Two blocks ENERGY T.I. Diatec Trentino against Nemanja Petric spike

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Trento, March 20th

The match this weekend will be the third and last round of the regular season of Super League UnipolSai 2014/15. The ENERGY TI Diatec Trentino will be the stars of this battle reaching the peak on the 24th day, defying the leaders at this ‘away’ game with Parmareggio Modena. They will play one day in advance of the rest of the program, tomorrow, Saturday, March 21s, with kick-off scheduled for 5:30pm. Broadcasted Live on TV RAI Sport 1 and on Radio Dolomiti.
The third seasonal A22 derby could’ve terminated their hopes of victory during the regular season of the Yellow-Blues but thanks to the ‘home’ victory of last Sunday with the Altotevere and the defeat of Modena in Latina, there is high moral. The big match tomorrow offers the opportunity for the Yellow-Blues, to recover their dominion that would return the victory to Trentino with by any score. Even a 3-2 for the ENERGY TI Diatec Trentino (hence the same points in the standings at 55) would enable Birarelli and his team to overtake the Parmareggio successfully. They still need to push hard, as the coach admits Radostin Stoytchev: It’s a completely different commitment  from those we faced recently with Roeselare and Citta di Castello: we are challenging the strongest team of the season right now”  - said the Bulgarian coach -. “For this reason we will have to give 120% of our ability to be able to bring home a positive result; we trained with that goal during the week. Trying to do my best because following tomorrow's match we start the seven most important days when we play in Poland then in PalaTrento against the Kedzierzyn-Kozle team for the semi-final CEV Cup ".
The coach will have the entire Bulgarian force, that has been training in the last four days to compete in PalaTrento: even the Argentine Sebastian Solé (out last Sunday against the Altotevere) has fully recovered from his injury and will be available. The Trentino Volley will leave for Modena in the early evening today after completing a technical-tactical session for two hours in PalaTrento and another on Saturday morning finishing the usual pre-match in PalaPanini.
Against Lube, Trentino Volley will play the official 596th game of its history (with 413 victories, 182 defeats), the 380th game in the regular season, and will reach its 202nd successful ‘away’ game in the championship excluding the February 8th game in Milan(3-0).
PREVIOUSLY Modena and Trentino Volleys match tomorrow will be their 50th  game in their official history; the Emiliani are the single opponent that the Trentini has faced the greatest number of times: 49 matches and 595 total played in fifteen years. Trentini are favored winners for 29 hits in 20, but in 2014 the Geminiani have greatly improved winning four of their last six matches. Their only recent successes with the Trentinos were obtained both at PalaTrento; 3-1 in the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup in 2014 of January 29th  2014 and 3-0 in the match of the first round of this regular season played last December 21st, 2014 (25-18, 25-19, 29 -27 and Nemec mvp). PalaPanini was conquered by the Yellow-Blues on ten occasions out of twenty-four matches played; the last victory dates back to November 27th, 2013 (3-0 in regular season) while their most recent is a victory for Modena 1-3  March 30th, 2014 (Game 2 of the quarterfinals for the playoffs championship). Also for Emilia, the PalaDozza of Bologna, the latest challenge took place on January 11th, 2015, for the Italian Cup final in 2015 with the victory of the Canaries with 1-3 (19-25, 19-25, 25-23, 12- 25).
REFEREES The game will be arbitrated by Fabrizio Saltalippi (the referee from Perugia, in the highest category since 1995 and internationally since 2000) and Matteo Cipolla (from Palermo in Serie A since 1997). The two referees are meeting for the first time in this seasonal; the 14th match for the Umbrian, which has already refereed in the ENERGY TI Diatec Trentino matches, twice this regular season (Trento-Treia 3-2 on 30th of November and Molfetta-Trent 3-2 on 25th January), the 13th match for Cipolla which has already refereed with the  Yellow-Blues in the ‘away’  victory in Padova (3-0 on January 3rd) and Bologna (3-2 in Perugia during the Italian Cup semi-final on 10th of January).
TV, RADIO AND INTERNET Modena-Trento will be a global media event. It will be broadcasted live on RAI Sport 1, present both on DTT and on Sky TV, channel 227, with the commentary in the care of Alessandro Antinelli and Claudio Galli; the match will also be available in video and audio streaming on the web, at www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raisport/multimedia/diretta.html, and will count upon an intercontinental exposure (52 nations connected) thanks to the programmed live broadcastings by Sportsklub, Canal+ Deportes, Sports Tv, Bein Sport Arabia, Bein Sport Usa, Bein Sport France, Bandsport, Sky Mexico, Btv, Sport 5, Sport Tv Portugal, Dolce Sport, Perform e Voyo.bg.
RadioDolomiti, radio partner of Trentino Volley, will recount the match live, and in its entirety, starting from 17.25. The connections with PalaPanini will be made within the show “Campioni di Sport”: the radio frequencies to follow the regional network can be found on the home page www.trentinovolley.it, whereas the live radio commentary in streaming can be followed on www.radiodolomiti.com.
The pre-recorded broadcast of the match will be transmitted on Monday, March 23rd at 21.15 on the regional television channel RTTR, Tv partner of via Trener’s club, immediately after the magazine “RTTR Volley”, and again at midnight on the same date. Finally, on internet, the minute by minute update will be care of the Lega Pallavolo Serie A (www.legavolley.it), by www.trentinovolley.it itself, and it will always be active on the yellow-blue Social Networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
THE FAN BUS 150 fans will follow the team in person, in Modena thanks to the official sponsor, ‘Italian Travel Company,’  that was organized by Trentino Volley. The departure times for buses on Sunday: from Mezzolombardo in Piazza Fiera at 1:30 pm from the square in Trento area ex Zuffo at 1:50 Pm, from the exit Rovereto Nord at about 2:00am.

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