Indesit Champions League
Trentino European champs
DINAMO MOSCOW – TRENTINO BETCLIC 0-3 (12-25, 20-25, 21-25) –
DINAMO MOSCOW: Yakovlev 9, Salparov (L), Guimares Santos Amaral 12, Grankin, Volkov 2, Poltavskiy 7, Berezhko 1, Samoylenko, Markin 2, Shcherbinin 2, Sivozhelez 4, Zubkov. Coach. Cherednik.
TRENTINO BETCLIC: Zygadlo, Herpe, Kaziyski 10, Bari (L), Sala 9, Birarelli 4, Vissotto Neves 15, Juantorena Portuondo 11. DNP Sokolov, Garcia Pires Ribeiro, Corsini, Gallosti. Coach. Stoytchev.
The World Champion (as well as Italian Cup winners 2010) needed just over an hour to become European Champion again in Lodz, Poland. It easily beat Dinamo Moscow and is now going after a rare Grand Slam. On Sunday, Sotytchev’s team will be in Bologna’s Futurshow Station at 6, where Cuneo will try to clinch its first league title and stop the club of chairman Mosna, which does not seem to find anyone able to slow their progress. Indeed, Trentino has already won the Cup, the regular season and the World Club Championship.
Trentino puts its second consecutive Champions League cup in the trophy cabinet. It inflicted a deserved 3-0 to Dinamo Moscow in a game between the two teams that had played the best volleyball in this competition. Stoytchev’s team had the better not only thanks to its superior level of play but also, or mainly, thanks to the determination and fighting spirit shown from the first to the last point.
The Russians had no answer for the serves of Trentino, who started off immediately focused. The severe 25-12 score was an indication of what was to come even if Dinamo played a little bit better in the following two sets.
There couldn’t be any better way to prepare next week’s V-Day for Trento.
“I just can’t believe yet how clear was this victory – said coach Radostin Stoytchev – It’s an extraordinary triumph built on the daily work in the gym and the abnegation of a great team, always focused, determined in every moment of the season. Before the game, I had told the boys not to think about anything, just to play and have fun because this was the only way to find how to beat Moscow and not think about the tiredness. That’s exactly what we did. Tonight, we’ll celebrate but we’ll already start focusing on the league final against Cuneo from tomorrow”.
The bests
MVP: Osmany Juantorena (Trentino BetClic)
Best blocker: Matevz Kamnik (ACH Volley Bled)
Best Libero: Andrea Bari (Trentino BetClic)
Best receiver: Daniel Lewis (ACH Volley Bled)
Best scorer: Mariusz Wlazly (PGE Skra Belchatow)
Best server: Osmany Juantorena (Trentino BetClic)
Best setter: Lukasz Zygadlo (Trentino BetClic)
Best spiker: Dante Amaral (Dinamo Moscow)
Game for third place
PGE SKRA BELCHATOW – ACH VOLLEY BLED 3-1 (25-16, 22-25, 31-29, 25-20) –
PGE SKRA BELCHATOW: Novotny, Antiga 4, Falasca 1, Plinski 11, Winiarski 21, Dobrowolski, Wlazly 26, Gacek (L), Mozdzonek 5, Kurek 17. DNP Wnuk, Bakiewicz.
ACH VOLLEY BLED: Petkovic, Gato Moya, Lewis (L), Vidic 2, Flajs 10, Pajenk 4, Sket 15, Vincic 4, Venno 6, Kamnik 9, Jakopin 15. DNP Fabjan.
PAST WINNERS
1960 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1960/61 Rapid Bucarest (ROM)
1961/62 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1962/63 Rapid Bucarest (ROM)
1963/64 SC Leipzig (GDR)
1964/65 Rapid Bucarest (ROM)
1965/66 Dinamo Bucarest (ROM)
1966/67 Dinamo Bucarest (ROM)
1967/68 Spartak Brno (CEC)
1968/69 CSKA Sofia (BUL)
1969/70 Burevestnik Alma Ata (URSS)
1970/71 Burevestnik Alma Ata (URSS)
1971/72 Zetor Zbroyovka Brno (CEC)
1972/73 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1973/74 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1974/75 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1975/76 Dukla Liberec (CEC)
1976/77 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1977/78 Plomien Milowice (POL)
1978/79 Stella Rossa Bratislava (CEC)
1979/80 Klippan CUS Torino (ITA)
1980/81 Dinamo Bucarest (ROM)
1981/82 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1982/83 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1983/84 Santal Parma (ITA)
1984/85 Santal Parma (ITA)
1985/86 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1986/87 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1987/88 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1988/89 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1989/90 Philips Modena (ITA)
1990/91 CSKA Mosca (URSS)
1991/92 Il Messaggero Ravenna (ITA)
1992/93 Il Messaggero Ravenna (ITA)
1993/94 Edilcuoghi Ravenna (ITA)
1994/95 Sisley Treviso (ITA)
1995/96 Las Daytona Modena (ITA)
1996/97 Las Daytona Modena (ITA)
1997/98 Casa Modena Unibon (ITA)
1998/99 Sisley Treviso (ITA)
1999/00 Sisley Treviso (ITA)
2000/01 Paris Volley (FRA)
2001/02 Lube Banca Marche Macerata
2002/03 Lokomotiv Belgorod (RUS)
2003/04 Lokomotiv Belgorod (RUS)
2004/05 Tous VB (FRA)
2005/06 Sisley Treviso
2006/07 Vfb Friedrichshafen (GER)
2007/08 Dinamo Kazan (RUS)
2008/09 Trentino Volley
2009/10 Trentino BetClic
