Star outdoors hitter Nicholas Matui has admitted that the just-concluded volleyball league season was so intense that REG VC almost missed out on the playoffs earlier than ultimately turning issues round to win the championship.
REG accomplished a exceptional comeback marketing campaign by clinching their third league title following Sunday’s Sport 5 victory over Police VC within the finals sequence.
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The Kenyan star revealed that the strain all through the season was immense, with REG coming into the playoffs as underdogs. Nonetheless, robust group morale and perception throughout the squad saved them going till the ultimate day of their title-winning run.
“The Rwandan league is far more aggressive than the Kenyan league, though each require onerous work whatever the group you play for,” Matui advised the press.
He added that REG’s third-place end on the CAVB Males’s Membership Championship performed a key position in boosting the group’s confidence forward of the finals comeback towards Police VC.
“Enjoying within the championship gave us the morale to come back again and carry out right here,” he mentioned.
Matui was named the league’s Most Priceless Participant (MVP) and Finest Attacker after delivering standout performances through the playoffs, serving to REG overturn the sequence to safe a dramatic 3-2 victory over Police VC within the best-of-five finals.
“To me, it is a mixture of feelings. I’m very blissful for this victory, and being named Finest Attacker and MVP is an unimaginable feeling,” he mentioned.
Ugandan coach Benon Mugisha additionally celebrated his second league title with REG over the weekend, having beforehand guided the membership to its maiden championship throughout his first spell in cost in 2019.
Mugisha echoed Matui’s sentiments, describing the Rwandan volleyball league because the hardest competitors he has coached in all through his profession.
“I can say this has been the toughest league I’ve ever coached in my profession,” Mugisha mentioned.
“In comparison with Uganda, Rwanda has many gifted native gamers, and I imagine the federation is taking the best route by requiring each membership to have academies,” he added.
