The BR Volleys show self-confidence before the start of the second half of the season (archive photo) Photo: picture alliance / contrastphoto | O.Behrendt
From BZ/dpa
The Berlin Volleys start the second half of the Bundesliga volleyball league on Wednesday (8 p.m.) with a lot of self-confidence at Volleys Herrsching.
“Our performance decides how the game ends,” said Johannes Tille, the setter for the undefeated leaders. The 25-year-old sends a warning afterwards: “Herrsching is always snappy in front of his own audience.”
Tille needs to know. From 2018 he himself played for the Ammersee team for three years. Via a detour from France, he came to the BR Volleys at the beginning of the season. For him, the game in Munich’s Audi Dome is something special for another reason: For the first time he meets his 33-year-old brother Ferdinand in a competitive game. He’s a libero for the Herrschingers. In the first leg, which the BR Volleys won 3-0, he was still missing.
The BR Volleys are happy that after their Champion League game at Warta Zawiercie in Poland (3: 1) they were free of play for a week. Until then, the team had played a competitive game on average every four days since the start of the season in October.
The German champion has coped well with the strain so far. “It’s noticeable that we have a broad squad,” said managing director Kaweh Niroomand. In their 13 games in three competitions (Bundesliga, Champions League, DVV-Pokal) the team has only suffered one defeat, namely the unfortunate 1:3 in the premier class at Halkbank Ankara.
Now two games are waiting for the BR Volleys in the Bundesliga within less than 72 hours, in the form of a “Bavarian doubles”: The game against Herrsching is followed on Saturday by the task at home against the penultimate TSV Haching Munich.