Italy Serie A1 2009-2010

PIACENZA
Leonel Marshall O (CUB)
Valdir Sequeira O (POR)
Novica Bjelica C (SRB)
Matti Oivanen C (FIN)
Michal Rak C (CEK)
Joao Bravo S (BRA)
Michele Grassano S
Tine Urnaut S (SLO)
Hristo Zlatanov S
Dante Boninfante P
Marco Meoni P
Gianluca Durante L
Simone Mazza L
Angelo Lorenzetti All.

MACERATA
Andrea Bartoletti O
Igor Omrcen O (CRO)
Martin Lebl C (CEK)
Marko Podrascanin C (SRB)
Matias Raymaekers C (BEL)
Alberto Cisolla S
Matteo Martino S
Alessandro Paparoni S
Sebastian Swiderski S (POL)
Natale Monopoli P
Valerio Vermiglio P
Mirko Corsano L
Lorenzo Smerilli L
Ferdinando De Giorgi All.

CUNEO
Andrea Ariaudo O
Vladimir Nikolov O (BUL)
Francesco Fortunato C
Gregor Jeroncic C
Luigi Mastrangelo C
Simone Parodi S
Giuseppe Patriarca S
Janis Peda S (LET)
Wout Wijsmans S
Nikola Grbic P (SRB)
Marco Nuti P
Hubert Henno L (FRA)
Francesco Pieri L
Alberto Giuliani All.

PERUGIA
Martin Nemec O (SLV)
Jan Stokr O (CEK)
Massimo Botti C
Vigor Bovolenta C
Stefan Hubner C (GER)
Matej Cernic S
Marco Lo Bianco S
Frantisek Ogurcak S (SLV)
Cristian Savani S
Luca Bucaioni P
Giacomo Sintini P
Fabio Fanuli L
Damiano Pippi L
Andrea Sartoretti All.

MONZA(Former MONTICHIARI, same sponsor but city changed)
Francesco De Luca O
Mauro Gavotto O
Simone Buti C
Marcello Forni C
Andrea Semenzato C
Matteo Pesenti S
Jan Rauwerdink S (NED)
Urpo Sivula S (FIN)
Jari Tuominen S (FIN)
Davis Krumins P
Dragan Travica P
Jean Exiga L (FRA)
Giuseppe Zito L
Mauro Berruto All.

TREVISO
Alessandro Fei O
Giulio Sabbi O
Rob Bontje C (NED)
Giorgio De Togni C
Emanuel Kohut C (SLV)
Juan Cuda S (ARG)
Robert Horstink S (NED)
Gabriele Maruotti S
Samuele Papi S
Bertrand Carletti P (FRA)
Ricardo Garcia P (BRA)
Alessandro Farina L
Gregorio Vanin L
Roberto Piazza All.

VERONA
Philip Holt O (USA)
Michal Lasko O
Valerio Curti C
Daniel Howard C (AUS)
Matteo Mosterts C
Dore Della Lunga S
Jordan Galabinov S (BUL)
Jiri Kovar S
Robert Kromm S (GER)
Michele Groppi P
Daniele Sottile P
Massimo Colaci L
Maurizio Latelli L
Bruno Bagnoli All.

MODENA
Francesco Biribanti O
Angel Dennis O
Wytze Kooistra C (NED)
Filippo Pagni C
Marco Piscopo C
Cristian Casoli S
Luis Diaz S (VEN)
Dick Kooy S (NED)
Domotor Meszaros S (HUN)
Mikko Esko P (FIN)
Fabio Soli P
Edoardo Ciabiattini L
Loris Manià L
Silvano Prandi All.

LORETO
Kay Van Dijk O (NED)
Cristian Vigilante O
Enrico Cester C
Alessandro Paoli C
Konstantin Shumov C (FIN)
Filippo Belcecchi S
Andrej Diachkov S (UKR)
Ludovico Dolfo S
Rodrigo Freitas S (BRA)
Marco Marzola P
Marco Visentini P
Davide Marra L
Luca Moretti All.

TARANTO
Suxho P (USA)
Rodrigo Pinto O (BRA)
Cozzi C
Elia C
Abbadi S (BRA)
Cleber S (BRA)
Ricciardello L
Quartarone P
Moretti O
Candellaro C
Montagna L
Spescha S

LATINA
Saitta P
Giombini O
Geric C (SER)
Gitto C
Snippe S (NED)
Vujevic S (MON)
Giovi L
Cortina L
Fabroni P
Spairani C
van den Dries O (NED)
Nikic S (SER)

O= Opposite S= Spiker C=Middle-Blocker L=Libero P=Setter All=Coach

***it misses still one team.
the 14th team will be Pineto or Forlì, there's a discussion about it because Pineto has some economic problems and Forlì wants the right to stay in A1 because they say they are regular whereas Pineto break the rules.

