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."

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."