Esra Gümüş Kirici
It has been a long time since I became the captain of Eczacıbası VitrA. This is a big honor for me. Eczacibasi Sports Club is a very important club known both in Turkey and across Europe. With almost 50 years of history, it has an important place with its trophies, infrastructure and investments. So I may define the club as my second family and whoever joins the club becomes a member of this family. For this reason, I may say that I am very lucky.
We will now be competing in the Final Four after a long break. During the last three seasons we were unlucky in the Drawing of Lots and were eliminated in earlier stages. Although we know that there is winning and losing in the nature of sports, we were really sad when we knocked out. You lose all your targets after a lost match. However, we were happy that the cup came to Turkey in all three seasons. But now we are sure that we will be the third Turkish team to lift the Champions League trophy.
We started the 2014 CEV DenizBank Volleyball Champions League with three Turkish teams and now we continue with two teams. Until now we have had a wonderful acceleration in European matches and reached the Finals without any losses. We want to continue this winning streak through the final and we work towards this target. Our semi final match, Eczacibasi VitrA vs. VakifBank ISTANBUL, is a classic! We played many games against each other in history and nobody can say anything before these matches. We are ready for this derby.
After the semi final we are going to play against host Rabita BAKU or Dinamo KAZAN. Both teams are very good and at this stage every team has the power to become the champion. Of course, Rabıta has an advantage since they will play at home.
The only missing cup in the club’s history is the Champions League trophy and we really want it. As a team, our main aim from the beginning of the season is to hold this cup and bring it to our museum.
Baku has a great potential regarding volleyball fans and since they also hosted the Final Four back in 2012, we are sure that our friends will make the best organization. We wish luck to all of our opponents but we are sure that we will be the ones to lift the Champions League trophy!
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