The first new piece of Vero Volley Monza that is presented is Ran Takahashi. He will be the first Japanese athlete to wear the Consorzio Vero Volley jacket, after the experiences of two other oriental athletes in Lombardy: Wang Chen (14/15 season, first Chinese to play in Italy) and Gao Qi (15/16 sports year) , also from China.
Takahashi, protagonist in the last season with the Padua shirt in SuperLega, was born in Kyoto (means capital city in Japanese and in fact it was the capital of Japan), on September 2, 2001. The new rossoblù athlete, a 188-centimetre spiker and receiver who attacks at 343 cm and blocks at 315 cm, he has been part of the Japanese national team since 2020, with whom he played in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (7th), the 2022 World Cup (12th), the 2021 VLN (11th) and 2022 (5th) and the 2021 Asian Championship, this competition where he won the silver medal in Chiba and Funabashi.