Trento, 25 December 2018

Superlega 2018/19 also on the 26th of December: the guide to Emma Villas-Itas Trentino

As is tradition, Superlega won’t stop during Christmas holiday, on the 26th of December indeed, it will be the time for the first turn of the return round of regular season 2018/19, the fourteenth in absolute. On this occasion our team will play an away match vs Emma Villas Siena.  The game will start at 18 at PalaEstra; live on Radio Dolomiti and Lega Volley Channel.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO “It would have been a difficult and tough match anyway, and especially in this event because usually the teams that change coach (from Cichello to Zanin) want to show to have good qualities and double their motivations – says Itas coach Angelo Lorenzetti during the presentation of the match - . Siena has very talented players and its current position in the ranking is sign of how lucky they have been in the first thirteen days. So we have to do nothing but our best if we want to start in a good way the return round“.
Itas Trentino will end the training in view of the match in the next days, with a weigh session in the morning of the 24th of December and a technical one on Christmas day from 10.30 to 13; in the late afternoon then, the departure for Tuscany.
THE TENTH MATCH ON 26TH DECEMBER IN ITAS TRENTINO’S HISTORY Competing a match the day after Christmas has become year after year a nice habit for our players, that during eighteen previous seasons played on this day good nine times;in total they won seven times: 3-1 vs Verona in 2005, 3-0 vs Treviso in 2010, 3-1 vs Belluno in 2011, 3-1 vs Perugia in 2012, 3-0 vs Monza in 2014, 3-1 vs Padova in 2016 and 3-1 vs Monza. The only two defeats happened in two away matches: 1-3 vs Modena in 2006 and vs Treviso in 2007. On this occasion Trentino Volley will play its 787th official match of ever and the 449th away match.
PREVIOUS MATCHES Sunday’s match will be the second absolute direct clash between the two teams; so far they have played just once in the going round on the 14th of October in Trento, where Itas won 3-0 (25-20, 25-20, 25-22) with Kovacevic as mvp (19 points with 65% in attack). Against teams from Tuscany instead, Trentino Volley won only three previous matches, if we consider also the ones in the season 2005/06 when in the absolute championship there was also Santa Croce (defeated both times; 3-0 in Trento, 3-2 away).
REFEREES The match will be led by Ilaria Vagni (from Perugia, active from 2003 and international referee from 2014) and Gianni Bartolini (from Firenze, in the highest category from 1992 and international from 2006). It’s the first time for them working together in Superlega UnipolSai 2018/19, the fifth personal one for Vagni (last previous match with Trento the last 18th of February, victory at the tie break in Modena), the sixth one for Bartolini who the last time with Trentino Volley was on the 19th of April (defeated in match 5 of semifinal Play Off in Perugia)
RADIO, TV AND INTERNET The live commentary of the match will be on Radio Dolomiti, network partner of Trentin Volley. The match will be live on “Campioni di Sport”, the sports channel of the channel of via Missioni Africane.
The channels for the regional network are available on www.radiodolomiti.com, where you can also listen to the live commentary streaming. also scheduled is the live match streaming video on the website “Lega Volley Channel”, www.elevensports.it/superlega (service on payment). The postpone match will be available on Friday 28th December at 10 pm on RTTR, partner tv of Itas Trentino, and once again at midnight of the same day.
On the Internet then, follow the match step by step on the website of Lega Pallavolo Serie A (www.legavolley.it) and on www.trentinovolley.it itself and will be always upgraded on Itas’ social networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).

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