Matei Kaziyski has signed a contract with the Bulgarian vice-champion Lokomotiv Avia (Plovdiv), the volleyball club announced.

Until now, the volleyball player was training with the Italian Trento, but his contract with Lokomotiv is now a fact.

"Today we officially signed a contract with Matei Kaziyski. Our goal is to fight for the first places on all fronts. After all, this is sport and nothing is 100 percent certain," said the club's general manager Lyudmil Naydenov.

"Our relations have been very good in recent years. I am extremely pleased that I can finally play in Bulgaria. We talked all summer and the contract is a fact. I have not played in front of a Bulgarian audience for many years and this was one of the main reasons for accepting," said Matei Kaziyski himself.

"I am extremely happy with this signing. I want to say that the Lokomotiv audience is phenomenal. The goal is to become champions with convincing play. This contract is just a formality, because from the day we shook hands, nothing has changed. Matej will play for Lokomotiv until he receives an offer that interests him," said the club's president Ivaylo Konstantinov.

Our famous volleyball player last played in our country with the Slavia team (2005). He is a three-time winner of the Champions League with the Italian Trento, and is also a 5-time champion of Italy, having won the title in Turkey and Japan. Two-time world club champion with Trento, and in 2009 he was also elected the most valuable player (MVP of the club championship.

With the national team, Kaziyski is a bronze medalist at the 2006 World Championship and the 2009 European Championship. He was twice elected the #1 volleyball player in Europe - 2006 and 2008. | BGNES