Serbian star Tijana Boskovic was also in Sofia tonight as she was awarded the CEV Female Volleyball Player of the Year for the third consecutive year!
The Most Valuable Player of EuroVolley 2019, Tijana Boskovic expressed at the Gala how happy and proud she feels: “Finally I have the chance to meet you here after last two years. I am extremely happy and proud of receiving this award. I would like to thank my family, my team mates, my coaches, my national federation, my club and all my fans for their huge support through the years. I will try to do my best in future and to give my all to this beautiful sport.”
About Tijana Boskovic
Tijana Boškovic was born in 1997 in Trebinje, Bosnia. She plays volleyball for the Serbia Women's National Volleyball Team.
Her home club is ZOK Partizan Vizura where she played for four seasons at the professional level (2011-2013 OK Vizura, 2013-2015 OK Partizan Vizura).
She has been playing for Eczacıbaşı VitrA since the 2015-2016 season. She has won the Serbian Championship title (2013-2014 season) and two Serbian Super Cups (2013 and 2014) before she joined the Tigers.
At the national team level she won the European Junior Girls Championship in 2014 and also, she was selected as Most Valuable Player of the tournament. She was the leading scorer for the Serbia Women's National Volleyball Team when she made her debut in the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.
She won a silver medal with the Serbian National Team in Rio 2016 Olympic Games, a gold medal at the 2017 CEV European Championship and a gold medal at the 2018 FIVB World Championship, where she was once again selected as the MVP in two consecutive years.
Boskovic has done it again at the 2019 European Volleyball Championship where she led her team to clinch the European title for the second time in a row and also became the MVP.
On her first season at Eczacıbaşı VitrA, she won the 2016 FIVB Women’s Club World Championship and the “MVP” and “Best Opposite” awards at the tournament with Eczacıbaşı VitrA. Also, she won the 2018 CEV Cup, being awarded as the “MVP”. In 2018, she has won the Spor Toto Champions Cup, which was known as the Turkish Super Cup. As she won a bronze medal in the 2018 FIVB Club World Championship, she has also been selected to the Dream Team as the Best Opposite Player.
Playing her fifth season as a Tiger, Boskovic opened the 2019-2020 season by winning the Turkish Super Cup where she was also selected as the MVP.
Being selected as the 2019 CEV Female Volleyball Player of the Year, Tijana has received that award for the third consecutive year.