Trento, 26 May 2019

Giannelli: “Cebulj, what a reinforcement!”

After a month off Simone Giannelli has come back on the court. After this period without training and official matches, the captain in now ready to join and start his fifth season as a member of the Italian national team Seniores. He will leave for China where the first matches of Volleyball Nations League 2019 will take place, on monday, together with other thirteen players (among them also four of his teammates like Candellaro, Cavuto and Nelli).
“During these four weeks off, I spent time with my family and my friends, it has helped me a lot: I needed that - explained Giannelli on Trentino Volley Tv - . Now I am ready to join the national team, a very young team, with young talents that will try to look good since they are at their first appearance in a national team. It’s a good occasion to improve all together and to uphold the honor of the Italian volleyball. A long summer, with a busy schedule awaits us; the most important is the match in Bari in August, when we will try to qualify for the Olympic Games. We’ll have to face some very strong opponents, but the Olympics are something else and I’m saying this because I’ve already been there. We will try our best, but getting there is not a given also because we won’t have much time to rest.”
In the meantime his Trentino Volley is already planning the season 2019/20 that will begin in October, starting with reinforcing its roster with the arrival of the spiker Cebulj. “Klemen still is a young player but with a considerable wealth of experience, also in the Italian championship – added Simone - . He’s got important physical features, that I think could be useful during the season and he’s for sure a valuable reinforcement”. The Slovenian player will be official presented to the medias on Monday 27th May at 5.15 p.m. in the Sala Trofei of the Trentino Volley headquarters: live streaming on the official Facebook page.

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