Yuasa Battery’s journey in the Super League can only start from the man who led it up there, namely Massimiliano Ortenzi. It is too simplistic to confine his duties to those of a mere coach, for a figure who, together with president Romiti and a few other fearless and passionate managers, has shaped this reality from its origins, like a sort of demiurge. And by feeding it daily with ideas and hard work, the time has come for this creature, step by step, to appear among the giants of Italian sport.
Still 44 years old, Massimiliano Ortenzi is perhaps the figure who most resembles the footballing legend Alex Ferguson in the top national volleyball series: an English manager, a figure who is not limited to the task (although arduous) of coaching, but it goes further, fully embracing all the areas that the club has always dealt with. From the youth sector to the first team, from the summer with the Beach Volley Young Academy to the events connected to the Sports Festival, there is practically nothing that is done that, in one way or another, does not have traces of imprints in it digital by Massimiliano Ortenzi.
He will be the youngest coach in the Super League, making his debut in the top flight, he who took Grottazzolina in the darkest moment of its fifty-year history, and from Serie C he led it up there to the Olympus of the greats. Rewriting history is not for everyone, and it is certainly not thanks to him alone that M&G Scuola Pallavolo has reached this high level. Coach Ortenzi’s greatest merit, if anything, was that of having surrounded himself, over time, with capable people who, united by healthy enthusiasm and an excessive passion, have fully and without ulterior motives embraced the philosophy of this atypical sports club. , leading him to where few could have even imagined.
