The President of Trentino Volley Diego Mosna speaks during the Press Conference

Ph. Trabalza

 Trento, October 22, 2015

TRENTINO Diatec held its pre-season press conference two weeks before the start of the 2016 CEV DenizBank Volleyball Champions League in the Municipality building of Trento.
The first match is scheduled for next November 5 against Belgium's Noliko MAASEIK. The Italian team is going to fight bravely to claim back the trophy won three times in a row between 2009 and 2011.
"It 's always a great joy to join the matches at the PalaTrento and the team in occasions like these because Trentino Volley has given so much to this city and I am sure will continue to give us a lot of satisfaction. We are very grateful to this club - said the Mayor of Trento Alessandro Andreatta in the press conference -.
“This team and its players have become real ambassadors of our region, bringing the icon of Trentino under the spotlight in Europe. At the same time I want to emphasize that the Company is committed to some important humanitarian projects and social solidarity initiatives. It's important that a team, which is so deeply entrenched, popular, famous, esteemed and appreciated in the territory proposes projects such as the one just launched with Amref Health Africa".
Participating for the seventh time in such an important competition makes me proud”; This year it will be tough because we have a very tight schedule, we are going to play every three days. Difficult but definitely fun."
"In the first phase of the CEV Champions League we will face two teams as Maaseik and Tours, which have collected a lot of experience in this tournament - said the coach Radostin Stoytchev -. We are going to meet strong and wel-known players, such as Wijsmans, Bontje, Henno and Konecny. We know rather little Paok Thessaloniki but some players are truly remarkable. The primary goal is to reach the Playoffs 12, and then improve our game. "
"I would like to thank President Mosna for choosing me as team captain - said the spiker Filippo Lanza, at the first official appearance in his new role -. For me it is a new and important role but I think we have what it takes to make everything right. Between the Italian Super League and Champions League we will have so many matches to play; we have short time to prepare every match but we will do our best. "
The media coverage for the home matches of TRENTINO Diatec will be huge: CEV partner LAOLA1.tv will be live streaming all games of the 2016 CEV DenizBank Champions League, while Radio Dolomiti will be also following – live – all matches of the guys that have dominated the international scene since 2009.
Together with the technical sponsor Erreà the uniforms were shown: the guys will have two uniforms: the colours are the same (white the first one, black and white the other one) but next to the official Champions League logo will appear three stars, each representing a past victory in the tournament.

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