Trento, 19 April 2020

Amarcord, 14 years ago the 1st memorable Trentino Volley’s qualification in the semifinal

19 April 2006 – 19 April 2020: the calendar of the team, today brings to the surface an event that only in appearance might seen unimportant. Exactly fourteen years ago, on this day Trentino Volley achieved the first momorable qualification for the Championship Play Off semifinal. The pass for the second turn of the final was gained by winning at the tie break (25-18, 15-25, 25,20, 21-25, 6-15) the PalaPanini with an exceptional service (20 aces!), by performing a come back on the Cimone Modena (with a 1-0 lead in the best of the three games), trained by Julio Velasco and with a shortlist full of players of the calibre of Giani, Mastrangelo, Ricardinho and Sartoretti. Trentino Volley, led on the bench by the Brazilian Lattari was, instead, less experienced, but very determined and increasingly convinced of its ability. Thanks to the competitive edge and to the players like Nascimento, Meoni, Heller, Morsut, Savani (best scorer with 20 points) and Kooistra, the Itas Diatec Trentino managed to win 3-2 and so to go to the semifinal. A goal extremely significant because until that moment Trentino Volley had always failed to qualify for the second turn of Play Off; this had already happend with Modena after five matches in 2003, but happend also, and especially, with Perugia in 2004 (1-3 after winning the regular season) and with Piacenza in 2005, after having a lead of 2-0 and after having two match ball in ‘’match 4’’. This is way that victory was considered as a relief for the team, that after, played four more matches in semifinal with the Sisley Treviso (who dominated for 3-1). After, the team has been able to center (at least) the access to the semifinal twelve times in the following fourteen editions of the Play Off (absent only in 2007 and 2014). The qualification has become, over time, a pleasant habit which, however, did not take anything away from the team’s challenge that was marked fourteen years ago at the Palapanini.

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