Germany women's national volleyball team
The German national volleyball team of women is a selection of the best German players representing the DVV in international tournaments and international matches. Your biggest successes were the runners-up at the European Championships in 2011 and 2013. During the division of Germany at the same time the national team played in the GDR. After the reunification of some DDR players continued their career in the joint German team.
Current squad
In September 2013, the following players were nominated:
Germany coach Giovanni Guidetti is the Italians. He took office in April 2006 by the South Korean Hee -Wan Lee. Wizard Felix Koslowski
History
World Championships
In the 1956 World Cup, the team of the Federal Republic came in 16th and last place thus. In 1960, she was tenth, but this meant the last place. Two years later the West German women managed just one win against neighbors from Austria. From 1974 to 1990, the Federal Republic was involved in every World Cup, however, stood in the shadow of the much more successful DDR selection.
In the first joint World Cup finals in 1994 Germany finished fifth in Brazil. Four years later, however, it was only enough to Ranked 13 In 2002, the German women could not use the home advantage and were in front of their home crowd tenth. In the 2006 World Cup in Japan, the team ended up - in spite of the project, with the new national coach to improve the balance sheet - only on the eleventh. At the World Championships in Japan in 2010 it ran much better. The German women came with the best result in 16 years in seventh place.
European Championships
In 1958, the Federal Republic was represented for the first time at a World Cup and finished eleventh. Two further eleventh and two tenth places. In 1977, she scored eight for the first time as a single-digit result. 1983 in the GDR succeeded the West German women with fifth place their best result prior to reunification. The following tournaments were sixth and ninth. The European Championships 1989 took place in the Federal Republic. The hosts were in their preliminary round group third and won the first placement match against Bulgaria before they occupied the sixth place after a defeat against Czechoslovakia.
The first show outing after reunification, it was enough for the all-German team to third place that German women were able to repeat twelve years later in Ankara. In May / June 2006, the German team qualified without dropping a set for the 2007 European Championships, which took place in Belgium and Luxembourg. There, the Germans dropped out in the second group stage. At the European Championships in Poland in 2009, the German women finished fourth. The World Championship 2011 in Serbia and Italy and 2013 in Germany and Switzerland, they won twice in a row the silver medal.
Olympic games
The Federal Republic was qualified as host of the 1972 Olympics. However, playing at home, the West German women were able to win any of their games and came in eighth place. 1984 in Los Angeles, they were after wins against Brazil and Canada as well as a final defeat against South Korea sixth.
After reunification, the German women qualified from 1996 to 2004 three times in a row. In 1996 she retired from the tournament in the quarter- final against China. In the same round they lost in the 2000 Olympics against Brazil. In the far past participation, in Athens in 2004, the competition for Germany was finished after the preliminary round. For Beijing 2008 and London 2012, the women of the DVV could not qualify.
World Cup
The German team took part twice so far and arrived at the World Cup 1991 on the ninth and the World Cup 2011 to sixth place.
World Grand Prix
The German women participated first time in 1994 at the World Grand Prix in part and occupied the tenth place. The following year they were eighth. The same rankings were in returning in 2001. A year later there was the biggest success so far, as the women of the DVV behind Russia and China were third. After that there was a seventh and sixth. 2005 Germany was back in tenth place. After two years break, the DVV 2008 women were there again and were eighth. 2009 could be achieved for the second time, third place ( behind Brazil and Russia this time ). 2010, there was in ninth place a severe setback for the German women, and in 2011 it slipped even upon the thirteenth square off. 2012 we just missed the finals and ended up in seventh place. 2013, Germany ranked eleventh place.