We bow down to the Queen of French Volleyball!
Thank you so much for the all the volleyball memories you have shared to us within the last 20 years. You are such a great role model and thousands of young volleyball players look up to you. You’ve always showed great character on and off the court!
We love you Victoria!!!
On Saturday the real and only queen of French Volleyball, Victoria Ravva, bid farewell after spending almost 20 years with RC CANNES and claiming a 19th consecutive title in her adoptive country’s national league. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Ravva stayed for almost two decades with the club from the Riviera adding to her resume as many as 18 crowns from France’s national cup and two gold medals in the elite CEV Volleyball Champions League. It was an emotional night for the 39-year old middle blocker, who crowned her last competitive match with yet another victory, thereby compensating for the defeat that RC CANNES had suffered to Rocheville LE CANNET in the national cup final earlier this season.
Ravva has been for many years not only the iconic team captain of RC CANNES, but also the real ‘cover girl’ of French Volleyball, combining her striking looks with an unprecedented winning streak that knows no equal in French sports as well as on the international Volleyball stage.
She first moved to the French Riviera by the time she was only 20 years old, without knowing that she would have spent there the remainder of her long, successful career. Together with her coach Yan Fang and the ‘iron lady’ of RC CANNES, Anny Courtade, she composed a winning trio that has delivered the most impressive success story in France’s sporting history. 19 national league titles – including the one she struck on Saturday – plus 18 national cup crowns and the historic gold medals she won in the CEV Volleyball Champions League in 2002 and 2003. Her qualities were acknowledged, inter alia, also by the CEV that presented her with the ‘Ultimate Team Leader’ award on the stage of the 2013 European Volleyball Gala in Vienna.
After receiving French citizenship 15 years ago, Ravva played also for France’s national team and even though she could not celebrate as much success as she did with RC CANNES, this additionally cemented her status and role as France’s ‘Volleyball queen’, turning her into a role model to look at for hundreds of young girls. And now, after extending RC CANNES supremacy in the French national league which started back in 1998, Victoria is about to start her second life… Doing what she has devoted her entire life to, as she is about to take on a course in management and marketing as well as to start working as an intern… at RC CANNES!
Video Tribute
Get some Kleenex ready because this video will make you cry.
Hommage du 24/04/2015 à Victoria RAVVA by RC_CANNES_VB
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