Over the past few weeks a selection of our players participated in the 2024 All Nations Tournament. The event welcomes players from all over England to play for their country. The 2023 event had over 700 participants across 63 teams and 85 nationalities.
Rob Young and Jack Hunter were allocated to UK Blue and finished in 23rd place. They won 2 from 5 in Pool B going as far as the Division 3 Semi-Finals. For Leon Gouzinis and Ben Newman it was UK White where they succesfully won Division 4. Ridvan Karacay respresented Turkey, who took away the bragging rights of the weekend as he beat both UK Blue and White and placed just above them both in 22nd.
It was Mathias Ferrari, Italy Blue, who we should shout about the most as he managed to go all the way to the Championship Gold Medal Match. This was a repeat of the 2023 final, where the result this year went the same way – unfortutnely again in favour of Brazil!
There were lots of players involved from clubs across the South West Region including Bristol VC, Plymouth Mayflower Volleyball Club, Unity Through Volleyball as well as a familar face in ex-club player Stanislaw Dunat who played for Poland Red and finished in 8th place overall.
