Filippo Lanza, Captain of Trentino Diatec is attacking
ph. cev.lu
Trento, January 17th 2018
After a month off, 2018 CEV Volleyball Champions League is starting again. Tomorrow night. On Thursday January 18th the last day of the Main Phase's first round of the most improtant competition for clubs will take place in PalaTrento. After two away matches Trentino Diatec is starting this season in PalaTrento, against the Turkish team Arkas Izmir, last team in the ranking of Pool E. The match is starting at 8:30. It will be broadcast live on Fox Sports, Radio Dolomiti and it will be on live streaming (audio and video) on the site www.laola1.tv.
HERE DIATEC TRENTINO The fourth match in the home field of 2018 could represent an international overturn for the yellow-blues, who will face the second best team of Turkey, after having faced Padova, Ravenna and Civitanova, and Trento really needs to win. After they lost in Poland on December 20th (first match of CEV Champions League of this season), Lanza and his team can't afford to lose even more positions in the group ranking in comparison with Zaksa. The first considered factor in the ranking, indeed, is the number of won matches, not the points, and that is one more reason why Trentino Volley really can't lose if they want to try and get at least the second position.
“It is a very important match as far as it concerns the qualification to the Playoffs 12- said the coach Angelo Lorenzetti- Izmir has a very tidy game and it is really competitive, most of all during the break point phase. So we will need to demonstrate that we can be patient, also by a mental point of view, when we're not able to have continuity during the side-out phase”.
Diatec Trentino's coach will still have to do without the libero De Pandis (Chiappa is taking his place) and he will also have to evaluate Nicholas Hoag's conditions, who really doesn't want to miss the match against his father Glenn (Izmir's coach), but who is still suffering form a contusion in the right shoulder that kept him from playing last Sunday against Civitanova.
This will be the 140th match ever for Trentino Volley, the 107th at an European level and the 77th in Champions League.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WILL BE BACK IN PALATRENTO AFTER 672 DAYS OF ABSENCE After twenty-two months waiting, PalaTrento is hosting again a CEV Champions League match. Last time it happened was on March 17th 2016, during the first Playoffs 12 round, and they won 3-0 against the Russian team Belgorod. The appointment will coincide with the 48th European match in the home field for Trentino Volley, the 33rd in Champions League (out of which they won 29 times): they only lost three times, against the Olympiacos on Januray 20th 2010 during the tie-break, against Kedzierzyn-Kozle on December 14th 2011 during the tie-break, and against Belgorod on February 12th 2014, match that was lost 0-3. The last time they played in continent was on April 12th 2017: the match won 3-0 against Tours during the first match of the final of 2017 CEV Cup.
THE OPPONENTS Arkas Izmir is arriving at PalaTrento looking for the first victory of the season in CEV Champions League. Glenn Hoag's team (the coach has been training the team for 7 years now) is at the last position in the ranking of Pool E, after they lost in the home field against Zaksa and then lost 3-2 in Maaseik just before Christmas. It is the seventh time this team participates in a continental tournament. The white-blues conquered the participation in the tournament by classifying at second position in the national championship 2016/2017, which conformed the supremacy of Arkas as main opponent of Istanbul and Ankara's teams. Arkas Izmir won two Turkish pennants, two national cups and the Challenge Cup 2009, which they won by defeating Jastrzebski Wegiel in the home field during the tie-break.
The best result they obtained in Champions League was the fourth position in 2012 in the Final Four of Lodz. The most important players of their shortlist are the Serbian setter Jovovic, the German spiker Fromm (both of them coming from Monza), the Cuban opposite hitter Sanchez Bozhulev, but also the Brasilan Bravo (who has been training in the past in Piacenza by Lorenzetti), but until now they haven't given the team great results. Arkas is at fourth position in the Turkish championship, having 7 points less than the first team Ziraat. On Saturday the team lost a match in the national championship (the fourth time in regular season) against Maliye Piyango Ankara (1-3). Arkas Izmir’s pink: 1. Christian Fromm (s), 2. Muzaffer Yonet (p), 3. Nikola Jovovic (p), 5. Mert Matic (c), 7. Cagatay Durmaz (c), 8. Gokhan Gokgoz (s), 9. Michael Sanchez Bozhulev (o), 10. Mustafa Koc (c), 11. Yigit Gulmezoglu (s), 12. Adis Lagumdzija (o), 13. Joao Paulo Pereira Bravo (s), 14. Hasan Sikar (c), 15. Caner Ergul (l), 16. Burak Mert (l), 17. Muhammet Kaya (p), 19. Mustafa Cengiz (c). All. Glenn Hoag.
