The 2023-2024 season is the third year of MOMA’s V-League. MOMA, who participated in the tryout of the 2021-2022 season, was nominated by GS Caltex as the seventh choice. MOMA’s height is only 1m84, which is somewhat small for a foreign player. He is small, but he has excellent power with his outstanding physical strength. As he is so strong, it is very difficult to defend as long as his hitting breaks through the blocking wall. On top of that, the serve with power is also excellent.
During his debut season in the V-League, he ranked first in scoring (819 points), first in overall offense (47.30 percent), and second in serve (0.411 per set), making him one of the top foreign players along with Yasmeen. Thanks to his overall goalscoring and offensive titles, he was also named the “Apogit Spiker” of the best seven in the 2021-2022 season.
It was natural for GS Caltex to renew its contract with MOMA. In the 2022-2023 season, which was its second year, MOMA showed stellar performance as it ranked second in score (879), second in overall offense (43.68 percent), and third in serve (0.246 per set), but GS Caltex gave up renewing its contract with MOMA.
Hyundai Engineering & Construction chose MOMA for the 2023-2024 tryout. It was the fifth overall pick. Heungkuk Life Insurance, which was given the third option, chose to renew its contract with Yelena Mrazenovic (Bosnia-Herzegovina), effectively making it the fourth option. Everyone acknowledges MOMA’s outstanding attack strength at the time of the selection, but it is also true that there were doubts over the nomination of MOMA whose limitations due to his rather small height of 1m84 are clear.
◆ MOMA and Hyundai Engineering & Construction were in perfect harmony
Hyundai Engineering & Construction was perfect to distinguish Moma’s small stature. With Yang Hyo-jin (1m90), the best player in the team, and Lee Da-hyun (1m85), a national middle blocker, standing in height among the seven teams in the women’s team, Hyundai Engineering & Construction was perfect for Moma, who is a small stature for a foreign player.
Most welcome news is that MOMA remained intact throughout the entire season. MOMA played all 141 sets in 36 matches under Hyundai E&C this season. Having dominated the league with 15 consecutive wins in the opening game last season, MOMA’s recruitment was a huge success for Hyundai E&C, which ended up ranking second in the regular season due to Yasmine’s injury, and was defeated by Korea Expressway Corporation in the playoffs due to total loss of two games.
This season, MOMA ranked fourth in scoring (886 points), third in overall offense (44.70 percent), and 10th in serve (0.184 per set). His serve seemed to have fallen a bit compared to the previous two years, but he still had attacks with his signature power. Although his overall score and attack ranking fell compared to the days of GS Caltex, he at least made sure that Hyundai E&C would not lose the battle with foreign players. If MOMA fought equally with foreign players, she had enough power to beat her opponents with the power of Yang Hyo-jin, Lee Da-hyun’s middle blocker, and Wi Pawi (Thailand) and Jeong Ji-yoon’s outside heater.
At the end of the season, Hyundai E&C saw its outside heaters lose productivity significantly as Wipawi groaned due to shoulder injury and Jeong fell into a slump. What could overcome this situation was to increase dependence on MOMA. MOMA gained 166 points in the fifth round and 181 points in the sixth round, further increasing its speed to lead Hyundai E&C’s No. 1 ranking in the regular league.
In the match against Pepper Savings Bank on the 16th of last month, which decided Hyundai E&C’s direct advance to the championship match, MOMA scored 35 points with a 54.24 percent success rate. Even at the desperate moment when the No. 1 player in the regular league went out of the water if he lost one more set while giving up the first set, MOMA silently led the team’s attack with his unique expressionless face, and Hyundai E&C secured the first place in the regular league in the last game of the season by winning two, three, and four sets.
◆ Moma got even scarier during the championship
In the championship game, Moma returned even more scared. In the first game, Hyundai E&C lost the first and second sets and was on the verge of defeat, as the aftermath of more than 10 days of absence was revealed. Hyundai E&C’s solution was to significantly increase Moma’s market share. From the third set, Moma’s offensive share was raised to more than 50 percent. It reached 68.29 percent in the fourth set and 59.26 percent in the fifth. Moma’s steel shoulder led Hyundai E&C to a reverse sweep victory.
In the second game, Moma’s shoulder could lighten up. As outside heaters Jeong Ji-yoon (15 points) and Wipawi (12 points), who only scored in single digits in the first game, revived their scoring ability, Moma was able to focus on the two-stage connection and open ball game. After leading the match to the full set by scoring seven points with an attack success rate of 63.64 percent in the fourth set, when Hyundai E&C was losing 1-2, Moma led Hyundai E&C to the victory by scoring six points with an attack success rate of 66.67 percent in the fifth set. The scene in which Moma’s back attack was determined as the ball that Wipawi digged into Kim’s open attack in the fifth set 13-12 was the moment that determined the outcome of the match. Yang’s two time differences in the 14-13 match failed to be kicked up with effective blocking, and it was Moma’s back attack again that ended the match.
Moma, who entered the interview room with Jung Ji-yoon as a coach after the second game, looked calm even after the victory. Asked if his shoulder was okay with 144 attacks in two games, 84 in the first game and 60 in the second game, Moma smiled and answered briefly with “Very good!” (really good).
BY: 토토사이트 추천