The twelve protagonists of the SuperLega Credem Banca are warming up their engines in view of the debut on Sunday 22nd. In a few days the Regular Season will therefore begin, which will decide the eight participants in the Scudetto Play Offs, and the last-placed team that will be relegated to Serie A2 Credem Bank 2024/25. The top eight classified at the end of the first round advance to the Quarter Finals of the Del Monte® Coppa Italia.
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Farmitalia Catania
58 years after its foundation, Farmitalia Catania joins SuperLega Credem Banca for the first time. Emotion and enthusiasm are the feelings that will guide the team on this long-awaited journey. After winning promotion to A2, they landed in the top flight with the takeover of Vibo Valentia in the Super League. A double leap full of emotions that pushed the company to make important steps on the market. The confirmations of Zappoli and Frumuselu, decisive in the 2022/23 season, have been joined by several hits for a roster that is a mix of energy and experience. The setter Santiago Orduna, Super League veteran and blue and white captain; Domenico Cavaccini, experienced Salerno libero and vice-captain; Nemanja Masulovic, best central defender in the Serbian Super League in the 2020/21 season; Javad Manavinezhad, Iranian spiker born in 1995, armed wing of Farmitalia Catania; Alessandro Tondo, ready to defend the white and blue pitch after a career between SuperLega and A2; Elia Bossi, central defender from Trieste with 7 appearances for the national team and a bronze medal at the Under 23 world championship; Luigi Randazzo, born in Catania and returning to his city after spending the last 15 years away from home and in the top Super League teams;
Cistern Volleyball
Cisterna Volley is the Pontine SuperLega club, the only one in the Lazio region, which took over the Top Volley title. The company has a new name with the simultaneous expansion of the corporate base and with the entry of new entrepreneurial forces expressing the territory: Luigi Iazzetta, entrepreneur from Cisterna, is the president of Cisterna Volley, the vice presidents are Cristina Cruciani and Gianluca Donadel while Massimo Marini is the honorary president. The other member advisors are: Marco Sciscione, Paolo Cruciani, Noemi D’Andrea and the team, which is not definitive pending the entry of other members, is led by the managing director Gianrio Falivene. The team has been entrusted to coach Guillermo Falasca, fresh from winning the CEV Challenge Cup, who will have the task of exciting a place that has a great desire to experience the great emotions of great volleyball.
Cucine Lube Civitanova
After silver in the Super Cup and the 2022/23 Scudetto Final, the vice Italian Champions of Cucine Lube face year no. 29 in the top flight. Technical department confirmed: Chicco Blengini at the helm, Romano Giannini deputy, Enrico Massaccesi, Alex Zarroli and Max Merazzi on the staff. Five additions to the roster for a front-wheel drive sextet. Joining captain Luciano De Cecco as director is the Norwegian Jakob Thelle, Player of the Year in the States and heir to Daniele Sottile, hired by Cuneo together with the winger Mattia Gottardo. Revolution in place 2 with the strike Adis Lagumdzija, former Modena player and best scorer of the Regular Season, flanked by Matheus Motzo, a talent who moved up from A2. Possible operations with Gabi Garcia’s move to Padua and Ivan Zaytsev’s move to the squad, in the department with Alex Nikolov, Marlon Yant and Mattia Botto. Reinforcing the wall is the returning horse Jacopo Larizza, in the center with Simone Anzani, Enrico Diamantini and Barthelemy Chinenyeze after the departure of Ionut Ambrose, now in Cagliari.
Allianz Milan
One Team: Allianz Milan, One City: Milan, One Dream: Winning. In the wake of the extraordinary result of the Play Off Semifinal achieved in the last season of the Superlega Credem Banca, Allianz Milano presents itself at the starting line of the next championship full of enthusiasm. The highly confirmed technical staff with coach Roberto Piazza and Nicola Daldello as second coach can count on an even more competitive roster than last season. Six new arrivals and seven confirmations for the company of president Lucio Fusaro. One of the most successful volleyball players of all time, the Bulgarian Matey Kaziyski, starts again from Milan, after the championship won in Trento with the title of MVP. Double market coup also in place two with the Croatian Petar Dirlic, best striker of the last Super League championship and the young Ferre Reggers, Belgian player, a real revelation of the last European Championships. There is also news on the second line with libero Damiano Catania, winner of the last Universiade in Chengdu in China, who arrived from Top Volley. The other two new faces available to coach Piazza are young Italians with a certain future, namely the setter Nicola Zonta, in the last two seasons in A3 in Fano and Andrea Innocenzi, central defender and former captain of the Gamma Chimica Brugherio of A3. Seven, as mentioned, are confirmed starting with the certainty of the captain, Matteo Piano, who will thus play his seventh season in Milan. Allianz will then be able to field two continental champions in this championship: Agustin Loser, South American champion with Argentina and Yuki Ishikawa, Asian champion with his Japan.
