The best players are not where you think

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• The Nations League, and the summer the world seesThe FIVB's annual competition is the format most viewers encounter, and it is a recent invention with a commercial structure behind it.
• The NCAA, three divisions and a stadium recordAmerican college volleyball has a scale and an attendance record that surprises people who only watch the international game.
• The clubs, where the season actually happensItaly, Poland and Turkey run the leagues most of the world's best players spend most of the year in.
• Beach is a different sportTwo players, no rotation, no substitutions and a surface that punishes a different body — the codes share a name and little else.
• Names on the record, with the year attachedDocumented achievements, dated — the only way to write about players without writing about people.

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