Beijing Olympic Volleyball

Volleyball Video interview with Shoici Yanagimoto, Japan's Head Coach, Zoran Terzic, Serbian Head Coach and Massimo Barbolini, Italian Head Coach

Andrea Zorzi is one of the world’s most famous and highly accomplished men’s volleyball players.

Andrea has made a total of 325 presences with the Italian men’s national team. A silver medalist in the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, Zorzi has played for almost all the major volleyball clubs of Italy, including Maxicono Parma and Sisley Treviso, where he won many titles. In 1991 the FIVB named Andrea Zorzi, known internationally as “Zorro”, the World's Best Player”.

Currently, Andrea Zorzi is a freelance journalist and technical commentator, working as a special endorser and web content creator in partnership with the FIVB - reporting, writing, and interviewing the world’s most elite coaches and players, providing an innovative and much broader technical analysis of the FIVB’s top 2007 events specifically the World League, World Grand Prix and World Cup.

This new approach contains one video interview entitled “Ten minutes with ….”, followed by written commentary and match analysis given by Andrea Zorzi after each competition.

Andrea Zorzi’s, years of playing in elite, world class competition, his affable personality, his insider’s knowledge of the game coupled with the respect of the players and coaches he interviews, makes him the perfect volleyball tour guide “to follow” for the volleyball coach, player or fan looking to really get behind the scenes and discover the process world class teams, players and coaches take when developing their strategic and tactical plans for their matches.

By asking the questions that other journalists don’t - Zorzi invites us to “Follow Him” on his unique multimedia journey behind the doors of his exclusive volleyball “spogliatoi” locker room.

Let’s “Follow him” shall we…. as Zorzi interviews…Shoici Yanagimoto (Japan Coach), Zoran Terzic (Serbia Coach) and Massimo Barbolini (Italian Coach)

Remember the ball is in your court. Are you ">too small to play volleyball?

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USA Volleyball Olympian William Reid Priddy interviewed on FIVB volleyball video by Italian Volleyball legend Andrea Zorzi

Andrea Zorzi interviews USA Volleyball and International Pro Indoor Volleyball player William “Reid” Priddy. Reid, who plays professional indoor volleyball in Russia and is sponsored by Mikasa Sports answers Zorzi’s in depth questions about playing overseas, possibly playing beach volleyball and what he expects for USA Volleyball at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Photo Reid Priddy hitting in 2007 World League

FIVB volleyball video get to know more about USA Volleyball Olympian, Reid Priddy, as he answers Andrea Zorzi’s questions:

1) When and where were you born?

2) When did you start playing Volleyball?

3) Did you improve fast?

4) You have played in many countries, could you compare the 5) different experiences?

6) You have played in Novosibirsk (RUS) such a far and different town from your.

7) In which conditions is your national team?

8) Which is the favourite team to win Beijing Games?

9) Which is the most important victory of your career?

10) Could you give a comment about the new ball?

11) Are you married?

12) The US Volleyball environment is changing.

13) Have you ever really tried to play Beach Volley?

14) Have you any idol in Volleyball?

15) US Volleyball players behave very professionally.

16) You are describing the Russian clubs in a new way.

Andrea Zorzi’s, years of playing in elite, world class competition, his affable personality, his insider’s knowledge of the game coupled with the respect of the players and coaches he interviews, makes him the perfect volleyball tour guide “to follow” for the volleyball coach, player or fan looking to really get behind the scenes and discover the process world class teams, players and coaches take when developing their strategic and tactical plans for their matches.

By asking the questions that other journalists don’t - Zorzi invites us to “Follow Him” on his unique multimedia journey behind the doors of his exclusive volleyball “spogliatoi” locker room.

"Your volleyball season is about to start and I know you want to learn the secrets of how the pros play like they do.

Strengthen and improve your volleyball skills while playing for your high school and club team, now!

