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At last: Lokomotiv claims its first victory in the Superleague.

Last day with three interesting matches the 4th leg of the Azerbaijani Super league came to the end. Lokomotiv Baku claimed its first victory.
In the first match of the tour the leader Rabita Baku tested the young fighters of Adnan Kistak "VC Shirvan". Shirvan tried to show some nice actions but Rabita did not let the girls of Kistak to open their eyes winning the match in three sets 3-0 (25-13: 25-17: 25-16)

The best players of the match were: Bojana Doganjic (Rabita) and Alina Aliyeva (Shirvan)
In th second match of the day another debunant of the Super league "VC Baki" faced Lokomotiv BAku which was hungry for the victory in the local arena. Match started with nice actions of Richards and Metcalf from Loko and new transfer of Baki Juliana Valnte and Sarai Alvarez answered the opponents with not weaker attacks. The first set was closed with win of Loko 25-20 and in the second set Baki won win the same result with great game of the setter Engle and Michaela Manzoni.
The following two sets were staged to a dramatical game,but Loko was not going to lose the match and closed the sets 25-19 and 31-29. 3-1 (25-20: 20-25: 25-19: 31-29)

The best players: Nicole Davis (Lokomotiv) and Juliana Valente (Baki)
The closing match of the tour was between Azerrail and Igtisadchi which had the same points and the result of the match was very important of the ranking case. Igtisadchi played without the head coach,although the new coach of the team Jan de Brandt was in Baku and watching the match from the tribunes.
The first two sets Igtisadchi was looking for "adventures" replacing players in a row and that`s why lost the first two sets 25-27 and 14-25. Polina Rahimova and Jennifer Tamas showed super performance and lead their team to the victory in these two sets. Especially with the strongest aces of Rahimova Igtisadchi had quite serious problems in reception,despite of having such a great player like Yuko Sano,Riikka Lehtonen and Alice Blom.
But the third set was the beginning of Igtisadchi`s coming back. The German setter of Igtisadchi played very big role in that with her serves when the score was 20-16 and Azerrail was very close to win the match in three sets. But Weiss brought the score to 21-23 and with Alice Blom`s perfcet attacks they won the thrid set.
The fourth set showed that Igtisadchi was not going to give up,Fin Riikka Lehtonen and Spanish Marisa Fernandez answered Polina Rahimova and Elisangela Pereira Paulino`s powerful attacks and closed the set in tie-break part - 26-24.
In the fifth set Azerrail was a bit nervous and Igtisadchi had two points advantage but one again rising star of Azerbaijani volleyball Polina Rahimova and American NT captain Jennifer Tamas showed great performance in tie-break and finishd the set 15-12 and the match 3-2 (27-25: 25-14: 22-25: 24-26: 15-12)
The MVP of the match was Polina Rahimova. The best of Igtisadchi was the Dutch star Alice Blom.

Yeeeees! He signed! Jan de Brandt in Igtisadchi Baku!!!

He has signed! The great Belgium coach Jan de Brandt today signed with Igtisadchi Baku which resigned with Reshta Yaziciogullari due to some internal problems.
Jan de Brandt will coach Igtisadchi Baku till the end of the season,but the team is going to keep him in his post for a long time. We hope it will be like this!!!

Last two seasons Jan de Brandt was coaching Turkish Fenerbahce and won two Turkish leagues (one of them with our Oksana Parkhomenko,Valeriya Korotenko and Nisa Kuliyeva), one Turkish cup and Super Cup and won the bronze medals of CEV Cup. Last season Fenerbahce of Jan de Brandt also was the finalist of the CEV Indesit Champions league.
Before Fenerbahce Jan de Brandt coached the Belgium National team,Spanish Grand Tenerife Marichal.

Welcome,Great coach and Great Person!

Who knows Russian? Read it! Eugenia Artamanova! The greatest interview!!!

Read this interview! It is in Russian. I could translate,but in their original language it is much much better,origin! You may figure out so many nice and amazing facts about two GRAND people of the Volleyball World!
Eugenia Artamanova (Estes) and Nikolay Karpol!

