Trento, 02 November 2018

Simone Giannelli will play his 200th match with Trentino Volley, on Sunday in Civitanova

After the great victory on the 1st of November at the BLM Group Arena of Trento against Vibo Valentia, Itas Trentino already needs to move on and get ready for the new match. The full calendar of this month, that has just started, already plans on Sunday the 4th , another match, that will see Itas Trentino facing Cucine Lube at the Eurosuole Forum in Civitanova Marche. The match will start at 6.15 p.m. and will be transmitted on live television on RAI Sport + HD and also on Radio Dolomiti.
It will be a special appointment for the Captain Simone Giannelli, who will, exactly on this occasion, add another important memory to his wonderful story with Trentino Volley, that began in September of 2010 with his arrival in the Youth Team and characterized by many and important successes (two Championships, one Junior League, one Under 19 Italian Championship, one Under 17 Italian Championship, two Under 16 Italian Championships and one Boy League). In the match that will be played in the Marche region, the setter from Bolzano will collect in fact his 200th presence in the official matches with Itas Trentino. An absolutely prestigious goal: Simone is in fact only the sixth player to reach such an amount and he’s the youngest amongst all to do so, the previous record belonged to Lanza, who reached 200 matches played in September 2016, when he was 24 and a half years old. Giannelli collected the last six presences while wearing the Captain’s armband, a task he previously performed only in the Under 14 back to the time of his first season with Trentino Volley. Overall the statistic detail with the first team of Trentino Volley talks about one presence in 2013/14 (in Ravenna on the 27th of October 2013, the youngest of all to play for Trento), 40 in 2014/15, 48 in 2015/16, 56 in 2016/17, 48 in 2017/18 and 6 in the current season. With 686 points made up until now, Simone is also the most prolific setter in the history of the company and from last weekend he got into the Top 20 Itas Trentino strikers of all time.
The “top ten” of the most participating players with the shirt of Trentino Volley:
1. Emanuele Birarelli and Massimo Colaci 345 presences
3. Andrea Bari 339
4. Matey Kaziyski 334
5. Filippo Lanza 300
6. Dore Della Lunga 215
7. Simone Giannelli 199
8. Osmany Juantorena 193
9. Jan Stokr 192
10. Lukasz Zygadlo 191

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