Playing her sixth season as a Tiger, Tijana Boskovic will continue wearing the orange and white jersey. Our team captain Boskovic has come to Eczacıbaşı Sports Club in 2015, achieving many successes with her team and individually.
Telling how special a player Tijana Boskovic is, Eczacıbaşı VitrA Team Manager Nalan Ural says, “Six years ago, Tijana has come to our Club as a promising player for the future of Serbian volleyball. Now she is the captain and the leader of our team. She leads the Serbian National Team to successes such as the world, European and Olympic Games titles. Despite these successes, Tijana never compromises her hard work, willingness to win and her humbleness. We have renewed contract with her. We are very glad that Tijana will continue being a role model and a source of inspiration to us.”
“Together we will achieve great things”
On the other hand, our team captain Tijana Boskovic who is playing her sixth season with Eczacıbaşı VitrA shared her feelings about her contract renewal:
“I am extremely happy that I will continue to be a part of Eczacıbaşı Sports Club family. I will keep giving my all to the team and try to achieve great results in the future. I believe that we can do great things together. Now I am looking forward to all the challenges that are coming in the Turkish and European stage.”
About Tijana Boskovic
Tijana Boskovic was born in 1997 in Trebinje, Bosnia. Tijana Boskovic plays for Eczacıbaşı VitrA since the 2015-2016 season.
Her home club is ZOK Partizan Vizura where she played for four seasons in professional level (2011-2013 OK Vizura, 2013-2015 OK Partizan Vizura). She won the Serbian Championship title (2013-2014 season) and two Serbian Super Cups (2013 and 2014) before she joined the Tigers.
With her national team, Tijana Boskovic won the European Junior Girls Championship in 2014 and also, she was selected as Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament. She was the leading scorer of 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 in the 2017 CEV European Championship and a gold medal in the 2018 FIVB World Championship. She was selected the MVP as she led her team to European and world titles in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
In the 2019 European Volleyball Championship Tijana Boskovic has done it again as she led her team to the European title and was also selected as the MVP for the second time in a row.
In her first season with Eczacıbaşı VitrA, she won the 2016 FIVB Women’s Club World Championship and also the MVP and Best Opposite Player awards. Also, she won the 2018 CEV Cup and was awarded as the MVP. In 2018, she won the Spor Toto Champions Cup, also known as the Turkish Super Cup. As she won a bronze medal in the 2018 FIVB Club World Championship, she was selected to the Dream Team as the Best Opposite Player.
In her fifth season as a Tiger, Boskovic started the 2019-2020 season by winning the Turkish Super Cup where she was also selected as the MVP. A few months later, she was carrying her team successfully in the 2019 FIVB Club World Championship where the team won a silver medal.
Being selected as the 2019 CEV Female Volleyball Player of the Year, Tijana Boskovic has recorded an impressive achievement by receiving that award for the third consecutive year. In 2018 and 2019, Tijana Boskovic was selected the Best Female Athlete of the Year in Serbia by the Olympic Committee.
Tijana Boskovic is one of the captains of Eczacıbaşı VitrA in 2020-21 season alongside with Simge Aköz. She claimed another important result in the 2020 Turkish Champions Cup when she led her team to the third straight Champions Cup title, also receiving the MVP award for a second consecutive year.
