Rabita BAKU gearing up for ‘Match of the Week’ with Dinamo KAZAN (Photo: R.Kruchinin)
Date: 25 November 2014, 00:06
Source: CEV
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Rabita BAKU gearing up for ‘Match of the Week’ with Dinamo KAZAN

Baku, Azerbaijan, November 25, 2014. Rabita BAKU and Dinamo KAZAN will be playing on Wednesday the ‘Match of the Week’ on schedule for the second round of action in the prelims of the 2015 CEV DenizBank Volleyball Champions League – Women. The match at Sarhadchi Olympic Centre will be a remake of last year’s semi-final where Dinamo upset the home audience at Crystal Hall in Baku. These teams had already played each other also in the Playoffs 6 of the 2013 edition with Rabita having the upper hand to make it to the Final Four that was then held in Istanbul.

This means that Rabita have a slight advantage in the head-to-heads with a record of two wins and one loss to the players from Tatarstan. Aurea Cruz and all other players who suffered that major setback last March at Crystal Hall are willing to take their revenge and also want to get back on track after losing in straight sets to Chemik POLICE of Poland their first-round match two weeks ago in Szczecin.

Rabita was joined only two days before the ‘big match’ with Dinamo by two players who recently performed at the Caribbean and Central American Games in Veracruz, Mexico. Their Dominican libero Brenda Castillo won gold there and also received the awards for the MVP, Best Libero, Best Digger and Best Receiver of the competition. Rabita’s team captain, Aurea Cruz, settled for the silver medal with the Puerto Rican national team and was awarded as the Best Spiker of the tournament. “Even though we did not have enough time to prepare with the complete roster,” Cruz says, “I believe that we can do a good job in the match with Dinamo KAZAN and show that some losses we have suffered lately have come only by accident. We are very motivated and we hope to make our fans happy.”

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