In the men’s professional volleyball court, the top-ranked game in the 2024-2025 season is expected to fluctuate depending on the performance of foreign players who have been replaced.
Woori Card, which is fighting for third place, is counting on the performance of Doosan Recall Rich (23, registered name Nikolic), who was brought in as a substitute after “main gun” Mihil Ahi (26, registered name Ahi) was out of the team due to injury.
Nikolic led the team to a thrilling 3-2 come-from-behind victory by scoring 25 points, the most in the men’s V-League match against Samsung Fire at Chungmu Gymnasium in Daejeon on the 7th.
Thanks to Nikolic’s performance, Woori Card defeated Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance to fourth place and recaptured third place.
Woori Card has the same point as Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, which has five wins and eight losses, with seven wins and six losses in the season, but was able to rise to third place ahead of the set gain rate.
Fourth place will be given a semi-playoff berth, but third place is advantageous for advancing to spring volleyball because if third place widens the gap between fourth place and points by more than four, it will go straight to the playoffs.
In particular, Woori Card’s Nikolic lifted the atmosphere with a powerful ceremony along with performance on the V-League stage, which he played for the first time since entering the country, revitalizing the team that had been stagnant after the injury.
Serbian national Apogit Spiker Nikolic is 205 centimeters tall and was named the top scorer and MVP of the league for Serbian league Tsurvena Zvezda last season, and this season, he finished fourth in scoring and fifth in serve in the French first division Puatvain uniform.
Choi Chun-sik, SBS Sports commentator, said, “Woori Card has a good Asian quarter (Ali Hagparast) and replacement player Nikolic also showed impressive performance in the first game,” adding, “There are a few mistakes, but if we work with the setter more, it will be of great help to the fight for third place.”
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), which has won five consecutive games since the opening, is also waiting for replacement foreign player Matheus Krouchuk (27), who has been pushed to fifth place after the injury of foreign “big shot” Luis Elian Estrada (24, registered name Elian).
As soon as the International Transfer Agreement (ITC) is issued, Mateus plans to disclose it through the Korea Volleyball Federation (KOVO), and it is expected that he will be able to play at home games with OK Savings Bank as early as the 13th.
Matheus, who stepped on the domestic stage as an alternative foreign player for KB Insurance in the 2019-2020 season, will play another season in the Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance uniform in the 2020-2021 season, making his first V-League return in four years.
If Matheus fills Elian’s gap well, KEPCO (7-6, 16 points) is expected to gain momentum in the third-place competition with Woori Card and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, which are chasing by three points. 온라인바카라
The lead fight is narrowed to a two-way structure between Hyundai Capital (10-2, 29 points) and Korean Air (9-4, 28 points), and Korean Air’s foreign players are expected to act as variables.
This is because Maxim Zigalov (35, registered name Maksim), who was brought in immediately after the injury of Yosvani Hernandez (33, registered name Yosvani), is active as a main gun, and he is considering which of the two to choose.
When Yosvani, who has been diagnosed with a ruptured rotator cuff on his right shoulder for six to eight weeks and is rehabilitating, returns, he plans to choose one of the two by comparing the results of the game comprehensively.
“Since Hyundai Capital’s game on Christmas is one of the most important in the first half of the year, our team plans to decide between Maxim and Yosvani after watching the game,” a Korean Air official said.