Learn early, what indoor and beach volleyball Olympians and professionals know about:

1. The importance of gaining muscle strength for injury prevention, gaining speed and increasing your vertical jump while training for volleyball,

2. Volleyball nutrition and

3. Mental conditioning and gaining confidence in yourself and your game, on and off the court."

Sign up for the FREE Volleyball Voices Newsletter Be the first person on your team to get the inside track on how to stay off the bench and gain more playing time by improving your volleyball skills, fast! Just fill out that box in the upper right hand corner to receive today's volleyball news you can use.

April Chapple is a columnist for USA Volleyball, the American Volleyball Coaches Association Coaching Volleyball magazine, a contributor to Active,.com/volleyball, and has authored numerous playing and coaching volleyball articles. Look for her upcoming ebook "How to Stop Serving Like a Wimp". She can be reached at april@volleyballvoices.com.

Cuban-Italian Olympian Taismary Aguero interviewed on this volleyball video by Italian volleyball legend Andrea Zorzi

Taismary Aguero is a former Cuban Women’s Volleyball Olympian who “left Cuba” to become a naturalized Italian citizen, now playing for the Italian Women’s National Olympic Volleyball team.

Telling Andrea Zorzi the details of her decision to leave her birth country, after a volleyball tournament in Europe, and how she prepared her bags and never returned home. With a made for television life story, Taismary Aguero has experienced a lot that life has to offer and has done it with a lot of class and determination.

Andrea Zorzi is one of the world’s most famous and highly accomplished men’s volleyball players.

Andrea has made a total of 325 presences with the Italian men’s national team. A silver medalist in the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, Zorzi has played for almost all the major volleyball clubs of Italy, including Maxicono Parma and Sisley Treviso, where he won many titles. In 1991 the FIVB named Andrea Zorzi, known internationally as “Zorro”, the World's Best Player”.

Currently, Andrea Zorzi is a freelance journalist and technical commentator, working as a special endorser and web content creator in partnership with the FIVB - reporting, writing, and interviewing the world’s most elite coaches and players, providing an innovative and much broader technical analysis of the FIVB’s top 2007 events specifically the World League, World Grand Prix and World Cup.

One of the top players in the world, who before turning 30, has played for two different countries’ national teams, Andrea Zorzi sits down to ask the following questions of this world class volleyball player.

1) When and where were you born?

2) Did you practice any other sport?

3) Are any other members of your family sportsmen?

4) Did you improve fast?

5) In Cuba in which position did you play?

6) Nowadays the athletes are less “universal”. Do you agree?

7) What is your best Volleyball memory in Cuba?

8) …and the worst defeat?

9) …and then you left Cuba.

10) Did your parents know about your decision?

11) Could you recall how you left the national team?

12) Could you tell us the name of the friend who helped you?

13) Would you make the same choice again?

14) What is the best Italian memory you have?

15) …and when a baby?

16) The most painful memory?

17) Who will win the next Olympic Games?

18) Could you describe Massimo Barbolini, your coach?

Andrea Zorzi’s, years of playing in elite, world class competition, his affable personality, his insider’s knowledge of the game coupled with the respect of the players and coaches he interviews, makes him the perfect volleyball tour guide “to follow” for the volleyball coach, player or fan looking to really get behind the scenes and discover the process world class teams, players and coaches take when developing their strategic and tactical plans for their matches.

By asking the questions that other journalists don’t - Zorzi invites us to “Follow Him” on his unique multimedia journey behind the doors of his exclusive volleyball “spogliatoi” locker room.

"Your volleyball season is about to start and I know you want to learn the secrets of how the pros play like they do.

Strengthen and improve your volleyball skills while playing for your high school and club team, now!

Learn early, what indoor and beach volleyball Olympians and professionals know about:

1. The importance of gaining muscle strength for injury prevention, gaining speed and increasing your vertical jump while training for volleyball,

2. Volleyball nutrition and

3. Mental conditioning and gaining confidence in yourself and your game, on and off the court."

Sign up for the FREE Volleyball Voices Newsletter Be the first person on your team to get the inside track on how to stay off the bench and gain more playing time by improving your volleyball skills, fast! Just fill out that box in the upper right hand corner to receive today's volleyball news you can use.

