The second leg of the 2025 CEV Cup Semifinal, the second most important continental club competition, will be played on Wednesday 19 March in Turkey. Trentino Itas will take to the field in Ankara, where starting at 5pm Italian time they will face the home team Ziraat Bank, who they defeated 3-2 at the ilT quotidiano Arena in Trento a week ago in the first leg. Live coverage on DAZN (paid) and Radio Dolomiti.
HERE TRENTINO ITAS The European Champion team is preparing to play the most important match of its seasonal participation in the competition, with the minimal advantage of having won the first leg at the tie break. After the 1-3 on Sunday in Cisterna di Latina in game 2 of the Play Off Scudetto quarterfinals, the yellow and blues moved directly to Ankara to best prepare for the match at the home of the winner of the Turkish regular season.
“The result of the first leg has transformed this second challenge into a unique, do-or-die match: a real final,” explained coach Fabio Soli, introducing the match. “We will need to show great attention, determination and aggression in all the fundamentals right from the first exchange, because only in this way will we be able to challenge a team like Ziraat, who in the five sets last Wednesday have already shown their full value. We arrived in Ankara aware that we will need the best version of ourselves to play all the cards at our disposal.”
