Cuban Melissa Vargas, who has been residing and playing in Türkiye since 2018, was chosen best volleyball player in the world in 2023 through the specialized portal Volleybox.
The 24-year-old from Cienfuegos was at the top of the list with 1100.50 points, almost double the 634.80 points totaled by the Dominican Brayelin Martínez, who came in second place.
Vargas, naturalized Turkish in April 2021, has had an exceptional year, which began in the Chinese Volleyball Super League, where she led the Tianjin club to win the tournament and was named best foreign player.
After He returned to Türkiye to rejoin Fenerbahçe in Istanbul, an important Turkish club that she led to win first place in the Women's Volleyball League of the Eurasian country.
The player, who in May was called for the first time to be part of the women's national volleyball team of Turkey, was mainly responsible for the team's victory in the Nations League and less than three months later the European Championship.
In this last event, in the match that gave the Turks victory over the Serbian team, Melissa scored no more and no less than 41 goals.
"Its four titles, where In each of them she had a starring role and was the most valuable player, they speak for themselves. Without a doubt, we are facing one of the best oppositions in the world of volleyball," the portal stressed. Swing Completo.
Vargas left Cuba in 2018, after being sanctioned by the national federation of that sport, which imposed four years without being able to compete after he signed with the Swiss club Volero, behind the backs of local authorities.
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