Facing Osmany Juantorena’s Monza

At home against Osmany Juantorena’s Monza, Sunday 29 September. The first Super League championship of Yuasa Battery Grottazzolina begins here. Instead, the long-awaited derby against Lube is scheduled for the eleventh and final day: the first leg at Yuasa Battery (8 December), the return leg in Civitanova Marche (2 March). The path of coach Ortenzi’s team was revealed during a ceremony full of emotions, held at the Zanhotel in Bentivoglio (Bologna) in the presence of the Superlega, A2 and A3 clubs and the top officials of Legavolley and Fipav; ceremony conducted by Maurizio Colantoni, animated by the voice of Casadilego (winner of X Factor 2020) and Paolo Cevoli. Yuasa Battery in the showcase, moments to go down in history: at 3.14 pm the president Rossano Romiti takes to the stage to collect the award for promotion to the Super League; just 22 minutes later the spotlight goes to Massimiliano Ortenzi, voted by the clubs as the best coach in Serie A2. The “enthusiasm of an entire territory that supports the team and anxiously awaits the Super League” is underlined (Romiti), while Ortenzi dedicates “the award to the staff and the team that have made it possible to achieve important results”. Flash, lots of applause, yet another recognition of the provincial miracle that has few equals in the history of Italian sport.