15/01/2021 15:42
Superstar Tijana Boskovic extends contract with Eczacibasi VitrA ISTANBUL
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Istanbul, Turkey, January 15, 2021. Now spending her sixth season as a Tiger, Serbian Volleyball superstar Tijana Boskovic will continue wearing the orange and white jersey after achieving much success since joining the ranks of Eczacibasi VitrA ISTANBUL back in 2015.
Emphasising how special a player Tijana Boskovic is, Eczacibasi VitrA Team Manager Nalan Ural says, “Six years ago, Tijana came to our club as a promising player for the future of Serbian Volleyball. Now she is the captain and the leader of our team. She has been leading the Serbian national team to successes such as World and European Championship titles and Olympic silver. Despite these successes, Tijana never compromises her hard work, willingness to win and her humbleness. We have renewed the contract with her. We are very glad that Tijana will continue to be a role model and a source of inspiration to us.”
“I am extremely happy that I will continue to be a part of the Eczacibasi Sports Club family. I will keep giving my all to help the team and try to achieve great results in the future. I believe that we can do great things together. Now I am looking forward to all the challenges that are coming up in the Turkish league and on the European stage as well,” Tijana Boskovic commented.
Faruk Eczacibasi and Tijana Boskovic signing the extension of the contract between the Serbian superstar and Eczacibasi VitrA ISTANBUL
About Tijana Boskovic
Tijana Boskovic was born in 1997 in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina and she has been playing for Eczacibasi VitrA ISTANBUL since the 2015-2016 season. Her home club is ZOK Partizan Vizura where she played for four seasons, claiming the Serbian national league title at the end of the 2013-2014 season and two Serbian Supercups (2013 and 2014) before she joined the Tigers.
With her national team, Tijana Boskovic won the U19 European Championship in 2014, emerging as the Most Valuable Player of the tournament held in Finland and Estonia in the process. She was the leading scorer for Serbia when making her World Championship debut that same year.
She won a silver medal with the Serbian national team in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, a gold medal from the 2017 CEV European Championship and a historic title from the 2018 FIVB World Championship, taking the MVP honours at both competitions. Boskovic achieved the same feat in 2019 when taking a second straight European title and the MVP prize as well.
In her first season with Eczacibasi VitrA, she won the 2016 FIVB Women’s Club World Championship, where she received the awards for the MVP and Best Opposite Hitter. Moreover, with Eczacibasi she won the CEV Cup in 2018, taking the MVP prize of the finals too. In 2018, she won the Spor Toto Champions Cup, also known as the Turkish Super Cup. When taking a bronze medal from the 2018 FIVB Club World Championship, she joined the Dream Team of that competition as the Best Opposite Hitter.
In her fifth season as a Tiger, Boskovic started the 2019-2020 campaign by winning the Turkish Super Cup – where she claimed another MVP award as well. A few months later, she helped Eczacibasi claim the silver medal from the FIVB Club World Championship held in China. The 2017, 2018 and 2019 CEV Female Volleyball Player of the Year, Tijana Boskovic was the recipient of the award for the Best Female Athlete of the Year presented by the Serbian Olympic Committee in 2018 and 2019.
Tijana Boskovic is one of two captains of Eczacibasi VitrA in the 2020-21 season alongside libero Simge Sebnem Aköz. She claimed another important result in the 2020 Turkish Champions Cup when she led her team to a third straight title, also receiving the MVP award for a second consecutive year.
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