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Volleyball player Melissa Vargas selected most valuable player in the Turkish league

The Cuban was also awarded a special prize that recognizes the fastest service.


The Turkish Women's League had its decision this weekend, and in addition to knowing the winning team, the individual prizes were also awarded, in which the Cuban stood out.Melissa Vargas, as the Most Valuable Player of the final.

With 15 points to her name, the Turkish nationalized team managed to win the most valuable award of the tournament, finally won by her team Fenerbahçe Opet.

Vargas arrived in Turkey with an injury from his time in China, and even so that was not an impediment for him to also win a Special Award for having performed the fastest service, measured at 110 km/h.

On her Instagram profile, the young woman born in Cienfuegos expressed: “Sacrifice = Benefit.”

In 2023, the Cuban was selected as the best volleyball player of the year worldwide.. In that period he won gold and the MVP award in the League of Nations, and less than three months later he did the same at the European Championship. In both cases, with Türkiye as the great beneficiary.

24 years old, the opposing attacker received the nationality of that Eurasian country in April 2021, and immediatelyThe 'Sultanas of the Network' began to show signs of growth in their level of play.

Vargas was by far the most talented athlete on the island's volleyball squad, butIn 2018 it was sanctioned by the national federation of that sport, which imposed four years without being able to participate in national and international competitions as a result of signing with the Swiss club Volero behind the domestic entity's back.

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