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The twenty-fifth season in the history of Trentino Volleyball sees the yellow-blue club, which moved to its new headquarters at 276, Via del Brennero in the summer. At the beginning of the competition, we see two teams once again: the newly crowned European Champions men's team and the women's team go back to tackle the A2 Series championship.
The competitive year is immediately marked by the renewal of the corporate offices: on October 28, 2024, Marcello Poli becomes the third president in the history of the club, succeeding Bruno Da Re, who remains on the board along with Fabrizio Lorenz. Before all that, Itas Trentino men's team had started its season already by getting to play in the 2024 Super Cup Final in Florence, lost at the tie break to the winning Perugia after the Fabio Soli-coached team had overcome Monza in the semifinals. The ensuing tour de force tested the resilience of the yellow-blues, who took the field in four different competitions between October and January, playing 52 matches for the season. The Club World Championship, played in Uberlandia (Brazil) in mid-December, reserves another silver medal just like it had happened in 2022; this time, the home team of Sada Cruzeiro is the one to overcome Trentino Itas in the Final at the end of a very hard-fought match that leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of Sbertoli and his teammates, who try to make up for it immediately in the Italian Cup. In fact, the penultimate day of 2024 reserves qualification to the 16th Final Four of the competition for the team, which, however, must again give way in the semifinals in Bologna at the end of January against Civitanova Marche, then Champions. In fact, the penultimate day of 2024 grants qualification to the 16th Final Four of the competition for the team which, however, must again give way in the semifinals in Bologna at the end of January against Civitanova Marche, who then become Champions.
From February onward Trento then focuses on the last two goals of the season: the first, the CEV Cup, fails because the semifinal is, again fatal, this time against the Turks of Ziraat Ankara, who then become Champions. The second is the championship, with Itas Trentino catching up with the top dog Perugia and overcoming them on the last day by winning the regular season by best set quotient when things end on a draw in the standings. Such a result will allow Michieletto and his teammates to enter as the No. 1 top players in the Play Off scoreboard and to always be able to play one more game on a home field compared to their opponents. The “ilT quotidiano Arena factor” actually makes its weight felt in the Scudetto competition: Trento never loses at home and overcomes Cisterna in four games during the quarterfinals and Piacenza in three during the semifinals, finding itself again in the Finals against Civitanova Marche, just like 2023. In the first three games of the Italian series, the team playing in front of its home crowd always wins 3-0, but it was in Game 4 that Trentino Volleyball accomplished the feat, overcoming Cucine Lube 3-2 at the Eurosuole Forum on May 7 and capitalizing on the first of two chances to become Italian Champions for the sixth time. It was a historic success, which came thanks to the great strength of the group, but also to outstanding individualities such as new Captain Riccardo Sbertoli and championship MVP Alessandro Michieletto. The contribution of the public was also decisive: twenty-one of the twenty-two season games played at home were won.
On the female side, Itas Trentino has long been a protagonist on two fronts, finishing second in Group B of the first phase of the A2 Series championship and reaching as far as the Italian Cup Final, lost 0-3 to San Giovanni in Marignano, in Bologna, in early February. Right at the end of this match, the team has to say goodbye to its first coach Davide Mazzanti, who was forced to leave the yellow-blue bench due to family reasons. The Club entrusts the direction of the group to his second Michele Parusso, who leads the girls in a Promotion Play Off, which was nevertheless played with gritted teeth despite injuries (out the titular place 4 pair Giuliani-Kosareva, both due to hand fractures) and culminating with the challenge in the Semifinals against Macerata (later promoted to A1 Series) that ends only at the third and decisive challenge in favor of the opposing team.
Trentino Volleyball sends its 25th season into the archives with the knowledge that it has experienced a year always in the front row, winning qualification at least to the semifinals in all the competitions (men's and women's) in which it took part and, in its hands, the extraordinary response of its audience, which has grown by 14.6 percent compared to the recent past, with as many as eight “sold outs” recorded by the men's team. A certainty from which to start again in light of the immediate future.