Luka Basic, a transalpine spiker with Balkan origins, will wear the Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza jersey in the 2022-2023 season. His arrival completes the spikers department of the red and white team and in fact completes the roster available to coach Lorenzo Bernardi for next season.
Powerful arm, incisive in attack, it is a hitter-receiver who arrives in Piacenza from Vibo Valentia where in the last season he took the field 22 times, played 62 sets collecting 119 points including three aces and 6 blocks.
Raised in the excellent French volleyball training centers, Luka Basic is a child of art and as such has absorbed all the beneficial effects of having both parents devoted to this sport from an early age. The mother is a former player, the father Veljko affirmed coach and former athlete with over 200 appearances with the shirt of Yugoslavia.
“We will have to find the right cohesion – underlines Luka Basic – and we will only be able to do it right away with work. It will take maximum commitment and self-denial, trying to improve from day one, pushing hard right away and never giving up. This can be the key: to work a lot together and then we will think about the results. I am ready to give my contribution to achieve the goals of the company. I chose to stay in Italy because I like the idea that every weekend we are called to face famous and strong teams. Each match is a high-tension challenge. In my house volleyball has always been talked about and lived there were not many other choices for me, since I had been going to the sports hall since I was born. My life began under the banner of volleyball and has always continued along this path “.
On French soil, the new acquisition of the company of President Elisabetta Curti took its first steps on the pitch, growing up in the Creps training center in Montpellier, before making its debut with AS Cannes. Two years in the Paca region, from 2014 to 2016, then the passage of Luka Basic for another two seasons at Club Spacer’s Toulouse Volley and then here he is in Milan for three seasons and finally in Vibo Valentia.
Two of the most important trophies for Luka Basic: a Bronze medal at the Under 20 European Championship in 2014, beating Slovenia 3-0 in the final. And the most recent Challenge Cup won with Powervolley Milano.
Luka Basic was part of the French national team with whom he played the recent Mediterranean Games.
