Only twelve teams compete for the championship, one of which condemned to leave Olympus at the end of the season. These few words already explain the great competitiveness of the Italian volleyball Super League compared to other European leagues. Padua, Trento, Civitanova and Latina are the youngest rosters, the average age is 25; Verona (25.5), Milan and Taranto (26), Modena and Monza (27), Piacenza (28) to follow. Grottazzolina and Perugia are the most experienced squads, with an average of 29 springs, but also with opposite ambitions. The Umbrians, in fact, due to their budget and quality of staff, are perhaps more than others the favorites to (re)win everything after a dream last season, in which the team of patron Sirci took on the role of the ace catch-all with the triumphs in the championship (second scudetto), Coppa Italia (fourth victory) and Supercoppa Italiana (the sixth in the trophy case for Sir Susa Vim, winner of the last three consecutive editions). At Yuasa Battery the objectives are understandably less ambitious. The smallest volleyball team ever to join the SuperLega has, in fact, a history spanning over fifty years; as a newly promoted player, however, Grottazzolina faces the stage of the greatest with great enthusiasm, but also with the awareness and humility of someone who knows that she will have a mountain to climb before her, and the sole and firm objective of enjoying the route and do everything to maintain the category.
The Yuasa Battery is therefore an expert team, but also the one with the youngest coach: Massimiliano Ortenzi’s 44 years of age (yet to be turned) give him the scepter of the “freshest” coach of the entire tournament.
