Maja Aleksic is in her first season playing in Italy’s Lega Pallavolo Serie A1 Femminile. The 25-year-old middle blocker arrived at Megabox Ondulati Del Savio Vallefoglia right after she claimed her second FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship title with Serbia. Her recent performances on the court have shown that she has adjusted well to the new club and the new league, while her team have managed to stay in the race for the playoffs, which they have never reached before.
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Vallefoglia will host second-placed Savino Del Bene Scandicci this Sunday, January 15. It will, of course, be a difficult challenge, but if they win the match, it will be the first time this season they claim three victories in a row.
Aleksic was one of the key factors in Vallefoglia’s success in their last two matches and even earned the Most Valuable Player award last weekend when her team managed a five-set away victory at Cuneo Granda S.Bernardo. She impressed with a 60% success rate in attack, four kill blocks and two aces towards a match tally of 15 points, her highest so far as a Vallefoglia player.
“After a match like this I’m proud of the victory,” Aleksic said after receiving the MVP award. “We took two important points towards the standings. I think our serving made the difference.”
After the opening round of the second half of the regular season, Vallefoglia are ninth in the table, on 17 points and a 6-8 win-loss record, just below the cut-off line for the playoffs and a point below eighth-placed e-work Busto Arsizio. It is only the club’s second season in A1. When they joined the Italian elite for the first time last season, they finished in ninth place and just failed to advance to the quarterfinals.
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