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In the men’s MEVZA League, Union Raiffeisen WALDVIERTEL (AUT) came from two sets down to celebrate an epic 3-2 (29-31, 15-25, 25-23, 25-19, 30-28) away win after more than two and a half hours over OK Merkur MARIBOR (SLO) on Monday night. URW’s Arthur Darmois topped the match scorers on 27 points, Merkur’s Alan Kosenina […]

Volleyball in the Czech Republic has a very long tradition. Already in the common country of Czechoslovakia, they have achieved remarkable results. They have won three European championships, twice been world champions and won silver at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. After the collapse of the common country, the Czech Republic no longer played such a

The silver medalists from the recent European Championship are alongside the Czech Republic the only national team from the MEVZA area to still participate in the qualifications for the upcoming Olympics in Tokyo. And like the Czechs, Slovenia also plays in Pool A, where their other opponents are Germany and Belgium. The two best will

In the first men’s MEVZA League match after the Christmas break, Croatia’s reigning national champions Mladost ZAGREB celebrated a stunning 3-0 (25-19, 25-14, 25-20) home victory over Merkur MARIBOR from Slovenia at the Bojan Stranic Sports Hall on Saturday evening. Marino Marelic and Tomislav Mitrasinovic top scored for Mladost with 13 and 12 points, respectively.

After a short Christmas break the men’s MEVZA League resumes with one fixture on Saturday. Croatia’s reigning national champions Mladost ZAGREB host Merkur MARIBOR from Slovenia at the Bojan Stranic Sports Hall. Both have secured 12 points each out of nine matches they have contested so far and are sitting in fifth and sixth place

It appeared that Croatia is going to dominate in the women’s MEVZA Championship in Dunaújváros, Hungary, but the morning match between the tournament favorites and Slovenia complicated the final ranking. Croatia ended up losing 3:0 against Slovenia, who delivered a great performance. Highly efficient Neli Gorsek was followed by other teammates. The match statistic recorded

On the last day of the MEVZA U20 Men’s Championship there were no special surprises. In the last match of the tournament it was Czech Republic and Slovenia that faced each other. Although the Czechs had already secured themselves the first place in the tournament, this particular match was still very competitive. The Slovenian team

The second day of the U19 Middle European Championship in Dunaújváros, Hungary showed that national team of Croatia is the most serious candidate to win this year’s trophy. Even after day two they remain undefeated, despite winning both of today’s matches only in the third, decisive set. In their first match of the morning, they

The second day of the MEVZA tournament showed very small qualitative differences among the seven participating national teams. After four played matches, only the Czech men recorded four wins and kept the lead in the rankings. Yet even for them latter did not go completely smooth. Last match of the second day showed that the

The very first day of the MEVZA women’s national team tournament in Hungary, Dunaújváros showed that the U19 Czech national team is considered one of the stronger in this tournament. In the first game they defeated their southern neighbors, Slovakia, without dropping a set. Nevertheless, in the afternoon program they lost to Slovenia with a