Betim (Brazil), 07 December 2021

Club World Championship, the 2021 edition starts in Betim

The 2021 edition of the Club World Championship starts today, on Tuesday 7 December. The Championship will take place this time in Betim, Brazil. Trentino Volley (with the official name of Trentino Itas that will be used for the entire event) will be the main character for the ninth time in the history of the colourful tournament, included in the Pool B (group phase).
The yellow-blue formation will play the two matches of the first phase at half past midnight once again, Tuesday 9 (against the Iranian team of Fooland Sirjan) and Friday 10 December (against the hosting team of Sada Cruzeiro). Both matches will be aired live by Sky Sport Arena and via live streaming on the platform OTT Volleyball World Tv.
THE FORMULA OF THE GAME. The World Cup Championship 2021 is divided in a first group phase and a following Final Four. In the first phase, the six participating teams are divided in two Pools. In group A were drawn Civitanova, UOCN (Argentina) and Fuvic (Brazil), while in Group B there are Trentino Itas, Foolad Sirjan (Iran) and Sada Cruzeiro (Brazil). The first two classified in each group qualify for the semifinal.
THE ENTIRE PROGRAM (Italian timetable). Tuesday 7 December, 2021: at 22 p.m. Funvic Taubatè-Upcn San Jaun. Wednesday 8 December 2021: at 1.30 a.m. Sada Cruzeiro-Foolad Sirjan, at 21 p.m. Cucine Lube Civitanova-UPCN San Juan. Thursday 9 December, 2021: at 0.30 a.m. Foolad Sirjan-Trentino Itas, at 21. p.m. Cucine Lube Civitanova-Funvic Taubatè.
Friday 10 December,2021: at 0.30 a.m. Sada Cruzeiro-Trentino Itas, at 21 p.m.: first semifinal. Saturday 11 December, 2021: at 0.30 a.m.: second semifinal, at 21 p.m.: final for the third place. Sunday 12 December, 2021: at 0.30. a.m.: final for the World Championship title 2021.
HERE TRENTINO ITAS. All the yellow-blue formation will be there for the second international event of its season and it does it after getting perfectly over the time zone and the tiredness of the previous days. Tiredness derived by a travel, from last Saturday and Sunday, that took twenty hours to arrive to Brazil directly from Perugia.
“Not every years we have the opportunity to play a tournament of such level and importance and that’s why we are honoured to be able to play it. However, at the same time we are motivated because for us Betim represents an opportunity to grow through more and more difficult matches”, pointed out the trainer Angelo Lorenzetti.
“We are perfectly aware of our opponents in the group, but we know there will be two very difficult events: Foolad is a team that we must study also while we are playing against it, because we don’t know much about how the team plays, while Sada is very competitive and will benefit from a strong support also from the room point of view. We want to achieve a big result and we will give everything we have to achieve it”.
In the eight previous participations at the Club World Championship, the debut was positive in seven of these. The only negative memory is the one of the 2014 edition (defeat for 0-3 against Al-Rayan). The previous positive matches are related to 3-1 at Zamalek in the 2009 edition, 3-0 at Dinamo Mosca in the 2010 edition, 3-0 at Al Ahly in the one of 2011, 3-2 at Al-Rayyan in 2012, 3-1 at Kalleh in 2013, 3-0 at Minas Tenis Clube in 2016, 3-0 at Ardakan in 2018.
Among the yellow-blue team there are only four players that have already played a colourful event for the club and interesting enough, all of them have already won at least once, always with Trento: Kaziyski (4, from 2009 to 2012), Cavuto, De Angelus and Lisinac (1, in 2018).
THE HISTORY OF TRENTINO VOLLEY IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS. The adventure that starts today in Brazil is number nine for Trentino Volley in the Club Wold Championship, that in this competition can already boast five achievement (the one achieved the 8th November 2009, the one of 21st December 2010, the one of 14th October 2011, the one of 19th October 2012, all in Doha, and the one of 2nd December 2018 in Czestochowa) and two third places (Betim 2013 and 2016) with an enviable track record made of thirty-four victories out of thirty-eight matches played. Only in the 2014 edition (finished in fifth place) Trento was not on the podium.
The Club Wold Championship 2021 is the twentieth extra-national event of the history of the Society of Trener street: in total we must count also the eleven participations in Champions League (won three times from 2009 to 2011), the European double experience of 2004/05 season, first in Top Teams Cup (where the team was eliminated by the Dutch team Ortec Nesselande Rotterdam in the preliminary phase played at PalaTrento) and in CEV Cup, where the team was eliminated by the Turkish team Halbank Ankara, the ones of 2015/16, 2016/17 (second place behind Moscow and Tours) and 2018 (final victory) again in CEV Cup.
In total, the matches that were played by Trentino Volley in the international events are 183, with 150 victories and 33 defeats. Out of 114 games played abroad in only twenty-three cases there was a defeat.