April Chapple is a columnist for USA Volleyball, the American Volleyball Coaches Association Coaching Volleyball magazine, a contributor to Active,.com/volleyball, and has authored numerous playing and coaching volleyball articles. Look for her upcoming ebook "How to Stop Serving Like a Wimp". She can be reached at april@volleyballvoices.com.

Olympian Andrea Zorzi interviews on volleyball video Brazil Men's Olympic Volleyball Head Coach Bernardinho Rezende about the 2008 World League

Coaching and Training Volleyball for Brazil: Andrea Zorzi interviews Brazil Men’s Olympic volleyball head Coach- Bernardo "Bernardinho" Rezende after the 2008 World League Competition.

Italian Men's Volleyball Olympian, Andrea Zorzi is one of the world’s most famous and highly accomplished men’s volleyball players.

Andrea has made a total of 325 presences with the Italian men’s national volleyball team. A silver medalist in the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, Zorzi has played for almost all the major volleyball clubs of Italy, including Maxicono Parma and Sisley Treviso, where he won many titles. In 1991 the FIVB named Andrea Zorzi, known internationally as “Zorro”, the World's Best Player”.

Currently, Andrea Zorzi is a freelance journalist and technical commentator, working as a special endorser and web content creator in partnership with the FIVB - reporting, writing, and interviewing the world’s most elite coaches and players, providing an innovative and much broader technical analysis of the FIVB’s top 2007 events specifically the World League, World Grand Prix and World Cup.

Check out this volleyball video where Zorzi interviews Brazil’s Men’s Olympic Volleyball Team Head Coach the famous “Bernardinho” about the Brazil Men’s unprecedented loss in the World League. The international FIVB sponsored Men’s Indoor Volleyball Tournament that this year leads up to the Olympics.

Brazil usually dominates this tournament but this year the surprise winners were the men from USA Volleyball.

Here Zorzi asks Bernardinho about what happened: Check out the volleyball video where he asks the following questions…

1) Could you give a comment about the 2008 World League Finals?

2) How did your players react after many years of victories?

3) You lost in front of Brazilians fans and your winning streak finished. Is it very tough?

4) Were do you really surprised by your team performance?

5) Player worked very hard and seemed slower. Is it true?

6) A group of six teams is said as favourites for Beijing. Do you agree?

7) Will the Beijing Games be the last tournament of this wonderful group?

8) What about you?

9) Is it the first time in your life that you really need to slow down?

10) How will the new Bernardinho be?

11) Could you give a comment about the new ball?

12) Which fundamental will be more affected by the new ball?

April Chapple is a freelance copywriter for volleyball products and promotions, columnist for USA Volleyball and the American Volleyball Coaches Association Coaching Volleyballmagazine and author of numerous online articles on playing and coaching volleyball. Author of the upcoming ebook "How to Stop Serving Like a Wimp" April's volleyball sites are Volleyball Voices, Volleyball Voyeur, Beijing Olympic Volleyball, Beijing Olympic Beach Volleyball, and Aprils Beach Volleyball Log. She can be reached at april@volleyballvoices.com

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USA Volleyball and AVP Pro Beach Volleyball player, Logan Tom in a volleyball video interviewed by Italian Volleyball legend Andrea Zorzi

From FIVB News:

Brazil Women’s National Indoor Volleyball Team claims seventh World Grand Prix title with perfect 5-0 record.

Yokohama, Japan, July 13, 2008 - Brazil earned a hard-fought 3-0 victory over hosts Japan Sunday evening to win their seventh World Grand Prix title with a perfect 5-0 record as the 2008 edition of the women's Volleyball gala lowered its curtain at Yokohama Arena. Cuba rallied past World No. 2 Italy 3-1 for the silver while the United States held off reigning Olympic champions China 3-2 to finish fourth. With the 25-23, 25-23 and 25-19 victory over the fighting hosts, the Brazilians crowned in the six-team round robin where they dropped only one set. Their earlier Grand Prix titles came in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Andrea Zorzi interviewed World Grand Prix players and coaches about their coaching and training strategies leading up to this world class competition.

In this volleyball video interview, Zorzi interviews professional indoor volleyball and pro beach USA volleyball player and Olympian, Logan Tom.

