Let us wish SAHARA Indian Volleyball team all the best for Olympic qualifiers!

[Cricket_Fan]

Hi all, Finally Indian Volleyball team has got a team sponsor-SAHARA and now undergoing a rigorous camp for the Olympic qualifiers in June. I have attached the photo of the players right now in the camp and will be giving an intro of the players that I know. [ATTACH]1953[/ATTACH]

[Cricket_Fan]

In the Order Jersey Number,Name[state,Height in cm] 34 - Azeez MT [Kerala,195 cm] 19 - Dilip Khoiwal [Rajasthan,201 cm] 16 - Kapil Dev [Kerala,193 cm]- Arjuna Awardee, this man has been India's best setter for a long time. 7 - Sanjay Singh [Haryana,197 cm]- Arjuna Awardee, plays in Iranian league 13- Prabhakaran kakka[TamilNadu,193 cm] 9 - Sube Singh - [Haryana,205 cm] 36 - Manu [Kerala,195cm] 12 - Navjith Singh [Punjab,205 cm] 1 - G. Pradeep- [AndhraPradesh,201cm]

[1983-2011]

dont we have a women's national volleyball team

[Sachinism]

Who the hell watches men's volleyball? Women's beach volleyball is what its about? But better than all that is Takraw :adore:

[Cricket_Fan]

10 - Tom Joseph - [Kerala,197cm]- This man can be termed as Sachin Tendulkar of Indian volleyball as he is playing for last 12 years and been the best spiker in India for a long time. His name is sufficient enough to fill volleyball courts across the country and his powerful smashes can beat the daylights off any blocker in the world. 35- T Naresh [AndhraPradesh,202cm] 25- Rohith P [Kerala,200cm] 20 - Ranjith Singh [Punjab,195cm] 15 -UkkraPandian [TamilNadu,192cm] Another awesome setter poised to replace Kapil Dev after he retires. 26 - Lijo Joseph [Kerala,207cm]- Plays for Indian Navy, a relative new entrant to Indian camp 17 - Gurinder Singh [Punjab,195 cm] 14 - Lalit Kumar [Punjab,191 cm] 33 - Kanagaraj [Tamilnadu,170 cm] Libero 23 - T.D RaviKumar [ Karnataka, 191cm] 32 - John Christopher [TamilNadu, 189 cm] 6 - SelvaPrabhu [Tamilnadu,193 cm] This youngster is another phenomenal player whose brilliant performance in the last Junior World cup where we finished 7th and beat World Champions Brazil, earned praises from many quarters. 18 - Naveen Jacob [TamilNadu,189 cm] Deadly spiker, packs real hard power in his smashes ,currently plays in Iranian league 2 - Vibin M George [Kerala, 195 cm] 8 - Balvinder Singh [Punjab, 194 cm] 27- Kiran Philip [Kerala,170 cm] Libero 21 - Manu Joseph [Kerala ,191 cm] Has the potential to be tomorrow's superstar, Kerala regained national volleyball crown after a long time on the basis this guys performance.

[Cricket_Fan]

Who the hell watches men's volleyball? Women's beach volleyball is what its about? But better than all that is Takraw :adore:

To begin with, Volleyball is an Olympic sport and followed by millions in Asia,Europe, North and South Americas:--D. FIVB has more members than even FIFA! Forget all of this, you can see the popularity of volleyball in India itself. Come to Kerala and watch any one tournament, you will get to see jam packed stadium with people vying for the piece of the action . They don't come to see any Khans, Bollywood bimbos but to see powerful and towering athletes setting the court on fire with their smashes, blocks and athletic receptions. Volleyball is one game we Indians should actually start to take seriously. It is one physical sport where we are actually good at. A volleyball player is actually an anti-thesis of perception of an average Indian-Tall,strong and athletic. However, in the team list i have posted here, you can see that we've got pretty tall players and this probably be our most physical team in any team sport. We have a great junior team. In 2009 Junior World cup, we have finished third by beating biggies like USA and Russia and our world rank climbed till 3. In no other popular game where there is such competition, we have achieved anything like this. We need more exposure for our senior team and we should play Europeans and Brazilians more rather than playing Asians more. Hope, SAHARA's sponsorship will enable them to scale those heights.

[Sidhoni]

Best of luck..