“We did our job well today. We wanted to put in a strong performance. There were a few points in our game that we needed to fix. We wanted to focus on them and we succeeded. Congratulations to my players. You can lose your focus in games like this, but they didn’t do that"

“It was very important to start the CEV Champions League with a win. Today, as a team, we played a very well and thanks to my teammates, I was chosen as the most valuable player of the match. It was an important victory for us before Club World Championship”

“First of all, I would like to congratulate VakıfBank both for their hospitality and for winning the match. Congratulations to my team too. VakıfBank is a team that we respect very much. Playing against them is not easy. In our first match, we played against the European Champion and gained a lot of experience. This was also very important. We will try to win the next matches”

“Of course, everything is always possible in sports, but we did not have great expectations against VakıfBank today and we came to do our best. Congratulations to VakıfBank. We will try to do better from now on”