Trento, 08 July 2018

VNL, double yellow-blue medals: bronze for Russell, silver for Grebennikov (best libero)

Aaron Russell spikes during the bronze final (ph. Fivb)

The first edition of Volleyball Nations League reserves to medals to the players of Trentino Volley who took part during the last month and a half. Those who symbolically carry the yellow-blue colours on the podium of the Final Six 2018 of Lille (France) are the libero Jenia Grebennikov and the striker form the United States Aaron Russell. The transalpine obtained the most prestigious place but in the last evening he had to surrender to Russia which won the gold medal. Russel was the protagonist of the success in the match against Brasil, closed as bet scorer. Grebennikov obtained also the price of best libero of the event which will be added to the other prices he gain in the Europeans, World League, Champions League and Mondiale per Club. at the end of the podium was Serbia with Lisinac and Kovacevic which was eliminated in the first phase of Final Six. The Nationals activity will now be characterised by a short period of pause; in the last part of the month of July all the teams that will participate to the World Cup 2018 at the ed of September (Italy included) will start training again to prepare themselves for the appointment that will be played in Italy.

Here follows the statistics of the players of Trentino Volley who played during the day of the  the final of Volleyball Nations League 2018.

JENIA GREBENNIKOV (libero, France)
France-Russia 0-3: 0 points

AARON RUSSELL (striker, Usa)
Brasil-Usa 0-3: 14 points (13 attacks, 1 ace), 50% in attack (13 out of 26)

This are the results of the Finals:
3°-4° place: Brasil-Usa 0-3 (21-25, 26-28, 26-28)
1°-2° place: France-Russia 0-3 (22-25, 20-25, 23-25)

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