THE SITUATION OF THE POOL E After the first two days, the Poles of Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle are the only team still undefeated in Pool E, with two victories and five points in the pool ranking that as a first criterion evaluates the number of victories. Trentino Diatec (4 points) and Noliko Maaseik (2 points) chase with a success, while the Arkas Izmir is still at the pole despite having collected a point. Tonight at 20.30 in Poland is played right the match between the hosts and the Belgians; in the next round (scheduled for Tuesday, January 30th and Thursday, February 1st) the same challenges will be played but in reversed fields. The first two classified of each of the five Pools and the best two third ones will access the Playoffs 12.
THE BACKGROUND Trentino Volley and Arkas Izmir have already played three times in their history; in all three cases the yellow and blue Company won the match in three sets. The first match dates back to the final for the third place of the 2012 edition, played on March 18th, 2012 at the Atlas Arena in Lodz and won with 25-20, 25-19, 25-19 partials; the second is dated November 6th 2013 and was played at Ataturk Sports Hall in Izmir (success with scores of 15-25, 21-25, 13-25), while the most recent has been played at PalaTrento: December 4th, 2013 with partials of 25-21, 26-24, 25-15. Compared to the Turkish teams, Trento boasts a total of seven precedents, having faced Fenerbahce twice (in 2017 CEV Cup) and Halkbank Ankara (2005 CEV Cup); the balance is four victories and three losses.
THE REFEREES The race will be directed by Dobromir Dobrev, Bulgarian's first Bulgarian referee, and by the Czech Vlastimil Kovar, second referee in Ostrava. None of the two whistles has official precedents compared to Trentino Volley.
TV, RADIO AND INTERNET The match will be broadcast live on TV by Fox Sports, available in the Sky Sport HD package at channel number 204; Stefano Locatelli and Samuele Papi will comment. The live story on the frequencies of Radio Dolomiti, a partner of the Trentino Volley, will begin at about 8.25 pm. On the website www.radiodolomiti.com it is possible to consult all the frequencies of the regional network and, at the same time, listen in streaming to the news of the match, by accessing the "on air" section. The website www.laola1.tv will broadcast live video and audio streaming; to be able to follow the matches just access the section reserved for the CEV Champions League (available directly at the link http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/channel/volleyball-cev-champions-league-men-livestream-video-for -free) and click on the red "live" icon that will appear next to the top of the page. To follow the evolution point to point of the match it will be possible to consult the official CEV website at http://cevlive.cev.lu/DV_LiveScore.aspx?ID=30851, which will provide the live score. Score updates will always be active on www.trentinovolley.it and on the social yellow-blue networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
TICKETS, MERCHANDISING AND "BRENNERCOM DAY" The match is included in the subscription. The pre-sale tickets are available until 17.00 on Thursday afternoon at the Trentino Volley Point in via Trener and the offices of Promoevent, in via Suffragio 10 in Trento, and at any time on the internet by clicking https://www.vivaticket.it/ eng / event / Trentino-diatec-arkas-izmir / 108,475. The boxes of PalaTrento will be available from 19.30, at that time the doors of the building will be opened, and will remain active until the end of the second set, when it will no longer be possible to access the PalaTrento to see the rest of the match. Inside, behind the long north side stand, the fans will find the yellow-blue merchandising point at their disposal; with a vast range of Trentino Volley articles. It will be "Brennercom Day” at Palatrento; to offer further visibility to the long-standing partnership, Trentino Volley and Brennercom - official sponsor of Trentino Volley for four years, which has reserved for the Bolzano company involved in the field of ICT innovation and technology gaming in SuperLega the logo on the official net- a series of initiatives will be set up to promote the important collaboration. The prize that will be awarded to the best player of the match will be targeted Brennercom as well.
Trentino Volley Srl
Press Office