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Today: 5th leg of the Azerbaijani Superleague

The 5th leg of the Azerbaijani Super league starts today in Sarhadchi Olympic Centre.
The first match will be played between the last Champion Rabita Baku and the debutant of the Super league "VC Shirvan". The match starts on 14:00.
After this match, at 16:00 Lokomotiv which is looking forward to claim its first victory will test another debutant of the competition "VC Baki" which strengthen its squad with Brazilian Juliana Valente. This match can be debut for 25 years old outside-hitter in the Azeri arena.
And the last match also promises us a very hard battle between two teams on the first two rankings with the same points,with the average of the played match. Azerrail and Igtisadchi will do their best to stay on the first position.The match starts at 18:00.
Matches will be broadcasted by Idman Azerbaijan TV.

Oksana Parkhomenko`s Dinamo Moscow with full speed

The Azeri National team captain Oksana Parkhomenko`s Dinamo Moscow defeated Omichka Omsk in the match of the Russian Super league 6th leg.
National team setter Oksana Parkhomenko scored 2 points. Dinamo Moscow defeated Omichka in three straight sets 3-0(25-21: 25-20: 25-21)

The best scorer of the match was Carolina Costagrande with 20 points,she was followed by Natalia Goncharova (19 points) and Yuliya Merkulova (12 points). The best scorer of the Omsk girls was Cuban National team ex-member Yaima Ortiz Charro with 17 points.
19 December 2010 Fakel Novy Urengoy - Samorodok Khabarovsk 0:3 (33:35, 23:25, 24:26) Best scorers: Kutyukova 15, Lisarenko 14, Dianskaya 11, Nabokova 10, Hendzel 10; Doronina 18, Sotnikova 16, Margatskaya 16, Zarkova 7 Leningradka San Pietroburgo - Dinamo Yantar Kaliningrad 2:3 (21:25, 25:15, 23:25, 25:22, 10:15) Best Scorers: Tzvetkova 23, Alimova 16, Beier 14, Belousova 13; Nazarova 15, Sukhova 14, E.Orlova 13, Beck 12 Proton Saratov Region - Dinamo Kazan 0:3 (23:25, 21:25, 14:25) Zarechie Odintsovo - Avtodor Metar Chelyabinsk 3:0 (25:18, 25:18, 25:8) Dinamo Krasnodar - Uralochka NTMK Sverdlovsk Region 3:0 (25:19, 25:22, 25:13) Best Scorers: Ana Paula Lopes Ferreira "Fofinha" 21, Bukreeva 13, Barboza 11, Rogacheva 9; Maryukhnhich 11, S.Filipova 10, Estes-Artamonova 10, Kovalchuk 7 20 December 2010 Omichka Omsk - Dinamo Moskova 0:3 (21:25, 20:25, 21:25) Best Scorers: Yaima Ortiz 18, Yaneva 7, Malofeeva 6, A.Orlova 6; Costagrande 20, N.Goncharova 19, Merkulova 9, Perepelkina 7 Ranking Dinamo Kazan 18 (6-0) Dinamo Moscow 15 (5-0) Dinamo Krasnodar 15 (5-1) Omichka Omsk 12 (4-2) Uralochka NTMK Sverdlovsk Region 11 (4-2) Zarechie Odintsovo 7 (2-3) Samorodok Khabarovsk 6 (2-4) Dinamo Yantar Kaliningrad 5 (2-4) Avtodor Metar Chelyabinsk 5 (1-5) Proton Saratov Region 4 (2-4) Leningradka San Pietroburgo 4 (1-5) Fakel Novy Urengoy 3 (1-5)

Video: Rabita Baku 3-0 Aluprof Bielsko-Biala

Braziliana Juliana Valente joins "VC Baki"

The debutant of the Azerbaijani Super league "VC Baki" inks Brazilian outside-hitter Juliana Valente.
25 years old Juliana Valente played for Czech Modranska Prostejov with Kimberly Glass,last season. She will replace Canadian outside-hitter Stacey Gordon( she signed in Puerto-Rico again) in her new team.