Eva Chantava

Evangelia Chantava
Personal information
Nationality Greece
Born (1990-10-26) 26 October 1990
Volleyball information
Position outside hitter
Number 15 (national team)
Career
YearsTeams
2009Greece Iraklis Salonicco
National team
2006-Greece Greece

Eva (Evangelia) Chantava is a female professional volleyball player from Greece.[1]

She was born in Grevena (26.10.1990) and started her volleyball career at the age of 7 playing for her hometown's club, Grevena G.C. In 2005 at the age of 15, Evangelia Chantava took the first big step in her career, when suddenly from playing against local teams, she found herself competing in the A1 league with Iraklis Thessaloniki (2005-2009) alongside great athletes. While she was playing for Iraklis she took the opportunity at the age of 16 to play with the Greece women's national volleyball team for the first time.

After that and for the next two seasons (2009–11) she signed contract with Olympiacos (GRE). In 16.4.2011 she won the Greek Cup in the island of Samos playing with Olympiacos, the very first trophy ever of the women's club and she was voted MVP. After a successful year for the club and her personally, she took another important step in her career and signed with Terre Verdiane Fontanellato (Italian 2nd league) for the season 2011-2012. For the next season, she moved to Izmir and signed a one-year-contract (2012-2013) with Karşıyaka SK Izka volleyball team (Turkish 2nd league),and her team qualified for the final four of the turkish cup,that was the first time in history of turkish volleyball that one team from second division won a team from first division and they played the final 4 of turkish cup against Vakifbank,Galataserray and excazibasy.They took the 4th place.For the next season she turned back in Greece for the team of Nargile Vrilissia (1st division-Greece) and with very good performances she took tha MVP of the year 2013-2014. After that, a very good opportunity came to her career opening a bigger door in the world of volleyball and for 2014-2015 she signed for Lokomotiv Baku (1st division-Azerbaijan)

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