Reims (France), 13 March 2018
Play Offs 12 of CEV Champions League are starting on Wednesday in France
The Playoffs 12 of 2018 CEV Volleyball Champions League are starting today. Trentino Diatec will play the first round of straight up elimination after the Main Phase, and they will face the Champions of France, that is to say Chaumont VB 52 Haute Marne. The first match will be played in the opponents' home field on Wednesday March 14th at 8:30pm at Complex Sportif Rene-Tys in Reims. It will be broadcast live on Fox Sports, on Radio Dolomiti and the live audio-visual streaming will be available on the site www.laola1.tv.
HERE DIATEC TRENTINO After getting off on the right foot during the series of the quarterfinals of Play Off Scudetto against Verona, the yellow-blues are now looking for another positive result during the first match out of the two which will be played against a French team. The winning team will have a place in the ranking of the the seven best teams in Europe.
“Having obtained so many points during the round phase enabled us to arrive to this appointment as the best team and as a consequence to play the return match on the home field, but it is also true that the opponents we are going to face during the Playoffs 12 are really not easy to defeat. - that's how Angelo Lorenzetti introduced the appointment – Chaumont is a really well trained team with a very phisical setter and opposite hitter, who can make us struggle. They didn't qualify by chance; they obtained great results in the group phase. I expect two very difficult matches, during which we will try and do our best in prder to make another step forward in this competition”.The coach from Marche can count on every member of the team for the match, and he will train them of the match field already tonight. The team arrived in France on Monday evening after a 8 hours long travel, including both hours by car and by plane from Milan to Paris.
TRENTINO VOLLEY'S HISTORY IN EUROPE the Club of Via Trener arrived till the octo-finals of an European Cup for the tenth time. Before this continenal adventure, the team of Diego Mosna already arrived until this point in the editions of CEV Cup 2004/2005, in which they were eliminated by Halkbank Ankara, 2014/2015, in which they got through this moment of the competition thanks to two victories aganist the Rumenian team Craiova, 2016/2017 (double vicotry against Sastamala) and then in six previous participations to the Champions League, when they made it through this round thanks to a double victory against Mallorca in 2009, against the Belgian team Roeselare in 2010, two times against Maaseik in 2012 and in 2014, and once against Lennik in 2016. While in 2013 they were eliminated by Dinamo Mosca and in 2011 they didn't participate since the Final Four was organized in Bolzano so it wasn't necessary for them to participate to this first phase.
The one that will be played in France is the 94th away match at an international level of Trentino Volley, the 46th in Champions League, where it obtained 34 victories up to now; the last one occurred on February 1st against Izmir. In total Trentino Volley won 65 out of 80 matches in this event.
FIFTH AWAY MATCH EVER IN FRANCE This is the fifth away match ever in France of Trentino Volley. The last match played in this coutry was the final of 2017 CEV Cup, which Trentino lost at the golden set on April 15th in Tours, city which the team also visited on two other occasions (on November 1st 2012 and on December 16th 2015). The first journey in France was on November 11th 2008 in Beauvais, where it played the first away match ever in CEV Champions League.
The opponents The Chaumont VB 52 Haute Marne is getting ready to live a historical moment for its first 45 years of activity. That match of Wednesday night against Trentino Diatec will in fact be the first ever game in the Champions League Playoffs 12. The Company has risen to the national limelight only from the 2011/12 season, when it was promoted to the highest transalpine championship. The CEV Champions League is participating for the first time thanks to the victory of the Scudetto 2017, which was followed by the Super Cup too. These two victories are the only laurels on the white and red company board, which in the fortunate 2016/17 season have also touched on the success in the European field, coming close to winning the lost Cup in the final with Novy Urengoy. Last Saturday, however, the opportunityto conquer another title has vanished, -the French Cup- surrendering to the Tourcoing only for 2-3.
Silvano Prandi is the main character of the climb of the French volley, already on the bench of Trento between 2003 and 2005. The Professor have found in Chaumont the setter Javier Gonzalez, with whom has shared and experience in Cuneo, and can count also on the opposite of the national French team Boyer, who’s getting better after the victory of World League 2017 in Brazil. They will be the main players with the talented Canadien middle blocker Jansen Vandoorn (who Trento has already faced last year with the Tours t-shirt) and another Canadian (Duquette as libero) and the Serbian Mijailovic in place 4. The team of Chaumont VB 52 Haute Marne: 1. Yacine Louati (s), 2. Michael Saeta (p), 3. Daniel Jansen Vandoorn (c), 4. Javier Augusto Gonzalez Panton (p), 6. Wassim Ben Tara (o), 7. Jonas Aguenier (c), 8. Sauli Sinkkonen (c), 9. Stephen Boyer (o), 10. Nikola Mijailovic (s), 12. Bruno Lima Basolu (s), 14. Jeremie Mouiel (l), 15. Bryan Duquette (l), 16. Kevin Rodriguez (c), 18. Francesco De Marchi (s). Coach Silvano Prandi.
Arrangements and other matches The match of Wednesday will be a going match of the round of sixteen (Playoffs 12) of 2018 CEV Volleyball Champions League; the best 12 teams of the Main Phase will in fact face each other in a double-fight, from which 6 teams will come out winners and qualified for the quarterfinals (Playoffs 6). The teams who will win both matches will pass the turn; only if the two teams have both won one match at the tie-break or if they have both won one match apiece in four sets, the Golden Set will be played at the end of the second match. The Final Four will be played in Kazan (Russia) on May 12-13 and will also see the participation of the organizing company, Zenit, three times reigning champion. Who will pass the turn between Trento and Chaumont will face the winner of the eighth between Civitanova and Belchatow.
Hereafter is the program of the other five challenges. Today: Halkbank Ankara (Tur) -Sir Sicoma Perugia (Ita); Wednesday March 14: PGE Skra Belchatow (Pol) -Cooks Lube Civitanova (Ita), Berlin Recycling Volleys (Ger) -VfB Friedrichshafen (Ger), Jastrzebski Wegiel (Pol) -Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle (Pol), Noliko Maaseik (Bel)-Lokomotiv Novosibirsk (Rus).
Previous The one on Wednesday is the first absolute match between the two companies. Trentino Volley has already eight precedents with French teams: six with Tours (4-2 total count) and two with Beauvais (2-0).
The referees The match will be directed by Onur Hosnut, first Turkish referee from Ankara and by Dejan Rogic, second Serbian whistle from Belgrade. Both are at their first match with Trentino Volley.
TV, Radio and Internet The match will be broadcast in live tv by Fox Sports, on Sky on channel 204, commentary by Stefano Locatelli and Andrea Zorzi.
As always the live radio commentary will be entrusted to Radio Dolomiti, radio partner of Trentino Volley, the commentary will begin at 20.25. Regional network frequencies will be available on www.radiodolomiti.com, by acceding the “on air” section will be possible to listen to the match report.
The live video streaming will be available on www.laola1.tv ; to follow the matches you will have to accede the section of CEV Champions League ( http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/channel/volleyball-cev-champions-league-men-livestream-video-for-free) and click on the red “live” button.
To follow the score you will have just to visit the official website of CEV; at http://cevlive.cev.lu/DV_LiveScore.aspx?ID=31269 the live score. News about the score will be as always on www.trentinovolley.it and on the yellow-blue social networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
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