Amazing clash betwenn Geiler and Giannelli during the home match
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Trento, December 10th 2016
On Sunday December 11th the fourteenth round of regular season of SuperLega UnipolSai 2016/17 will be played and its prologue will be this evening with the anticipation of Verona-Latina. The away round for Diatec Trentino will start at PalaValentia of Vibo Valentia against the home team Tonno Callipo Calabria. The start of the match is scheduled at 6 p.m., with live streaming on RAI Sport 1 and Radio Dolomiti.
HERE DIATEC TRENTINO The Yellow-blue team faces right after being halfway the longest away match of its championship with the aim of keeping its continuity of work, which marks out a victory thanks to the 3-2 against Molfetta after the two consecutive defeats in Emilia.
“In the away round our aim is to keep being in high places of the ranking list and also to keep improving showing that we have a definitive play identity – the Coach Angelo Lorenzetti explained - . The match in Vibo Valentia will be for this reason an important test bed from all points of view because we will face Tonno Callipo Calabria, which is spoken very little at this point of the Championship . After a difficult beginning it has found its right rhythm and it is play a good level of Volleyball, focusing on defense actions. All this thanks to its coach, but also thanks to the great season of the setter Coscione. Therefore it won't be easy to play against them”. All the team left for Calabria this morning and will be back in Trento only on Monday afternoon. Even for this occasion, the coach from Marche won't have problems choosing the starting six, there are doubts only concerning the official opposite (Stokr or Nelli) and second middle-blocker (Daniele Mazzone or Van de Voorde).
At PalaValentia, where on Sunday morning it will do the finishing touch before the match, Diatec Trentino will play the 21st official match of the season, the 680th of its whole history, the 371st away match that in 232 cases has ended with a victory.
THE OPPONENTS seven days of regular season, Tonno Callipo Calabria Vibo Valentia has then found its rhythm in SuperLega UnipolSai 2016/17 achieving a well deserved place in the Play Off zone. The team given in custody of the former coach of Ravenna Waldo Kantor in the second half of the home round was able in fact moved up a gear, collecting thirteen points in the following six matches. The constantly growth of the renewed sextet and the completed integration of many players at their first experience in the Italian championship will allow the Yellow-red to play at home the octo-finals of Coppa Italia against Padova, next December 14th. The great work of the Czech opposite Rejlek (the favorite, rightly, in the last period instead of the official player Michalovic) and the confirmed good levels of the other two player of high ball, the Brazilian Barreto and the French Geiler, allowed Coscione to make its play actions less predictable. But until now the Yellow-red proved to be an away team, having difficulties to show continuity at PalaValentia; in seven home matches, it won only against Ravenna and Piacenza.
PREVIOUS MATCHES Will be played on Sunday the twenty-seventh match between Tonno Callipo Calabria and Trentino Volley. This great comparison is back in regular season after two years and is characterized by nineteen matches of regular season, five matches of Championship playoffs (2009 and 2013 quarterfinals) and two of Coppa Italia playoffs (2012 quarterfinals and 2013 semifinals). The balance is in favour of Diatec Trentino, which won twenty-four matches versus Tonno Callipo and conquered eight times PalaValentia; last match played in Calabria is dated back to three years ago (December 7th 2013) and the home team succeeded in defending their stadium with a victory for 3-2.
In the current season the two teams played versus each other on the 2nd of October at PalaTrento; it was a success for 3-0 (26-24, 25-21, 25-22) for Diatec Trentino led by Lanza (14 scored points) and the ex Tonno Callipo player Urnaut (mvp with 11 scored points).
REFEREES The match will be refereed by Marco Zavater (from Rome, in Serie A since 2008) and Umberto Zanussi (from Treviso, in Serie A since 2006). The two referees will direct the first SuperLega Unipolsai 2016/17 match together. It is the fifth match for Zavater (best referee of last Serie A2 and first time meeting Trentino Volley) and the seventh time for Zanussi who has already refereed Diatec Trentino this season, which in that occasion won for 3-1 versus Ravenna (November 1st 2016).
TV, RADIO AND INTERNET The match will be a global media event and will be simultaneously live on TV, radio and on the internet. The match will be, in fact, broadcast by Radio Sport 1 channel, which is both present on the digital terrestrial platform and the Sky platform at channel, with the commentary by Maurizio Colantoni and Andrea Lucchetta; the match will be also streamed on internet at www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raisport/multimedia/diretta.html and will count on a intercontinental visibility (it will be live in 12 countries) thanks to the live broadcasts offered by Sportsklub, Saran, Ote, Sport Canale Israele, Img and Perform.
The match will also be broadcast as usual by Radio Dolomiti, official Trentino Volley's radio partner, starting from 6 p.m. All the frequencies where to listen to the live match coverage are available on the main page of Trentino Volley's website, www.trentinovolley.com, while on www.radiodolomiti.com you will also able to listen to the commentary by accessing the “On Air” section.
The deferred match will be on TV on Monday, December 12th at 9.30 p.m on RTTR, official Trentino Volley's TV partner.
On the internet, last but not least, point to point updates will be offered from Lega Pallavolo Serie A official website (www.legavolley.it) and from www.trentinovolley.com.
Yellow-blue's social network will be always active too (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter ).
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