Recently, the Japan Football Federation has announced the list of 40 athletes summoned to the concentration of the Japanese women's volleyball team in 2023. The reason there are 40 names called to distribute forces for different tournaments.
In 2023, Japanese volleyball had three main tournaments including the Paris 2024 Olympic qualifying round, Asiad Hangzhou and the Asian Championship volleyball tournament 2023.
According to some sources, Japan will send three different squads to participate in these three tournaments. In particular, the main squad will attend the Olympic qualifying round with the goal of winning the ticket to Paris this year.
In this list, it is noteworthy that there is a name that receives a lot of attention. Not Sarina Koga or Mayu Ishikawa, but Yuki Kobayashi Angelina (Angelina Gromos), the name was first summoned.
Yuki Kobayashi Angelina carries two Japanese and American bloodlines, she is 1.96m tall and plays in the supporting position. Currently, Angelina Gromos is playing for the volleyball team of Green Bay University in NCAA of the US.
Angelina Gromos caught the eye of Manabe coach when he visited a training camp called Fisu World University Games. She passed the tests to make the selected list.
Many people believe that she is the highest athlete in the history of Japanese women's volleyball recruitment when the team only has a medium height of about 1.80m and is increasingly lower.
Playing in the sub -position does not affect the style of “dwarf mushroom but martial” of Japanese women's volleyball in the present. If selected to the main squad, this will be a new breeze for this team.
Meanwhile, despite having given Japanese nationality to realize the dream of going to Olympic, Philippine star Jaja Santiago has not yet been named on the focused list.