Round weekend for the Catalan teams in the silver division of Spanish volleyball. Both the cooperativists of l‘InsterInstercap Asisa Tarragona SPSPlike the girls of Barça CVB they have managed to climb to the top of the podium and proclaim themselves champions of the category, which also means having a place in the top volleyball category next season. For the second consecutive year, the Blaugrana ofAdrian Fiorenza close a round season.
The Barça women’s first team has revalidated the title and is crowned again as champion of the category in a phase where it has shown its superiority until the final. The Blaugrana reached the stage, held in Cartagena, as leaders of group B, and went through the initial triangular as leaders after winning 3-1 in both Trouble as in FC Cartagena Algar Surmenor. The same result that ended in the semi-final with the Balearic Islands CVS Energía Sóller which certified the pass to the final, and also the ticket for promotion.
Much more complicated and equal was the final that determined the champion of the women’s Superliga 2. those ofAdrian Fiorenza they closed the first partial in favor of the players from Madrid Chamberi, but here began an exchange of sets that would lead the match to be decided in the fifth set. The Blaugrana came to the final stages behind the Madrid women, but when it seemed that the game was going to be decided for the Chamberí women with a 13-11 against the scoreboard, the epic arrived with good services and inaccuracies from the opponent, who they led to the comeback of Barça CVB and the achievement of the title of champions.
For the second year in a row, Fiorenza’s team has won it all. For the Barcelona coach, it is ‘an unprecedented milestone to repeat last season’s Cup and League titles, bearing in mind that the squad is quite different and with a younger average age’. Last season, the lack of economic viability led the club to decline promotion to the Iberdrola League. Now the game goes to the offices where they will have to look for the necessary support to certify the promotion.
TARRAGONA SPSP RETURNS TO THE SUPERLIGA
San Sadurniño has once again been a talisman in the history of CV Sant Pere and Sant Pau, headquarters where the cooperatives achieved their last promotion in the 2016-2017 season. This weekend they repeated the feat and won the title of champions of the category and, in addition, they again certified promotion to the highest category of Spanish volleyball for the next season. Things are not how they start but how they end. And the players have shown it Vlado Stevovski, who started the promotion phase losing with the Santanderina Textile in a very even match that was decided in the fifth set. A match which, despite ending in defeat, ‘left positive feelings because we were very competitive and it was lost due to small details’, says the Macedonian coach of the Tarragona team.
And the good feelings led those from Tarragona to add a great victory in the second group game against CV Utrera which placed them in the semi-finals, where only a victory allowed the cooperatives to keep dreaming. In the semi-final, cvleganes.com ‘was a great opponent in all phases of the game’, explains Stevovski.
But the objective was clear for the de Saint Peter and Saint Pau, who closed the match, and therefore the promotion, with a score of 3-1 which does not reflect the great equality experienced in the match between the two teams. A promotion that represents ‘the reward for all the work and effort of the team in recent years’, he says Stevovski. ‘The final against San Sadurniño was the best match we played in the phase’, says the coach, and the reason is that Tarragona did not give the host team of the phase an option in the fight for the title. The lack of error, forcefulness in attack, good blocking and a cold and focused head were the masterful formula with which they set the pace of the final which they dominated and played from less to more and closing the scoreboard with a 3-0 which meant lifting the title of champion.
MVP catalans
The two promotion phases have also left more titles for the Catalan teams. Both in Cartagena, in the women’s category, and in San Sadurniño in the men’s category, the two players chosen as the most valuable of the phase were Catalan and in both cases, the conductors of the teams. MVP awards have been for Elia Rodriguezplacement agent of the Barça CVB, and for Carlos Moraplaced by the Instercap Asisa Tarragona, two players who, in addition, have gone through the Catalan high performance program GET Blume.