Another international game for Gabriele Nelli
Ph. Trabalza
Trento, March 16th, 2016
Playoffs 6 of 2016 CEV DenizBank Volleyball Champions League are going to begin. After the League Round and the Playoffs 12, the highest club competition continues with the latest double act before the Final Four of Krakow (on April 16th-17th). Trentino Diatec will face the Russians of Belogorie Belgorod; the first leg match will be played tomorrow night, Thursday, March 17th, at PalaTrento starting at 8.30 pm. Broadcasted live on Fox Sports TV, Radio Dolomites and streaming live on www.laola1.tv.
HERE TRENTINO DIATEC Two years after the last time, the Champions of Italy return to play the Playoffs 6, tournament which has been won for three consecutive seasons between 2009 and 2011, by challenging one of the most credited team for the victory. To get the qualification to the Polish Final Four, the team has to make truly a great effort, which will begin with tomorrow night's match at PalaTrento and then completed in the second leg on Tuesday, March 22nd in Russia, collecting more points than the opponents. Each of the two comparisons in fact is giving three points as it happens in a league game; those who win the highest number will access the semifinals; golden set in case of a tie. To make the goal much more problematic, however, there are problems in training: among the most important, the physical ones accused this last period by Djuric, Lanza (who in recent days have returned to work out with the group even without forcing him) and those regulations that prevent Kaziyski to play. In fact the Bulgarian spiker won’t be allowed to dispute the double shift against Belgorod because he has been rationed when the lists for the CEV Champions League had already been closed for some time. Matey then will look at the last European home game of Trentino Volley from the sideline, hoping to celebrate a success that redemptions Molfetta Sunday's defeat in Game 2 of the quarterfinals (1-1 series). In his place on the field the Italian-Russian Antonov, who will compose together with Urnaut and Nelli the high ball trio.
"It's always hard to prepare for the match against an opponent like Belgorod because its squad offers many alternatives and solutions that inevitably we must consider” - presented the match Radostin Stoytchev. -”Besides, we arrive at this challenge with so many problems that we were not allowed to train well in the last stage. To overcome this obstacle, we will have to do something that goes beyond the simple volleyball but I guarantee that we will try as always till the end. We can do it if we give 120% of ourselves, we have to build this venture especially with our strength of will”.
THE FORMULA AND OTHER GAMES Tomorrow's match is valid as a first leg match of the Playoffs 6 of 2016 CEV DenizBank Volleyball Champions League; in the third stage of the tournament, the best six European teams will in fact compete in a double confrontation, from which will arise three teams that will participate in the Final Four in Krakow (Poland) on April 16th and 17th, in the presence of the organizer, the Asseco Resovia. Teams that will win both games will pass the turn; only if the two teams have both won a race each at the tie-break, or if they have both won one game each at most in four sets, it will be played the Golden sets to 15 at the end of the second race. These are the other two challenges scheduled. Tonight, 5.30 pm: Zenit Kazan vs. PGE Skra Belchatow.
Tomorrow, at 8.30 pm: Cucine Lube Civitanova vs. Halkbank Ankara.
PREVIOUSLY Trentino Volley and Belgorod have met twice, coincidentally in the same stage (Playoffs 6) of the 2014 CEV Champions League’s edition. On that occasion the Russians won 3-0 both in the first leg, played in Russia on February 5th, 2014 (partial 25-20, 25-20, 25-18), both in the return match played at PalaTrento on February 13th and won by Belgorod with scores of 25-15, 25-20, 25-22. Against Russian teams, the Company Champion of Italy has a total of fifteen earlier, also considering the five games against Zenit Kazan and the eight played against Dinamo Moscow: the budget is nine victories and six defeats.
REFEREES The race will be directed by Piotr Dudek, first Polish referee from Zolynia, and Michail Themelis, second referee of Larissa (Greece). The only one of the two whistles to have met earlier Trentino Volley is Dudek, and in the Champions League directed Olympiacos Piraeus vs. Trento 2-3 on December 2nd, 2009 and Lube vs. Trento 3-2 on February 22nd, 2012 while in the World Cup for Clubs 2012 (won by Trentino Volley) refereed Trento vs. Sada Cruzeiro 3-2 on October 16th, 2012.
TV, RADIO AND INTERNET The match will be broadcasted live on Fox Sports, visible on the satellite platform Sky Sports on HD channel number 204. Commentary headed by Stefano Locatelli.
Intended as always also the Live broadcast on Radio Dolomiti, partner stations of Trentino Volley, with first connection at approximately at 8.25 pm. On the website www.radiodolomiti.com you can see all the frequencies of the regional network and, at the same time, you can stream the full match, by clicking "on air".
The website www.laola1.tv will broadcast streaming video and audio of the match; to be able to follow the races simply access the section reserved for the CEV Champions League (available on the link http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/channel/cev-champions-league-men and click on the red "live" that will appear at the top of the page.
To follow the match’s developments point to point, you can also consult the official website of the CEV www.cev.lu, that will provide live score. Updates score will always be active on www.trentinovolley.it and on Yellow-blue social networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
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