Trento, 25 October 2021

Super Cup, notes and statistical curiosities after the success of Civitanova

Here are some statistical curiosities emerged after the Final Four of Del Monte® Super Cup 2021.

5,011. Before the weekend, 25 points were missed to Matey Kaziyski to reach the figure of 5,000 points scored with Trentino Volley jersey. Thanks to 36 points scored between the matches with Perugia (15) and Monza (21), the yellow-blue number 1 has surpassed such figure, confirming himself more and more to be a living legend of the Company, also as regards to the numbers. He has made 338 attendances, registering an incredible average of 14,8 points per match; the next goal for the Bulgarian spiker is the record of official matches played with Trentino Volley: only 8 games are missed to reach it, seeing that the firsts in the list of this special record are Colaci and Birarelli (345). On Sunday 31 October, in the home match with Civitanova (at 18), Kaziyski will reach Andrea Bari (339).

300th AWAY WIN. The win on Monza on Sunday has had significance from a statistical point of view as well. The one at the Eurosuole Forum has been the three hundredth away win of the yellow-blue history; a third of these (100) has been obtained in four sets (3-1). The complete detail speaks of 895 official matches, with 626 wins and 269 defeats. Itas Trentino is also the only Italian team in SuperLega that is undefeated during the season 2021/22: all the others have lost at least one match.

ODD YEARS, A GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS FOR POTKE. Marko Podrascanin has clearly an open matter with the editions of Italian Super Cup that are assigned in the odd years with the modality of the Final Four at the Eurosuole Forum in Civitanova Marche. Curiously, three out of his six wins in this competition arrived in this type of circumstance: 2017 (8 October with Perugia), 2019 (2 November with Perugia), and 2021 (24 October with Trento). The other three arrived in the even years, all with Macerata: 2008, 2012, and 2014.

EUROSUOLE FORUM NOT ANYMORE A TABOO. Until the latest 28 March, the Eurosuole Forum has always been cursed for Trentino Volley, which in the arena of Civitanova Marche has lost all 16 official matches previously played, including three in which it had faced different teams other than the home team (2 with Perugia and one with Modena, always in the Final Four of Super Cup). The win by 3-2 in match 1 of the semifinal of Play Off Scudetto 2021 against Cucine Lube of 28 March has lifted the curse and opened a new history, considering that after Itas Trentino has won two times in the following three matches played in the arena.

10 YEARS FROM THE FIRST TIME. On Sunday evening, Trentino Volley has celebrated the win of the nineteenth title in first team of its history (out of thirty-six played finals), the twenty-ninth overall, taking into account also the ten titles won with the youth sector. It was two years and seven months that the yellow-blue Club didn’t win a competition: the latest dates back to 26 March 2019 (CEV Cup), while to find a title won in Italy we have to go back to 13 March 2015 (fourth championship). The success in Super Cup arrives 10 years after the first win in this competition: first November 2011 in Cagliari, 3-1 on Cuneo. Also in this case the captain was Kaziyski.

HALL OF FAME. With the win at the Eurosuole Forum, Trentino Volley has written its name for the third time in the hall of fame of the manifestation, becoming the fifth Club to win it more times together with Perugia (reached right in this circumstance). Better of the yellow-blue Club is only Treviso with seven wins, followed by Cuneo, Lube, and Modena with four; behind is Piacenza with one.

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