Volley Piacenza

LPR Piacenza
Nickname The Wolves
Ground PalaBanca
Piacenza, Italy
(Capacity: 3,800)
Manager Italy Alberto Giuliani
League Italian Volleyball League
Website Club home page
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Medal record
Men's Volleyball
CEV Champions League
2007/2008
CEV Cup
2005/2006
2012/2013
CEV Challenge Cup
2003/2004
2006/2007
Italian Championship
2008/2009
2003/2004
2006/2007
2007/2008
2012/2013
Italian Cup
2013/2014
Italian SuperCup
2008/2009
Piacenza team in October 2010.

LPR Piacenza is a professional Italian volleyball team based in Piacenza, northern Italy. It plays in Italian Volleyball League. Although the club reached the Italian 1st division for the first time only in 2002, after have dominated the Italian 2nd division and winning also the Italian Cup, it has already played 9 finals in Italy, including 5 for the Italian Title(winning only in 2009 versus the strong Trento), 2 for the Italian Cup(won in 2013 and lost in 2006) and 2 for the Italian Supercup (beating Macerata 3-2 in 2009 and losing versus the same team in 2014 again after a tie-break). Piacenza played also a Champion's League final, lost 3-2 in Poland versus Russia's Zenit Kazan, 2 Cev Cup finals (again losing twice) and won 2 other European cups: in 2006 the Top Teams Cup, and in 2013 the Challenge Cup, defeating Ural Ufa from Russia with a 3-0 win in both first and second legs of final,[1] achieving also an impressive 12-0 record, without losing a single set. It's among the strongest teams in Italy and also in Europe since 2003.

Team

2015/2016

Head Coach: Alberto Giuliani
No. Name Date of birth Position
1 Italy Manià, LorisLoris ManiàJanuary 27, 1979Libero
2 Italy Coscione, ManuelManuel CoscioneJanuary 29, 1980Outside Hitter
3 Slovakia Kohút, EmanuelEmanuel KohútJuly 21, 1982Middle Blocker
4 Netherlands ter Horst, ThijsThijs ter HorstSeptember 18, 1991Universal
5 Egypt Fahmy, MohamedMohamed FahmyFebruary 11, 1992Setter
6 Italy Papi, SamueleSamuele PapiMay 20, 1973Outside Hitter
7 Croatia Sedlaček, MarkoMarko SedlačekJuly 29, 1996Outside Hitter
8 Italy Patriarca, StefanoStefano PatriarcaJuly 29, 1987Middle Blocker
11 Bulgaria/Italy Zlatanov, HristoHristo ZlatanovApril 21, 1976Outside Hitter
12 Serbia Luburić, DraženDražen LuburićNovember 2, 1993Universal
13 Italy Tencati, LucaLuca TencatiMarch 16, 1979Middle Blocker
15 Portugal Rodrigues, MiguelMiguel RodriguesMarch 2, 1993Setter
18 Italy Cottarelli, FrancescoFrancesco CottarelliOctober 16, 1996Setter

Notable players

References

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