Trento, 03 February 2019

SuperLega, on Sunday back again playing at BLM Group Arena

On this weekend Itas Trentino is playing the 21th turn of SuperLega Credem Banca 2018/18 regular season, the seventh one of the return round. On Sunday 3th of February Itas Trentino will face BCC Castellana Grotte at BLM Group Arena. The game will start at 18: live on Radio Dolomiti and live streming on Lega Volley Channel on www.elevensports.it/superlega.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO After the away matches in Lazio and in Switzerland, the World Champions are back to compete a match in front of their fans aiming at moving upwards their ranking position, following on the heels of Perugia that the same day will be playing in Modena. So this time conquering all what is at stake could offer the opportunity of gaining points, at least over one of the main contenders for the first final place in the rank.
“We want to continue our race in the championship so that we can be protagonists until the end – affirmed the coach Angelo Lorenzetti in the match presentation – and this is why also this appointment is an important one. We have to be focused on our game tactic, always bearing in mind our ambitions; we will have to face Castellana Grotte, a team that so far despite their excellent performances have not been so lucky. This is another reason why we will have to be cautious, also because the early withdrawal of the opponent player Renan could make their game less predictible and leave the whole team without pressures”.
Itas Trentino coach can count on the whole roster of thirteen players, who will complete their preparation at BLM Group Arena training today’s afternoon and on Sunday morning. On this occasion Trentino Volley will be playing its 796th match in history and will fight for its absolute 556th victory: now it has 288 home and 267 away victories.
THE OPPONENTS Still without victories in regular season, with just 6 points and the last position in the rank, BCC Castellana Grotte arrive in Trento also without their point of reference, namely the oppositor Renan Buiatti: the brazilian player (until last Sunday the sixth spiker of regular season with 339 winning balls over 19 matches) has indeed left the team on Thursday, opting for the offers proposed to him by the Turkish second division; his substitute, on Sunday at least, seems to be the Russian Kruzhkov (who already played in the going match) whereas for the future the team has not excluded a return on the market. So that the game coached by Falaschi inevitably will have to be changed, perhaps insisting more on the foreign spikers Mirzajampour and Wlodarczyk. However the most long-awaited player will be the Australian central Aidan Zingel, protagonist of a good season, who will experience his first match as former player at BLM Group Arena, after having played 48 matches in the last championship with Trentino Volley. What is different from the going match is the technical part: it’s one month and a half since the coach Paolo Tofoli has been replaced by Vincenzo Di Pinto, since Tofoli is now coach of Alessano in Serie A2.
PREVIOUS MATCHES Sunday’s match will be the absolute clash between Trentino Volley and Castellana Grotte. On the whole Itas Trentino is in the leading position, having conceded them just on point out of the ones at stake so far: the one obtained by Castellana in the going match of this regular season, competed on the last 11th of November at PalaFlorio and ended 2-3 (partials of 25-23, 19-25, 22-25, 25-19, 10-15). Castellana has already played three times in Trento, losing twice 3-0 (24th October 2010 and 17th February 2013) and once 3-1 (28th October 2017).
REFEREES The match will be refereed by the couple from Città di Castello (Puglia); Rocco Brancati (in top category since 2015, debuting as first referee in SuperLega) and Simone Santi (second referee, Serie A since 1994 and international Fivb since 2011). They have already encountered Trentino Volley during this regular season: Brancati in the third match of SuperLega 2018/19 has refereed the recent success 3-0 on 13th of January in Vibo, whereas Santi (tenth match of championship) has refereed the home victory in three sets on 18th of November in Verona.
RADIO, INTERNET AND TV The complete live commentary of the match will be live on Radio Dolomiti, network partner of Trentino Volley. The match will be transmitted on “Campioni di Sport”, the sports channel of the broadcaster of via Missioni Africane. You can find the available channels for following the match on www.radiodolomiti.com, where you can also follow streaming the live commentary. Also the video live streaming will be available on the web area “Lega Volley Channel”, on the Internet page www.elevensports.it/superlega (service on payment). the complete postponed match will be live at 21.50 on Monday 4th of February on RTTR, tv partner of Trentino Volley. On the Internet the Lega Pallavolo Serie A and Trentino Volley Society will update step by step the match (www.legavolley.it) and www.trentinovolley.it. The upgrades then will be always active also on our Social Networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
TICKETS AND MERCHANDISING You can buy the tickets for the match vs Castellana via Internet, clicking on www.trentinovolley.it/ticketonline. They will also be on sale on Saturday at the cash points of BLM Group Arena from h. 17:00, when the arena will be opened. Inside the arena, behind the long stand on the North side, the fans will find Trentino Volley merchandising point: here you can buy a set of official items by Trentino Volley.
“BRENNERCOM DAY” On Sunday “Brennercom Day“ will be held at BLM Group Arena: Brennercom, since 2014 official partner of Trentino Volley, is a company of Bolzano committed in the innovation and technology field of the ICT industry. Trentino Volley has exclusively showed the firm’s logo on the official net in SuperLega; with Trentino Volley, Brennercom will propose a set of initiatives aiming at extending the important collaboration between the two. The crowd will then find the official match program with Brennercom’s logo. Sponsored by Brennercom will be also the praise for the best player of the match and that will be given by Cristina Vielmi – Key Account Manager of Brennercom.

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