29-year old Jovana Brakocevic-Canzian will, at last, begin her 2017-2018 volleyball season – with CSM Bucaresti in Romania’s top division. The 6’5″ opposite thus joins her 4th club of 2017 – though thus far, she’s only played for one of them
After 2 seasons with Modena through last season, including playing in the Serie A1 final in Italy, she ended the 2016-2017 season as a mercenary signing for Altay VC of Kazakhstan in May ahead of the Asian Club Championships. After an injury, she wound up being unavailable for the championship, and instead she signed with Russian side Dinamo Kazan. That contract was shortly thereafter terminated by what was termed “mutual agreement,” for family reasons.
And now she’ll instead play with CSM Bucharesti in Romania’s Divizia A1. The club are the cross-town rivals of CS Dinamo Bucuresti – the most dominant team in Romanian volleyball history, but who lately have struggled.
At the conclusion of the first round-robin of play in Divizia 1A, CSM Bucharest sits 4th – after finishing 2nd last season.
Brakocevic-Canzian’s decision might not be a surprise – while she joins a team in the Romanian league, she’s the 4th Serbian on the roster, along with Oliveira Medic, Sofija Medic, and Suzana Cebic.
Brakocevic has earned many national and international honors, including at the Champions League and Club World Championships MVP in 2013, the 2011 European Championships MVP, and Serbia’s Best Sportswoman by the Olympic Committee of Serbia in 2011.
Besides their domestic league, CSM Buchuresti is still alive in the 1/16th round of the 2018 CEV Volleyball Cup – the second-level cup of European volleyball. They are scheduled to play Uralochka-MTNK Ekaternburg on Tuesday evening, at home. No Romanian team has beaten a Russian team in 30 years, but Buchuresti enters the match as the favorites.
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