Trento, 14 February 2019

The youth team is increasingly productive: the debut in 1st team for Michieletto & Pizzini

The 3-0 victory of yesterday night at BLM Group Arena against the Swiss of Amriswil will not be remembered by Trentino Volley only as the result that guaranteed the qualification for the 2019 CEV Cup semifinals. To make this match more interesting there was also the debut of two player from the youth sector: the spiker Alessandro Micheletto and the setter Filippo Pizzini. After concluding the entire pre-season preparation, on this occasion the two players, (strong points of the Under 20 team), have indeed collected the first real presence of their career in the main team. Micheletto, the spiker born in 2001 son of Riccardo the yellow-blue Team Manager, has confirmed the evening also realizing the last point of the match. Pizzini, setter born in 1999 picked up in Volano where he was taking his first steps, was able to show the quality of his jump-float service, replacing Codarin in the final part of the match – another athlete of the yellow-blue team who begun to play in the main team in the current season of SuperlLega.
Codarin, Pizzini and Michieletto are only the last, in order of time, of the many products of Trentino Volley to complete the path arriving to play in the main team: before them the same thing happened to Nicola Leonardi, Andrea Segnalini, Lorenzo Gallosti, Michele Morelli, Filippo Lanza, Damiano Valsecchi, Michele Fedrizzi, Antonio De Paola, Simone Giannelli, Gabriele Nelli, Sebastiano Thei, Tiziano Mazzone, Carlo De Angelis, Matteo Chiappa ed Oreste Cavuto.
Since 2007, eighteen players from the youth sector have been guaranteed to the main team. Five of them have in fact dressed the shirt of Italia Seniores.

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