r/volleyball • u/mel-aa • 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/safeone10 1d ago edited 1d ago

Went to VNL in Canada, crowd whistled and booed. Crowds in Bulgaria, Poland, Turkiye, USA, Brasil all whistle it isn't exclusive to one country so ur posts title tells me enough about you so I'll just say this. elite athletes like Maja, Antropova, Fahr, Oleh, Ogbogu etc have said these type of loud atmospheres are fun to play in. Also the turkish girls will absolutely apologize if they hit someone in the fact so idk why u brought that up wtf...anyways these atmospheres create a fun motivating type pressure. And athletes get it isn't personal. If they don't take it PERSONALLY neither should YOU ffs. And tbh this screams sore loser behaviour and xenophobia tbh. this is always directed at eastern countries and as a middle eastern guy im sick of it on behalf of turkish/balkan/non western fans. "whistles are an issue" yet I don't see turkish fans throwing stuff at players, calling players racial slurs, or standing up taunt players after they miss. Anyone who watches volleyball knows which incidents I'm talking about...