Logan answers these Zorzi inspired questions:

1). Could you give a comment about the WGP Final Round?

2). Are you surprised by the performances of any team?

3). What about the US team?

4). There is any favourite team for Beijing Games?

5). There is any favourite team for Beijing Games?

6). Could you tell me the names of the favourite teams?

7). What about you after the Olympic Games?

Andrea Zorzi’s, years of playing in elite, world class competition, his affable personality, his insider’s knowledge of the game coupled with the respect of the players and coaches he interviews, makes him the perfect volleyball tour guide “to follow” for the volleyball coach, player or fan looking to really get behind the scenes and discover the process world class teams, players and coaches take when developing their strategic and tactical plans for their matches.

By asking the questions that other journalists don’t - Zorzi invites us to “Follow Him” on his unique multimedia journey behind the doors of his exclusive volleyball “spogliatoi” locker room.

April Chapple is a freelance copywriter for volleyball products and promotions, columnist for USA Volleyball and the American Volleyball Coaches Association Coaching Volleyball magazine and author of numerous online articles on playing and coaching volleyball. Author of the upcoming ebook "How to Stop Serving Like a Wimp" April's volleyball sites are volleyballvoices.com, volleyballvoyeur.com, beijingolympicvolleyball.com, and aprilsbeachvolleyballog.com. She can be reached at april@volleyballvoices.com

I know you want to learn the secrets of how the pros play like they do. The fastest way for you to do that is to sign up for the FREE Volleyball Voices Newsletter so you can be the first person on your team to get the inside track on how to stay off the bench and gain more playing time by improving all your volleyball skills, fast! Just fill out that box in the upper right hand corner to receive today's volleyball news you can use.

Volleyball Video: Cuban Olympic Women's Head Volleyball coach, antonio Perdomo interviewed by Italian Volleyball legend

Andrea Zorzi talks to legendary Cuban Coach Antonio Perdomo about coaching and training strategies of the Women’s Cuban volleyball team.

Andrea Zorzi is one of the world’s most famous and highly accomplished men’s volleyball players.

Andrea has made a total of 325 presences with the Italian men’s national team. A silver medalist in the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, Zorzi has played for almost all the major volleyball clubs of Italy, including Maxicono Parma and Sisley Treviso, where he won many titles. In 1991 the FIVB named Andrea Zorzi, known internationally as “Zorro”, the World's Best Player”.

Currently, Andrea Zorzi is a freelance journalist and technical commentator, working as a special endorser and web content creator in partnership with the FIVB - reporting, writing, and interviewing the world’s most elite coaches and players, providing an innovative and much broader technical analysis of the FIVB’s top 2007 events specifically the World League, World Grand Prix and World Cup.

He answers these questions about the victory, the Cuban Women’s volleyball team and why they insist on playing the 6-2 offense with two setters at international level, and the team’s prospects for Beijing.

1) Are you surprised after the victory over China?

2) Who will win the next Olympic Games?

3) After many years, do you still enjoy coaching?

4) Which is the best Volleyball memory?

5) Cuban Women team play with two setters, is it the time to change?

6) What do you think about the “two Liberos” rule?

7) Who is the best libero?

8) After the introduction of Libero (1998), do you think Cuban team has become stronger?

Andrea Zorzi’s, years of playing in elite, world class competition, his affable personality, his insider’s knowledge of the game coupled with the respect of the players and coaches he interviews, makes him the perfect volleyball tour guide “to follow” for the volleyball coach, player or fan looking to really get behind the scenes and discover the process world class teams, players and coaches take when developing their strategic and tactical plans for their matches.

By asking the questions that other journalists don’t - Zorzi invites us to “Follow Him” on his unique multimedia journey behind the doors of his exclusive volleyball “spogliatoi” locker room.

