Vakıfbank wins league title in women's volleyball

ANKARA – Anatolia News Agency

Vakıfbank has achieved also a glory at the most prestigious European competition for the third time in a row. AA photo

Turkey’s Vakıfbank women’s volleyball team received congratulations from the prime minister today after cinching the club’s first league title in seven years on the evening of April 22.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan congratulated the team in a message to club President Ömer Faruk Ergin.

Vakıfbank beat Eczacıbaşı VitrA 3-0 in the final game of the play-off series in a game marked by good coordination, according to coach Giovanni Guidetti.

Gözde Sonsırma, who left the game in the final set due to injury, was a key player but the players from the bench did a great job of stepping up to replace her, he told Anatolia news agency in an interview after the game. “We were good as a team,” he said.

Vakıfbank won three cups this season, winning 47 matches in a row. “I have never experienced such a thing before,” Guidetti said. “We achieved a great success.”