Europe's most valuable female volleyball player: Who is Melissa Vargas?
Melissa Vargas was selected as the most valuable player of the 2023 CEV European Championship. Who is Melissa Vargas, a player of the Turkish National Women's Volleyball Team; Would you like to get to know closely?
Nations League champion Turkish Women's Volleyball Team faced Serbia in the 2023 CEV European Championship final.
Defeating their opponent 3-2 with sets of 25-27, 25-21, 22-25, 25-22, and 15-13 in the final match played at Paleis 12 Hall in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, the Turkish Team became the champion for the first time in the organization's history. it happened.
With this victory, the Turkish Women's Volleyball Team took the rematch of 2019 from its rival.
The Turkish Women's Volleyball Team, which lost to Serbia in the final 4 years ago, won the cup this time.
Melissa Vargas, who scored 41 points in the final match, was chosen as the "Most Valuable Player of the European Championship".
Vargas was once again named the most valuable player after the League of Nations organization.
Melissa Vargas full name Melissa Teressa Vargas Abreu was born on October 16, 1999, in Cienfuegos. She is a Turkish volleyball player of Cuban origin who plays in Turkey's women's national volleyball team and Fenerbahçe women's volleyball team.
Participating in the 2014 World Women's Volleyball Championship held in Italy as a member of the Cuban women's national volleyball team, the athlete joined the Turkey women's national volleyball team in 2023.
In the match played against Sweden at the CEV Women's European Volleyball Championship in 2023, she broke Tijana Boskovic's 111.4 km/h serve speed record with a 112km serve.
Vargas, whose father is a handball player, started playing volleyball on the street at the age of 6 and joined the school team at the age of 8. She started to be seen as "the future of Cuba" because of her success in the school team. Vargas, who started training for the Cienfuegos team at the age of 12, also played in the Cuban junior volleyball national teams.
DISABLED FROM HER COUNTRY
He played in Czechia for one season in 2016. She had a shoulder injury and returned to her country for treatment. After being dissatisfied with the treatment opportunities in her country, she was banned from playing in the national team for 4 years, starting in 2017, on the grounds of indiscipline. Thereupon, she transferred to a Swiss team of her own accord.
ASYLUM GOES TO SWITZERLAND
She went to Switzerland as an asylum seeker. After playing for a season, she transferred to Fenerbahçe in 2018. She became a citizen of the Republic of Turkey on April 9, 2021, and her Turkish identity was given to her by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
She changed her first name from Melissa to Melisa. After playing for Tianjin in the Chinese League in the 2022-2023 season, she returned to Fenerbahçe.