Trentino Volley

Diatec Trentino

Full name	Diatec Trentino
Founded	2000
Ground	PalaTrento Trento, Italy (Capacity: 4,360)
Chairman	Diego Mosna
Manager	Angelo Lorenzetti
League	Italian Volleyball League
Uniforms
Home Away

Trentino Volley

Medal record
Club World Championship
	2009 Doha
	2010 Doha
	2011 Doha
	2012 Doha
	2013 Betim
	2016 Betim
CEV Champions League
	2008/2009 Prague
	2009/2010 Łódź
	2010/2011 Bolzano
	2015/2016 Kraków
	2011/2012 Łódź
CEV Cup
	2014/2015
Italian Volleyball League
	2007/2008
	2010/2011
	2012/2013
	2014/2015
	2008/2009
	2009/2010
	2011/2012
Italian Volleyball Cup
	2009/2010
	2011/2012
	2012/2013
	2010/2011
	2014/2015
	2015/2016
Italian Super Cup
	2011
	2013
	2008
	2010
	2012

Diatec Trentino is a professional Italian volleyball team based in Trento, in northern Italy. It plays in the Italian Volleyball League without interruption since 2000. It has won four times the Italian Volleyball League, the Italian Cup, the Italian Super Cup, three consecutive times the CEV Champions League and a record four consecutive times the FIVB Men's Club World Volleyball Championship. In the 2010–11 season it won national, continental and world championship. It is the first and only one team in volleyball history to have done that. Trentino is ranked 2nd (as of October 2016) in the Men's European clubs ranking.^[1]

Trentino Volley is a Joint stock company, and its president is Diego Mosna.^[2] The company has a budget of 4,500,000 euros and about 225 employees.^[3] The actions of the company was awarded at continental level with the acknowledgment Testimonial of the Year at the Sport Business Ambitions Awards 2010 and the awarding of the 2010–11 Champions League Final Four, held at PalaOnda, Bolzano.

History

First trophies of Trentino Club

Trentino Volley SpA was founded on May 23, 2000;^[4] and two days later, it purchased the rights to play in the Serie A1 (Italy's First Division) from Ravenna, that had retired due to financial problems. The club played its first Serie A1 match in Parma on October 15, 2000, against Maxicono Parma, and was defeated 3–0.^[5] The first home match of the Trentino Volley was played on October 22, 2000, against Padova, and the home team came out victorious with a result of 3–2.^[6]

During its first two seasons, the team managed a tenth,^[7] and a ninth^[8] place finish at the end of the regular season.

Players acquired by the team in his first Italian Serie A years included Lorenzo Bernardi and Andrea Sartoretti. In the summer of 2007 Trentino Volley made substantial purchases, as part of a strategy that would focus on a young team with talented players, such as Serbian Nikola Grbić, Bulgarians Vladimir Nikolov and Matey Kaziyski and Italian Emanuele Birarelli. Itas Trentino Diatec ended the following regular season with a first-place finish, and stepped into the finals. On May 7, 2008 Trentino Volley defeated Piacenza 3–0,^[9] to win its first national championship title, and gain access to the CEV Champions League 2008–2009.

Trento run undefeated in the pool stages, with a first-place finish in Group E. On April 5, 2009, at the O2 Arena in Prague, Trento defeated Iraklis Thessaloniki 3–1 in the final.^[10] In 2009, the team flew to Doha (Qatar), to compete in the FIVB Men's Club World Volleyball Championship. On Sunday November 8, Trentino Betclic won the final, with a score of 3–0^[11] against the Poles of Skra Bełchatów, and became FIVB Club World Champion. In 2010, it won the Italian Cup and then successfully defended its Champions League title with a 3–0 victory (25–12,25–20, 25–21) over Dynamo Moscow.

Former names

2000–2001	Itas Gruppo Diatec Trentino
2001–2013	Itas Diatec Trentino
2013–2014	Diatec Trentino
2014–2015	Energy T.I. Diatec Trentino
2015–present	Diatec Trentino

Symbols

Logo club in the Building of the Trentino

Club logos and brand names are composed of a red ball. The eagle is the symbol of the club, Autonomous province of trento is the club's flag.^[12]

Team

2016–2017

Team roster – season 2016/2017
Diatec Trentino
No.	Name	Date of birth	Position
2	Gabriele Nelli	December 4, 1993	opposite
3	Matteo Burgsthaler	February 18, 1981	middle blocker
4	Oleg Antonov	July 28, 1988	outside hitter
5	Tiziano Mazzone	July 22, 1995	outside hitter
6	Alessandro Blasi	March 22, 1992	setter
8	Matteo Chiappa	July 6, 1993	libero
9	Simone Giannelli	August 9, 1996	setter
10	Filippo Lanza	March 3, 1991	outside hitter
11	Sebastián Solé	June 12, 1991	middle blocker
12	Simon Van De Voorde	December 19, 1989	middle blocker
13	Massimo Colaci	February 21, 1985	libero
14	Jan Štokr	January 16, 1983	outside hitter
17	Tine Urnaut	September 3, 1988	outside hitter
18	Daniele Mazzone	June 4, 1992	middle blocker
Head coach: Angelo Lorenzetti Assistant: Dario Simoni

