Volley Piacenza

Italian volleyball club

Volley Piacenza
Founded	1982
Dissolved	2018
Ground	PalaBanca Piacenza, Italy (Capacity: 3,700)
League	Italian Volleyball League

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.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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,^[4] 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
2008
CEV Cup
2006
CEV Challenge Cup
2013
Italian Championship (SuperLega)
2009

2007, 2008, 2013
Italian Cup
2014
Italian SuperCup
2009
Italian Championship Serie A2
2002
Italian Cup Serie A2
2002

Team

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

Team roster – season 2016–2017
LPR Piacenza
No.	Name	Date of birth	Position
1	Loris Manià	(1979-01-27)January 27, 1979	libero
3	Simone Parodi	(1986-06-16)June 16, 1986	outside hitter
4	Aimone Alletti	(1988-06-28)June 28, 1988	middle blocker
6	Samuele Papi	(1973-05-20)May 20, 1973	outside hitter
7	Leonel Marshall Jr.	(1979-09-25)September 25, 1979	outside hitter
10	Georgios Tzioumakas	(1995-01-23)January 23, 1995	outside hitter
11	Hristo Zlatanov	(1976-04-21)April 21, 1976	Outside hitter
12	Viktor Yosifov	(1985-10-16)October 16, 1985	middle blocker
13	Luca Tencati	(1979-03-16)March 16, 1979	middle blocker
14	Raydel Hierrezuelo	(1987-07-14)July 14, 1987	setter
15	Fernando Hernandez	(1989-09-11)September 11, 1989	outside hitter
17	Trevor Clévenot	(1994-06-28)June 28, 1994	outside hitter
18	Francesco Cottarelli	(1996-10-16)October 16, 1996	setter
Head coach: Alberto Giuliani Assistant: Marco Camperi

Notable players

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

References

^ WoV (2015-06-25). "ITA M: Only miracle can save Piacenza, Latina in similar situation". WorldOfVolley. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
^ WoV (2015-05-06). "FRA M: Narbonne avoids relegation and hires Piacenza's coach". WorldOfVolley. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
^ WoV (2015-06-27). "ITA M: Zlatanov and Fei packing things for Milano?". WorldOfVolley. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
^ CEV Challenge Cup 2012/2013 Final Phase ScoresPro.com