April Chapple is a freelance copywriter for volleyball products and promotions, columnist for USA Volleyball and the American Volleyball Coaches Association Coaching Volleyball magazine and author of numerous online articles on playing and coaching volleyball. Author of the upcoming ebook "How to Stop Serving Like a Wimp" April's volleyball sites are volleyballvoices.com, volleyballvoyeur.com, beijingolympicvolleyball.com, and aprilsbeachvolleyballog.com. She can be reached at april@volleyballvoices.com

I know you want to learn the secrets of how the pros play like they do. The fastest way for you to do that is to sign up for the FREE Volleyball Voices Newsletter so you can be the first person on your team to get the inside track on how to stay off the bench and gain more playing time by improving all your volleyball skills, fast! Just fill out that box in the upper right hand corner to receive today's volleyball news you can use.

USA Men's Olympic Volleyball head coach, Hugh McCutcheon in a volleyball video with Italian volleyball legend Andrea Zorzi

To the surprise of everyone in the International volleyball world, defending Olympic champions Brazil didn’t reach the finals of the World league this year while the USA Men’s Olympic Volleyball Team did. USA Volleyball beat Serbia in the finals to to claim the first place podium on the podium which has been dominated by the green and yellow flag of the Brazilian National Men’s Volleyball Team for several years now.

Discussing coaching and training strategies in this volleyball video interview with Andrea Zorzi is USA Volleyball Men’s Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon. Coach profile

Andrea Zorzi is one of the world’s most famous and highly accomplished men’s volleyball players.

Andrea has made a total of 325 presences with the Italian men’s national team. A silver medalist in the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, Zorzi has played for almost all the major volleyball clubs of Italy, including Maxicono Parma and Sisley Treviso, where he won many titles. In 1991 the FIVB named Andrea Zorzi, known internationally as “Zorro”, the World's Best Player”.

Currently, Andrea Zorzi is a freelance journalist and technical commentator, working as a special endorser and web content creator in partnership with the FIVB - reporting, writing, and interviewing the world’s most elite coaches and players, providing an innovative and much broader technical analysis of the FIVB’s top 2007 events specifically the World League, World Grand Prix and World Cup.

Zorzi asks USA volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon the following questions:

1) How have you planned this full season?

2) Which was the biggest difficulty to overcome until now?

3) Have you reached the expected target so far?

4) Playing the WL Final Six a few days before the Olympic Games, could be a risk for the team performance in Beijing?

5) About the core question of these days. Apparently the biggest problem seems more the little time you had for training rather than playing close to the Olympic games, doesn’t it?

6) Who is the favourite to win the gold medal in Beijing?

7) Brazilians are dominating since 2002, have they any secret?

8) Brazilian team seems to have easily overcame the Ricardo’s missing. What do you think?

9) Do Volleyball depend on team-work more than any other sport?

10) Do players need to be good friends to be a good team?

11) Do you like your group?

12) Many US athletes play overseas, does it helps improve their skills

Andrea Zorzi’s, years of playing in elite, world class competition, his affable personality, his insider’s knowledge of the game coupled with the respect of the players and coaches he interviews, makes him the perfect volleyball tour guide “to follow” for the volleyball coach, player or fan looking to really get behind the scenes and discover the process world class teams, players and coaches take when developing their strategic and tactical plans for their matches.

By asking the questions that other journalists don’t - Zorzi invites us to “Follow Him” on his unique multimedia journey behind the doors of his exclusive volleyball “spogliatoi” locker room.

April Chapple is a freelance copywriter for volleyball products and promotions, columnist for USA Volleyball and the American Volleyball Coaches Association Coaching Volleyball magazine and author of numerous online articles on playing and coaching volleyball. Author of the upcoming ebook "How to Stop Serving Like a Wimp" April's volleyball sites are volleyballvoices.com, volleyballvoyeur.com, beijingolympicvolleyball.com, and aprilsbeachvolleyballog.com. She can be reached at april@volleyballvoices.com

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China Women's Head Volleyball Coach, Zhonghe Chen is interviewed by Italian Olympian Andrea Zorzi

Let’s talk about pressure. The China Women’s Olympic Volleyball team are defending gold medalists from Athens 2004, and now they are playing the Olympics in their own back yard, in Beijing.

Andrea Zorzi interviews the China Women’s Head Volleyball coach about the upcoming games, his coaching and training philosophies and techniques in regards to the pressure his team faces before and during the Beijing Summer Olympic Games.

