Maritza Plovdiv ready for battle in Bulgarian playoff final

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 Plovdiv, Bulgaria, April 19, 2016 – “One for all and all for one” was the motto of the Three Musketeers and is also what VC Maritza Plovdiv have chosen for their club slogan. It perfectly sums up the mood in the wake of the Bulgarian Women’s Championship Series.  

Team spirit is what the defending champions are hoping will give them the edge against archrivals Levski Sofia in the best-of-five final playoffs of the National Volleyball League Demax+, set to take off on Tuesday.

The first two games of the series are set to take place on April 19 and 20 at 17:30 local time at the Plovdiv University Sports Hall. The third one is scheduled for April 25 at 18:00 at the Hristo Botev Volleyball Hall in Sofia.  Should it come down to a fourth match, it will take place 24 hours later at the same venue.  As the regular season winner, Maritza will have the home-court advantage if the playoffs extends to a decisive fifth battle on April 28.

Maritza and Levski have met three times in head-to-head clashes so far this season and had to play four sets on each of those occasions. The Plovdiv squad shaped up its 2015 golden treble with a 3-1 win in the Super Cup duel in early November at a neutral venue in Stara Zagora, but only twelve days later lost to Levski at home by the same score …

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