Historic debut in the Champions League for Gas Sales Daiko Piacenza: tomorrow, Wednesday 22 November at 8.00 pm (match broadcast on Dazn, commentary by Filippo Savi and Simone Carpanini) they will face Halkbank Ankara at the PalabancaSport in the first day of the Cev Volley Pool C group stage Champions League 2024. Pool which also includes Berlin Recycling Volleys and Sport Lisboa and Benfica. Entrance is included in the All Inclusive subscription.
The Cev Volleyball Champions League is the first annual European club competition in terms of importance, there are 31 participating teams which after the preliminary rounds have been reduced to 20 participating in the group stage divided into 5 pools of 4 teams each. Each Pool includes a total of six matches divided between first and second legs: closing on 17 January 2024. The first-placed teams in each group will take part in the Quarter-Finals, while the five second-placed teams and the best third-placed team will play the Play Offs with the first-leg formula and return with the first leg at the home of the worst ranked team.
President Elisabetta Curti’s club is participating in the CEV Volleyball Champions League for the first time, a right won by winning the 3rd-4th place final last season.
Two welcome guests at tomorrow’s race: the Colorado cabaret artist Gianluca Impastato who will be in the stands to cheer for the red and whites thanks to the collaboration with Baldini Giampiero’s HPI Event and the Panificio Devoti of Carpaneto and Marco Bianchi Food mentor, author and popularizer for the Veronesi Foundation who, in love with the Piacenza hills, opened a home restaurant and a botanical garden with animals for children with disabilities in Rezzanello, a stone’s throw from Piacenza.
Andrea Anastasi (Gas Sales Daiko Piacenza coach): “Given that we are proud to be able to participate in such a high level event, we will face a team that is really strong in all fundamentals and with players we know well. In addition to Ngapeth and Nimir who we know well, in the director’s room they have a very strong player who is also the second in the American national team and then there is Perrin who everyone in Italy also knows well. Ankara is a team that defends very well and is strong at bat, coached by a great friend and good coach such as Kovac, we are ready for this new battle knowing that we can have our say. It is an event that we care about a lot and we will honor it as best we can.”
