Nostalgia: Natalya MAMMADOVA in Spain. Icaro Palma.

Final of the Spanish Superleague 2007/08. Natalya Mammadova in Icaro Palma.

Angie McGinnis: Choice Azerrail-is a step forward in my career.

The USA National team member,setter Angie McGinnis talked to www.azerisport.com about her choice.

Have you thought a lot about the offer from Azerail?

- No,I have not. I accepted this offer with great pleasure. I talked to the girls in my last team,the friends in Azerbaijan before arriving in Baku. I know Azerrail has authority in the European Arena and it has very big ambitions.My new team pretends to the best goals for next year.

What do you think?: Is this choice a step forward in your opinion?

- Yes, I believe that the way it is.I have very nice memories of "Igtisadchi", where I won my first award in Azerbaijan and I feel that joining "Azerraill" will be great milestone in my career.

And how do you assess the chances of your team in the Challenge Cup?


While it is difficult to say, but we will try to go as far as possible . Naturally, in a game with "Paola" we have not shown even fifty percent of our capacity, so I think we have enough power to win this cup. Time will show.



Have you managed to make friendship with your new team-mates?

Sometimes I face with the problem of language barrier, but in general with all the partners on the team I have excellent relationship. As for English, our Slovak player Matiasovska and Brazilian Elisangela speak fluent,that`s why I do not feel any discomfort talking to them.

You probably know that "Azerrail" season will be special because the team failed to win medals, the Super League?


Yes, I understand perfectly. We are all here to do one thing, namely to help the club to finish the season successfully both on the domestic and the International arena. We continue trainings and do our best to show great performance in next matches.

Galatasaray and Uralochka come to Baku.

Russian Legend Uralochka Yekaterinburg and Turkish Galatasaray will come to Baku to take a part in the pre-season tournament.
Azeri teams,Rabita,Azerrail,Igtisadchi and Lokomotiv will be other participants on this friendly club tournament.
Matches will be played at the end of October.

Baku VC- Azerrail will be the opening match of the Azeri Super league 2010/11.

The Azerbaijani Super league season starts on 29 November with the match Baku VC-Azerrail in the Serhedchi Olympic Complex.
After this match there will be Opening Ceremony of the new season. In the second match Igtisadchi will test Rabita Baku and the last match will be played between the debutant Shirvan-Guba and Lokomotiv Baku.

Schedule of the first round:

15:00. “Baku VC” - “Azerrail”
16:30. Opening Ceremony
17:00. “İgtisadchı” - “Rabita”
19:00. “Shirvan-Guba” - “Lokomotiv”

Natalia Hanikoglu: I love Azerbaijan very much.

The new captain of Azerrail Baku,very nice person and real professional Russian native Turkish player Natalia Hanikoglu about her choice,first round of the GM Challenge Cup and her love to Azerbaijan.
"We defeated opponents with nice game in two matches. We have a very strong team and we are pretentious to win the following matches in this way too. We passed just the first round of the tournament. We will face teams much stronger ahead,so we will do our best to win and to advance as much as possible.
I love Azerbaijan very much. It has also played its big role for my choosing Azerrail Baku. There is always grandiose fan support,it was the same this time too. I love our supporter very much too and call them to be with us till the end,because we are going to win Challenge Cup,Azerbaijani Super league and Cup."