The German volleyball players won their last endurance test before the World Cup and made an impressive comeback.
At the dress rehearsal on Saturday (September 17th, 2022), the team of national coach Vital Heynen defeated the Olympic silver medalist Brazil 3:2 (23:25, 16:25, 25:21, 25:19, 15:13). Germany was already 0:2 behind in Berlin, but then managed to catch up.
The national coach of the German volleyball team: Vital Heynen.
Next week the World Cup will start in the Netherlands and Poland (September 23rd to October 15th), Germany will meet Bulgaria on September 25th in Arnhem. Other opponents in the difficult Group C are Olympic champions USA and world champions Serbia as well as Canada and Kazakhstan.
Heynen: “The strongest group”
Heynen sees the group as “The strongest of the tournament, with two absolutely world-class teams battling to win their group. Canada, Bulgaria and Germany will be the three teams battling to progress.”
The top four teams in each group advance to the second round. In this, the German women failed at the last World Cup in Japan in 2018, in the end they reached eleventh place there.