
You became coach of national team one month before the beginning of 2006 WC, you gained “only” the fourth place. Any regret?
This year you have had the time to organize the training schedule, are you satisfied?
Marco Bracci, your assistant, is an Italian player of “the Century Best Team”. How is your cooperation?
Brazilian teams are dominating Volleyball World, which is their secret?
Which is the most important changing Volleyball has faced in the past few years?
Being patient during the games has become very important. Are you agree?
Do you like introduction of Libero?
Who is the favourite team to wins the next Olympic Games?
Which the best achievement as a coach?

Bye bye andrea zorzi

In this post you find the video interview to:

Lyubov Sokolova

To watch the video clic HERE or over the picture on the right

Sokolova has become the most complete creation to emerge from Karpol's factory in Yekaterinburg. He has created a player that is able to hit outside as well as quick middles, not to mention the slides and medium balls on the right side, where she usually plays opposite the setter. Lyubov can also jump serve extremely well, and her blocking is very solid, helped greatly by her height. But her defence leaves nothing to be desired, as this girl can pass very well, and she picks up her share of digs (though in general that's not a department any of the Russians excel in). Still, Lyubov has shown the world very quickly that she represents a new brand of what a Russian player can be, one that hopefully will be reproduced more often in the future.

(thanks to: http://www.volleypics.com)

Below the questions I asked to Sokolova


When were you born?
When did you start playing Volleyball?
Why Volleyball?
Were you talented since the beginning?
Any other sportsmen in your family?
When you were young, did you have a “close friend”?
Was Karpol (famous URSS coach) very important for your career?
When did Karpol start coaching you?
Was it hard to stay with Karpol?
Karpol screamed during the match. Have you ever been afraid? (=hai mai avuto paura?)
…but was pushing hard all the time the best way to coach?
Who is the most important coach in your career?
Russian federation chose foreign coach. Is it a revolution?
In which countries have you played?
Do you have any favourite country?
How do you spend your spare time off the Volleyball?
Do you like cooking?
Which is the most important victory?
…and the worst defeat?
…any dream?
What about your Volleyball future?
…only two years more? Are you tired?
Do you like receiving?
Please help us to understand which is the right pronunciation of your surname.

bye bye andrea zorzi

In this post you find the video interview to:

José Roberto Guimarães

To watch the video clic HERE or over the picture on the right


José Roberto Guimarães is the coach of Brazilian squad since 2003. It has been a total of 16 competitions, winning 13 gold medals, two silvers, and one fourth place in the Olympic Games, in Athens/2004.

The women national Brazilian team will have a difficult mission in 2007. The team, commanded by Jose Roberto Guimarães, will try to continue in the top of the Grand Prix rank. Brazil is the major conqueror of this competition, with six wins (94, 96, 98, 2004, 2005 and 2006).

He remembers that the finals in China will be an attractive for the Grand Prix 2007. "Playing in China, one year before the Olympic Games, will be very important for our team. We will be able to know more about the country", completes the Brazilian coach.


Below the questions I asked to José Roberto Guimarães


1) Where were you born?
2) Would you tell something about your parents?
3) Have brothers or sisters?
4) What about your family?
5) When did you started to playing Volleyball?
6) Which is the best memory as a player?
9) Brazil won Bronze medal in 1984 Olympics Games and Brazilian Volleyball has changed.
8) When did you started coaching?
10) Playing as setter, can help to be a good coach?
12) What a player that wants to be a coach should do?
13) You coached men and women, could you compare the two experiences?
14) Brazilian teams are dominating Volleyball, which is their secret?
15) Brazilian men team seems unbeatable, do you feel a sort of comparison pressure?
16) What do you like most of your team?
17) Who is the favorite team to win 2007 World Grand Prix?
18) Do you like “modern” Volleyball?
19) Do you like Rally Point System?
20) Which is the technical priority of your team?
21) The 2006 WC Final was a first-class match, why Russia won?
22) Do you like Russian way of playing?
23) Will you keep coaching after Olympics Games?
24) During the match you never scream, never smile, you look sad. Are you?
25) The best achievement as a coach?
26) …and the biggest regret?
27) …and the next dream?

