The teams of Lube and Bogdanka, where the two Bulgarian national teammates Alex Nikolov and Alex Grozdanov play, learned today the date of their first semi-finals of the Challenge Cup tournament.
Civitanova will host Spor Toto Ankara, who eliminated Neftochimik in the 1/16 finals, on February 13 at the Eurosuole Forum hall at 9:30 PM Bulgarian time. The return leg is on February 25 at the TVF Ziraat Bankkart Volleyball Hall in the capital Ankara.
Bogdanka LUK Lublin will visit Sporting Lisbon a day earlier, on February 12, also at 9:30 PM Bulgarian time. Alex Grozdanov, Leon and company will host on February 26 at the Globus Tomasz Wójtowicz hall in Lublin. The second referee of the match will be Bulgaria's N1 referee Ivaylo Ivanov.
I am a second referee as a mentor to the first referee Alexandro Serra, which is part of the mentoring program of the European Refereeing Commission. That is why I and several other colleagues are mentors to future hopes in refereeing, he clarified forvolleyweek.bgIvanov. So far, he has had two such matches - last year in the final of the same tournament with an Estonian, this year he has already been on the same program with a Romanian. Always as a second referee.