Original title: World Women’s Volleyball League: Italy beat Brazil to win the championship for the first time, Egnu was named the most valuable player
The 2022 World Women’s Volleyball League Finals will be held at the Ankara Stadium in Turkey on the 17th. The Italian team, which entered the final for the first time, defeated last season’s runner-up Brazil 3-0 and won the World League Championship. The Italian team was named the Most Valuable Player of the Finals in response to Egnu.
In the first game, Italy made a fantastic start with 10:3. Egnu and the main striker Petrini blocked the score to restrain Brazil’s counterattack. After the Italian team took the lead 20:14, the Brazilian team played an attack wave of 8:3, in which the blocking master Da Silva blocked Egnu’s vigorous smash, helping the Brazilian team to reduce the difference to 1 point. At the critical moment, the Brazilian team served out of bounds and surrendered the first game. The Italian team took the lead with 25:23.
The start of the second game was stalemate, until the Italian team’s main attacker Bosetti helped the team to expand the difference to 3 points, and the Italian team entered a technical timeout with 12:9. Since then, the Brazilian team has made frequent spiking mistakes and is up to 6 points behind. Egnu smashed the score to bring the Italian team to the point of the game. Setter Malinov’s unexpected two-ball attack succeeded, and the Italian team ended the second game with 25:22.
In the third game, the Brazilian team entered the technical timeout with a 12:11 lead, but Petrini’s smash, Egnu’s and deputy Danesi’s block score helped the Italian team to overtake. Brazil clinched the score to 20. Egnu’s smash brought the game to the match point, and a fatal block by the sub-attacker Kirikaira helped the Italian team to seal the victory once more with 25:22, the first in team history. World League Champion.
Egnu had a game-high 21 points, including three blocks. Brazil received a team-high 14 points from Nascimento. Egnu was also named the most valuable player in the finals, and was selected to the 7-man best team of the World Women’s Volleyball League this season.
Egnu scored a total of 83 points in three games in the finals, including 72 smashes, 6 blocks and 5 direct serve points. Every game is the “scoring champion” on the spot, and the attack success rate is the highest among all players in the finals, reaching 47.06%. (Liu Yang and Xiong Sihao)