Sokolova volleyball player biography

Two -time world champion. The silver medalist of the Summer Olympic Games and Lyubov Sokolova was born on December 4 in the city of Moscow. The girl came to volleyball in the year. The professional career of the volleyball player began at the CSKA club in the year. For the year, she played for the Rossi team, and then signed a long -term contract with the Uralka team.

In the year, she debuted in the Russian national team at the Olympics in Atlanta, where she won a silver medal. Up to a year, the girl played in the national championships of four countries, but then turned out to be suspended from participating in international tournaments due to refusal to return to her homeland. After the difficult negotiations of Sokolova and her husband, the Turkish volleyball player Aitach Kylych with the coach of Uralochka and the Russian national team Nikolai Carpol, Sokolova got the opportunity to continue his career and moved to one of the strongest clubs in Bergamo, with whom Scudetto, the Champions League and the EKV Cup won.

Since the year, Lyubov Sokolov is again in the Russian national team. Coach Karpol, realizing that the team, weakened due to the injury of Evgenia Artamonova, needs experienced players for a successful performance at Games in Athens, went to the world and invited a volleyball player to the national team. In Athens, Sokolova won the second silver Olympic medal in her career. Having taken in the speeches for the national team, Sokolova returned to the national team in the year under Giovanni Kaprara and spoke brilliantly at the World Cup.

In the match of the second group stage against the US national team, the Russian dogman was injured in the thigh and, having missed the next game with the Brazilians, was able to return to the decisive games.

In the dramatic finale against Brazil on three serves of Sokolova in the end of the fifth party, the Russians recouped from a critical account and won gold, despite the fact that at the beginning of the match love did not fall into the game at all and even visited the bench. According to the results of the year, Sokolov is called the European Confederation of Volleyball to the best volleyball player of the Old World.

In the season of the year, Spanish fans were able to enjoy her game: the Russian woman made the maximum contribution to the successes of the Murcia team, which first became the champion of her country, and in the final of the Top Teams Cup, who beat the first club Sokolova CSKA. After that, the girl returned to Russia and signed a contract with Zarechye-Odorovo. As part of the team near Moscow, Sokolov became the champion of the Russian Federation and the finalist of the Champions League.

In the season, she performed in Italy at the Ezi club. In the year of Sokolov, in the Russian national team, for the second time in his career, she became the world champion. With her new club, Istanbul Fenerbahce, the Turkish Super Bowl, the Club World Cup and the Champions League of the Year won. After Fenerbahce, she spent one season in Istanbul Ezhzajibashi, in May she signed a contract with the Krasnodar Dynamo.

On May 18, Lyubov Sokolova announced the completion of her career, but on December 18 she decided to resume a sports career and signed a contract with the Krasnodar Dynamo. In June, she nevertheless completed her sports career and from July 1 she worked as the general manager of the women's team Dynamo. Two -time world volleyball champion Lyubov Sokolova on February 5, the year of the general manager of the Krasnodar club Dynamo, left the post of general manager.

Since February 6, Sokolova has been working in the sports agency "Volle Service", which is engaged in the selection of volleyball clubs, both for Russian players and legionnaires. Lyubov Vladimirovna oversees the female direction of the agency. The awards of Lyubov Sokolova Honored Master of Sports of Russia on April 19 - for great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high sports achievements at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad of the year in Sydney Close.