{"id":5278,"date":"2020-07-02T08:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2020-07-02T08:36:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:36:26","slug":"chl-arkas-makes-their-dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5278","title":{"rendered":"CHL: Arkas makes their dream come true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest surprise of this year\u00b4s Champions League? Turkish Arkas Izmir in the Final Four, no doubts!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class='code-block code-block-4 ai-viewport-1 ai-viewport-2' style='margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;'> <\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  Their <strong>revenge match against Lokomotiv Novosibirsk <\/strong>turned into a celebration of volleyball and breathtaking \u201enever-give-up\u201c story, which again showed the trickiness and advantages of the Golden Set rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After losing the first match 3-0 in Siberia and the first two sets in Izmir, the obviously underrated squad around setter Kevin Hansen was still strong enough to get back to their feet and slowly overpower their more and more nervous Russian opponent in four consecutive sets!<\/p>\n<p>After the last ball of the Golden set won 15:11, not only Izmir, but all Turkey started to celebrate \u2013 because Arkas, at the beginning of season hoping just for an advancing from their pool A &#8211; now <strong>became the first Turkish men\u00b4s team in the final tournament of the CH<\/strong>L and again improved the prestige of Turkish men\u00b4s volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>Sure \u2013 the so far Champions League best scorer <b>Liberman Agamez<\/b> of Arkas had especially excellent match (34 points) and <b>Joao Paulo Bravo <\/b>was not bad as well (20 points), but we should also not forget the magic of Canadian coach <b>Glenn Hoag<\/b>, who has qualified into Final Four for the FOURTH time during last 11 years with THREE different teams.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Despite the <strong>2+1 foreigner players rule<\/strong> introduced into Turkish league for this season, he took the risk and kept 5 foreigners in team just for the Champions League and even was not afraid of giving chance to young Turkish players.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, all this would not happen without typically <strong>stunning atmosphere, crowds of frantic noisy fans<\/strong>, purposely seated as close to the court as possible and equipped with vuvuzelas, drums and pipes, one fervent announcer who was often running into the court during game time to time and the \u201elucky\u201c Karsiyaka Arena, which witnessed similarly crazy happy-ending match in the Challenge Cup final in 2009 when Arkas won the first European trophy for a Turkish team ever.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>So playing against Arkas at home is tough \u2013 in Izmir they lost only 3 of the last 20 European cups matches. The already legendary \u201eWelcome to Arkas Hell\u201c banner, which has been used in every important European match, usually tells truth \u2013 and teams like Patras, Jastrzebski Wegiel, Kedzierzyn, Macerata, Tourcoing and especially Fakel Novy Urengoy already know it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eEverything starts with a dream\u201c, is the main slogan of club founded in 2001 by Turkish shipping and transport leader Arkas Holding and provided with excellent training facilities. This dream will continue in Lodz where Arkas \u2013 again as an unexpected outsider &#8211;  will face the host Skra Belchatow in the first semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>For sure, nobody will underestimate them again.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.jerseytienda.com\/seleccion-de-futbol-de-argentina.html' title='camiseta seleccion argentina'>camiseta seleccion argentina<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest surprise of this year\u00b4s Champions League? Turkish Arkas Izmir in the Final Four, no doubts! \u00a0 Their revenge match against Lokomotiv Novosibirsk turned into a celebration of volleyball and breathtaking \u201enever-give-up\u201c story, which again showed the trickiness and advantages of the Golden Set rule. \u00a0 After losing the first match 3-0 in Siberia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}