After the salute of Osmany Juantorena, Cucine Lube Civitanova is betting everything on talent in place 4. A big unexpected event two weeks before the end of the transfer market has turned into an opportunity to dare for the A.S. Volley Lube, which announces the engagement with a three-year contract of the rising star of Bulgarian volleyball Aleksandar Nikolov, 206 cm class 2003 spiker, now engaged in the VNL with his national team.
Enrolled in the faculty of business in the United States and returning from two seasons in the university championship with the shirt of Long Beach State University, Nikolov ended the last year wearing the silver medals in the Big West Conference and in the NCAA, but yes the satisfaction of winning the Player of the Year award is also lifted. The child prodigy of Balkan volleyball is a child of art. His father Vladimir, now a coach, was brought to Italy by Beppe Cormio in 2007/08 and made his mark by winning the Scudetto in both Trento and Cuneo. So much so that Alex, in addition to Bulgarian and English, speaks fluent Italian thanks to his past in the beautiful country.
Elected best spiker after second place at the U19 World Championships in 2021, despite his very young age Nikolov junior has become a point of reference in the Bulgarian senior selection, while continuing to reinforce the youth teams, and in recent weeks he has been courted by leading clubs of SuperLega and PlusLiga. His father launched it in 2019/20 at Levski Sofia. The strikes in the attack made him burn the stages and now Alex wants to unleash his potential in the most difficult and fascinating tournament in the world by completing a ‘golden boy’ department with the European champion Mattia Bottolo, the Under 21 world champion Mattia Gottardo and the Italian champion in red and white Marlon Yant. The newcomer, who in the States had the number 23 on his back, the same as Marlon’s, at Lube will wear 11, the number dressed by his father in Italy!
