Doha, 19th October 2012: the last victory of Trentino Volley in the Club World Championship
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Trento, September 8th 2016
You write Club World Championship but you read Trentino Volley. No other team has such a stronger connection with the Club World Championship, that will take place from October 18th to 23th in Betim (Brazil, near the well-known Belo Horizonte) for the 2016 edition. Since when the competition came back to the Fivb agenda in 2009 – 17 years after the previous edition (1992) - , the yellow-blue team racked up victories and trophies, realizing a hardly replicable sequence: it won the title four times in a row. The yellow-blue history of this competition is made of long journeys (four times in Qatar and the twice exactly in Brazil) but also of records, like the one related to the series of twenty-one victories in a row got in the first twenty-one matches: this sequence started on November 3th 2009 in Doha, thanks to the 3-1 win against the Egyptians of Zamalek and ended only 4 years later (October 17th 2013) with the ko (memorable in its own way) got at the tie break in Betim (Brazil) against the Argentinians of the UPCN San Juan (coincidentally rival in the round again). Meanwhile there have been the four triumphs in Doha (Qtar), the team proved to be able to interpret the Golden Formula like no others, regulations that allowed to attack only from the second line the first action of side out.
However, without this particular system of play Trentino Volley has proved to be stronger than everyone else even in the normal volleyball, collecting between 2010 and 2012 only decisive achievements against increasingly esteemed and hardened opponents such as Belchatow (defeated twice in final), Dinamo Moscow, Zenit Kazan, Sesi San Paolo and Sada Cruzeiro – this last club followed Trentino Volley in the list of the champions winning the 2013 edition and becoming the first not Italian team to win the cup and keeping the title after winning the 2015 edition. In 2013 Trento nevertheless placed 3rd, while in the following edition it went out at the group stage. The wild card granted today to Trentino Volley by FIVB will give the Club of via Trener the opportunity to take part in the event for the seventh time: since the World championship was reintroduced in the international calendar, no other team has always taken part in it.
The Club World Championship 2016 will be the seventeenth non-national event in the history of Trentino Volley: in the total there are also seven participations in the same Champions League (won three times between 2009 and 2011), the double European experience of the season 2004/2005, the first experience in Top Teams Cup (where it has been defeated by the Dutch team Ortec Nesselande Rotterdam at the preliminary stage played at the PalaTrento) and in CEV Cup, where it has been defeated by the Turkish team Halbank Ankara, and that of 2015/2016 always in CEV Cup (second place after Moscow) and scheduled also for next season. In total Trentino Volley played 122 matches in international events, 102 won and 20 lost. Trentino Volley has lost just sixteen times out of 80 non-national matches.
Trentino Volley’s STATISTICS during other Club World Championship editions.
Matches played: 28 (20 in Doha, Qatar, 5 in Betim, Brazil, and 3 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
Wins: 25
Defeats: 3
3-0 wins: 13
3-1 wins: 8
3-2 wins: 4
2-3 defeats: 1
1-3 defeats: 1
0-3 defeats: 1
Won sets: 78
Lost sets: 25
Most-capped player: Emanuele Birarelli (23 matches)
Shortest match: Trentino Diatec-Esperance Tunis 3-0, May 8th 2014 (60’ minutes)
Longest match: Trentino Diatec-Sada Cruzeiro 3-2, October 16th 2012 (124’ minutes)
Trentino Volley’s opponents during Club World Championship: 3 Russian teams (Zenit Kazan - three times, Dinamo Mosca and Lokomotiv Novosibirsk), 2 Brazilian teams (Sesi San Paolo and Sada Cruzeiro), 2 Qatari teams (Al Araby, Al Rayan – two times), 2 Egyptian teams (Zamalek and Al Ahly), 2 Polish teams (Belchatow - two times - and Jastrzebski), 2 Argentinian teams (Bolivar, UPCN – three times) and 2 iranian (Paykan – two times and Kalleh); 1 Japanese team (Panasonic Panthers), 1 Puerto Rican team (Corozal), 1 American team (Paul Mitchell), 1 Tunisian team (Esperance Tunis), 1 Mexican (Tigres de UANL).
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