Star outdoors hitter Nicholas Matui has admitted that the just-concluded volleyball league season was so intense that REG VC practically missed out on the playoffs earlier than finally turning issues round to win the championship.
REG accomplished a outstanding comeback marketing campaign by clinching their third league title following Sunday’s Sport 5 victory over Police VC within the finals collection.
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The Kenyan star revealed that the stress all through the season was immense, with REG getting into the playoffs as underdogs. Nonetheless, robust workforce morale and perception throughout the squad saved them going till the ultimate day of their title-winning run.
“The Rwandan league is rather more aggressive than the Kenyan league, though each require exhausting work whatever the workforce you play for,” Matui informed the press.
He added that REG’s third-place end on the CAVB Males’s Membership Championship performed a key function in boosting the workforce’s confidence forward of the finals comeback in opposition to Police VC.
“Taking part in within the championship gave us the morale to return again and carry out right here,” he mentioned.
Matui was named the league’s Most Precious Participant (MVP) and Finest Attacker after delivering standout performances in the course of the playoffs, serving to REG overturn the collection to safe a dramatic 3-2 victory over Police VC within the best-of-five finals.
“To me, this can be a mixture of feelings. I’m very blissful for this victory, and being named Finest Attacker and MVP is an unbelievable feeling,” he mentioned.
Ugandan coach Benon Mugisha additionally celebrated his second league title with REG over the weekend, having beforehand guided the membership to its maiden championship throughout his first spell in cost in 2019.
Mugisha echoed Matui’s sentiments, describing the Rwandan volleyball league because the hardest competitors he has coached in all through his profession.
“I can say this has been the toughest league I’ve ever coached in my profession,” Mugisha mentioned.
“In comparison with Uganda, Rwanda has many gifted native gamers, and I imagine the federation is taking the proper course by requiring each membership to have academies,” he added.
