The most Russian club in Europe – Volero Le Cannet: the owner of the evil due to the removal of Russia and already consists of 5 of our players – Cutting – Blogs
In volleyball, there is a situation – in a few days, four of our clubs moved to one European club, and one more goes there for the second season. Diaspora!
Why did all this happen at Volero Le Cannet and why did so many players from Russia capture in French?
The club signed the star of our youth team and extended the contract with the champion of Russia and France
one. At the end of June, information appeared that the 17-year-old Victoria Kobzar marriage with the champion of France “Volero Le Cannet”.
Kobzar is the world and European champion among girls under 18 years old, bronze medalist of the World Championships under 20 years old. She comes from a volleyball family, her brother is Tokyo 2020 silver medalist and captain of the Russian national team Igor Kobzar. Like him, Victoria plays as a setter at the U18 World Cup, she recognized this role as positive.
Kobzar spent last season not in the Superleague, but in the Major League “B” – in Cherepovets “Severyanka-2”.
2. In “Volero”, where young people are to blame for this, Victoria was called “the young nugget of Russian volleyball.” With the same compliment, the French presented another young Russian team – a 19-year-old Vita Akimov. She also worked at the U20 World Championships and finished the tournament with the status of the best setting.
Akimova collected amazing statistics from Dynamo-Metar Chelyabinsk: she became the second scorer of the regular season (only Ksenia Parubets is higher) – Vita scored 512 points in 26 matches.
3. Another star of our youth team – Elizabeth Kochurina, which went for the Saratov “Proton”. In the regular CR, Kochurina is fifth in terms of block scoring (72 points).
The new club has already marked her tactical and technical skills.
four. “Volero” is married and Anna Kotikova. The 23-year-old player came from Dynamo Krasnodar. Of the weighty titles – the gold of the Universiade-2017 and the European Championship under 19.
Last season was not very bright – the fourth place on the way in the scorer race and 34% of the implementation of attacks. Before that, she spent 6 seasons in Dynamo Kazan, so Kotikova has experience of playing in big teams.
5. The only Russian woman who has already played here is Tatyana Simanikhina. Last year, she left Tulitsa and settled in France.
The 23-year-old libero liked Volero, so this year the contract was extended. At the beginning, it is called an “essential application.” By the way, Simanikhina is the champion not only of France, but also of Russia – in 2020 she won as part of Dynamo Kazan.
Now the French club has a Russian for every autumn.
Volero was born thanks to a lucky man from Russia – he played for CSKA and is madly in love with volleyball
All girls have one agent – Ekaterina Fedorovtseva. Her daughter, 18-year-old Arina Fedorovtseva, has been playing for the Turkish Fenerbahce since 2021.
“Ekaterina cooperates with state and hunting agencies involved in the capture of Boyan Simurin. Therefore, probably, we all happened in the same club by accident, ”Kobzar told Sport-Express.
Volero is a great opportunity for our players: a promising team, playing in the Champions League and, in the end, moving to the Côte d’Azur. And it is, perhaps, one of the most loyal clubs in the neighborhood of Russia. The fact is that the boss of the French club is born in Moscow Becoming Jacobi (in the past – Stanislav Yakubovsky).
The club in its current form has existed for a very short time – since 2018. Then, on the initiative of Jacobi, the Swiss Volero and the French Cannet-Rocheville were assembled. Stav served as president of the club from Zurich – and it was he who carried out this merger. Jacobi is on the Supervisory Board of the new team.
Stav has a sporting past: he played as a setter in CSKA and in the double of the USSR national team, at the age of 18 there was a case due to a hit in the meniscus. But the love of volleyball remained.
In the 1990s Jacoby went to Switzerland and got a successful business in real estate and legal deals. In the 2000s, he invested in the women’s Volero and eventually bought the club.
In general, Volero appeared back in 1973, but then there was only a men’s team in the system, the women’s team appeared 25 years ago. And all her successes are covered by Jacobi. He took the post of head coach, and later turned out to be a very successful system that Volero turned from a middle peasant into the best club in the country. From 2005 to 2018, the team won the championship 13 times and took two bronze medals at the Club World Cup.
Stav realized that it was necessary to move on: the intrigue of the Swiss championship was exhausted, on this vast territory of the comprehensive association “Volero” collects champion titles. And for him, this is vital – Jacoby has an autoimmune disease that affects the heart, volleyball for him is a great outlet from health problems:
“When I left the hospital in 2011, where they put the first three tubes in my heart, I thought: tomorrow I can die, so I have to take care of everything for Volero today. In six months, the club may have got a car, a lounge area, a new logo.”
In 2018, a merger option appeared. Russia, Germany, Turkey, Italy were considered, but Jacobi chose France and the medalist of the Cannet-Rocheville championship.
“We have pointed out that the strength of the league, the good infrastructure, the administrative and financial support of the authorities, as well as the victory in the Champions League in the status of the French Flora Club as a step towards realizing their improvement ambitions,” he said.
The game is constantly played by Russians, but so many – never (owner against the ban of Russia)
Jacobi is the driving force behind the new club. In chapter “Story” on the official website of “Volero Le Cannet” it is described with delight and excitement:
“He was born in Moscow, but Stav’s heart belongs to Zurich. It is during the matches of his team, in which he is an investor, boss and main fan, that he reveals his passionate temperament. Smiling, friendly and full flow when he is in the stands. He cheers, gives advice, shouts, congratulates and applauds the pregnancy with zeal.
In Zurich, the Jacobi club is often signed by Russian volleyball players. At various times, medalists of the Games Evgenia Estes and Alexandra Korukovets, European champion Ekaterina Orlova, Universiade winners Irina Malkova and Angelina Lazarenko and others played for the team.
With the arrival of five Russian women at once, a real diaspora was formed at Volero Le Cannet – there are even fewer French women, only three girls. Simanikhina also spoke about a special attitude towards Business Online, who begins the second season in the clip (soon she reads on Sports.ru, Tatyana’s interview about the world club):
“Club owner Stav Jacobi is at all home matches and often accompanies us in away games. He is very active in the life of the club, very passionate about the players. The club has a very comfortable and homely atmosphere. You can see that the President is very good at addressing Russian girls and is ready for them girls.”
And this is true: when Russian volleyball was banned, Jacobi was indignant:
“What’s the deal with [происходящему] there is, for example, a 15-year-old gymnast? And what should I do now with my Russian visitors? Just take you to the airport? I have two teams with visitors from 15 countries: Swiss, Serbs, Russians, Americans, French. And there are no differences between them, we do not discriminate against anyone. The sport of the tournament, the sport builds bridges, that’s how it should have been.”
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