FIRST OPPONENT: FOOLAD SIRJAN (9 December, at 0.30 a.m.). The team entered for the first time in its history thanks to the victory in the Asian Champions League 2021, obtained on 15 October this year in Thailand, winning in the final with a score of 3-1 against Al Arabi (Qatar). The formation of Sirjan (city of 200.000 citizens in the south of Iran) represents its continent in Betim at the end of an unforgettable year, where last March the team obtained the victory of the first national title in its history.
The trainer Rezaj has a roster of many players of the Iranian national team. Among them there are the setter Alireza and Middle Blocker Tashakori, in pink also the opposite Hitter Blagojevic (ex Molfetta), taken from Novi Sad during the summer. On the other hand, two players of great skills such as the hammer of the high ball Kazemi (mvp of last Champions League) and the Libero Mojtaba will be absent, both out because of physical problems.
It is the fourth different Irinian team that Trentino Volley meet in its history, with two previous games with Paykan Teheran and one with Ardakan and Kalleh (always defeated). The roster: 1. Allah Verdian Sahand (c), 2. Jalveh Ghaziani Mahdi (c), 3. Blagojevic Aleksandar (o), 5.D erakhshan Amirhossein (p), 6. Abedini Reza (c), 8. Shahsavari Nejad Rasoul (l), 9. Daneshdoust Ehsan (s), 10. Sadeghi Malati Mohammad (s), 12. Gholizad Mojtaba (s), 13. Behbodi Alireza (p), 14. Esfandiar Amirhossein (s), 18. Tashakori Armin (c), 20. Heydari Mostafa (l). All. Saeid Rezaei.
SECOND OPPONENT: SADA CRUZEIRO (10 December, at 0.30 a.m.). It is the team that plays the colourful tournament at home, situated in Belo Horizonte. The team obtained for the umpteenth time the pass to take part in the Club Wolrd Championship thanks to the victory of the 2019 continental title (number six), the last one played in South America.
After Trentino Volley (which played against Safa Cruzeiro in three occasions, winning in all of them: twice in Doha in 2012 and once in Rzeszow in 2018), it is the Society that subscribed its name the most in the golden register of the event. Three times thanks to the successes in 2013, 2015 and 2016. In the notice board, the team can also count on six Brazilian titles and six Brazil Cup (the last one won this years), but laso on two silver medals (2012 ans 2019) and one of bronze (2017).
It has recently won the Brazilian Supercup (thanks to a score of 3-0 against Taubatè) and the twelfth consecutive title of Mineiro. The pink team can count on well-known names of the international landscape, most important of all the Opposite Hitter Wallace (this summer back in the roster), who plays oblique to the Middle Hitter of Selecao Cachopa. Among the others, we also have to point out the Middle Blocker Isac, the Spiker Rodriguinho and the Liber Lukinha, all in the national Group.
The trainer is Pilipe Ferraz, who finished his career as a player in April this year, after winning on the field 39 titles with the Tshirt od Sada and now takes Mendez place. The roster: 1. Oppenkoski Welinton (o), 3. Provenzano Joao de Deus Lucas (l), 4. Rodrigues Pinto Otávio Henrique (c), 5. Loh Lucas Eduardo (s), 6. Rech Guilherme (c), 8. De Souza Wallace (o), 10. Batista Cledenílson Souza (c), 11. Leao Rodrigo (s), 12. Santos Isac (c), 14. Gil Kreling Fernando (p), 16. Kehl Bauer Lucas (l), 17. Resley Rosa Rhendrick (p), 18. Provensi Matias (s), 19. Lopez Castro Miguel Angel (s). All. Filipe Augusto Ferraz.
THE REFEREES. The Fivb pubblished the list of the six referees called to supervise the match, however without declaring the designation of each match. The list includes the Greek Epaminondas Gerothodoros (who interesting enough met Trento last Thursday in Perugia in Champions League), the Mexican Luis Gerardo Macias, the Bulgarian Ivaulo Ivanov, the Dominican Yuri R. Ramirez Ortiz, the Canadian Scott Dziewirz, the Puerto Rican Hector Ortiz.
MEDIA. Sky Sport will be the television that will air live and in exclusive the Club World Championship 2021. The main Italian satellite network assured itself the rights of the event and will broadcast live the matches of Cucine Lube Civitanova and Trentino Itas on teh Sky Sport Arena channel, available on every type of divice thanks to the applications SkyyGo and Now
Each match of the tournament will be aired also via live streaming video on the platform OTT “Volleyball World Tv”, the same that airs SuperLega, the service is for a fee. For more informations on how to use it you can go on www.welcome.volleyballworld.tv/faq-it.
Moreover, on the Internet the updates point-to-point will be controlled by the website dedicated to Fivb at the event (https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/club-world-championship-men-2021/), by the same www.trentinovolley.it and also the Social Network of the yellow-blue team will be active (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook, www.trentinovolley.it/instagram and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).

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