After completing the technical structure, Rana Verona also defined the medical and physiotherapy staff for the 2024/2025 SuperLega Credem Banca season. After three seasons, Dr. Alberto Ciacciarelli will no longer be the team doctor of the first team. Heartfelt thanks to him for the dedication and precious work carried out for the first three years of Verona Volley. Doctor Roberto Filippini continues to cover the role of club doctor, becoming the key figure within the medical sector who will be supported by Doctor Simone Baldini. As regards the physiotherapy sector, the department manager Claudio Bignotti is joined by two new professionals: Michele De Biasi, masseur physiotherapist, and Igor Ventresca, physiotherapist.
Native of Sondrio, Simone Baldini attended the faculty of medicine and surgery in English at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, obtaining the title in March 2023. He is currently completing his specialist course in physiatry at the University of Verona, working at the same time in the orthopedic rehabilitation department at the Sacro Cuore Hospital in Negrar di Valpolicella.
Having obtained a diploma in massophysiotherapy from the three-year training course in Perugia in 2008, Michele De Biasi worked for some of the most famous rehabilitation centers in Verona, then arriving in the world of sport with his experience at Sambonifacese, which at the time played in Serie C football. Subsequently, he was part of the staff of the youth sector of Hellas Verona and Calzedonia Verona volleyball. Then, he moves on to cycling in the Bardiani club, before moving in 2021 to the Astana Qazaqstan Team, one of the most important road cycling teams, included in the UCI World Tour.
Igor Ventresca completes the physiotherapy department. Born in Sulmona and graduated first in Sports Sciences and then in Physiotherapy at the University of L’Aquila, he began his professional career at Isokinetic in Rome, then arriving at the Verona branch of the rehabilitation centre, where he worked for eleven years. In this period, Ventresca took care of the recovery of Hellas Verona players and some of the most important referees in Serie A football such as Daniele Orsato. After this experience, he moved to the Orthopedic Rehabilitation and Sports Traumatology Service of the IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital. Here he came into contact with the Verona Volley reality.
Below is the full medical staff:
Roberto Filippini – Social doctor
Simone Baldini – Doctor
Claudio Bignotti – Head of the physiotherapy department
Michele De Biasi – Massage physiotherapist
Igor Ventresca – Physiotherapist
