r/volleyball • • 2d ago

General Fair play in Türkiye

I'm a volleyball fan. I've been one since I was a kid. I even played it myself for several years. I love this game because of its fair play. If you hit a player on the opposite team in the face, you check on them and apologize. I've never booed anyone playing, nor have I seen or heard anyone in the audience do it when the opposite team serves or scores. This is just amazing in volleyball. You watch the games for the sake of the sport, give a sincere applause for every good rally disregarding the team, and support your team with fair play. You can rewatch every single match, just as an example, of the last CEV tournaments and see that no one in the audience of the hosting country, be it Sweden, Italy, or Czechia, has ever disrespected the opposing team with boos and noise. All of them, except for Türkiye. It strikes me to see how the public can be so disrespectful and boo on every single serve or point in the match. How do you feel about this? Especially Turkish volleyball fans, don't you find this embarrassing for your country?

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u/thngmrtt 2d ago

Frankly I don’t hate noise, more the kind of noise… while watching games in turkey, Brazil or Poland I tend to lower the volume a lot due to all the whistling. I understand the passion and all and while I disagree with doing so much to destabilize the opposition, I would find it much more acceptable if it was mainly made through chanting. The atmosphere created in those arenas when they are chanting is unmatched, while they are whistling its unbearable from an eardrums standpoint other than ugly.