and good dodgers...

Mastrangelo... I dont like him so much.... Old dodger ...

Not good

włosi nie umieją przegrywac i tyle
Berruto przeszkodził w akcji a potem jeszcze się piekli

yes, maybe, it can happen one time, but they did it already many times, and I don't really find that shows much respect for the opponent or for the spectators. (I think that also the Italian supporters don't really like this kind of behaviour.)

C'mon, that's in the fire of the game

Italians do not know how to behave: / have shown that in today's match with the Polish

fantastic

I think Mauro Berruto has every right to be where he is, even if he knew the ball was coming and decided to turn his back. The italian libero however, clearly intentionally got in the way of Priddy when the ball wasn't even within 15 feet of landing inside his court, and he still chased it and got in Priddy's way.

@ NXT. I am in now way defend Giovi. He should have know that's an almost impossible ball to return and not interfere. Roman Yakovlev hit the ball like 2 inches above the tape. if vlado was standing he could probably block him. Bartman did the same thing a few years back. if you put a free balll high enough it should give your player time to get back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9APFll-hxVY

I think it was not the first time Giovi behaves like an ass. I dont know what match that was, but he tried to trip a player from opposite team up when coming back to his court after defence, anyone remember that?

That was not cool!

no... there's a rule... NEVER hinder a possible defense... u cannot know if the ball was lose
referee should give a yellow card to Giovi, beacause he got the clear intention to obstacle the player and it's a misconduct

so lame behaviour from Berutto and Giovi

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Hewwing - "plus how likely was it that they would get the ball back over?" It's not an argument that justifies such behaviour. How likely was Vlado Grbic to block the russian player (can't remember his name now) after his amazing defence? Even if Italians would just get a free ball they could make some mistake or just get blocked... so talking about US chances is pointless since Giovi didn't give them opportunity using his cheap tricks...

I hope Giovi get a fine from Italian Federation... don't want to remember that set for stupid thing
i'm very angry about that

uncalled for rich......no need for anything like that

Weird

But see how that behavior reflects on what people think about pretty much everyone in your country?Then people would say that Bulgarians are some kind of barbarians and make no mistake about it,we don't have Italy's lobby in the FIVB,we would have been out of international volleyball for AWHILE.It's no secret,strong countries don't have to follow the rules that much and not so strong countries take penalties for wrongdoings even if they haven't done any.
In this situation alone,I think the referee didn't do his job and this is what happens when authorities don't do their job - things get out of hand.
However(and I know I'm totally contradicting myself with that) if Lambourne have done that to Rado,I might have kicked him in the head
@raylight - you edited your comment,now my finish doesn't make any sense haha

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I think Mauro Berruto was following the ball. you can see that he is looking up and reassuring himself that it is clearly out. sometimes in tight games like that, players tend to really follow the ball out. however the libero didn't have to follow the ball. he was in the middle of the court when fei hit the ball and as a libero you should know the dimensions of the court fairly well, so it was unnecessary for him to block the American players. I however have done this before. I've pretended like i was going for a ball i knew was out only to move my hands out of the way in the very last second. just to be an ass . plus how likely was it that they would get the ball back over? if anything Italy would get a free ball they could destroy at the Americans