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Thaisa Menezes spikes for Minas against VakifBank at last year’s Club World Championship in Ankara
Just three days after the end of the men’s competition in Brazil, the best women’s club teams in the world will compete at the FIVB Volleyball Women’s Club World Championship from Wednesday through Sunday in the Turkish coastal city of Antalya.
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A total of 10 matches, two a day across five days, will be played at Antalya 2022. The six participating clubs are split into two round-robin pools of three teams each. The pool winners and the pool runners-up will qualify for Saturday’s semifinals. On Sunday, matches for gold, silver and bronze will finalise the podium at the 15th edition of the Women’s Club World Championship.
Clubs from four countries on three different continents will battle for the title of world champions. Dentil Praia Clube from Uberlandia, Brazil, Turkish tournament hosts Eczacibasi Dynavit Istanbul and Italian champions Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano will compete in Pool A, while Gerdau Minas from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Kuanysh Club from Petropavl, Kazakhstan and defending champions VakifBank Spor Kulubu from Istanbul, Türkiye battle for the semifinal spots in Pool B.
Pool A
The tournament will get underway on Wednesday, December 14, at 16:30 local time (13:30 UTC), with a Pool A game between Eczacibasi and Dentil Praia. Also in that pool, the Brazilian squad will take on Imoco at the same starting time on Thursday, and then, on Friday, at 16:00 (13:00), the teams from Istanbul and Conegliano will lock horns to finalise the pool standings.
Although they missed last year’s edition, Eczacibasi are back as one of the favourites for the 2022 title. Led by two-time FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship MVP Tijana Boskovic and featuring other international stars like Serbia’s Maja Ognjenovic, Türkiye’s Simge Akoz and Hande Baladin, Croatia’s Samanta Fabris and Russia’s Irina Voronkova, the Tigers will play for their third world title after being crowned as world champions in 2015 and 2016. The club’s record also includes a 2019 silver and a 2018 bronze.
“We have been preparing for our Club World Championship matches all week long. We are very happy to show that we are a team that can fight and get results in every match,” said Eczacibasi’s…
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