Diatec Trentino after the victory against Monza

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Trento, February 27th 2017

After concluding the 2016/2017 SuperLega UnipolSai regular season in second position, thanks to the win against Monza, Diatec Trentino is ready to focus on another big challenge; on Wednesday night, in Piacenza, Lanza and his teammates will play the first round of the 2017 CEV Cup quarter finals, in an all italian derby against Lpr. The team is back in PalaTrento for a double training session, weights and ball game, today at 5pm.
This match, beside from the result, will be an historic event: the four times World and Italian Champion and three times European Champion Club will play the 700th official game of its history. An outstanding result, if you consider that Presidente Diego Mosna took the lead of the club only sixteen years ago (the team was founded on May 23rd 2000).

Numbers: Trentino Volley has won 490 of the 699 matches played: 252 inside PalaTrento, 238 away matches. The most frequent result is 3-0 win, achieved 259 times. The most frequent defeat came by 1-3 (86 times). In total Trentino Volley played 430 Serie A1 regular season matches, 95 championship playoff matches, 8 Supercoppa Italiana matches, 35 Coppa Italia matches, and 131 international matches ( 33 Club World Championship matches, 3 Top Teams Cup matches and 17 Coppa CEV). The most capped player is Emanuele Birarelli (345 caps, with a 49% presence rate), while Matey Kaziyski is the best scorer (4.945 points in 334 caps) and the one who wore the captain’s band the most (204). The most capped coach is Radostin Stoychev (389 caps with 319 victories), while the most frequent opponent is Modena (66 matches). Out of curiosity, the 600th match was also played against Piacenza, again after a 3-0 win against Monza.

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