Trentino Volley

Diatec Trentino
Full name Diatec Trentino
Founded 2000
Ground PalaTrento
Trento, Italy
(Capacity: 4,360)
Chairman Diego Mosna
Manager Angelo Lorenzetti
League Italian Volleyball League
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Diatec Trentino is a professional Italian volleyball team based in Trento, in northern Italy. It plays in the Italian Volleyball League without interruption since 2000. It has won four times the Italian Volleyball League, the Italian Cup, the Italian Super Cup, three consecutive times the CEV Champions League and a record four consecutive times the FIVB Men's Club World Volleyball Championship. In the 2010–11 season it won national, continental and world championship. It was the first team in volleyball history to have done that. Trentino is ranked 2nd (as of October 2016) in the Men's European clubs ranking.[1]

Trentino Volley is a Joint stock company, and its president is Diego Mosna.[2] The company has a budget of 4,500,000 euros and about 225 employees.[3] The actions of the company was awarded at continental level with the acknowledgment Testimonial of the Year at the Sport Business Ambitions Awards 2010 and the awarding of the 2010–11 Champions League Final Four, held at PalaOnda, Bolzano.

Achievements

History

First trophies of Trentino Club

Trentino Volley SpA was founded on May 23, 2000;[4] and two days later, it purchased the rights to play in the Serie A1 (Italy's First Division) from Ravenna, that had retired due to financial problems. The club played its first Serie A1 match in Parma on October 15, 2000, against Maxicono Parma, and was defeated 3–0.[5] The first home match of the Trentino Volley was played on October 22, 2000, against Padova, and the home team came out victorious with a result of 3–2.[6]

During its first two seasons, the team managed a tenth,[7] and a ninth[8] place finish at the end of the regular season.

Players acquired by the team in his first Italian Serie A years included Lorenzo Bernardi and Andrea Sartoretti. In the summer of 2007 Trentino Volley made substantial purchases, as part of a strategy that would focus on a young team with talented players, such as Serbian Nikola Grbić, Bulgarians Vladimir Nikolov and Matey Kaziyski and Italian Emanuele Birarelli. Itas Trentino Diatec ended the following regular season with a first-place finish, and stepped into the finals. On May 7, 2008 Trentino Volley defeated Piacenza 3–0,[9] to win its first national championship title, and gain access to the CEV Champions League 2008–2009.

Trento run undefeated in the pool stages, with a first-place finish in Group E. On April 5, 2009, at the O2 Arena in Prague, Trento defeated Iraklis Thessaloniki 3–1 in the final.[10] In 2009, the team flew to Doha (Qatar), to compete in the FIVB Men's Club World Volleyball Championship. On Sunday November 8, Trentino Betclic won the final, with a score of 3–0[11] against the Poles of Skra Bełchatów, and became FIVB Club World Champion. In 2010, it won the Italian Cup and then successfully defended its Champions League title with a 3–0 victory (25–12,25–20, 25–21) over Dynamo Moscow.

Former names

2000–2001 Itas Gruppo Diatec Trentino
2001–2013 Itas Diatec Trentino
2013–2014 Diatec Trentino
2014–2015 Energy T.I. Diatec Trentino
2015–present Diatec Trentino

Symbols

Logo club in the Building of the Trentino

Club logos and brand names are composed of a red ball. The eagle is the symbol of the club, Autonomous province of trento is the club's flag.[12]

Team

Team roster – season 2017/2018
Diatec Trentino
No. Name Date of birth Position
2 Serbia Uroš KovačevićMay 6, 1993outside hitter
3 Canada Nicholas HoagMay 19, 1992outside hitter
4 Slovenia Jan KozamernikDecember 24, 1995middle blocker
5 Italy Oreste CavutoDecember 5, 1996outside hitter
7 Italy Luca VettoriApril 26, 1991opposite
8 Italy Matteo ChiappaJuly 6, 1993libero
9 Italy Simone GiannelliAugust 9, 1996setter
10 Italy Filippo LanzaMarch 3, 1991outside hitter
11 Australia Aidan ZingelNovember 19, 1990middle blocker
12 Estonia Renee TeppanSeptember 26, 1993outside hitter
15 Italy Pier Paolo PartenioFebruary 6, 1993setter
16 Brazil Eder CarboneraOctober 19, 1983middle blocker
17 Italy Daniele De PandisJune 30, 1984libero
Head coach: Angelo Lorenzetti
Assistant: Francesco Petrella

Coach history

Notable players

Stadium

One match in PalaTrento

The PalaTrento arena has always been the place where the club's at home games have been disputed, ever since its opening in 2000 during the first at home game in the history of Trentino Volley (Itas Diatec Trentino-European Padua 3–2 on October 22, 2000), The arena is in the south of the city of Trento on the Ghiaie sport groundsthat also includes the PalaGhiaccio, a football field, and a ballpark.[14]

Kit providers

The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Trentino team.

Period Kit provider
2000– Mikasa
Kappa
Erreà

Sponsorship

Primary sponsors include: main sponsors like Diatec Group other sponsors: Volkswagen, Consorzio Melinda, Dorigoni Trento, Scania, Mediocredito Italiano, McDonald's, Intesa Sanpaolo, Marzadro Distillery, Südtiroler Volksbank, Grand Hotel Trento, Sparco, Forst, Superpoli, Menz & Gasser and Policura.

Notes

  1. ↑ Eurotopteams
  2. ↑ "Elezione di Diego Mosna alla lega pallavolo" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  3. ↑ "Intervista a Diego Mosna" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  4. ↑ "Storia dell'Itas Diatec Trentino" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  5. ↑ "legavolley.it – 1a giornata 2000–2001" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  6. ↑ "legavolley.it – 2a giornata 2000–2001" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  7. ↑ "Classifica stagione 2000–2001" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  8. ↑ "Classifica stagione 2001–2002" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  9. ↑ "L'Itas è Campione d'Italia" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  10. ↑ "Trento-Salonicco 5 aprile 2009" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  11. ↑ "PGE Skra Bełchatów-Trentino BetClic" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  12. ↑ Symbol
  13. ↑ dall'8 marzo 2005, dopo l'esonero di Silvano Prandi
  14. ↑
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