In the final match of the 2023 CEV European Championship, our National Volleyball Team will face Serbia.
The Sultans of the Net, who defeated Italy 3-2 in the semi-finals of the European Women’s Volleyball Championship, want to become the champion by overtaking Serbia.
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PLAYING THE 1st SET: SERBIA 3- 3 Türkiye
IT WILL BE THE REFUND OF 2019
By winning all 5 Group C matches in the organization, they made their mark in the last 16 rounds and advanced to the quarter-finals by beating Belgium. Turkey also defeated Poland in the quarter-finals and matched with Italy, which managed to reach the semi-finals without giving a set to their opponents. The Sultans of the Net, who beat the last European Champion Italy 3-2 at the end of the match, made 8 out of 8 in the organization, became the final opponent of Serbia, for which they lost the championship in 2019. Serbia defeated Ukraine, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary and Belgium in Group A to make it 5 out of 5 and reached the round of 16. Defeating Sweden in the last 16 round and facing the Czech Republic in the quarter-finals of the organization, Serbia passed the Netherlands in the semi-finals and made its mark in the final.
The European Volleyball Championship was held in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Turkey in 2019. In the semi-finals played in the capital Ankara, Turkey defeated Poland and Serbia reached the final by defeating Italy. Defeating Turkey 3-2 in the final, Serbia became the champion, while the national team won the silver medal and Italy the bronze medal. Serbia, which came second and third place in the Olympic Games, has 2 gold and 1 bronze medals in the world championships, and 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals in the European championships.
SERBIA WILL GO TO THE PARQUET UNDER GUIDETTI MANAGEMENT
Italian Giovanni Guidetti was the head coach of Turkey, which hosted the European Championship in 2019.
Serbia, coached by Zoran Terzic, won the championship cup by beating Turkey 3-2 under Guidetti in the final match in Ankara.
Serbia will take the floor under Guidetti in the final to be played in Brussels.
The Sultans of the Net, on the other hand, will try to reach the gold medal with Italian Daniele Santarelli, who made Serbia the world champion before.
Guidetti continues to run VakıfBank, one of the Sultans League teams, in his club career.
SANTARELLI CAN MAKE ‘2 IN 2’
Italian head coach Daniele Santarelli, who was announced on December 27, 2022, that he was the head of the A National Women’s Volleyball Team, made his debut with the South Korea match played in the first week of the FIVB Nations League held in Antalya.
The national team, which won 9 out of 12 matches in the first three weeks of the league under the management of Santarelli, qualified for the finals from the third place.
“Sultans of the Net”, which beat the last champion Italy in the quarter-finals of the Nations League and the host USA with 3 gold medals in the semi-finals, completed the first organization they participated with Santarelli with a gold medal.
The Italian head coach, who won the gold medal in the FIVB Nations League for the first time in his head coaching career, will try to add to his career his first gold success in the European Championship with Turkey.
Santarelli won two silver medals in the European League with Croatia, bronze in the FIVB Women’s Nations League with Serbia and gold in the 2022 FIVB Women’s World Championship.
ONE MISSING GOLD
A National Women’s Volleyball Team managed to reach the finals for the third time in the European Championship.
“Sultans of the Net”, who fought in the finals in 2003 and 2019 in their history, could not win these two matches and took the second step of the podium.
Having won 3 bronze medals as well as 2 silvers in European championships, Turkey is only one win away from taking gold in the organization in Belgium, where it participated as the “1” number after the Nations League championship.
Turkey ranks first in the FIVB list of countries.
14th consecutive win
“Sultans of the Net” are undefeated for 14 consecutive matches in official matches.
Turkey won the gold medal in the FIVB Nations League and won the last 6 matches in this organization, and won the 8 matches in the European Championship.
Turkey gave only 6 sets to its opponents in these 14 matches.
WHEN, WHAT TIME AND WHAT CHANNEL IS THE TURKEY – SERBIA VOLLEYBALL MATCH?
The match, which will be played at Paleis 12 Hall in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, started at 21:00. The match is broadcast live on TRT1 screens.