Team roster – season 2015/2016
Diatec Trentino
No.	Name	Date of birth	Position
1	Kaziyski, MateyMatey Kaziyski	September 23, 1984	outside hitter
2	Nelli, GabrieleGabriele Nelli	December 4, 1993	opposite
4	Antonov, OlegOleg Antonov	July 28, 1988	outside hitter
6	Bratoev, GeorgiGeorgi Bratoev	October 21, 1987	setter
8	De Angelis, CarloCarlo De Angelis	January 10, 1996	libero
9	Giannelli, SimoneSimone Giannelli	August 9, 1996	setter
10	Lanza, FilippoFilippo Lanza	March 3, 1991	outside hitter
11	Solé, SebastianSebastian Solé	June 12, 1991	middle blocker
12	Tzourits, MitarMitar Tzourits	April 25, 1989	opposite
13	Colaci, MassimoMassimo Colaci	February 21, 1985	libero
14	Van De Voorde, SimonSimon Van De Voorde	December 19, 1989	middle blocker
16	Mazzone, TizianoTiziano Mazzone	July 22, 1995	outside hitter
17	Urnaut, TineTine Urnaut	September 3, 1988	outside hitter
18	Mazzone, DanieleDaniele Mazzone	June 4, 1992	middle blocker
Head coach: Radostin Stoychev Assistant: Dario Simoni

Coach history

• 2000–2003 · Bruno Bagnoli
• 2003–2005 · Silvano Prandi
• 2004–2005 · Andrea Burattini^[13]
• 2005–2007 · Radames Lattari
• 2007–2013 · Radostin Stoychev
• 2013–2014 · Roberto Serniotti
• 2014–2016 · Radostin Stoychev
• 2013–2014 · Angelo Lorenzetti

Notable players

1999–2001 Enrique de la Fuente 2000–2001 Igor Shulepov 2000–2002 Konstantin Ushakov 2000–2002 Slobodan Boškan 2000–2002 Đula Mešter 2001–2005 Paolo Tofoli 2002–2003 Igor Vušurović 2002–2004 Lorenzo Bernardi 2002–2004 Aleksey Kazakov 2002–2005 Andrea Sartoretti 2004–2005 Goran Vujević 2004–2007 André Heller 2005–2006 Ryan Millar 2005–2007 André Nascimento

2005–2007 Marco Meoni 2006–2009 Michał Winiarski 2007–2008 Vladimir Nikolov 2007–2009 Nikola Grbić 2007–2013 2014–2015 Matey Kaziyski 2007–2015 Emanuele Birarelli 2008–2010 Leandro Vissotto 2008–2012 2014–2015 Łukasz Żygadło 2009–2010 2010–2013 Osmany Juantorena 2009–2012 2013–2014 Tsvetan Sokolov 2009–2013 Raphael Vieira de Oliveira

2010–present Massimo Colaci 2011–present Filippo Lanza

Stadium

One match in PalaTrento

The PalaTrento arena has always been the place where the club's at home games have been disputed, ever since its opening in 2000 during the first at home game in the history of Trentino Volley (Itas Diatec Trentino-European Padua 3–2 on October 22, 2000), The arena is in the south of the city of Trento on the Ghiaie sport groundsthat also includes the PalaGhiaccio, a football field, and a ballpark.^[14]

Kit providers

The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Trentino team.

Period	Kit provider
2000–	Mikasa Kappa Erreà

Sponsorship

Primary sponsors include: main sponsors like Diatec Group other sponsors: Volkswagen, Consorzio Melinda, Dorigoni Trento, Scania, Mediocredito Italiano, McDonald's, Intesa Sanpaolo, Marzadro Distillery, Südtiroler Volksbank, Grand Hotel Trento, Sparco, Forst, Superpoli, Menz & Gasser and Policura.

Notes

1. Eurotopteams
2. "Elezione di Diego Mosna alla lega pallavolo" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
3. "Intervista a Diego Mosna" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
4. "Storia dell'Itas Diatec Trentino" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
5. "legavolley.it – 1a giornata 2000–2001" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
6. "legavolley.it – 2a giornata 2000–2001" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
7. "Classifica stagione 2000–2001" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
8. "Classifica stagione 2001–2002" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
9. "L'Itas è Campione d'Italia" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
10. "Trento-Salonicco 5 aprile 2009" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
11. "PGE Skra Bełchatów-Trentino BetClic" (in Italian). Retrieved 2010-02-26.
12. Symbol
13. dall'8 marzo 2005, dopo l'esonero di Silvano Prandi

External links

• Official website