Valeriya Korotenko: We can play much better.

Libero of the Azerbaijani National team and Azerrail Baku,Valeriya Korotenko talked quite pretentious about next season.
"We have passed the first round successfully,but our real purpose is playing final and winning the main trophy. It was not our real power,we can play much better. That`s why we will do our best to play our strongest game in every match."

Riikka Lehtonen: Our aim is - to win "Challenge Cup".

The captain of Igtisadchi Baku, Finnish outside-hitter, Riikka Lehtonen shared her impressions about the matches of the "Challenge Cup" against Bosnian Kula.
"We did not let the opponents to play own game and won these two matches easily as a result. I hope we will put victories in a row and will make glad our fans. We are very pretentious in this tournament. We have quite strong team and we are mighty to reach our purpose."

Tayyiba Haneef-Park: " Everyone says just good things about Azerbaijan."

American star of Igtisadchi Baku, Tayyiba Haneef-Park gave an interview to "Apa-sport",talked about her choice,Azerbaijan and the team.

" I have heard much about Azerbaijan from the American girls played in Azerbaijan. Everyone said just the best words about the country and its folk. And seeing everything with own eyes, I am sure that I did the best choice. I think it will be very nice season for Igtisadchi.
I signed a month ago and joined the team just a little time before. I do not have much information about the Azeri Super league,but I can say that the teams are quite strong and it will be very hard season.
We have just one aim-to win!!! We will do our best to take this aim and make our fans happy.
We won these official matches easily,but i think we could play much better.But I think it will be better in time. We will show our real game and will fight for the best awards."

Igtisadchi and Azerrail advance to the second round of the GM Challenge Cup

Igtisadchi and Azerrail finished the first round GM Challenge Cup games with effortless wins over Kula Gradacac and Paola Hibs, respectively, and advanced to the second round of the tournament.

In the return leg, Igtisadchi defeated Bosnian Kula 3:0 (25:19, 25:15, 25:12) while Azerrail outclassed Maltese Paola with a similar scoreline, 3:0 (25:9, 25:14, 25:12).

Meanwhile, in men's tournament, Azerneft almost caused a major upset. Following the 0:3 loss a day before, Azerbaijan champions rallied to the 3:0 victory (25:21, 27:25, 25:22) in the return leg, taking the game to the "golden set". However, hosts may have run out of steam as Partizan snatched the decisive set 15:10 thus eliminating Azerneft from the competition.

In the second round of the Challenege Cup, Igtisadchi will face off with Sparkasse Klagenfurt of Austria, while Azerrail will meet with A.O. Markopoulo Revoil of Greece.