Heavy artillery in place 2 for a red and white formation devoted to the attack. A.S. Volley Lube announces the hiring of Petar Dirlic, born in 1997, 205 centimeters tall, native of Split, for the 2024/25 championship. The Croatian athlete, with four years of Super League behind him and fresh from a season at Allianz Milano spoiled at the start by an ankle problem which was later resolved, thus completes an opposite department of quality and quantity alongside Adis Lagumdzija. Coach Giampaolo Medei can count on the two top scorers of the penultimate Regular Season, giants capable of scoring 828 points between them in the 2022/23 regular season with a large margin over their rivals: 409 for the Croatian international, 419 for the Turkish international.
Raised in his homeland in the youth team of Mladost Kastela, which then saw him as a protagonist in the first team, Dirlic won seven consecutive national titles in his career between Croatia (4) and Slovenia (3), distinguishing himself beyond the borders of his own country with the shirt of Ljubljana, with whom he won, in addition to the three Scudetti, three Slovenian cups and two Mevza Cups (international competition of Eastern European teams).
The Italian experience began with a taste of the Super League among the ranks of Tonno Callipo Calabria Vibo Valentia in 2020/21, and then took a very important step in the following two years with the Top Volley Cisterna, years in which the Croatian attacker showed all the shots in the repertoire, accumulating points and standing out for his great solidity on the block. The aforementioned ankle injury did not allow Petar to start the 2023/24 tournament in top form with Allianz Milano, which however ended with third place and a historic pass for the Milanese team for the Champions League. The striker is back to his levels and wants to prove it. Worth mentioning, between the experience in the Pontine area and that in Lombardy, is the parenthesis in Qatar with the Police Union team, which was worth the conquest of the national cup.
Petar Dirlic (opposite Cucine Lube Civitanova): “After having faced Lube several times, I am very happy to represent such an important Club. I expect to contribute to the team’s victories and I can’t wait to start training with Giampaolo Medei and with a team that has revolutionized the workforce. The ingredients to give the best are all there: a solid club, a group of motivated players with important characteristics from a technical and athletic point of view, a new coach who comes from an exhilarating international triumph and fans who are always present and respected in all the sports halls of Italy!”
