Trento, 20 June 2018

Another sensational strike for the market campaign: Aaron Russel is a new spiker of Trento

Aaron Russell with Trentino Volley Jersey

Another great strike for the summer market 2018 of Trentino Volley. The umpteenth high-level strike of the yellow-blue market campaign consist this time in the name of Aaron Russel. The 25-year-old spiker of the USA National Team, winner of last Championship with the kit of Perugia on, with which he has played during the last three seasons, has in fact signed his new contract during the last hours, which will tie him up with the Club of via Trener.
His arrival, just like the ones of Lisinac, Grebennikov, Candellaro and Van Garderen, will allow Angelo Lorenzetti’s team to make another quality improvement, especially in the first-line fundamentals and the attack ones. Russel has in fact recently improved a lot in the international scene thanks to his great skills as a jumper and spiker, which put him among the best spikers in the world, as already confirmed by the personal award achieved during the Olympics of Rio 2016. Trentino Volley’s supporters had already the chance of seeing him as an opponent during the last three seasons of SuperLega, characterized by many matches versus Perugia: in his first three years in Italy he scored 1.067 points, ending last triumphal season with a media of 55% in attack. Aaron will be third USA player in the history of Trentino Volley: before him only Ryan Millar (middle-blocker protagonist of season 2005/2006) and Donald Suxho (setter of season 2013/14, characterized by the victory of Supercoppa Italiana as an mvp), were the only USA athletes who worn the yellow-blue kit. Russel will be available starting from the first days of October, after having played the World Cup 2018 in Italy with his National Team, the same with which he played the World Cup 2015 and achieved the bronze medal in the Olympics in 2016. Yellow-blue supporters will have the chance to see him already during the incoming weekend at PalaPanini in Modena, where he will play the fifth weekend of Volleyball Nations League 2018 with his National Team playing versus Grebennikov’s France (on Friday at 5.30 p.m.) and Giannell’s and Candellaro’s Italy (on Sunday at 8.30 p.m.).
“The arrival of Russel is the icing on the cake of a market campaign which the Club managed in a judicious and organized way but as well with the conviction of being able to further improve our roster – said Trentino Volley’s president Diego Mosna - . Russell is a top player and for this reason it wasn’t easy to manage to make him come to Trento; even more so I’m then extremely happy that the player decided to wear Diatec Trentino’s kit. He understood and shared our ambitious project and we’re enthusiast about this. An high-level team is now growing and I’m sure it will entertain our supporters”.

Trentino Volley Srl
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