Eva Yaneva (

Bulgarian Cyrillic The Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet () is used to write the Bulgarian language. The Cyrillic alphabet was originally developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th – 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School. It has been used in Bulga ...

: Ева Янева, born 31 July 1985 in

Sofia Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ...

) is a

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player. She currently plays for

Volero Le Cannet Volero Le Cannet is a French professional volleyball club based in Le Cannet. It was formed by the elite team of Volero Zürich joining Entente sportive Le Cannet-Rocheville. Team ''As of December 2018.'' The following is the roster of the club ...

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

Career

She started playing volleyball in 1996 at the age of 11 with

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sports Club of the Army'' ...

. Yaneva has played for teams that finished 7th and 8th in the 2004 and 2006 European Championships, respectively; the 2006 champion of the French Cup; and three champions of Bulgaria.

National team

Yaneva is a key player for the

Bulgaria women's national volleyball team The Bulgaria women's national volleyball team represents Bulgaria in international women's volleyball competitions and is controlled by the Bulgarian Volleyball Federation. The team's successes includes winning the Balkan Championship in 1982, and ...

and has captained it on occasions. In 2011, she was banned from participating in the

2011 Women's European Volleyball Championship The 2011 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 27th edition of the European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in Italy and Serbia fro ...

due to supposed disciplinary breaches, but has since then been reinstated to the national side and continues to be a regular for the team. She competed at the

2021 Women's European Volleyball League The 2021 Women's European Volleyball League was the 12th edition of the annual Women's European Volleyball League, which features women's national volleyball teams from 20 European countries. The tournament had two divisions: the Golden League, f ...

, winning a gold medal.

Clubs

(1996-2004) * Indesit Lipetsk (2004-2005) *

RC Cannes RC Cannes is a French women's volleyball club based in Cannes and playing in the French Women's Volleyball League, Ligue AF. History was created as a sports club in 1922 and the volleyball department was introduced in 1942. Originally it had bo ...

(2005-2010) * Omichka Omsk (2010-2011) *

Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (), is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first institution created from the All-Union Dynamo Sports Club. Dynamo Mosco ...

(2011-2012) *

JT Marvelous , formerly the , is a women's volleyball team owned by Japan Tobacco, Japan Tobacco Ltd., and based in Nishinomiya, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. History Osaka Marvelous was established in 1956. Honours Domestic competitions ;V.League (Japane ...

(2012-2013) *

(2013-2014) * Dynamo Kazan (2014-2015) *

CSM București Clubul Sportiv Municipal București, commonly known as CSM București is a Romanian professional multi-sports club based in Bucharest. Departments Active branches: *Athletics *Basketball *Dancesport *Handball *Judo *Scrabble *Volleyball Defunct ...

(January 2015-May 2015) *

Tianjin Volleyball Tianjin Bohai Bank Volleyball Club is a Chinese professional women's volleyball club based in Tianjin that plays in the Chinese Volleyball League (CVL). It is sponsored by China Bohai Bank. Founded in 1993, the team has become a symbolic image ...

(2015-2016) * Sarıyer Bld. (2016-2017) *

Guangdong Evergrande Volleyball Club (Women) Guangdong Evergrande V.C. () is a Chinese professional women's volleyball club, currently based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, founded in 2009 and sponsored by Evergrande Group. They are the winners of the bronze medal at the 2013 FIVB Women's Club Wo ...

(2017-2018) * Strabag VC FTVS UK Bratislava (2018-2019) *

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(Jan. 2019 - May 2019) *

(2019 - )

Awards

National team

Women's European Volleyball League The Women's European Volleyball League is a continental volleyball competition for senior women's national volleyball teams of Europe, organized by the European Volleyball Confederation ( CEV). Created in 2009, the competition served as a qualify ...

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

Boris Yeltsin Volleyball Cup * :

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

Individual Awards * 2018-2019 Best outside hitter

MEVZA League The Middle European League or MEVZA League is a regional volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under ...

References

External links

The profile of Eva Yaneva
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Eva Yaneva on Volleybox
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