Quote from YavorD

As I read in http://www.volleyball.it the case between Pineto and Forli ended in favour of Forli, but I don't know whether this is the final decision by the federation.

i confirm and i add that this is the last decision, so official.
soon the roster of Forlì

Quote from Richard

Just want to point out that Van den Dries is Belgian, not Dutch.

sorry, my fault

YOGA VOLLEY FORLì

MENGOZZI Daniele S
COSCIONE Manuel P
CARROL Paul S (AUS)
POPP Marcus S (GER)
STANCU Sergiu C (ROM)
AINSWORTH Graydon P (CAN)
GJORGIEV Nikola O (MKD)
DE PANDIS Daniele L
BIANCHI Juri L
DAMASSA Nicola C
CASADEI Alberto O
LOGLISCI Marco C
MARIC Goran S (SRB)
MORETTI Daniele C

here in Italy we say "there's no end for the worse"....

Pineto re-admitted by the federal court in Serie A1 so now we have 15 teams...interesting, a team that doesn't pay players can compete in A1...
Forlì who gained the right to play in A1 weeks ago of course now don't want to play in A2, also because they bought good players.
so what to do?
the schedule was already done....without Pineto....and now???
re-make it with 15 teams so that at evey round one team doesn't play and rest or what???
incredible....i feel ashamed for my league...

mmmh it's a big fight..
many people says that you, french, and we, italian, are very similar...maybe they're not so wrong
but anyway i think your situation is a bit better than ours...at least your league has a number equal of teams...

meanwhile my Copra has announced the new main sponsor: our name is going to change from last season's COPRA NORDMECCANICA PIACENZA into COPRA ATLANTIDE PIACENZA

ok Yates, i think your situation is worse than ours
i didn't expect anyway....

Quote from Justyna

SuperCup of Italy

Sunday, 20 September at 6pm

of course tomorrow i'm going to follow my guys in this exciting event.
I think we can be in a better condition than Macerata, because they miss Swiderski for an injury, and because Martino and Cisolla come from a very bad european championship with our national team.
Copra has played 5 tests match in these days, winning 3, drawing one( 2-2 versus Treviso) and loosing one at tie-break wihout Zlatanov.
I saw the team very concentrated and motivated for this match...i'm faithful, but as it's the first match of the season it's quite unpredictable.
Our line-up should be: Meoni-Marshall, Bjelica-Rak, Zlatanov-Bravo, Durante. The only doubt i have is on Bravo, maybe Lorenzetti will choose Urnaut at last minute, he played very good last test versus Treviso (3-1).

Tv broadcasting: RaiSport+(for this year Rai has bought the rights to broadcast volleyball here, and i'm very disappointed cause Sky Sport offered a perfect service, whereas i have many doubts on Rai....)

Quote from Raul

Of course, lets wait Copra fan to see his corner of view

here i am!
a bit asleep...(1200 km in one day)but sooo happy!
yeah as Raul said this match could have ended 3-0 with a bit more attention in the second set...then in the third one my team accused the loss of the second set but in the fourth and overall in the last one our strength came out(especially mentality strength i would say)
Urnaut simply confirmed my opinions over him, he's a little phenom! with a good trainer as Lorenzetti is, he can become a real champion
The difference anyway was made as i already said by our mentality, now we have the right mentality of the winners, we have no more fear, and in the topic moments this is incredibly important, and besides the tie-break ended 20-18
first set almost perfect, Lube can't even make a single break of 2 points in a row! then some mistakes of Marshall and Zlatanov and a good Macerata i have to say it(congratulations to them cause they are always a very good team), let the match stay in balance...but the same Marshall and Zlatanov, with the help of Urnaut, Bjelica and Meoni(3 aces!!! ) gave us this great cup.
begin a season in this way is amazing
we showed that we are not satisfied of the victory of last year, but we want to have victories over victories...i hope as Treviso did in these last 10 years, but i would be glad also even if we would win the half of their titles... veeeery hard but with these players, and a heart like this, nothing is impossible i would say, even if the opponents are so strong
great Copra!

Quote from Shadow

Congratulations to Copra Piacenza. Another win in a final. It seems that the team is developing a winning mentality, which is very important. On the contrary, Macerata didn't make it through an important game once more.

I have a couple of questions for you, Copra. First, why didn't Bravo play? Is he injured or what? And secondly, I want to know how Marshall performs as an opposite. Do you think he can be successful to his new role?

thanks so much Shadow
to answer your questions: Bravo was injured(how new for my team ) but this year we have an amazing substitute, which is Tine Urnaut, so at the moment i'm not angry...and anyway Bravo's injury is not so bad so he can recover for the first match of the league.
About Marshall...he was born as an opposite...so let's say that this is his natural role. He only needs to "remind" how to play in this side of the field, cause he did the spiker for the last 7-8 years. Anyway last sunday he played really good, so i'm quite optimistic on what he can do this year. We won the title last year when Lorenzetti turned Marshall into the opposite role and let Bravo play in the starting six as spiker...

Quote from Shadow

Good luck and I wish you to have a great season in Italy and Europe.

Thanks so much, i wish the same to Ira and your amazing supporters
hope to meet next year in champions league!