Trento, 05 March 2024

A reinforcement for the scudetto play-off: french setter Matthieu Garcia from Séte

On the eve of the debut in the Play Off Scudetto 2024, the men's roster of the Itas Trentino Italian Champions is enriched with an additional valuable player in the setter role. Seen the persistence of the indispensability of Riccardo Sbertoli, the club gialloblù has completed today's tesseramento of the French setter Matthieu Garcia, from Arago de Séte. He will be him the alternative in the role of the lift Alessandro Acquarone on which the trainer Fabio Soli will be able to count on the next season weeks, characterized by the series of quarters final Play Off Scudetto with Modena and double confrontation semifinal Champions League with Civitanova.
24years to fulfill next Monday, grew up right in the renowned school ball volleyball Arago de Séte (a society between companies with greater tradition France), Matthieu is a setter who does technique and intelligence tactical his main points force. Despite the young age has already played six seasons maximum transalpine championship, in which has debuted when he was eighteen and already dressed the captain's sash of his company (the youngest in the history of Club to do so).
"We thank Matthieu for the immediate availability that we have offered for guaranteeing a precious contribution when we were short balls," declared the coach Fabio Soli - . Thanks to his arrival could in fact work with an alternative in every role as a match is training, a fundamental factor in the moment in which you play so many matches around a few days and all very important contests as Play Off and Champions League".
Matthieu Garcia is the third French player in the history of Trentino Volleyball, after Renaud Herpe ( outside hitter, gialloblù between 2009 and 2010) and Jenia Grebennikov ( libero in Trento between 2018 and 2020); he will wear the number 19 shirt. He will already be available for Game 1 of the Scudetto Play Off quarter-finals on Wednesday March 6th (8.30 p.m. at the ilT quotidiano Arena against Modena).

The info sheet
MATTHIEU GARCIA
born in Sète (France) on 11 March 2000
184 cm, setter role
2007/18 Arago de Séte (youth) - France
2018/19 Arago de Séte - France
2019/20 Arago de Séte - France
2020/21 Arago de Séte - France
2021/22 Arago de Séte - France
2022/23 Arago de Séte - France
2023/24 Arago de Séte - France
March 2024 Itas Trentino SuperLega

Palmarès
2 French Junior Championships (2016, 2018)
1 French Elite Avenir Championship (2023)

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