Trento, 08 October 2020

Champions, the qualification at the Main Phase to be played with Moscow and Amriswil

On Thursday evening, the first preliminary round of 2021 CEV Champions League ended, declaring the sixth and last team for the next round. The matches played between 6 and 8 October in Pool E of this phase were of interest for Trentino Itas, which waited to know the third team to face in Pool H of the second preliminary round – the last before the Main Phase (in which eighteen clubs are already qualified, including Civitanova, Perugia and Modena).
So, in the second preliminary round there are Dinamo Mosca (first qualified of Pool D) and Lindaren Volley Amriswil, which on Thursday evening has won the first final place of Pool E, defeating the Belgians from Maaseik by 3-1, after winning by 3-2 against the Belarusians of the Soligorsk on Tuesday.
As it already happened in the first preliminary round, the second will have only a round robin, to be played in one facility, the Sporthalle Tellenfeld of Amriswil (Switzerland), between 27 and 29 October. In Swiss land (where it has already played the last 30 January 2019, winning by 3-0 against Amriswil in CEV Cup), the gialloblù formation will play against Dinamo Mosca on Wednesday 28 October at 19 and the next day at the same time against Amriswil. Also in this case only the first qualified of the Pool will pass the round.

The identikit of the opponents of Trentino Itas in Pool H of the second preliminary round

Dinamo Mosca (Russia)
Always among the main realities of Russian volleyball. Founded in 1926 and temporarily retired from activity between 1994 and 2000, the year in which it reopened its doors, immediately making major technical and economic investments to return to the glorious splendour of the past. All to overcome the severe competition of other rich Companies, like Zenit Kazan, Belogorie Belgorod and Lokomotiv Novosibirsk (teams that recently rise the level of the Champions League). In its history it won five championships of the former Soviet Union (1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1951), two of the new Federal Republic of Russia, the last one won in 2008 (the first in 2006), and then also 3 Soviet Union Cups (1950, 1951, 1952) and two Russia Cups (2006 and 2008).
In palmares, there are three international cups as well: one CEV Cup Winners' Cup (won in the 1984/85 season) and two CEV Cups; the first won in 2011, after eliminating Acqua Paradiso Monza in the semifinal (at the Golden set) and defeating the Polishes from Resovia in the final, the second winning at the golden set against Trentino Volley in 2015. In its Russian history it misses only the most prestigious continental cup, the CEV Champions League, competition in which returns to take part after only one year of absence. Despite having often been present at the Final Four (the last two in 2010 and 2011, in Lodz and Bolzano), it has never won the biggest continental cup.
The team available to the coach Bryanskii can count on a top player like the former Tsvetan Sokolov, collected by Kazan, and other great players like the Belgian spiker Deroo and the middle blocker Vlasov. For the Champions League there is the libero Kerminen (who can’t play in the Russian championship), arrived from Kemerovo as place 4 Podlesnykh.
The estimate of the matches already played with Trentino Volley is in favour for gialloblù by 5-3; the most important is linked to the Final of Champions on 2 May 2010 in Lodz with the success for 3-0 of the gialloblù team.

Lindaren Amriswil (Switzerland)
For tradition and results, Lindaren Volley is among the main realities of Swiss volleyball. Born in 1969, the Club, which refers to Amriswil (town of 13.000 inhabitants, in Canton of Thurgau, near the Lake Constance) started to effectively establish itself on a national level only twenty years later, winning results of increasing level and later disputing the European Cups with great continuity. The one in progress is its second absolute appearance in Champions League, while its participation at CEV Cup was the most frequent (sixteen times), in which the best result ever was obtained in the 2018/19 season, when Trentino Volley stopped it in the quarterfinals (double success for 3-0 between 30 January and 13 February 2019). In its history there are five championships (the last won in 2017) and three Volleyball Supercups; internationally there is one appearance in an edition of Champions League (in 2017, eliminated by Perugia in the qualifying round in Pools) and in five Challenge Cup.
The team, coached by the Dutch Marco Klok (known to Italian volleyball fans for having won a Scudetto as a player in 2000 in Rome and also played in Serie A with the jerseys of Città di Castello, Naples and Forlì) can count on the experience of the middle blocker Stevanovic (Serbian former Novi Sad and Losanna), the physique of the Austrian opposite spiker Zass (already in Friedrichshafen) that divides the attack with the German Höhne and the Swiss Zeller. The setter is the experienced Greek Filippov (former Salonicco, Jastrzebski and Olimpiacos).

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