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Volleyball women from Stuttgart celebrate and remember the deceased coach
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Stuttgart’s Roosa Koskelo, Maria Segura Palleres and Eline Timmerman (from left) celebrate the triple
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MTV Stuttgart continues to dominate the Volleyball Bundesliga. In the end, the players defended the title confidently and completed the triple. The team dedicates the championship to its coach, who died in December.
The Allianz MTV Stuttgart volleyball players danced across the field in a shower of silver confetti. A little in the background, coach Konstantin Bitter applauded after his team secured the German championship for the third time in a row. In the fifth game of the playoff final series, the Swabians won 3-1 (17:25, 25:20, 25:13, 25:13) at SSC Schwerin on Sunday and won the decisive third victory for their fourth championship title.
“It was a brutal final series,” said Bitter on the streaming service Dyn. The coach achieved the triple of winning the championship, the DVV Cup and the Supercup in his first year in Stuttgart. “We already felt like we were at the bottom after losing the third game here. But now we have come back incredibly strong. We got the momentum back, I couldn’t be prouder of this team,” said Bitter.
Tore Aleksandersen had still put the squad together
The Schwerin women, however, missed their first championship since 2018 and their 13th overall. In the best-of-five final series, things were mostly close between the two best German teams. The Mecklenburg women won two games 3-2, one against MTV. Only the fourth game last Thursday was clearly 3-0 for Stuttgart. “We knew it wouldn’t be easy to play here,” said Bitter, referring to the atmosphere.
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On Sunday Schwerin got off to a better start and won the first set. But then the guests led by the Spaniard Maria Segura and the American Krystal Rivers were unstoppable and confidently maintained the upper hand in the next three rounds.
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Even before the start of the final series, MTV sports director Kim Oszvald-Renkema announced that she would dedicate the intended title to the deceased former coach Tore Aleksandersen. The Norwegian put together the current squad together with Oszvald-Renkema last summer, but died in December after suffering a prostate illness.