The wait is over. A 43 -year stop without stepping on a female volleyball World Cup that has come to an end with the start of the match between Spain and Türkiye. And they are two selections with antagonistic objectives, one fight to settle in the elite and the other already knows what it is to win a Eurovolley or a VNL. A fight that, on paper, began uneven and ended up fighting the Lasonas of the Voloy with a game that went better with the course of the game.
Melissa Vargas marks the rhythm and Maria Segura leads the resistance
The selection was going to debut in the World Cup with a high end where concentration and a little nerves of the importance of the game were felt. That does not have to always be bad and Lola Hernández It was the one that transformed the first point of the match for those of Pascual Saurín. Although it was only the beginning because Melissa Vargas He got to work to put the 2-7 on the scoreboard and force the technician of Spain to stop the match.
With that stop, Spain furnished its game and put the ideas in its place to return to the game. Especially when Lucia Varela It was on the field to be the wall that the team needed on the network and the rapid rotations of the game, María Segura He started pulling the car and Lola Hernández to maintain the rhythm of the game they were marking. They were planted with Turkey. Erkek and Gunes They were getting into the game, but Ana Escamilla and Julia de Paula They also did the same. The captain led the resistance based on attacks and blockages carrying the match until the 25-18.
Patricia Aranda during the Spanish match against Türkiye on the first day of the World Cup in Thailand 2025
A fight between equals
The lionesses kept improving their game and were getting more and more in trouble to Türkiye. Lucia Varela She was a very important player to make those of Santarelli And he even dared to hit a soul that neither Melissa Vargas I would be able to hit. Only a small downturn in 5-5 made Spain distance from its rival until 6-11 having to ask for dead time again Saurin. And the same effect was supplied, the first reception output with Ana Escamilla He finished the point. A character they continued showing even in an endless 'rally' that in the end María Seguralooking for the hands of the blockade, I would send out.
Melissa Vargas I was still squeezing, too Leaf maleand there was a Ana Escamilla that he was still doing devils with the ball with a feint behind blocking. Now, Türkiye was being a lot of Türkiye against a very recognizable Spain And the score was with a difference of six reaching the second half of the set. The entrance of Raquel Lázaro and Jimena Gayoso The movie did not change much, but Sinead Jack and Ebrar Karakurt They were well attentive in search of those points to maintain the dynamics. Spain pressed without fortune and ended with a better result than in the second, 25-20.
The players of Spain celebrating one of the points against Türkiye on the first day of the World Cup in Thailand 2025
Ana Escamilla pushes Spain and touches the third set
At the beginning of the third set the game looked like another with an advantage of Spain over a Turkey that was not going through its best game, although the joy would last the half of the set would turn the scoreboard. Karakurt He was also having his moment of glory even passing over the Spanish blockade. Even so Space He kept the controlled score just two points from the Turks and although he was going to end up being a matter of time that one of the favorites closed the match, They were very close to forcing the fourth set with an inspired Ana Escamilla that left the score at 25-23.
Spain has shown a great image, leaving more against a whole European champion team in 2023 and now it will have to wait two days, until the Monday, August 25 when at 11:00 in the morning Volley's lionesses step on the track again to measure before Canada. The Americans come from winning their encounter against Bulgaria (3-1) and will be the rival to beat if they want to continue having options to be in some round of 16 that they already wanted complicated before starting, although not impossible.
Technical file
3 – Türkiye: Vargas (14), Erkek (15), Kisal (9), Günes (6), Karakurt (12), Ozbay (0) and Örge (L). They also played: Sahin (1), Aydin (0) and Baladin (0).
Coach: Daniele Santarelli.
0 – España: Hernández (6), Aranda (1), from Paula (4), Escamilla (13), Segura (5), Varela (10) and Llabrés (L). They also played: Lázaro (1), Gayoso (4) and Schlegel (1).
Coach: Pascual Saurín.
PARTIAL: 25-18 (20 min.), 25-20 (23 min.), 25-23 (23 min.).
Referees: Sumie Myoi (JPN, 1º Colegiado), Wael Kandil (Egy, 2º Colegiado) Y Daniele Rapisarda (Ita, Challenge)
Incidents: Match corresponding to the first day of the E of the Women's Volleyball World FIVB 2025 that was played in the Nakhon Ratchaasima (Thailand) pavilion before 3,800 spectators.