Andrea Zorzi is one of the world’s most famous and highly accomplished men’s volleyball players.

Andrea has made a total of 325 presences with the Italian men’s national team. A silver medalist in the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, Zorzi has played for almost all the major volleyball clubs of Italy, including Maxicono Parma and Sisley Treviso, where he won many titles. In 1991 the FIVB named Andrea Zorzi, known internationally as “Zorro”, the World's Best Player”.

Currently, Andrea Zorzi is a freelance journalist and technical commentator, working as a special endorser and web content creator in partnership with the FIVB - reporting, writing, and interviewing the world’s most elite coaches and players, providing an innovative and much broader technical analysis of the FIVB’s top 2007 events specifically the World League, World Grand Prix and World Cup.

In this volleyball video, Andrea Zorzi asks Zhonghe Chen CHN Coach the following questions that are translated in English:

1) Could you give a comment about the first part of the WGP?

2) What are your expectations for the Beijing Games?

3) Could you improve your physical condition?

4) Do you feel strong pressure playing in China?

5) What do you think about the Libero’s new rule?

Andrea Zorzi’s, years of playing in elite, world class competition, his affable personality, his insider’s knowledge of the game coupled with the respect of the players and coaches he interviews, makes him the perfect volleyball tour guide “to follow” for the volleyball coach, player or fan looking to really get behind the scenes and discover the process world class teams, players and coaches take when developing their strategic and tactical plans for their matches.

By asking the questions that other journalists don’t - Zorzi invites us to “Follow Him” on his unique multimedia journey behind the doors of his exclusive volleyball “spogliatoi” locker room.

April Chapple is a freelance copywriter for volleyball products and promotions, columnist for USA Volleyball and the American Volleyball Coaches Association Coaching Volleyball magazine and author of numerous online articles on playing and coaching volleyball. Author of the upcoming ebook "How to Stop Serving Like a Wimp" April's volleyball sites are volleyballvoices.com, volleyballvoyeur.com, beijingolympicvolleyball.com, and aprilsbeachvolleyballog.com. She can be reached at april@volleyballvoices.com

I know you want to learn the secrets of how the pros play like they do. The fastest way for you to do that is to sign up for the FREE Volleyball Voices Newsletter so you can be the first person on your team to get the inside track on how to stay off the bench and gain more playing time by improving all your volleyball skills, fast! Just fill out that box in the upper right hand corner to receive today's volleyball news you can use.

USA Volleyball Men's libero Richard Lambourne in a volleyball video interview with Italian Olympian Volleyball legend Andrea Zorzi

Discussing coaching strategies USA Volleyball used in defeating Brazil during the 2008 World League, Andrea Zorzi interviews USA Men’s Volleyball Libero Richard Lambourne immediately after the match.

Andrea Zorzi is one of the world’s most famous and highly accomplished men’s volleyball players.

Andrea has made a total of 325 presences with the Italian men’s national team. A silver medalist in the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, Zorzi has played for almost all the major volleyball clubs of Italy, including Maxicono Parma and Sisley Treviso, where he won many titles. In 1991 the FIVB named Andrea Zorzi, known internationally as “Zorro”, the World's Best Player”.

Currently, Andrea Zorzi is a freelance journalist and technical commentator, working as a special endorser and web content creator in partnership with the FIVB - reporting, writing, and interviewing the world’s most elite coaches and players, providing an innovative and much broader technical analysis of the FIVB’s top 2007 events specifically the World League, World Grand Prix and World Cup.

The USA Men’s Olympic Volleyball Team defeated Brazil for the second time in less than a year- something very few teams have been able to do in the past six years since Brazil has completely dominated the Men’s International Indoor Volleyball scene.

Immediately after the USA Volleyball victory Andrea Zorzi interviewed Richard Lambourne, USA Volleyball Men’s Olympic Volleyball Team libero asking him the following questions:

Why do you play always so good against Brazil?

2) You beat them also in the 2007 World Cup.

3) Do Brazil undergoes your team?

4) You played poor in the first match with Serbia but was it very important?

