In my country, Italy, volleyball is one of the most popular sport, but it isn't much popular. Programs about sports in general never tolak about volleyball, and i can see the Serie A1 matches only in a secondary channel. The players are less payed than in other sports. Is volleyball a sport only for intlligent people (because the complicated rules)? So, what's the situation of volleyball in your country? Is more or less popular than football?
first football and the others sport aren't popular
1Football
2Football
3Football
4Tennis
5Cycling
6Athletism
7Basketball
8Hockey
And maybe then volleyball...=(
It is a pity considering how fucking bad our football NT is and how amazing we are in sports like Hockey and the potential we have in Basketball or Volleyball...
2.Football
3.Football
4.Football
...
843293261849. Ski jumping
843293261850. Volleyball
Volleyball may be the 2nd//
1. Speedway
2. Volleyball and Football
3. Basketball
Maybe in your region... Football is of course the most popular and there is a big difference between football and other sports. By number of viewers volleyball is quite popular, but there's not a lot of people who play this sport unfortunately ?
@daniel2224
Do You understand the question? Or You just kidding us don't you?
Polish league is the best in the world...
It does not mean that it is the most popular... ?
Sometimes i hear from others that they hear too much about volleyball and that's why they don't like it. Football is popular, but a looot of my friends interest in speedway/motocross (i think because in Rzeszów is quite good club).
and i think that you forgot about handball, which also is quite popular (a lot of people watch polish NT and my few friends play this sport)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Add6IbMzU
1. Soccer (obviously)
2. Basketball and Volleyball
3. Rugby
4. Waterpolo
5. Baseball (i think...but i'm not sure)
on internet i read that this is official rank:
1. football
2. krykiet
3. hockey on the grass
4. tenis
5. volleyball
6. ping-pong
7. baseball
8. golf
9. rugby
10. basketball.
http://blogi.newsweek.pl/Tekst/sport/531730,Najpopularniejsze-sporty-na-swiecie-ringowo.html
Slovak volleyball NT did too many fantastic results in whole history, like football (8th place in WC 2010?? who cares) and icehockey (1st WC 2002 - who cares again). I dont want to write volleyball results, its so boring, but its a shame, that still our youngsters would be footballers and hockey players (but this is not medias problem or anybody - PARENTS could change that.) E.g. for myself - father was volleyball player in Czechoslovakia national league- mother was athlet, but father didnt force me to volleyball, because mother sad: He choose his own favourite sport (yeah, here it goes 6 to 11years football in front of my house, 11-14 basketball in highschool, finally 14-26 volleyball, but I had to choose myself ofcourse.) NOW I regret every stupid minute, which i spent with football, basketball etc. After 10 years in 26years finally i start to play in profi club, because I could regret myself to my death. So this is my example. How many people had equal past than me.
I will raise my child with volleyball, not for football and basketball, because I will tell them, look to your father, you have to be more like he was. Child in 10years doesnt know, what is for him right decision about sport.
Sorry about my bad english
Volleyball is popular and is getting so more and more, but still has a loooong distance to football ?
@Sllaveq Believe me, your football team is way better than ours, we really and truly suck ?
2. Volleyball
3. Maybe Basketball.
The diference between soccer and volleyball in Brazil is as huge as Everest can be.
2. Handball
3. Volleyball
I'm sport's journalist and I try promote every discipline, which isn't football, especially volleyball? But I also have write about this primitive sport? or, the worst, make relation from some tournaments or matches. I can watch the most interesting moments of match in sport news and that’s all. For me so far football’ve been the most boring sport, but now I’m writing article about American football and I changed my mind?
Polish guys, I thought that Volleyball was even more popoular than football in Poland!
In Italy the sport itself is really popoular (I mean the 'played' sport, not the 'watched' sport), because every school has a volleyball court in is gym (may be few schools doesn't have a proper gym, otherwise it's a volleybal + basketball very small court)! And there are (at least in Roma) a lot of championship between different classes of the same school or different schools. It's rare that a school doesn't have at least a female team (even if it can be very awful, but it exist), but usually there are both the male and female team. So, may be the real rules aren't really know, but the basic is known by everyone.
