Hungary: LV Sport Pénzügyőr SE put their name in all-time list of Hungarian champions!
2 min readLV Sport Pénzügyőr SE wrote down their name in the all-time list of the titleholders in the Hungarian Volleyball Championship!
The regular-season winners prevailed over 2nd-seed Fino Kaposvár in the 4th match of the 2020/21 Extraliga playoff finals and won the championship title.
The team from the country’s capital won the first two matches of the series without losing a set, has fallen in Game 3 at home, but took care of eliminating drama by taking the 4th game in four sets (26:28, 26:24, 25:19, 27:25).
Zoltán Kovács top-scored Pénzügyőr today with 25 points, which he scored through 71% attack (25/35), while Brazilian Pedro Santos ‘Pedrão’, who was the second-best scorer of the winning side with 17 points, had a 79% attack (15/19). However, another Brazilian stood out in Pénzügyőr: Bruno Feliciano Jorge ‘Bruninho’, who had 76% reception (21 digs, 4 errors, 38% perfect), while Russian Vitaliy Melnikov scored 17 points including 4 aces, for Kaposvár and Gábor Bögöly made 76% reception (38 digs, 2 errors, 39% perfect).
This is the first championship title in the history of the Budapest club and the third trophy which they put in its showcase as it already won two Hungarian Cups earlier.
Fino Kaposvár – LV Sport Pénzügyőr SE 1:3 (26:28, 26:24, 25:19, 27:25)
Kaposvár: Bögöly 9, Ouyachi 14, Melnyikov 17, Horváth K. 9, Makarov 13, Keen 6. Bozóki Bence, Kiss M. (L), Iván G., Iván B., Kalmár. Coach: Ruben Wolochin.
Pénzügyőr: Rása 10, Magyar B. 1, Reffatti 11, Pedro 17, Kovács Z. 25, Kiss D. 4. Feliciano, Bán (L), Szabó M. 1, Tordai. Coach: Jókay Zoltán.