The results of the last round of 2013 will be altered by the fact 17 foreign players will be missing due to international duty. The round has neither been forwarded nor been postponed even if the calendar was known for a long time.
“Beside Tillie, Toniutti and Klapwijk all with their respective national team, today Koumentakis left for Greece – explained GM Beppe Cormio – He was treated differently than Fragkos who will play on Sunday for Latina. Same thing regarding Germany: they called Kaliberda and fromm, but they left Steuerwald in Vibo. Besides those terrible individual situations, the worst thing is the umpteenth lack of respect shown towards Italian volleyball, which also made some horrible mistakes. The league for example could have started a week earlier, it didn’t because of the World Championships U23, an event in which Italy could not take part because of its ranking”.
