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Volley Piacenza

Italian volleyball club

Summary

Italian volleyball club

Field	Value
clubname	Volley Piacenza
founded	1982
dissolved	2018
ground	PalaBanca
Piacenza, Italy
capacity	3,700
league	Italian Volleyball League

Piacenza, Italy

Volley Piacenza was an Italian professional men's volleyball club based in Piacenza, northern Italy. They played in the Italian Volleyball League. The club ceased to exist in 2018 due to financial problems.

Although the club reached the Italian 1st division for the first time only in 2002, after have dominated the Italian 2nd division and winning also the Italian Cup, it has already played 9 finals in Italy, including 5 for the Italian Title(winning only in 2009 versus the strong Trento), 2 for the Italian Cup(won in 2013 and lost in 2006) and 2 for the Italian Supercup (beating Macerata 3–2 in 2009 and losing versus the same team in 2014 again after a tie-break). Piacenza played also a Champion's League final, lost 3–2 in Poland versus Russia's Zenit Kazan, 2 Cev Cup finals (again losing twice) and won 2 other European cups: in 2006 the Top Teams Cup, and in 2013 the Challenge Cup, defeating Ural Ufa from Russia with a 3–0 win in both first and second legs of final, achieving also an impressive 12–0 record, without losing a single set. It's among the strongest teams in Italy and also in Europe since 2003.

Achievements

CEV Champions League
: [[File:Silver medal with cup.svg|16px]] 2008
CEV Cup
: [[File:Gold medal with cup.svg|16px]] 2006
CEV Challenge Cup
: [[File:Gold medal with cup.svg|16px]] 2013
Italian Championship (SuperLega)
: [[File:Gold medal with cup.svg|16px]] 2009
: [[File:Silver medal with cup.svg|16px]] 2007, 2008, 2013
Italian Cup
: [[File:Simple gold cup.svg|16px]] 2014
Italian SuperCup
: [[File:Simple gold cup.svg|16px]] 2009
Italian Championship Serie A2
: [[File:Gold medal with cup.svg|16px]] 2002
Italian Cup Serie A2
: [[File:Simple gold cup.svg|16px]] 2002

Team

Team roster – season 2016–2017	LPR Piacenza	No.	Name	Date of birth	Position

Team roster – season 2016–2017	LPR Piacenza	Name
	ITA Loris Manià	libero
	ITA Simone Parodi	outside hitter
	ITA Aimone Alletti	middle blocker
	ITA Samuele Papi	outside hitter
	ITA Leonel Marshall Jr.	outside hitter
10	GRE Georgios Tzioumakas	outside hitter
11	ITA Hristo Zlatanov	Outside hitter
12	BUL Viktor Yosifov	middle blocker
13	ITA Luca Tencati	middle blocker
14	CUB Raydel Hierrezuelo	setter
15	CUB Fernando Hernandez	outside hitter
17	FRA Trevor Clévenot	outside hitter
18	ITA	setter
Head coach: Alberto Giuliani
Assistant: Marco Camperi

Notable players

2002–2003 SRB Đula Mešter
2003–2004 ITA Simone Rosalba
2003–2004 CUB Osvaldo Hernández
2003–2007 SRB Nikola Grbić
2003–2007, 2008–2010 CUB Leonel Marshall
2003–2008 ITA Vigor Bovolenta
2004–2005 BRA Anderson Rodrigues
2005–2008 ITA Vencislav Simeonov
2006–2008 ITA Paolo Cozzi
2007–2008 FRA Frantz Granvorka
2007–2008 BRA Sérgio Santos
2007–2008 ESP Israel Rodríguez
2006–2010 BRA João Paulo Bravo
2007–2010 SRB Novica Bjelica
2007–2010 ITA Dante Boninfante
2007–2010, 2014–2015 ITA Marco Meoni
2008–2009 ESP Guillermo Falasca
2009–2010 POR Valdir Sequeira
2010–2013 USA Maxwell Holt
2011–2012 BUL Vladimir Nikolov
2011–2012 BUL Andrey Zhekov
2012–2014 CUB Robertlandy Simón
2013–2014 FRA Kévin Le Roux
2014–2014 ITA Valerio Vermiglio
2014–2015 RUS Aleksey Ostapenko
2003–2017 ITA Hristo Zlatanov
2010–2017 ITA Luca Tencati
2011–2017 ITA Samuele Papi

References

WoV. (2015-06-25). "ITA M: Only miracle can save Piacenza, Latina in similar situation".
WoV. (2015-05-06). "FRA M: Narbonne avoids relegation and hires Piacenza’s coach".
WoV. (2015-06-27). "ITA M: Zlatanov and Fei packing things for Milano?".
[http://www.scorespro.com/volleyball/europe/cev-challenge-cup/2012-2013/final-phase/ CEV Challenge Cup 2012/2013 Final Phase] ScoresPro.com

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