And volleyball is the first famale agonist sport in Italy.
But football is the first male sport practised in Italy, of course.
Other sport quite practised are tennis, basketball, swimm, rugby (male only, almost), also atheltics, artistic gymnastic, waterpolo. There are a lot of people that do cyclism for fun, but also excursionism and climbing, and most of all, SKI!!
But if we speak about the watched/followed volleyball... Well, we are lucky that most of the clubs plays in small towns, that don't have many others stong team, so they give every support to volleyball (e.g. Cuneo). The Serie A isn't really that followed imo, even by who plays volleyball and even by who follows the NT. But there isn't any information trasmitted on tv, and nothing more than the results written in the newspapers (vs 4-5-6-7 even 10 pages about football in the cronhical newsp., and 1 page vs like 30 pages about football on the sport newsp.).
The NT is more followed by the people, but still not really followed by the medias, expecially TV medias (the matches are trasmitted, but it's all limitated to this, mostly)... When we won the semifinal (the first semifinal won after 6 years!!) of the ECh, we had 2 whole pages on the Gazzetta ( at page like 40 or 50), but before this two pages it was all soccer and F1.
I think that rugby NT is more followed (and defintly has much much more space in medias) even if they won NOTHING! Already 40.000 tickets sell for 'Six nations' Italy-England in february...
I think that football and F1 are maaaany level before volleyball.
2. Hockey
3.Figure skating
4.Volleyball , basketball , Biathlon
I think that the main cause why volleyball is so popular in Russia ,cause we play in it on PE lessons .Children (5-11years) usually play pionerball . It is soviet game . It has all volleyball rules, but it's easier to play in it as you should to caught a ball instead of return it.
here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZr0oUXSbw8&feature=related
PS: sorry for bad english =(
Moreover it is the most played game for sure..
For those who have no idea of what i'm talking about :D :) :
http://www.pianetadonna.it/foto_gallery/gossip/calendari-2011/calendario-rugbisti-sexy-dieux-du-stade-2011/calendario-rugbisti-2011-fratelli-bergamasco.html
ps btw I wish our vb male NT to do the same ?
Kk15: "Dieux du Stade" calendars are bought mostly by MEN, not women!!!....try to understand, girl ? And, yes i agree with you, let's hope our guys will do something similar as well...they could call it "Dieux du Sports Hall" haha
1 football
2 Fitness
3 Golf
4 Tennis
5 Swimming
6 Walking
7 Running
8 Ice skating
9 Cycling
10 Bowling
11 Hockey
12 Dancing
13 Bridge
14 VOLLEYBALL
http://www.duodecim.nl/upload/file/POPULARITEITSINDEX%20SPORT%202010.pdf
ps. HARDER PENATLY FOR FOOTBALL 'KIBOL'S'
I think of reading about karch in a book he wrote where he talks about playing beach volleyball everyday during his youth but there just arent the people or facilities for me to do that!
football (as everywhere),
handball (french national team is World champ, European champ and Olympic champ, not bad right)
Rugby (In final in last world championship)
Basketball (in final in last European championship)
What i want to say is that unfortunately in france we have a lot of top sport in their own category, and volleyball didn't have great results lately so it's hard to have medias behind us and without medias....
source: http://www.svf.sk/Default.aspx?CatID=667&NewsID=6570
And I have to say for football and icehockey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FUyu3csPq0
Overlook I am not ? because If you have no money, no icehockey ?, but if you dont have money, you can play volley ?
pearl I am under the table now ?
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But I have to admit that sometimes I really hate Anastasi, he didn't won nothing with Italy all the time he coached the NT, and in half an year he won 3 medals on 3 competitions with his brand new team!!! ?
Well, I'm not complaining about the 3 medals in 3 competitions for Poland under Anastasi's coaching ?
In Egypt
1- Soccer
2- Handball
@MohamedKhedr is handball more popular than basketball?
@kaljumbos yes in Egypt we have a strong handball team.