{"id":965533,"date":"2026-05-03T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/?p=965533"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:16:53","slug":"budva-odbranila-titulu-sampionu-najuzbudljivija-finalna-serija-epcg-superlige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/sport\/budva-odbranila-titulu-sampionu-najuzbudljivija-finalna-serija-epcg-superlige\/","title":{"rendered":"Budva defends title: The most exciting final series of the EPCG Super League for the champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first master in the finals brought the expected excitement, and Budva took a big step in the third set, which was the most even. After Budva confidently opened the match, gained an early five-point lead (11:6), and closed the set with four consecutive points (25:18), Buducnost managed to respond in kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guests led throughout the second half of the match, with six consecutive points to take a 16:8 lead, led by captain&nbsp;<strong>Jovan Deli\u0107<\/strong>&nbsp;calmly brought the set to an end to tie the game, after which the most uncertain and, as it turned out, crucial battle for the championship followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third set was a long point-for-point affair, in which Budva made the difference.&nbsp;<strong>Vukasin Cimbaljevic<\/strong>For the first time in the third half of the match, Budva took the lead at 15:11, after great attacks just&nbsp;<strong>Cimbaljevi\u0107<\/strong>&nbsp;and excellent service&nbsp;<strong>Lazar Dodica<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>Bo\u0161kovi\u0107eva<\/strong>&nbsp;The team was concentrated and repelled the visitors' attacks, who managed to get to the serve at 18:17.&nbsp;<strong>Srdjan Petrovic<\/strong>, but not more than that. Budva broke away on Radunovi\u0107's serve at 22:18, then attacked&nbsp;<strong>Cimbaljevi\u0107<\/strong>&nbsp;gained three set points, and precisely through a representative serve receiver and a good challenge&nbsp;<strong>Miljan Bo\u0161kovi\u0107<\/strong>, took the lead again \u2013 25:22. The ball touched the finger of the captain of Buducnost,&nbsp;<strong>Jovan Deli\u0107<\/strong>, before she ended up in the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A great third set gave the home team momentum going forward, so after ten points they were already +8,&nbsp;<strong>Dejan Radi\u0107<\/strong>&nbsp;tried to wake up his players with two early timeouts, and Budva's series 4:0 on serve&nbsp;<strong>Cimbaljevi\u0107<\/strong>&nbsp;crowned with attractive trash just&nbsp;<strong>Vukasin Cimbaljevic<\/strong>&nbsp;for the big 16:6. The advantage in the fourth set grew to +12, the last time at 24:12, and the host used the third ball for the title \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Marko Vukasinovic<\/strong>&nbsp;he made a mistake on serve for 25:14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/gradski.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Budva-slavlje-OSCG-Petar-Albijanic-1024x682.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-965536\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gradski.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Budva-slavlje-OSCG-Petar-Albijanic-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/gradski.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Budva-slavlje-OSCG-Petar-Albijanic-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/gradski.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Budva-slavlje-OSCG-Petar-Albijanic-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/gradski.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Budva-slavlje-OSCG-Petar-Albijanic-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/gradski.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Budva-slavlje-OSCG-Petar-Albijanic-18x12.webp 18w, https:\/\/gradski.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Budva-slavlje-OSCG-Petar-Albijanic.webp 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: OSCG\/Petar Albijanic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vukasin Cimbaljevic<\/strong>&nbsp;had a great match, finishing with 19 points, 17 of which he won&nbsp;<strong>Lazar Dodic<\/strong>, one less&nbsp;<strong>Balsa Radunovic<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>Luka Babi\u0107<\/strong>&nbsp;won nine points, three each&nbsp;<strong>Vukota Celebic<\/strong>&nbsp;i&nbsp;<strong>Nikola Radonic<\/strong>He won 15 points at Buducnost.&nbsp;<strong>Jovan Delic<\/strong>, 14&nbsp;<strong>Marko Vukasinovic<\/strong>, and at 11 he stopped&nbsp;<strong>Aleksa Nikolic<\/strong>He had four points.&nbsp;<strong>Marko Sindjelic<\/strong>, after three&nbsp;<strong>Rastko Milenkovi\u0107<\/strong>&nbsp;i&nbsp;<strong>Sr\u0111an Petrovi\u0107<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trophy intended for the winner of the EPCG Super League, the captain of Budva&nbsp;<strong>Bal\u0161a Radunovi\u0107<\/strong>&nbsp;presented by the president of the Volleyball Federation of Montenegro (OSCG)&nbsp;<strong>Nikola Kazic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gold medals were presented to the players and coaching staff of the champions by the Secretary General of the OSCG.&nbsp;<strong>Ivan Boskovic<\/strong>&nbsp;and former volleyball player of Montenegro&nbsp;<strong>Hamza Zatric<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silver medals were awarded to the volleyball players and coaching staff of Buducnost by the director of the men's national team of the Montenegrin Armed Forces.&nbsp;<strong>Ivan Jecmenica<\/strong>&nbsp;and Secretary for Sports in the Capital City of Podgorica&nbsp;<strong>Darko Nikcevic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the final judges,&nbsp;<strong>To Sonya Simonovska<\/strong>&nbsp;i&nbsp;<strong>Nevena Terzic<\/strong>, as well as the supervisor&nbsp;<strong>Anki Ivanovic<\/strong>, presented by the OSCG competition commissioner&nbsp;<strong>Nikola Pjescic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match at the Mediterranean Sports Center put an end to a phenomenal club season in Montenegro in which Budva won the Montenegrin Cup and Budu\u0107nost the Super Cup.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budva volleyball players are the champions of Montenegro for the eighth time in a row! Budva's dominance in the EPCG Super League continued with a victory over their big rival, Buducnost, 3:1 (25:18, 18:25, 25:22, 25:14) in the final and with a 3:2 win in the play-off final, they concluded an exciting season with a double crown.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":965535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[8246,3228,4082],"naslovna":[],"class_list":["post-965533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-epcg-superliga-odbojkasa","tag-ok-buducnost","tag-ok-budva"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965537,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965533\/revisions\/965537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965533"},{"taxonomy":"naslovna","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naslovna?post=965533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}