Trento, 21 August 2020

Champions League, the identikit of the opponents of Trentino Itas

The identikit of the opponents of Trentino Itas

Vojvodina NS Seme Novi Sad (Serbia)
Historical reality of the Serbian volleyball scene, founded even in 1946. In this club, absolute level champions such as the Grbic brothers (Vladimir and Nikola) and other players such as Geric, Mester, Boskan, Kovac, Miijc and Podrascanin himself took their first steps.
For the first thirty years of activity, he played only minor level tournaments, before playing nationally in Yugoslavia. Between the 80s and 90s he collected Scudetti (11) and National Cups (7), also finding international prestige with the third place in the Champions Cup obtained in the 1989 and 1996 editions. The most recent result of great prestige, however, was obtained in the 2014/15 season: after being eliminated by Trentino Volley in the CEV Cup (yellow-blue victory 3-1 in Serbia on November 4, 2014, 3-0 at PalaTrento on November 17, 2014), the white-reds moved on to Challenge Cup, raising the trophy in Lisbon by beating Benfica.
The club will participate for the umpteenth time in the Champions League (in which, between the 80s and 90s, it also obtained two second places) thanks to the victory of the fifth national championship (the fourth in a row) and three Serbian cups.
In the squad, entirely made up of Serbian players and also very young ones, coached by Sinisa Gavrancic, the player with the most experience is the middle-blocker and captain Simic while the most representative player is the opposite Blagojevic (in Molfetta in the Italian league a few seasons ago) . The club's sporting director is Slobodan Boskan, former Trentino Volley spiker in the first two seasons of activity (from 2000 to 2002).

IBB Polonia Londra (England)
Founded in 1973 by two boys of Polish origin, it is the main volleyball club in Great Britain and participates in the Super 8s (the top English championship). At home he won six Scudetti, the last of which in 2019, two National Cups while at the international level the most prestigious success is the NEVZA Cup (an event that compares the main clubs of Northern Europe). What starts in late September will be her fourth participation in the CEV Champions League, in which she has always been eliminated even before the main stage. in the 2017 Challenge Cup it was eliminated as in the 2020 CEV Cup. Although for a short period, the company was also able to count on the Brazilian Giba and the Pole Ignaczak, 2014 World Champion with his national team. The club is twinned with PGE Skra Belchatow, with whom a continuous collaboration has been established which has brought other Polish players into the London squad such as the free Podborączyński and the setter Podborączyński.

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