Trento, 06 July 2024

Younger, more physical, more international: Itas Trentino's 2024/25 roster

With the official signing of Brazilian middle blocker Flavio Gualberto, Trentino Volley completed the men's roster for the 2024/25 season.
The operations completed in recent weeks have confirmed the choice made in the last two seasons, with fourteen players at the disposal of the coaching staff and a replacement for each member of the starting line-up: two setters (Acquarone and Sbertoli), two opposite players (Gaby Garcia and Rychlicki), two liberos (Laurenzano and Pesaresi), four spikers (Bristot, Lavia, Magalini and Michieletto) and four middle blockers (Bartha, Flavio Gualberto, Kozamernik and Pellacani).  
Compared to previous seasons, however, coach Fabio Soli will have a roster with even more marked characteristics, confirming with further authority the line that the management has already taken in the last period. The team at his disposal will be younger (24.5 years of average age against the 24.7 of the 2023/24 team), more physical (the average height has grown by half a centimetre - 197.6 to 197.1, also thanks to the addition of a 'tower' like Pellacani - 211 centimetres) and more international, thanks to the presence of an extra foreign player (4 against the 3 of the previous season). In this regard, the most multi-ethnic sector of the court will certainly be the centre of the net, with three elements coming from abroad (Brazil, Romania, and Slovenia) and one directly from the youth sector. In the roles of setter, libero, and spiker, on the other hand, the focus will be exclusively on Italian athletes, as was the case in the previous season.
Itas Trentino 2024/25 will still be one of the most indigenous rosters in yellow-blue history; only in the previous season (2023/24), which culminated with the Champions League victory, were there fewer foreign players. This equalled the figure recorded in the 2001/02, 2002/03, 2016/17 and 2021/22 seasons. Also, no less than seven of the ten Italian athletes on the roster have worn or are still wearing the Azzurri jersey this summer: Lavia, Laurenzano, Magalini, Michieletto and Sbertoli with the Seniores National Team; Pellacani and Bristot with the Under-22 and Under-20 Selection respectively.
The start of preparation is scheduled for the beginning of August, with reduced ranks: all the players still committed with their respective National teams will be missing, but there will already be important elements such as Acquarone, Bartha, Magalini, Pellacani, Pesaresi and Rychlicki. At the beginning of September, then, training will start with the complete roster.

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