Trento, 02 May 2020

Amarcord, ten years ago in Lodz the victory of the second Champions League

2 May 2010 - 2 May 2020: throw back to an unforgettable event for the whole Trentino and volleyball fans. Exactly ten years ago, on this date the Club  won its second consecutive Champions League. A result that confirmed the continental leadership of the Gialloblù team; the gold medal put around the neck at the end of the Final Four at the Atlas Arena in Lodz was won by the outgoing champions, it was a difficult challenge but it legitimated the surprising result achieved a year earlier in Prague.
After qualifying for the Final, overtaking the Slovenians from Bled the day before by 3-1, Trentino BetClic also got rid of the Russians from Dynamo Moscow in an hour and eleven minutes, in one of the final matches of the least balanced European maximum event for clubs in recent history: 3-0 with partials of 25-12, 25-20, 25-21. It was the final showdown between two teams that had already faced each other in the group stage, obtaining a victory (home) on each side.
Although without the director Raphael (seriously injured on one hand during the quarter-finals of the Play Off Scudetto played with Verona), in Lodz the sextet coached by Stoytchev was able to win thanks to the substitute of the Brazilian, the Polish Zygadlo. In that weekend Lukasz played really well at home (he won the prize for best setter), making the whole attack front turn to a thousand that in that season could count on Kaziyski (10 points with 67%), Juantorena (mvp), Vissotto (best scorer of the match with 15 points), but also on centers like Birarelli and Sala and a seventh luxury man like Herpe. Dante and Poltavskiy's Dynamo Moscow put up very little resistance and just a mistake in the service of the Brazilian sanctioned the definitive 3-0 that made many Trentino fans very proud of the match and then they came to Poland for the second time in a few weeks.
Originally the Final Four in Lodz was in fact scheduled for 10 and 11 April, but was postponed by four weeks because on the opening day of the event there was a plane crash in Smolensk (Russia) in which ninety-five people died, including the President of the Polish Republic Kaczyński.
That success was the last victory of a season that will be remembered also for the victory of the first World Cup for Clubs (in November 2009) and the first Italian Cup (in January 2010). The grand slam escaped only because of the 1-3 defeat at the Unipol Arena in Bologna against Cuneo in the first V-Day of Italian volleyball (Scudetto Final in one match, on neutral field).

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