Trento, 12 January 2019

SuperLega, the guide to Tonno Callipo Calabria-Itas Trentino (h 6pm)

The seventeenth round of regular season SuperLega Credem Banca 2018/19 is played today and on Sunday, the fourth of the return match. This will be the longest travel of the championship for the team. The match on January 13th starts at 6 pm at PalaValentia: broadcast on Radio Dolomiti and live streaming on Lega Volley Channel by clicking www.elevensports.it/superlega.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO After two consecutive home matches, the World Champions play the first away game of 2019, with the aim of achieving the twentieth consecutive victory (the twelfth in SuperLega) that can protect the first place won seven days ago against Perugia over for 3-0.
"The field of Vibo Valentia in the last two seasons has always been difficult for us - said the coach Angelo Lorenzetti referring to the two most recent games played in Calabria, both ended at the tie break - . The indications I gave before the going match did not change: the Tonno Callipo is a team that has so much talent on the high ball and on the stroke. We go to this match after a week of training in the gym that got us a significant physical and technical burden, something that does not happen so often in mid-season".
Itas Trentino will complete its preparation for the match with the training that will take place at PalaValentia. All available to the thirteen players of Trentino Volley, which will try to reach the 332th success in the regular season, the 552th ever in 790 official matches.
THE OPPONENTS This match will be the first of 2019 for Tonno Callipo Calabria Vibo Valentia. For the commitment with the Croatian national team of Zhukouski (who played two European qualifying matches on  January 6th and 9th), the Vibo Valentia team have postponed the match at Monza, to wait for the World Champions. The team of Antonio Valentini (Blengini's deputy on the blue bench) in fact has six points ahead of the penultimate place, built thanks to the victories against Siena (3-2 in Tuscany and 3-0 at home) and, more generally, collecting points in all the games against the teams of the lower part of the classification. So far the absolute protagonist of the  season of Tonno Callipo Calabria was the opposite Mohamed Al Hachdadi: taken from Poitiers, is the best scorer of the championship with 335 points in 15 games and one of the two offensive players to which the team rely more; the other is the Bulgarian spiker Skrimov. Also, the middle-blocker Mengozzi is the third for blocks (with 35 blocks) and the libero Marra, which has now become a Club icon.
PRECEDENTS Trentino Volley and Callipo Sport Vibo Valentia have a long tradition of matches, started more than fourteen years ago (3th of October  2004) with the first official game in the regular season (success outside the tiebreak for the yellow-blue). The balance of thirty precedents, in which five matches of Play Off and two of the Italian Cup, is clearly favorable to Trentino Volley for 25-5. Also, Trento has nine victories in the last eleven disputed matches; the most recent success of Vibo Valentia refers to the 3-2 home match on 11th of December 2016. Instead the last direct clash is dated 1st of November 2018, on the occasion of the match of the going round (3-0 gialloblù with partial of 25 -17, 25-21, 25-23 and Kovacevic mvp). At the PalaValentia Trentino Volley won eleven of the fifteen games played. The three most recent precedents at Vibo Valentia have always ended at the tie-break: for Vibo Valentia on 7th of December 2013 and 11th of December 2016; for Trento on 10th of December 2017.
THE REFEREES The meeting will be directed by Rossella Piana (from Modena, in Serie A since 2005 and international since 2014) and Rocco Brancati (from Città di Castello - Perugia, in the main league since 2015). The two referees are at the first game together in SuperLega Credem Banca 2018/19, the seventh for Piana (last one with Trento on the 9th of November 2016, victory in three sets in Verona) and the third for Brancati, who never had arbitrated Trentino Volley before.
TV RADIO AND INTERNET The match will be transmitted by Radio Dolomiti, Trentino Volley's network partner. The connections with Vibo Valentia will be transmitted by "Campioni di Sport", the sports channel of via Missioni Africane. All frequencies are available on www.radiodolomiti.com.
Live video streaming is also available on the "Lega Volley Channel" web space on the Internet at www.elevensports.it/superlega (subscription service).
On TV the full delay of the match will be broadcast on Monday 14th of January at 9.50 pm on RTTR, TV partner of Trentino Volley, and in reply at midnight on the same day.
Finally, on the Internet, all the news will be available on the Lega Volley Serie A website (www.legavolley.it) and by www.trentinovolley.it and will always be active on the social networks of Trentino Volley (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).

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