VakıfBank win the first match in the Club World Championship

VakıfBank started the 2021 FIVB Women's Club World Championship with the Kazakh team Altay match. Playing in Group B, the yellow-blacks won the game 3-0 and started the tournament with a win. Isabelle Haak was the top scorer of the game with 15 points in VakıfBank; Chiaka Ogbogu scored 12 and Zehra Güneş 11 points.

VakıfBank, the team that won the FIVB Club World Championship the most with 3 championships, defeated Altay 3-0 in the first match at the 2021 FIVB Club World Championship.

In Ankara Spor Salonu, the yellow-black players started the match strongly and managed to win the first set 25-13. Not slowing down in the second set, VakıfBank brought the game to 2-0 with a score of 25-10. VakifBank, won the third set 25-17 and the match 3-0.

Isabelle Haak was the top scorer of the game with 15 points in VakıfBank; Chiaka Ogbogu scored 12 and Zehra Güneş 11 points.

Giovanni Guidetti: “We are grateful to the Ankara fans”

In his statement after the match, VakıfBank Head Coach Giovanni Guidetti said: “We played a good and strong game with a lot of focus and good timing. The tournament will get harder after this match. We are happy to be able to rest some of our players today. We are also very grateful to the Ankara fans. They welcome us every time we come here. There was a magical atmosphere today, too”

Meryem Boz: “We are happy that we won our first match”

Meryem Boz said: “We are lucky to play in front of our audience. 6 of the best teams in the world are in here. We gained an advantage today and we are very happy because we won our first match”

Chiaka Ogbogu: “We played a good game from start to finish”

Chiaka Ogbogu said: "We played a good match from start to finish. We know that our job will become more difficult every day, but we think day by day. We've won today and now we're going to focus on the Minas match. I hope we can do our best tomorrow as well”

Tomorrow, VakıfBank will face Minas Tennis Clube at 18.30 to be the leader of Group B. In the 2021 FIVB Club World Championship, the teams that complete their groups in the first two places will be matched diagonally. After the semi-finals on 18 December, the final match will be on 19 December.