Trento, 07 May 2020

Amarcord, twelve years ago the first Scudetto in the history of Trentino Volley

7 May 2008 – 7 May 2020: : today probably marks the anniversary of the most important date in the twenty-year history of Trentino Volley, the day of the victory of its first Scudetto.
Until that evening twelve years ago, Trentino Volley had still not been able to celebrate any title, apart from winning a TIM Trophy in 2004 and the Under 18 championship in June 2006. The success in match 3 of the 2008 Final of Scudetto had been played at the PalaTrento against Copra Nordmeccanica Piacenza and, indeed, it gave instead the start to an epic and a very long series of victories, which saw Trentino Volley enrich its palmares with at least one trophy every year in the following seven sports seasons, for a total of sixteen titles in the following eighty-four months (until May 2015). 
To uncork the first bottle of Champagne he served the 3-0 on the Emilians, who only a few days before had cancelled the first match ball at the PalaBanca in Piacenza in match 2. The series at the time was to be won best out of three matches and it was played in Trentino for the decisive challenge, which was followed live by over 4,500 spectators. The first Itas Diatec Trentino of Stoytchev could count on the great determination and the extraordinary class and hunger of its players: nobody, before that evening, had ever won the Scudetto in Italy. After a difficult first set, the talent of Grbic, the continuity of Nikolov, the technique of Winiarski, the dedication to the cause of Birarelli, Bari and Jeroncic and above all the physical power of Kaziyski definitively directed the Italian flag towards Trento; the first ever in a team sport in the city. Matey scored the last point of the match, unleashing the joy of an entire province, which later poured between the main squares of the capital. 
Two books were also dedicated to the success: "La nostra prima volta" by Piero Cavagna and Marco Trabalza and "Campioni d’Italia" by Andrea Cobbe and Lorenzo Redi. The next day it was Piazza Duomo in Trento that welcomed more than five thousand people to celebrate a success that changed the history of Trentino Volley as well as that of Trentino, which from that moment on became definitively a land recognized in the world for its volleyball team.

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