Tours VB - Iraklis Thessaloniki

Players of French Champion Tours VB defeated Iraklis and won Champions League 2004/05. Before tournament everybody expected that Lokomotiv Belgorod will win that edition of European Champions League. Unfortunately, they have lost in semi-final with Iraklis and they haven't defended title of best club in Europe. In the final Iraklis won first set thanks to cheering of their fanatic fans. It seemed that Iraklis will be new Champion, but they have lost decisive second set (starting at 0:26:53) and Tours were much better in next sets. Thanks to the Nikolov Tours won that set. At first he served ace serve and then he made a single block and ended this set (0:35:02). Look at scandalous behavior of Greek fans at 0:30:23. In Iraklis played such stars like: Ball, Stanley, Kravarik and Marios Giourdas. MVP of that tournament was Vladimir Nikolov from Bulgaria.

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