'Cuba Express' Leo Should I Play for 8 Seasons...Villena and Russell are also likely to renew their contracts
'Cuba Express' Leo Should I Play for 8 Seasons...Villena and Russell are also likely to renew their contracts
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Will we see "Cuba striker" Leonardo Leyva Martinez (registered Leo), who plays in the V-League, play in the next 2025-2026 season.
With new applications for foreign players to play next season closed on the 19th, attention is being paid to whether Leo will stay on the domestic stage.
With the foreign player tryout taking place in Istanbul, Turkiye, from May 6-9, seven men's clubs submitted a list of 40 new applicants to the Korean Volleyball Federation.
Based on this, the Volleyball Federation will select 40 players and finalize the final list by combining the players who want to participate in the draft among the players who played this season.
A total of 146 people applied for the men's tryout, but eight canceled it, and 138 people are reportedly on the list of new applicants.
In addition, if you want to participate in the tryout among the players who played this season, you can apply within seven days after the end of the championship game, and the club can notify the league of whether to renew the contract one day before the draft.
Foreigners of Hyundai Capital, KB Insurance and copyright, which advanced to the postseason, are likely to play next season.
The "Spring Volleyball" is underway, but all three are "positive" to remain in the V-League, and the clubs seem to want to renew their contracts.
If Leo remains at Hyundai Capital, he will continue his new record of playing in the V-League for eight seasons.
Leo, who was named the MVP of the regular league for three consecutive seasons from the 2012-2013 season when he debuted in the V-League wearing a Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance uniform, played in all 36 games this season, ranking second (682 points) in the scoring category, averaging 18.9 points per game.
Leo was also ranked second in the overall offense (52.95%) and fourth in the sub-division (0.346 on average per set), and ranked first (6,661 points) in the all-time scoring category, beating Park Chul-woo (retired, 6,623 points).
Andres Villena (registered name Villena) also scored 846 points this season to become the top scorer, taking the lead in confirming her team KB Sonbo's second place in the regular league (54.84%).
When asked if he would renew his contract with Villena, manager Leonardo Aponso, the head coach of KB Insurance, said, "I will focus on the playoffs first and think about that issue after the championship is over," but the club reportedly hopes to stay with Villena.
Kyle Russell (registered Russell), who joined copyright as a special firefighter at the end of the season, also wants both the player and the club to renew their contracts.
Russell takes the lead in his team's 3-0 complete victory with a triple crown performance in the second round of the playoff (PO) against KB Insurance on the 28th and is set to play the third round of the final PO.
However, most of the rest of the players have either given up applying for a tryout or the club has no intention of renewing the contract. 안전놀이터
Doosan Nikolic (registered name Nikolic), Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance's Maxim Zigalov (registered name Maksim), KEPCO's Matheus Krouchuk (registered name Mateus) and OK Savings Bank's Christian Balzak (registered name Chris) all did not receive the club's love call.
Among them, Matheus is known to have applied for a trip to be chosen by other clubs.
Meanwhile, Ali Hagparast (registered name Ali), who played as an Asian quarter player for Woori Card this season and joined the ranks of foreign player tryout applicants, is expected to serve as a weakness in the club's choice because he is an Iranian player whose sanctions have been strengthened since Trump's election as a U.S. president despite his advantage as a high-quality outside heater.