He may not be on the National Team for about 3 years now yet Kaziyski still remains as the MOST LOVED and MOST ADORED volleyball player in Bulgaria.
The 2012 Volleywood Idol has been voted as Bulgaria’s 2015 Player Of The Year and finished the poll with 4,400 votes.
Once more Matey Kaziyski has been voted Bulgaria’s Volleyball player of the Year after receiving 4,400 of the 13,938 votes cast by readers of the country’s leading website, Sportal.bg. The outside spiker of Italy’s Energy T.I. Diatec TRENTINO topped the charts for the sixth time after receiving that same award also in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Back in 2014 Kaziyski swept all domestic competitions in Turkey with his former team Halkbank ANKARA and made it to the gold medal match of the CEV DenizBank Volleyball Champions League losing there to Russia’s Belogorie BELGOROD. He also reached the final match of the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men’s Club World Championship in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, wearing the shirt of Qatar’s Al-Rayyan.
Tsvetan Sokolov claimed second place in the online poll receiving 2,280 votes. Back in the 2013/2014 season Sokolov still played for TRENTINO with whom he claimed fifth place at the Club World Championship in Brazil. He then moved to Turkey to play for Halkbank ANKARA and with that team he won the Supercup and made the Playoffs 6 of the CEV DenizBank Volleyball Champions League losing to eventual winners Zenit KAZAN of Russia.
Third place was claimed by Boyan Yordanov who received 1,990 votes. Yordanov won Greece’s national cup and national league with Olympiacos PIRAEUS in 2014 but after that he suffered an injury and did not play for the second half of last year.
Top 10 of the online poll organised by Sportal.bg
1. Matey Kaziyski – 4,400 votes
2. Tsvetan Sokolov – 2,280
3. Boyan Yordanov – 1,990
4. Ivaylo Stefanov – 1,276
5. Todor Skrimov – 914
6. Todor Aleksiev – 755
7. Teodor Salparov – 476
8. Nikolay Penchev – 383
9. Andrey Zhekov – 258
10. Viktor Yosifov – 189
(images: Sportal.bg)