Tijana Boskovic becomes the highest-paid female volleyball player. She is only 25 years old, but she is already a two-time world champion with Serbia from 2018 and 2022.
At the age of 17, Tijana Boskovic moved from Partizan (Belgrade) to Eczacibasi Dynavit (Istanbul) in 2015, and now the Turkish giants have made her the highest-paid volleyball player in the world.
She signed a contract for another 2 years with Eczacibasi Dynavit (Istanbul) for a total of 2,900,000 EUR, 1,450,000 EUR per season.
All the strong Italian teams and another Turkish giant, VakifBank S.K., which was looking for a replacement for the Italian Paola Egonu, claimed the Serbian diagonal’s signature.
Probably, it was precise because Eczacibasi Dynavit proposed this contract and started the negotiations.
Thus, the best volleyball player of Eurovolley 2017 and Eurovolley 2019 and two-time world champion (2018, 2022) agreed to stay in the club where she has been playing since 2015.
As reported by Volley News, she has signed a 1+1 year contract.
Even with Tijana Boskovic, Eczacibasi Dynavit has never won the championship of Turkey or the Champions League. The team and the Serbian volleyball player have only won the World Club Championship in 2016. However, the Turkish giant does not want to part with its captain, because they can build a championship team with her.
In addition to Tijana Boskovic, the receivers Irina Voronkova and Hande Baladin signed contracts with Eczacibasi Dynavit for the 2023/24 season, as well as the central blocker from Trinidad and Tobago Sinead Jack-Kisal, who married a Turkish volleyball player and took Turkish citizenship. Serbian central blocker Jovana Stevanovic and Canadian receiver Alexa Gray are also close to moving to the big team from Istanbul.
Eczacibasi Dynavit are having a great season: 17 wins in a row since the start of the championship in Turkey, and also in the Champions League they have won 6 out of 6 matches in the group stage.
In the Turkish league, Tijana Boskovic scored 6.52 points per game, ahead of Paola Egonu (6.18).
Paola Egonu will most likely return to the Italian Super League. The latest rumors send her to the team of Vero Volley Monza. As Turkish media already confirmed, VakifBank S.K. has already found a replacement for the Italian player. The club from Istanbul has reached an agreement in principle with the Cuban with a Turkish passport, Melissa Vargas, who now plays for Fenerbahce Opet.
Now the highest-paid Russian female volleyball player is Nataliya Goncharova – the living legend of Dynamo Moscow. According to several sources, she earns about 1,000,000 USD (940,000 EUR) per season. As the second is mentioned Natalia Pereira, who has a salary of 700,000 EUR in Russia.