Marcus Popp
France
In France, Marcus Popp celebrates his first title of the season. In the French Cup final, his club Tours met Toulouse and ended up with a 3-1 victory (29:27, 25:22, 20:25, 25:22).
Russia
Located in the Russian league, Georg Grozer (Belgorod), Björn Andrae (Kemerovo) and Lukas Kampa (Kharkiv), took part in the playoffs. While there was an unchallenged victory 3-0 (25-22, 25-13, 25-16) against Dinamo Moscow for Grozer (20 points), Andrae’s (16 pts) team surprisingly won against third-placed Dinamo Krasnodar 3 : 1 (25-18, 25-13, 23-25, 25-17). The only German defeat was Lukas Kampa’s defeat against Ural Ufa. His team lost 0:3 (22-25, 23-25, 17-25).
Poland
In the final of the Polish Cup Jochen Schöps (Rzeszow) reached the final. Simon Tischer had the chance to take part in the “German final“. However, his team, Jastrzębski Węgiel lost the deciding game against Kędzierzyn-Koźle 3:1 (25:19, 21:25, 25:20, 25:13) and thus was forced to retire from the final game.
To read more news from this competition click on Germany.
