Volleywood aka the world’s largest volleyball blog proudly announces the complete list of male nominees for THE 2018 BEST AWARDS which recognizes the world’s best players for their achievements with their respective nationals teams and as individual athletes. The winners will be determined via global fan voting which will start on December 10th, 2018.

The winners will be announced on December 28th, 2018. Each nominee must have successfully and efficiently competed in at least 1 of the major FIVB tournaments in 2018: Volleyball Nations League, World Championship and FIVB Club World Championship.

MALE NOMINEES

BEST OUTSIDE HITTER:

Aaron Russell (USA/Trentino Volley)
Douglas Souza (Brazil)
Michal Kubiak (Poland)
Dmitry Volkov (Russia)

BEST MIDDLE BLOCKER:

Piotr Nowakowski (Poland)
Dmitry Muserskiy (Russia)
Robertlandy Simon (Italy/Cucine Lube Civitanova)
Lucas Saatkamp (Brazil)

BEST LIBERO:

Pawel Zatorski (Poland)
Jenia Grebennikov (France/Trentino Volley)
Erik Shoji (USA)
Thales Hoss (Brazil)

BEST OPPOSITE HITTER:

Bartosz Kurek (Poland)
Matt Anderson (USA)
Maxim Mikhaylov (Russia)
Ivan Zaytsev (Italia)

BEST SETTER:

Simone Gianelli (Italia)
Bruno Rezende (Brazil)
Fabian Drzyzga (Poland)
Micah Christenson (USA)

PLAYER OF THE YEAR:

Maxim Mikhaylov (Russia)
Bartosz Kurek (Poland)
Michal Kubiak (Poland)
Aaron Russell (USA/Trentino Volley)

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BEST COACH:

Renan Dal Zotto (Brazil)
Sergey Shlyapnikov (Russia)
Vital Heynen (Poland)
John Speraw (USA)

TEAM OF THE YEAR:

Poland
Russia
Brazil
Trentino Volley

BEACH VOLLEYBALL TEAM OF THE YEAR:

Anders Mol & Christian Sørum (Norway)
Phil Dalhausser & Nick Lucena (USA)
Janis Smedins & Aleksandrs Samoilovs (Latvia)
Alex Brouwer & Rob Meeuwsen (Netherlands)

The female nominees will be revealed shortly after the conclusion of the ongoing FIVB Club World Championship.

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