Bye bye andrea zorzi

In this post you find the video interview to:

Katarzyna  Skowronska

To watch the video clic HERE or over the picture on the right

Volleyball world discovered Katarzyna Skowronska in 2003 during European Championship in Turkey when Polish team won the first Gold medal ever.
She was only 20 years old but Nyemczyk, national team former head coach, relied on the young middle blocker and placed her in starting six. In Poland, since that victory, Volleyball has became very popular (only soccer has been more well-liked). Plenty of cheering fans have stuffed up every single sport hall.

In 2005 the Polish girls redoubled, winning again the European gold medal in Croatia.

Now Katarzyna Skowronska - nicknamed Kasia - and her team-mates, led by the Italian coach Marco Bonitta, are working eagerly to rebuild their strong team spirit. They are focused on 2008 Olympic Games, well-knowing that each match could be a key step to Beijing.

Below the questions I asked to Katarzyna  Skowronska

1) Where and when were you born?
2) When did you start playing Volleyball?
3) Volleyball in Poland has a great history and now wonderful fans…
4) Do Polish fans ever wait for success??
5) You are a beautiful girl but you don’t seem to care about it.
6) Playboy asked you to place a (nude) photographic set and you refused…
7) Your red cat is named Drugi (in Polish means second) why?
8) Which is the most important victory as a player?
9) …and the worst defeat?
10) You said that Polish Volleyball players need a coach with a strong leadership. Why?
11) From now on, is your focus already on 2008 Olympic Games?
12) At the end of your career will you start coaching?
13) You are very busy. What do you miss more?
14) Do you have any frequent nightmare?
15) …any dream?
16) Do you have any regrets?

HERE the link to visit her Website

Bye bye andrea

In this post you'll find the videointerview to:

Avital Selinger.

To see the interview:

Part 1 clic HERE 

Part 2 clic HERE  

Here you will find the questions I asked Selinger during the interview

Part 1 

1) Where and when were you born?
2) ...and where did you grow up? 
3) Did your family live there? 
4) Which is the most popular sport in the Kibbutz?
5) How often do you go back to Israel? 
6) Is the life in Israel unusual, hard and dangerous?
7) How did you manage the obligatory military service?
8) When and why did you move to Holland? 
9) You are short among the Giants! How do you feel?

Part 2 

1) Which is the most important victory as a player?
2) Your father is a volleyball coach and you were coached by him. How did you feel? 
3) Being the head coach’s son brought any problem? 
4) When did you start coaching? 
5) Playing as a setter can help to be a good coach?
6) You told me that play volleyball is like play music, would you explain better?
7) How can you help the team to feel the rhythm?
8) Do you like the Russian rhythm?
9) Do you think you will qualify for 2008 Olympic Games? 
10) Would you explain your Volleyball philosophy?
11) Which is the favourite team to win Gold medal in Beijing? 
12) Will you keep coaching after Olympic Games?
13) Do you have any regrets?


Avital Selinger was born on March 10th 1959 in Haifa (Israel).

On May 1st 2004 Avital Selinger is hired as head coach of the Dutch Senior Women’s team.  In 2005 a sixth place is obtained at the World Grand Prix and the team finishes fifth at the European Championships in Croatia. Also in this year a fulltime program is started; all young players of the Dutch Senior Women’s team join the Premier League team of Martinus. With main sponsor DELA the team is enabled to participate in important international tournaments on their road to Beijing 2008.

In 2006 the team ends second at the World Grand Prix Qualification tournament and at the 2006 World Championships in Japan an eighth place is reached. Highlight is the match against Olympic champion China, which is won by Selinger’s women. The fulltime program at DELA Martinus is continued and completed with the players that played for foreign teams. The program, with a great mix of young enthusiastic and older, more experienced players, sponsored by DELA which recognizes itself in the ambition, freshness and passion of the team, has a pressure cooker effect on the younger players and is of great significance for Dutch Women’s Volleyball.

Avital Selinger and his team strive for a top 4 ranking at the 2007 European Championships in Belgium. Everything is placed at the service of the qualification for the Olympics; “the Road to Beijing”!.

bye bye andrea zorzi