【HD】2008 🇯🇵 Japan vs Poland 🇵🇱 🏐 Women Volleyball 🏐 FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournament

8 teams competing last 4 spots for Beijing Olympic in 2008. This tournament is hosted by Japan. Below was the schedule of Japan team : Day 1 vs Poland Day 2 vs Puerto Rico Day 3 vs Kazakhstan Day 4 vs Dominican Republic Day 5 vs South Korea Day 6 vs Thailand Day 7 vs Serbia 2003-2008 Japan head coach was Shoichi Yanagimoto. Since 1997, Japan volleyball went into dark era given no good players and coach, 2000 even failed to enter Sydney Olympic, the unprecedented incident in Japan volleyball history. Yanagimoto bought Nippon to Olympic in 2004 and this was his 2nd attempt in 2008. Kurihara (24), Kimura (22), Araki (24), Sugiyama (28), Takahashi (28), Takeshita (30) and Sano (29) were the lineup players. Libero Yuko Sano award the best digger and receiver while Yoshie Takeshita the best setter. Post-Match Commentary : Japan won over Poland in 2007 WC in 5 sets. This made Japanese squad not sccare when faced against Poland in recent years. The speed and combination led by Takeshita made Japan played like an engine. Poland side with Ginka and Skowronska, two killers in Europe at that time. Japan attacks relied a lot on Kurihara and middles by that time. Saori wasn't mature enough. She was more like a receiver and support Takahashi and Kurihara. Another key player was the Libero Sano who defenced tons of attacks from Poland side.