Angelo Lorenzetti during a time out
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Trento, February 28th 2017
After conquering the second place in regular season of SuperLega UnipolSai 2016/17, Trentino Diatec gets immediately back on court, in this case, for an international appointment. Tomorrow evening, on Wednesday March 1st, at PalaBanca of Piacenza the team will play the away match of the Italian derby of 2017 CEV Cup’s quarter finals. After having defeated Loimaa in the sixteenth finals and Sastamala in the eight finals, the Yellow-blue will play against Lpr in the double round of matches of the European competition. The match will begin at 8.30 p.m.: live on Radio Dolomiti.
HERE TRENTINO DIATEC The match in Emilia will kick off March, a month very crucial for the formation of Lorenzetti. The team will play in two weeks the access to the semifinals of the last two Championships in which it’s taking part. The matches against Piacenza will be surely the most difficult of this period of time, because of the opponent’s merit ( it closed the regular season with six points more than Monza) and also because the qualification mechanism to the next round of CEV Cup allows less margin of error.
“We know that is going to be a difficult match because Piacenza is getting ready since a long time for this appointment, also making precise choices for the challenge – said the coach Angelo Lorenzetti about the match– . We don’t consider ourselves better than the opponent On the contrary, we want to get on court as humble people and above all with enthusiasm because it’s an important occasion for us and we want to play a tour best”.
All the fourteen players are available for the Coach of Trentino Diatec and will train as usual the day before the match and by CEV regulation it can be done at PalaBanca.
700^ OFFICIAL MATCH OF TRENTINO VOLLEY The match against Piacenza will be an historic event for Trentino Volley, no matter the result; the Club already four times World and Italian Champion and three times European Champion will play its 700th official match in this occasion. The Club in via Trener has won 490 out of 699 played matches: 252 at PalaTrento, 238 away matches. In total the team played 430 matches in regular season of Serie A1/SuperLega, 95 playoff matches of Championship, 8 matches in Supercoppa Italiana, 35 in Coppa Italia while in 131 cases it has played on an international level (33 volte in Club World Championship, 75 in Champions League, 3 in Top Teams Cup, 17 in CEV Cup). The player that has played the most is the middle blocker Emanuele Birarelli (who got on court 49% of the times – 345 out of 699), while Matey Kaziyski scored the most of the points (4.945 points in 334 matches) and wore the captain armband the most of the times (204). The opponent challenged the most frequently is Modena (66 precedents ). Curiously also the 600th match was played in Piacenza after a success of 3-0 against Monza; the same situation of this Wednesday evening.
FOURTH ITALIAN DERBY IN EUROPEAN CUPS Trentino Volley will play against Piacenza the fourth Italian derby so far in the European cups, the precedents have been already played (and won) all against Lube, exclusively in Champions League: 3-0 in the semifinals of 2009 edition, 2-3 and 3-0 in the Playoffs 6 of 2012 and the recent 3-0, in the semifinals of 2016 edition. Ever Before the Yellow-blue Club has faced an opponent with its same nationality in CEV Cup.
OPPONENTS After have conquered the sixth place in regular season of SuperLega, a place already achieved two rounds before, Lpr Piacenza is going to start the decisive part of its season, facing quickly the second and third ranked teams in the Italian Championship (Trento and Perugia) in two different events. After defeating Minsk (thirty-two finals), Innsbruck (sixteenth finals) and Novi Sad (eight finals), the team from Emilia will play against Trentino Diatec in a match also important on an international level. The White-red Club has in fact in the past gained the Teams Cup (2004/05 season) and Challenge Cup (2012/13) and is taking part to the CEV Cup for the fifth time so far, boasting a ten-year experience in the European cups. It is going to play after three defeats in the last four matches of Championship, the last two against Monza (in a home match) and in Modena; in SuperLega it will be able to deploy on court without problems both the middle-blocker Yosifov and the setter Marshall, without narrowing the numbers of foreign official players. The Cuban diagonal of place 1 and 2 Hierrezuelo-Hernandez is also confirmed, with Hernandez who has gained the second place in the bomber ranking and in the ace raking of SuperLega with only one point less than Sabbi.
FORMULA AND OTHER MATCHES In 2017 CEV Cup six double rounds are scheduled (away and home) of matches (thirty-two finals, sixteen finals, eight finals – already played - , quarter finals, semifinals and finals) through direct elimination: the team passes the round if in two matches gains the greatest number of points, assigned as in the Championship: 3 points for the 3-0 or 3-1 victory, 2 for the victory at the tiebreak, 1 for the defeat at the tiebreak (golden set at 15 if they have the same points – like the Playoffs 12 of CEV Champions League system). Who wins the first turn will confront in the semifinal the winning of Fenerbahce Sk Istanbul- Gfc Ajaccio. The other matches of the first part of the quarters: on Thursday: Cež Karlovarsko (Cze)-Tours VB (Fra), United Volleys Rheinmain (Ger)-Lindemans Aalst (Bel), Fenerbahce Sk Istanbul (Tur)-Gfc Ajaccio (Fra). The second half of the turn will be played on March 14th and 15th: Trentino Diatec-Lpr Piacenza will be played on March 15th at 8.30 p.m. Italian hours (included in the season ticket).
PRECEDENTS The one of Wednesday evening will be the 51st match between the two teams, the first in an European competition, after 30 matches in the regular season, 18 in the Championship Play Off (with 3 finals) and 2 in Coppa Italia. The balance is positive for Trentino volley (32-18), but in this season, they’ve both won once: 3-1 (22-25, 25-23, 25-21, 25-22) for Piacenza at PalaBanca on November 17th and 3-0 (25-17, 25-23, 25-20) for Diatec Trentino on January 8th. The two Clubs confronted each other on the quarters of final of a competition twice: Championship Play Off 2005 (Piacenza won in 5 matches) and Coppa Italia 2016 (Treno won at the tiebreak). Trentino Volley won 11 matches out of 23 at the PalaBanca: the last one was on April 31st, 2015 (3-0).
REFEREES The match will be directed by Georgios Georgouleas, first Greek referee from Athens, and by the Russian Alexander Tubylov, second referee from Ishevsk. Only the Greek referee has a precedent with Trentino Volley: October 30th, 2013, Trento-Lugano 3-0. It was the match of the first round of 2014 CEV Championship League.
RADIO AND INTERNET The match will be transmitted live on Radio Dolomiti, partner broadcaster of Trentino Volley, the first connection is at 8.25 p.m. On www.radiodolomiti.com you can find the regional network’s frequencies and, at the same time, listen to the streaming report of the match, on the “on air” section. You can follow the point-by-point report on the official CEV website on http://cevlive.cev.lu/DV_LiveScore.aspx?ID=29226 ,that will provide the live score, or on www.trentinovolley.it that will provide also the report set-by-set only a few minutes after their conclusion. The updates will be available also on the yellow-blue team Social Networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook e www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
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