Spring volleyball failed. Woori Card ranked fourth. Korean Air won 3-0 without foreigners and even coaches

Mar 09, 2025

Spring volleyball failed. Woori Card ranked fourth. Korean Air won 3-0 without foreigners and even coaches
Woori Card Han Sung-jung is shooting a spike in the Korean Air battle on the 9th. Photo courtesy =KOVO



Spring volleyball failed. Woori Card ranked fourth. Korean Air won 3-0 without foreigners and even coaches
Woori Card Lee Sang-hyun is shooting a spike in the Korean Air match on the 9th. Photo courtesy =KOVO
Spring volleyball failed. Woori Card ranked fourth. Korean Air won 3-0 without foreigners and even coaches
Woori Card Nikolic is delighted after scoring in the Korean Air match on the 9th. Photo courtesy =KOVO
Although the playoffs are already over, Woori Card, which did its best as a best member, won the third-place Korean Air, which is missing foreign players, key middle blockers and coaches, and confirmed fourth place.

Woori Card won the set score 3-0 (34-32, 25-18, 25-22) in the sixth round of the Dodram 2024 ￣ 2025 V-League away game at Gyeyang Gymnasium in Incheon on the 9th. Woori Card, which tied 17 wins and 17 losses, added 3 points to score 49 points. Even if Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (39 points), ranked fifth, wins all three remaining games, it is 48 points, and Woori Card has confirmed fourth place this season.

Korean Air, which has lost three consecutive games, maintained 61 points with 20 wins and 14 losses.




If Korean Air wins and scores three points, it will have 64 points, beating KB Insurance, which has 63 points, and retaking the second place, but there were many injuries. Josbani replaced Kyle Russell with a knee injury. Russell entered the country on the 8th and is allowed to play when the administrative process is completed, but he has to play without a foreigner in the meantime. In addition, middle blockers Kim Kyu-min and Kim Min-jae were also unable to participate on this day due to their poor physical condition. Cho Jae-young and Jin Ji-wi kept the center.

In addition, there was no director Tilikainen. Coach Blair Benn led the team because he couldn't even hear his voice due to the severe flu.

Spring volleyball failed. Woori Card ranked fourth. Korean Air won 3-0 without foreigners and even coaches
Korean Air's Jung Ji-seok is shooting a spike in Woori Card's battle on the 9th. Photo courtesy =KOVO
Spring volleyball failed. Woori Card ranked fourth. Korean Air won 3-0 without foreigners and even coaches
Korean Air's Jeong Han-yong is making a spike in the Woori Card match on the 9th. Photo courtesy =KOVO
Woori Card is in fourth place, but the possibility of the playoffs has disappeared. No motivation for the rest of the game. He may try young players such as rookies, but coach Paes showed his will to do his best until the end. Head coach Paes said, `It's not like the change of mindset comes from advancing to the playoffs. I will play normally. "If you play among our rookies, you don't get a chance because you're young, but you're young, but you're qualified to play."

The first set was a very close game. It continued to tie the score to 23-23. Nikolic's net-touch error gave Korean Air a chance to finish the first set, but Nikolic made up for his mistake with a river spike, entering the deuce 24-24. Since then, there has been a close game of giving and receiving one point each. In the end, the mistake was decided. With Woori Card leading 33-32, Han Tae-joon's toss went over to Korean Air, and Jin Ji-wi went to Woori Card's camp and Han Sung-jung spiked it to end the long set.

In the second set, it was a close game at the beginning of 10-10, but Woori Card, which added points little by little after that, made a set point 24-17, and eventually Jeong Han-yong's serve escaped and won 25-18.

In the third set, Korean Air was ahead early, but Woori Card immediately turned around 14-13 with Han Sung-jung's spike at 10-13, Lee Sang-hyun's blocking, Choi Jun-hyuk's mistake, and Nikolic's serve ace, and then took the flow and ended the game 25-22.




Woori Card showed good performance in the center, with Han Sung-jung and Nikolic scoring 13 points and Song Myung-geun scoring 11 points, respectively, while Park Joon-hyuk scored 9 points and Lee Sang-hyun scored 8 points.

Korean Air scored 13 points for Jeong Han-yong, 12 points for Lim Jae-young, and 10 points for Jung Ji-seok, but in the end, there were no foreign players.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.