First season victory for Italian women's volleyball club Busto. Wada selected as MVP with 22 points / Video of Yasmin (former Hyundai E&C and Pepper volleyball player) playing in the Turkish League fo

‌Busto club (UYBA Volley) defeated Talmassons 3-1, and Yukiko Wada (175cm, Opposite Spiker) was selected as the match MVP after scoring a total of 22 points. Following her were Valeria Batista (179cm, Outside Hitter) with 15 points and Lena Großer (184cm, Outside Hitter) with 12 points.
The full video can be found on the https://www.youtube.com/@legavolleyfemminile channel's Live tab; the interview starts from 2:32:26. In response to questions asked in Italian, Wada answered in Japanese, and assistant coach Yoshida interpreted in Italian. According to the Volleyball Box profile for Yoshida, she was responsible for English interpretation when she was with the Japanese women's national team in 2025, and she can also handle basic conversational Thai.

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Talmassons, currently 2 wins and 2 losses in the regular league this season, is a club that was in the second division last season and was promoted to the first division this season, but they have many tall players. Talmassons has two players over 190cm at the opposite position (one 193cm, one 191cm), and all four middle blockers are over 190cm (one 196cm, one 195cm, and two 190cm).
In contrast, Busto club has no players over 190cm in its entire roster. Among the attacking positions, Miku Otomo (Outside Hitter, Japan) and Paola Martínez (Outside Hitter, Italy) are the tallest at 185cm. Backup setter Asia Spaziano (19세, 19 years old) is the tallest in Busto at 188cm, but she rarely plays because the starting setter is Nanami Seki (171cm, Japan).
Japanese coach Yoshida (far left in the photo) participated in a timeout for the first time during yesterday's match. During Wada's interview after the match, she interpreted Wada's Japanese into Italian. Having handled English interpretation for the Japanese women's national team in 2025, her language acquisition skills are excellent. Volleyball Box notes she can also handle basic Thai.

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Miku Otomo (far left in the photo) also played, so all three Japanese players participated in yesterday's match.

Julie Lengeler (186cm, Outside Hitter, Switzerland) of Talmassons wearing a warm-up uniform

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The uniform worn by player number 25 (Liset Herrera, 195cm, Middle Blocker) in the photo below is the match uniform Talmassons wore during yesterday's match against Busto. The uniform worn by the player on the left is a warm-up uniform.

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Wada, having received a bottle of Sofia Millesimato wine. It seems she received it as the match MVP. Sofia Millesimato is an Italian sparkling wine (Vivino).

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Teammates celebrating

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https://www.youtube.com/@tvfvoleyboltv/videos
The link above is the video tab of a Turkish women's volleyball YouTube channel I discovered today; live broadcasts are uploaded to the Live tab. Turkish men's volleyball matches are also uploaded. The Turkish men's first division is called the Efeler Ligi.
Sultanlar Ligi (Turkish women's volleyball 1st division)

1. Ligi (Turkish women's volleyball 2nd division)
2. Ligi (Turkish women's volleyball 3rd division)
   Video of a Fenerbahçe match from the 2025-26 season (including Yasmin, who was with Hyundai E&C and Pepper clubs)
   Yasmin has left Fenerbahçe and transferred to the Turkish Sultanlar Ligi club Nilüfer Belediyespor Eker.
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   May Ishikawa (175cm) transferred to Eczacıbaşı (VakıfBank and Fenerbahçe are the other two top clubs in Turkish women's volleyball), and since Eczacıbaşı has strong tall attackers like Antropova (204cm, Opposite, naturalized Italian/Russian), Ivana Duđak (200cm, Opposite, Bulgaria), and Ebrar Karakurt (197cm, Outside Hitter, Turkey), it seems she enters as a substitute primarily for defense rather than offense.
   
   The player in white training gear is May Ishikawa
   
   From left to right in the photo below: Ebrar Karakurt (197cm, Turkey), May Ishikawa (174cm), Dana Rettke (204cm, Middle Blocker, USA)
   
   May Ishikawa transferred from Japan to the Italian club Firenze in 2023, arriving in the Italian league one year earlier than Nanami Seki, who transferred to the Italian league in 2024.
   In her first year of transfer in 2024, Nanami Seki moved to the prestigious Italian Serie A1 club Imoco Volley Conegliano (which has won the Italian league 9 times since 2015), but she was the backup setter for Joanna Wołoz (Setter, 36, Poland).
   It seems Nanami Seki transferred to Busto club in 2025 to get more playing opportunities where she could be the starting setter.
   Yoshino Sato (178cm, Outside Hitter), who transferred to Vero Volley Milano in Italy, also seems to be playing as a substitute, much like May Ishikawa, because the club's attacking lineup features tall players such as Egonu (193cm, Opposite, Italy), Alejandra Tapia (196cm, Opposite, Dominican Republic), Venturini (194cm, Opposite, Italy), and Rebecca Piravoli (187cm, Outside Hitter, Italy).
   In that sense, since the only tall player in Busto club's attacking lineup this season is Lena Großer (184cm, Outside Hitter), Yukiko Wada (174cm, Opposite Spiker) seems to be able to continue playing as a starter; she made a good choice of club.
   A match between Busto club, where Wada plays, and Vero Volley Milano, where Yoshino Sato plays, will take place on Saturday, October 24, at 11:00 PM (23:00) KST. It is scheduled to be broadcast live on the YouTube Lega Volley Femminile channel (https://www.youtube.com/@legavolleyfemminile/streams).