5) Do you mean that US athletes aren’t so talented?

6) What about your today’s performance?

7) Which is the favourite team to win the Olympic Games?

8) Could this defeat help Brazil to play better at the Olympic Games?

9) Is the new ball affecting all the fundamentals?

Andrea Zorzi’s, years of playing in elite, world class competition, his affable personality, his insider’s knowledge of the game coupled with the respect of the players and coaches he interviews, makes him the perfect volleyball tour guide “to follow” for the volleyball coach, player or fan looking to really get behind the scenes and discover the process world class teams, players and coaches take when developing their strategic and tactical plans for their matches.

By asking the questions that other journalists don’t - Zorzi invites us to “Follow Him” on his unique multimedia journey behind the doors of his exclusive volleyball “spogliatoi” locker room.

April Chapple is a freelance copywriter for volleyball products and promotions, columnist for USA Volleyball and the American Volleyball Coaches Association Coaching Volleyball magazine and author of numerous online articles on playing and coaching volleyball. Author of the upcoming ebook "How to Stop Serving Like a Wimp" April's volleyball sites are volleyballvoices.com, volleyballvoyeur.com, beijingolympicvolleyball.com, and aprilsbeachvolleyballog.com. She can be reached at april@volleyballvoices.com

I know you want to learn the secrets of how the pros play like they do. The fastest way for you to do that is to sign up for the FREE Volleyball Voices Newsletter so you can be the first person on your team to get the inside track on how to stay off the bench and gain more playing time by improving all your volleyball skills, fast! Just fill out that box in the upper right hand corner to receive today's volleyball news you can use.

Video Interview with Beato Miguel Cruz (DOM Coach)

Andrea Zorzi is one of the world’s most famous and highly accomplished men’s volleyball players.

Andrea has made a total of 325 presences with the Italian men’s national team. A silver medalist in the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, Zorzi has played for almost all the major volleyball clubs of Italy, including Maxicono Parma and Sisley Treviso, where he won many titles. In 1991 the FIVB named Andrea Zorzi, known internationally as “Zorro”, the World's Best Player”.

Currently, Andrea Zorzi is a freelance journalist and technical commentator, working as a special endorser and web content creator in partnership with the FIVB - reporting, writing, and interviewing the world’s most elite coaches and players, providing an innovative and much broader technical analysis of the FIVB’s top 2007 events specifically the World League, World Grand Prix and World Cup.

This new approach contains one video interview entitled “Ten minutes with ….”, followed by written commentary and match analysis given by Andrea Zorzi after each competition.

Andrea Zorzi’s, years of playing in elite, world class competition, his affable personality, his insider’s knowledge of the game coupled with the respect of the players and coaches he interviews, makes him the perfect volleyball tour guide “to follow” for the volleyball coach, player or fan looking to really get behind the scenes and discover the process world class teams, players and coaches take when developing their strategic and tactical plans for their matches.

By asking the questions that other journalists don’t - Zorzi invites us to “Follow Him” on his unique multimedia journey behind the doors of his exclusive volleyball “spogliatoi” locker room.

Let’s “Follow him” shall we…. as Zorzi interviews…Beato Miguel Cruz, Dominican Republic head Volleyball Coach.

Remember the ball is in your court. Are you ">too small to play volleyball?

April Chapple is a freelance copywriter for volleyball products and promotions, columnist for USA Volleyball and the American Volleyball Coaches Association Coaching Volleyball magazine and author of numerous online articles on playing and coaching volleyball. Author of the upcoming ebook "How to Stop Serving Like a Wimp" April's volleyball sites are volleyballvoices.com, volleyballvoyeur.com, beijingolympicvolleyball.com, and aprilsbeachvolleyballog.com. She can be reached at april@volleyballvoices.com

I know you want to learn the secrets of how the pros play like they do. The fastest way for you to do that is to sign up for the FREE Volleyball Voices Newsletter so you can be the first person on your team to get the inside track on how to stay off the bench and gain more playing time by improving all your volleyball skills, fast! Just fill out that box in the upper right hand corner to receive today's volleyball news you can use.