Valsa Group Modena
After winning the 2022/23 CEV Cup, Modena Volley starts again with a renewed team that wants to annoy the big teams of the SuperLega Credem Banca. The promising coach Francesco Petrella is leading the Gialloblù, fresh from winning the Scudetto alongside Angelo Lorenzetti on the Trento bench. Captain Bruno Mossa de Rezende is the mother hen of the new Canary group, and in his footsteps the young talent of Mattia Boninfante will be able to grow. Maksim Sapozhkov, who arrived after an excellent season with the Verona shirt, and Giulio Pinali, recovering from the injury suffered in January, are opposites. As a point of reference in the hammer department there is the class of Osmany Juantorena, at his side the young but already established Tommaso Rinaldi and Vlad Davyskiba, with Roberto Pinali completing the battery. Confirmed at the center are the expert Dragan Stanković and Giovanni Sanguinetti, fresh like Rinaldi from second place at the European Championships, and the newcomer Anton Brehme, now a cornerstone of the German national team; Finally, the returning Nicholas Sighinolfi completes the department.
Mint Vero Volley Monza
For Mint Vero Volley Monza, the return to Europe, after the victory of the CEV Cup in 2022, was the “icing on the cake” of another successful year, led once again by coach Massimo Eccheli. The Brazilian Fernando Kreling and the Croatian Petar Visic will always be in the control room, with the confirmations at the center of Gianluca Galassi, Gabriele Di Martino and the captain, Thomas Beretta. The Canadians Stephen Maar and Arthur Szwarc, returning from the summer spent together in the national team, will complete another season for the rossoblù team. The news comes from the hammers, with Eric Loeppky, Canadian spiker from Taranto, and the Japanese Ran Takahashi, arriving from Padua. To complete the opposites department together with Szwarc, here is the Frenchman Ibrahim Lawani, also in the ranks of the Taranto team last season, while for the centrals there is Francesco Comparoni, in the last two years in Ravenna, in A2. The liberos will instead be two products of the Vero Volley academy: Marco Gaggini, who returned home after a season as a protagonist in Verona, again in the SuperLega, and Flavio Morazzini, directly from the Consortium’s youth sector, a talented prospect in this role. Also for the 2023/24 season, the Monza club has confirmed the coaches en masse. After the excellent results achieved in the 2022/23 season, culminating with the victory of the Play Off 5th Place in the Final against Perugia, the two assistant coaches, Giuseppe Ambrosio and Francesco Oleni, will continue to be close to coach Eccheli.
Pallavolo Padova
Pallavolo Padova is preparing for a new SuperLega season and is doing so by fielding the youngest team ever. This year the objective is clear: to build a cohesive team, capable of best facing the challenges of the upcoming championship, with a mix of Italian and international players. Many new signings of the season, the Cuban spiker Cardenas Morales, the Puerto Rican opposite Garcia Fernandez, the Japanese libero Taniguchi and the Belgian central defender Plak. Also enriching the roster are the central defenders Fusaro, who grew up in the club’s youth sector, Truocchio, the spiker Porro and the Pisan setter Falaschi. For the 2023/24 season, Falaschi himself will lead coach Cuttini’s team in the role of captain and, with his experience, will act as a catalyst in the growth of the team’s young players. The reconfirmations of Gardini, Zoppellari, Guzzo, Crosato, Zenger and Desmet will guarantee continuity and stability to the Juventus team.
Sir Susa Vim Perugia
A Del Monte® Super Cup to defend, an additional Club World Cup on the board and as usual many ambitions for the new Sir Susa Vim Perugia which presents itself at the starting line of the 2023/24 season with few but significant changes. The first and probably most important concerns the bench where the new coach Angelo Lorenzetti sits, fresh from the tricolor won in Trento and already become a favorite of the Perugian public. Lorenzetti, flanked by deputy Massimiliano Giaccardi (also a seasonal news along with, remaining in the technical staff, the athletic trainer Sebastian Carotti), largely finds the hard core of last season with the confirmation in the black and white jersey of the directors Simone Giannelli and Gregor Ropret , of the central defenders Sebastian Solè, Roberto Russo and Flavio, of the spikers Wilfredo Leon, Kamil Semeniuk and Oleh Plotnytskyi, of the opposite player Jesus Herrera and of the libero Massimo Colaci. Four new arrivals with President Sirci’s club which brought to PalaBarton the Tunisian-Polish opposite Wassim Ben Tara, born in 1996 and returning from three seasons in Poland in the ranks of PSG Stal Nysa, the expert central Davide Candellaro, born in ’89 coming from Vibo Valentia and with a long militancy behind him in the top Super League teams, the spiker Tim Held, son of an artist in his first experience in the top series after having done very well in A2 (last season in Bergamo) and the libero Alessandro Toscani, also coming from Bergamo and also making his “first” in the Super League after many years of cadetship.
Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza
Enthusiasm and ambitions are the feelings that accompany Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza ready to play as a protagonist in the 2023/24 season, the fifth consecutive in the Super League for President Elisabetta Curti’s team. After a more than positive sporting year which culminated with the victory of the Del Monte Italian Super League Cup and the victory of the 3rd Place Final which guaranteed access to the CEV Champions League, the red and white team changed very little in the summer. Only three additions: the talented and very young Portuguese setter Bruno Dias, the Dutch Robbert Andringa to strengthen the reception and defense and the Italian central Fabio Ricci who after the season in Siena is looking for immediate redemption in the Piacenza area. The novelty is represented by the technical staff, all new: Andrea Anastasi is the head coach, Antonio Valentini his deputy and Matteo Bologna is the assistant coaches. A lot of experience also in the international field to lead the team which for the first time in its history will play in the CEV Champions League after having tasted Europe last season with the Cev Cup, closing its adventure in the Semi-final. The team will be captained by Olympic champion Antoine Brizard, with three World Champions on the roster, Leonardo Scanferla, Francesco Recine and Yuri Romanò. There is Robertlandy Simon in his second consecutive season in Piacenza, who at the center will have the company of Fabio Ricci, Edoardo Caneschi and the Cuban international Roamy Alonso. Among the high ball players the only new face is that of Robbert Andringa who will have Yuri Romanò, Fabrizio Gironi, Francesco Recine and the two Brazilians Yoandy Leal and Ricardo Lucarelli as teammates. Supporting Leonardo Scanferla in the role of libero is the confirmed Nicolò Hoffer.
Gioiella Prisma Taranto
In its fourth consecutive year in the SuperLega Credem Banca, Gioiella Prisma Taranto, President Tonio Bongiovanni’s company, after confirmation in the SuperLega with the historic salvation achieved in March, has entrusted the technical guidance of the rossoblù team to the Apulian Vincenzo Mastrangelo, a welcome return to Taranto. The Ionian management has set up a competitive squad to aim for a more peaceful stay than in previous years in the SuperLega championship. Confirmed in the roster are the pillars in the center captains Aimone Alletti and Giovanni Gargiulo with the libero Marco Rizzo and the young Swedish spiker Hampus Ekstrand. New arrivals are the Italian opposite Lorenzo Sala, the spiker Giacomo Raffaelli; directly from the States are the central defender Jeffrey Jendryk and the opposite striker Kyle Russell. The Cuban Miguel Gutièrrez joins from Cisterna, while the Spanish expert Angel Trinidad De Haro will be in the control room.
Itas Trentino
After winning the fifth Scudetto in its history, the yellow-blue club is launching a new technical course for this season which bears the signature of coach Fabio Soli. The Emilian coach, fresh from two good years in Cisterna di Latina, will be able to play for the great opportunity of his career by counting on strong points such as the Italians Lavia, Michieletto, Sbertoli and Laurenzano (who won the Under 21 world championship silver medal in the summer ) and Captain Podrascanin (who inherited the armband from Kaziyski), who was joined by still young but already experienced players for the Super League such as the opposite Rychlicki (from Perugia) and the returning Slovenian central defender Kozamernik. For both of them, the opportunity to make a further leap in quality, offering an important contribution not only in attack and blocking but also in serving, which is fundamental and could once again be one of the strengths of the sextet. Compared to the recent past, Itas Trentino will be able to count on an even deeper bench, supported by the arrivals of Magalini (from Verona) and Acquarone (from Santa Croce) and by the important confirmations of Nelli, Cavuto, Pace and D’Heer, all elements who played a fundamental role in winning the last championship. Trento will once again be in the running on multiple fronts, taking into account that it will also play the Champions League and the Super Cup and will aim to qualify for yet another Italian Cup Final Four in its history (it has not failed to access the event since 2009) .
Rana Verona
Renewed ambitions for Rana Verona, ready to face another SuperLega season with the iconic “Giovanni Rana” brand at its side. The fifth place in the Regular Season and the performances in the Quarter Play Offs last year certified the growth path of the Club and the first team, entrusted to the guidance and experience of Radostin Stoytchev. Coach Simoni, Rado’s faithful sidekick, is joined by the third coach Federico Fagiani, with a roster that has added experienced players to the solid structure. Mozic and Keita are confirmed, one of the best interpreters of the role making his debut in Italy. Joining the band were Dzavoronok, reigning Italian champion, Truhtchev, fresh from the title in Bulgaria, and the young Sani. The director’s keys are still in the hands of Spirito, the veteran of the group with an indissoluble bond with the City. At his side is Jovovic, returning to the Super League after his experiences abroad. Amin, protagonist with Iran this summer, has arrived in place two. Everyone confirmed in the center of the net: from Mosca and Cortesia, called up several times by the Italian coach De Giorgi, to Grozdanov and Zanotti.
