Saint PETERSBOURG “Zenith “I am still determined to fight for victory in the Volleyball Super League, despite the current seventh place in the regular season,” the team captain told . Ivan Yakovlev .
After 17 matches, the St. Petersburg team ranks seventh in the Russian Championship standings with 29 points. Lokomotiv Novosibirsk is in the lead (46 points).
— Zenit traditionally has high ambitions and an excellent team, but the team is now only in seventh place in the regular season. What is the reason for such an unfortunate position of the team?
— No one canceled his ambitions and high goals. The ambitions have remained the same. We are a high-level club, determined to fight for medals. It cannot be otherwise, but unfortunately this season the circumstances are such that there is a series of injuries that prevent our team from showing the result that everyone expects from us.
I understand that, probably, during the existence of our team, everyone wants to see the long-awaited gold that our club must have, but the circumstances have developed in such a way that the two main players who should produce results and help achieve goals are absent now due to health problems. In addition, one player did not reach us. All this affects the result we show now.
But now changes are happening. We recruited Vladislav Babkevich and strengthened the team. In addition, a new foreign volleyball player is coming to us now for the diagonal position. We try, we don’t stop. We are heading towards the medals. So we’ll see. We will see each other again in the playoffs, and then we will show the result that everyone is counting on.
— Is the team ready to fight for gold this season, despite the current situation?
“We are doing everything we can to do this.” We work. Seventh place does not belong to us. And we are doing everything to return to the fight for medals.
— Can you name someone as the best volleyball player in the Russian championship this season or highlight several players?
— It’s difficult to assess like that now. Yet constant training, constant matches and analysis of matches. It would be more correct to appoint someone at the end of the season and not in the middle of the championship,” Yakovlev told .
Watch matches of the Men’s Volleyball Super League on Match Group channels, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru sites.
Source : MatchTV
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