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Trento, May 5th, 2015

On Wednesday, May 6th, in Modena will commence the second match of the PlayOff final for Super League  Championship of UnipolSai 2015. After winning Sundays’ Game 1 scoring 3-2 at PalaTrento, then it will be the turn of Parmareggio to play in front of their home crowd hosting the Diatec Trentino for game 2. At PalaPanini the game will start at 8.30 pm, and will be live on TV RAI Sport 1 and on Radio Dolomiti
After the 1-0 lead in the series, the Trentino Volley will try tomorrow evening to get from the Mondoflex PalaPanini another positive result, even though it will be more difficult.
"As expected the first game was a tough game that has confirmed that our opponent is strong“- explained the coach Radostin Stoytchev, that will not sit on the bench tomorrow because of a disqualification received on Sunday -.”Thanks to a little 'luck we managed to win by getting ahead in the series 1-0, but the task before us tomorrow will be even more complicated and we are fully aware of it. Modena plays even better at home games, and tomorrow will be the fourth game in the space of eight days; it is inevitable to deal with fatigue in cases of this kind but we will not use it as an excuse. We will play to the maximum and try to win this game."
Taking over from the field coach to lead the team, will be the Assistant Coach Dario Simoni, who along with Bulgarian engineer directed the early afternoons last training, in full force, before departure to Modena. Tomorrow morning at PalaPanini they will be finishing the classic pre-game.
Game 2 will be the 46th game of the season for Trentino Volley; the twenty-third away where so far has collected seventeen wins and five losses (the last in Perugia a week ago). For the Company via Trener it will be match number 82 of its history in playoffs championship (with 52 wins and 29 defeats), the eighteenth-ever final, which boasts 9 wins and 8 KO.
DEBUNKING GAME 2 Birarelli and his teammates will have more motivation to look for in Modena: despite the taboo of game 2 in the final match in which three previous occasions has the Trentino Volley team always coincided a defeat with Emilia (three out of three times in Piacenza) . The knockout in the second match has already occurred in fact in the series of 2008 final (May 4th, 2-3 at Pala Banca which won the first championship postponed for three days at PalaTrento), the next one in 2009 (May 7th , 3-1 win of Copra) that was previously played in the last series (2013 - April 28th, 2013, the success of Copra Elior 3-1).
PREVIOUSLY Trentino Volley and Modena will play tomorrow the 52nd official match in its history; Emilia team are the greatest opponent of the Company via Trener that it has faced the greatest number of times: 51 matches over 608 officers played in fifteen years. The stats favours Trento for 31 wins in 20 and the calculation sees Trento 3-1 ahead with regard to only games played this season. The only recent success of Parmareggio is then referred to the final in the Italian Cup in 2015 (3-1 at Bologna on January 11th) while only previously at PalaPanini this tournament was won by the Diatec Trentino 3-1 on March 21st. Overall the facility Geminiano was conquered by the yellow-blues in eleven occasions (three of these were in the playoffs) out of a total of twenty-five matches played. The financial statements relating to the direct clash played in the postseason is 18 matches with ten wins and eight with Modena vs. Trentino.
REFEREES Game 2 will be arbitrated by Fabrizio Pasquali (first referee Venarotta - Ascoli Piceno, role since 1997 and internationally since 2001) and Andrea Puecher, second referee Rubano (Padova), his role since 2003 and internationally since 2013. The two referees are on their first joint leadership in Super League 2014/15; the sixteenth absolute for both. During last Easter in this season which led the Trentino Volley only in matches played in Umbria (Perugia-Trent 2-3 of 26th of October, Town of Castle-Trent 0-3 on 14th of December and the recent Perugia-Trent 3-1 on 28th of April) while Puecher had crossed Birarelli and teammates during Trento vs. Molfetta 3-0 on 29th of October and Trento-Monza 3-0 on April 1st.
TWO HUNDRED FANS ACCOMPANYING the team will be coming along in this important trip. From Trentino, many will start tomorrow afternoon riding a bus full of their supporters, and as always organized by Trentino Volley in close collaboration with the official bus carrier, the Italian Travel Company. For the benefit of members and fans, the departure times for PalaPanini  will take place on Wednesday, May 6th: from Mezzolombardo in Piazza Fiera at 5pm, from Trento in the square area of Ex Zuffo at 5:20pm, for the motorway exit at Rovereto Nord at 5.40pm.
TV, RADIO AND INTERNET Modena-Trento will be a global media event. It will be broadcasted live on RAI Sport 1, present both on DTT and on Sky TV, channel 227, with the commentary in the care of Maurizio Colantoni ed Alessandro Antinelli; the match will also be available in video and audio streaming on the web, at www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raisport/multimedia/diretta.html, and will count upon an intercontinental exposure (52 nations connected) thanks to the programmed live broadcastings by Sportsklub, Canal+ Deportes, Sports Tv, Bein Sport Arabia, Bein Sport Usa, Bein Sport France, Bandsport, Sky Mexico, Btv, Sport 5, Sport Tv Portugal, Dolce Sport, Perform e Voyo.bg.
Radio Dolomiti, radio partner of Trentino Volley, will recount the match live, and in its entirety, starting from 20.25. The connections with PalaPanini will be made within the show “Campioni di Sport”: the radio frequencies to follow the regional network can be found on the home page www.trentinovolley.it, whereas the live radio commentary in streaming can be followed on www.radiodolomiti.com.
The pre-recorded broadcast of the match will be transmitted on Friday, 8th May at 21.35 on the regional television channel RTTR, Tv partner of via Trener’s club. Finally, on internet, the minute by minute update will be care of the Lega Pallavolo Serie A (www.legavolley.it), by www.trentinovolley.it itself, and it will always be active on the yellow-blue Social Networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).

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