Igtisadchi crushed Eczacibashi in Istanbul.

Azerbaijani team "Igtisadchi" Baku continues preparation for the "Challenge Cup" 2010/11 season in Turkey.
After participation in "Errea Cup" where Igtisadchi finished the fourth,Igtisadchi played against Turkish Superleague team Eczacibashi in Istanbul. In the match of "Errea Cup" in Samsun, Igtisadchi lost in five sets,playing without setter (Nenova,setter of Rabita played for Igtisadchi),who had problems before the match.
This time Azeri club crushed Eczacibashi of ex-Bergamo coach Lorenzo Micelli, in three sets: 3-0
American Superstar Tayyiba Haneef joint her team and played big role in this victory. Kathleen Weiss,Yuko Sano and Alice Blom miss the camp because of participation in the World Championship.
Igtisadchi Baku will participate in the tournament of "Four teams" in Istanbul on the 9th and 10th October.

Rabita lost, Azerrail won twice.

Following a first pre-season camp in Czech Republic, Azerrail traveled to Turkey for the short second camp. The team has already held two friendly games against Turkish clubs and won both of them - 3:1 against Vakifbank Gunes and 3:0 against Besiktas. From Turkey, the team will fly to Malta for the upcoming "Challenge Cup" first round game against Paola Hibs on October 10.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, Rabita played a second friendly game against Turkish national team in Istanbul. The game ended 3:1 (25:23, 25:19, 17:25, 25:22) in favor of the hosts.

Rabita Baku: Mammadova 23:Kulikova 3:Attivi 12:Starovic 8: Dyachenko 8: Golubovic 10:Nenova 2:

Turkey: Neslihan 21: Eda 13: Seda 13: Esra 5: Neriman 5: Bahar 3: Naz 7: Gozde 3:

Statistics by: Artem Borisenko (Rabita VC)- Thanks!

Azerrail Baku beats Vakifbank Gunesh Sigorta.

The Flagman of Azerbaijani volleyball Azerrail Baku continues preparation camp for the "Challenge Cup" which will start on the 10th of October.
Last Azeri Cup winners defeated one of the strongest team of Turkey Vakifbank Gunesh Sigorta which will participate in the Champions league in four sets: 3-1 (sets` score are not shown yet). Both of teams missed some players.
Azerrail Baku will play their second friendly match,today against Beshiktash which takes part in the European CEV CUP.

Update: Omelchenko signs with VC "Baku",Adnan Kistak moves to "Shirvan-Guba" VC.

Newly renamed , "Baku"VC signed a contract with the former Russian National team coach,Mikhail Omelchenko. Before that Mr. Omelchenko was a candidate for the head coach post of "Azerrail" and "Shrivan-Guba" team,but at the last moment he signed with "Baku" VC which is founded in the base of "Nagliyyatchi".
Mikhail Omelchenko worked with legendary Nikolai Karpol and won 1988 Seoul Olympic Games` Gold Medal. He also worked in the teams like Eczacibashi Turkey,Dinamo and etc.
His last work place was Dinamo Krasnodar where played Azeri Star Natalya Mammadova last season. He left his post in the middle of the season.

Note: Adnan Kistak moves to "Shirvan-Guba" where he will work with young players and prepare young talented players for the National team.

Mammadova is a new captain of Rabita Baku.

Azerbaijani Star,leader of attacks Natalya Mammadova is a new captain of Rabita Baku.
An outstanding Natalya Mammadova replaced Bojana Doganjic in this role. We hope Mammadova will show her leader characters and will be such a nice captain as Bojana Doganjic was.
Note: In Errea Cup Natalya Mammadova played as a diagonal player and scored 25 points in the match against Vakifbank GSTT (Guldeniz Onal scored 20 points),and played just one set against Igtisadchi and scored 5 points.

Rabita Baku outclassed Turkish National team.

The last Azeri Champion Rabita Baku which started preparation to the Champions League,today defeated Turkish National team which will participate in the World Championship.
The match which took place in Istanbul,finished in four sets. Rabita won 3-1 (12-25: 25-20: 25-17: 25:21)
Four main players of Rabita Baku-Kimberly Glass,Natasa Krsmanovic,Mirela Delic and Silvija Popovic missed the match since they are in the camp of their National teams which will participate in the Mundial too. Turkish National team played with the full squad.
Rabita played without libero. The captain of the team,Bojana Doganjic filled Silvija Popovic`s place with a great professionalism. 187cm universal player played as a libero also in the "Errea Cup".

Thanks for statistics to Artem Borisenko from Rabita Baku VC. He`s very polite and professional Statistic.!

The Flagman "Azerrail" flies to Turkey.

The Flagman of the Azerbaijani volleyball "Azerrail", almost immediately after returning from the Czech Republic, where it took part in a friendly international tournament, the team traveled to Turkey where they will play two test matches.

The first opponent of "Azerrail" in Turkey will be" Besiktas ", then the team will meet with "Vakifbank GSTT". After some days in Turkey,the team will move to Malta where they will play the first match of the "Challenge Cup" tournament against the local team "PAOLA Hibs" on the 10th October. The team is almost at full strength. Just American middle-blockers are absent.
In addition, in the next days "Azerrail" can sign a contract with a Cuban player who will join the camp in Turkey.

Innovation for the Azeri Superleague.

The Azerbaijani Volleyball Federation decided to organize two more leagues of the youth of the Superleague teams.

Every team which will participate in the Superleague has to present two teams Under 14 and Under 18 for the League of Youth. The matches will be played a day before the Superleague matches.
Azerbaijani Superleague starts on the 25th November.