Marcello Abbondanza
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| Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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August 24, 1970 Cesena, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marcello Abbondanza (born August 24, 1970 in Cesena, Italy) is an Italian volleyball coach. He's currently coaching in Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü since 2013[1] and the Canada women's national volleyball team.[2]
Career
He started as an assistant coach on the bench of Big Power Ravenna Team between 1996 and 1997. He was again an assistant coach between 1998 and 2000 in Foppapedretti Bergamo Team and then in 2002–2003 season he started as a head coach with the Meccanica Pierre OML Mazzano, in Serie A2 (Italian second league) and was very close to win the league.
Afterwards he transferred Robursport Scavolini Pesaro Team in first league, for 3 seasons which won the 2005-06 CEV Cup, and for 2 seasons in Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi where he led the team to a playoffs in 2006–2007 league.
After he started coaching in Infidel Forlì Team in the 2008-09 season in Serie A2. He was subsequently hired by MC PietroCarnaghi Villa Cortese, rookie in A1 in the 2009-10 season. He won the Italian Cup for two years consecutively, and led the team to the playoffs finals in 2009-10, 2010–11 and 2011-12. He was also coach of the Italian national team at the World University Games.
He also coached the Bulgaria Women’s National Team between 2011 and 2014, and won the silver medal in European League in 2012 in Czech Republic and a bronze medal in European League in 2013 in Bulgaria.
In the 2012–13 season he moved to Azerbaijan hired by Rabita Baku, which immediately won one silver medal in the World Cup for Clubs in Doha. During this season he qualified for the Final Four of the Champions League finishing the competition at second place and also he won the Azerbaijan’s championship in the same season.
After signing Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü, Abbondanza started to improve their volleyball day by day, and he won the CEV Cup in 2013–14 season. Fenerbahçe won historic double the following season, by winning the 2014–15 Turkish Cup[3][4] first, and the 2014–15 Turkish Championship[5][6] after.
At the beginning of his 3rd season in Fenerbahce he won the Turkish Super Cup 2015–16.,[7][8] the regular season of Turkish League, a Silver Medal in the Turkish League Finals and a Bronze Medal in Final Four of the Champions League, and this was his third Final Four with three different club.
The season 2016-17 is the 4th in Fenerbahce, and Marcello Abbondanza won the fifth title winning the Turkish Cup in the Final Eight in Ankara, and this was the second time in his career, and he could defend the trophy from 2015 (tournament was not held in the season before).[9]
On January 2017 the Volleyball Canada announces Abbondanza as new women's head coach.[10]
References
- ↑ "Marcello Abbondanza as a coach in Fenerbahçe Women’s Volleyball team". Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
- ↑ "Volleyball Canada Announces New Women’s Head Coach". Canada women's national volleyball team. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
- ↑ "TURKISH CUP W: Trophy goes to Fenerbahce !! !". www.worldofvolley.com. Retrieved 2015-04-12.
- ↑ "Super Cup Winner Fenerbahçe Grundig!". Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
- ↑ "TUR W: Fourth crown for Fenerbahçe!". www.worldofvolley.com. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
- ↑ "CHAMPION THE YELLOW ANGELS". Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
- ↑ "TUR W: Kim with 31 points crashes Vakifbank, Fenerbahce lift Super Cup trophy!". www.worldofvolley.com. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ↑ "Champions Cup winner Fenerbahce Grundig". Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- ↑ "TURKISH CUP W: Kim - Natália duo sweeps VakıfBank, Fenerbahçe defend trophy". www.worldofvolley.com. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ↑ "Volleyball Canada Announces New Women’s Head Coach". Canada women's national volleyball team. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
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