European Cups
Playoffs 12 return legs.
Challenge Cup: Latina needs two sets for the quarters
2014 DenizBank Champions League
On Wednesday, Trentino will bring a 3-1 first leg win into the decisive encounter at home against Maaseik. Serniotti’s men needs just two sets to go through to the playoffs 6. Spiker Ferreira had come out of the Ravenna game as he was hit on the face, but he will be able to play.
On Thursday, there will be the second act of the Italian derby between Piacenza and Macerata. The league leaders swept their opponents in the first leg and will need two sets to qualify, but Piacenza has not said its last word as it has yet to lose a home game this season. Piacenza will need a 3-0 or 3-1 win to earn the Golden Set.
Prossimo turno
2014 DenizBank Champions League – PlayOffs 12 return legs
Wednesday January 22 at 8.30pm
Trentino Diatec (ITA) – Noliko Maaseik (BEL)
(Dikmentepe-Barnstorf)
Live on Fox Sports 2
Thursday January 23 at 8.30pm
Copra Elior Piacenza (ITA) – Cucine Lube Banca Marche Macerata (ITA)
(Vereecke-Sodja)
Live on Fox Sports 2
2014 Challenge Cup
Thanks to its 3-0 victory obtained in Estonia, Latina is close to the quarter-final stage of the quarter-final. To make sure of it, they will need to win two sets at home against Pärnu VK. This will be the first game as head coach for Dario Simoni, as Roberto Santilli was sacked. Marco Franchi will be the assistant.
2014 Challenge Cup – 8th of finals return leg
Wednesday January 22 at 8.30pm
Andreoli Latina (ITA) – Pärnu VK (EST)
(Bantianidis-Demirdelen)
Sintini’s book is out
From today, Tuesday january 21, the book realised by Giacomo ‘Jack’ Sintini together with Francesca Parravicini (Arnoldo Mondatori) is out in all the Italian libraries. The setter tells in those 204 pages how he had the better of cancer before coming back to professional volleyball in hardly two years, a journey that ended with the ice on the cake, the league title 2013 won as the MVP of the final against Piacenza. The kind of stories you find in movies, Jack wanted to write it all down to give hope to the people who have cancer and to thank all the people that have been close to him: his family, the doctors and the world of volleyball, in which he couldn’t wait to get back: “This is my world and I really can’t do without it”.
