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FIVB Men's Club World Volleyball Championship
The FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship is an international men's club volleyball competition organised by the '' Fédération Internationale de Volleyball'' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The competition was first contested in 1989 in Italy. It was not held between 1993 and 2008, but since 2009, the competition has been held every year, and has been hosted by Qatar and Brazil except in 2017 and 2018 where both hosted by Poland. The current format of the tournament involves eight teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation over a period of about one week; the winners of that year's AVC Club Volleyball Championship ( Asia), African Clubs Championship ( Africa), Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship ( South America) and CEV Champions League ( Europe), along with the host city's team and a nominated team from North America. The number of teams is increased through wild card invitees. The current champions are Italy's Sir Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship
The 1989 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship was the 1st edition of the event. It was held in Parma, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ... from 9 to 10 December 1989. Final standing External linksHonours {{FIVB Volleyball Club World Championship 1989 FIVB Men's Club World Championship FIVB Men's Club World Championship FIVB Men's Club World Championship FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship Sport in Parma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that fails to qualify in the normal way; for example, by having a high ranking or winning a qualifying stage. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. In Olympics, countries that fail to produce athlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship
The 1992 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship was the 4th edition of the event. It was held in Treviso, Italy from 28 to 29 November 1992. Final standing Awards *Most Valuable Player : Lorenzo Bernardi (Sisley Treviso Volley Treviso is a professional volleyball team based in Treviso. They were known at the past with the sponsorship name Sisley. The team plays at the Serie B. Achievements * Italian Volleyball League (9): 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004 ...) External linksHonours {{FIVB Volleyball Club World Championship 1992 FIVB Men's Club World Championship FIVB Men's Club World Championship FIVB Men's Club World Championship FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship Sports competitions in Treviso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city proper in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the world's 4th largest city proper by population. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Jundiaí, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos) created the São Paulo Macrometr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship
The 1991 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship was the 3rd edition of the event. It was held in São Paulo, Brazil from 22 to 27 October 1991. Final standing Awards *Most Valuable Player : Karch Kiraly Charles Frederick "Karch" Kiraly () (born November 3, 1960) is an American volleyball player, coach and broadcast announcer. In the 1980s he was a central part of the U.S National Team that won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. He ... ( il Messaggero Ravenna) External linksHonours {{FIVB Volleyball Club World Championship 1991 FIVB Men's Club World Championship FIVB Men's Club World Championship FIVB Men's Club World Championship FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship International sports competitions in São Paulo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto Ravenna Volley
Porto Ravenna Volley was a historical volleyball club from the city of Ravenna in Emilia-Romagna. Ravenna founded by a group of businessmen and lovers inspired by Giuseppe Brusi, it landed in A1 at the end of the eighties, continuing a tradition that makes the city one of the "cradles" of Italian volleyball. Achievements *CEV Champions League : Winners (3): 1992, 1993, 1994 : Runners-up (1): 1995 *CEV Challenge Cup : Winners (1): 1997 : Runners-up (1): 1996 * CEV SuperCup : Winners (2): 1992, 1993 : Runners-up (1): 1994 * FIVB Club World Championship : Winners (1): 1991 *Italian League : Winners (1): 1991 * Italian Cup : Winners (1): 1991 History The tradition dates back to other male volleyball club from Ravenna, where the G.S. Robur, won five league titles at the turn of the forties and fifties, and Casadio, who was born on the initiative of the Fire Department, and he served in A1 and A2 from the sixties then. In 1987 Giuseppe Brusi and a consortium of local businessmen took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volley Gonzaga Milano
Volley Gonzaga Milano or simply Gonzaga Milano was a male volleyball club from Milan, Italy. History The club was founded in 1973 as ''Volley Gonzaga'' from the merger of several clubs, including the internal private Institute "Gonzaga", then Italian champion in juniors, and ''CSI Milano'', who had played in Serie A in the fifties and sixties and that he had then moved its headquarters first in Vigevano and then to Pavia. The team debuted in the top division in the 1976–77 season, making his last appearance in 1995; in 1987 the team under the name Ener-Mix Milano (for sponsorship reasons) had won its first European title, the then called CEV Cup, won in the final against Santal Parma. The following season, 1987–88, the team ended the tournament on the bottom of the standings. In the summer of 1988 it was purchased by the Fininvest Group, which was planning to build a large sports club (''"Polisportiva Mediolanum"'') with the football giant of A.C. Milan and teams of ice hock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship
The 1990 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship was the 2nd edition of the event. It was held in Milan, Italy from 1 to 2 December 1990. Final standing Awards *Most Valuable Player : Claudio Galli (Volley Gonzaga Milano, Mediolanum Milano) External linksHonours {{DEFAULTSORT:FIVB Men's Club World Championship,1990 International men's volleyball competitions hosted by Italy, International men's volleyball competitions hosted by Italy 1990 in volleyball 1990 in Italian sport FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship, 1990 Sports competitions in Milan, Volleyball World Championship,Men, 1990 1990s in Milan, 1990 FIVB Men's Club World Championship December 1990 sports events in Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
