Trentino Volley

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 was the first team in volleyball history to have done that.

Diatec Trentino
Full nameDiatec Trentino
Founded2000
GroundPalaTrento
Trento, Italy
(Capacity: 4,360)
Chairman Diego Mosna
Manager Angelo Lorenzetti
LeagueItalian Volleyball League
Uniforms
Home
Away

Trentino Volley is a Joint stock company, and its president is Diego Mosna.[1] The company has a budget of 4,500,000 euros and about 225 employees.[2] 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.

Achievements
European memorial banner

History
First trophies of Trentino Club

Trentino Volley was founded on May 23, 2000;[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] Trentino Volley are by far the most successful side in the history of the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Club World Championship, having won the title a total of four times. However, the Italian club, founded in 2000 and based in the city of Trento in the northeast of the country, only managed a bronze in 2013, were knocked out during pool play in 2014 (ending up 5th) and missed out on the 2015 edition of the competition. During its first two seasons, the team managed a tenth,[6] and a ninth[7] 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,[8] 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.[9] 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[10] 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
2000–2001Itas Gruppo Diatec Trentino
2001–2013Itas Diatec Trentino
2013–2014Diatec Trentino
2014–2015Energy T.I. Diatec Trentino
2015–presentDiatec 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.[11]

Team

Coach history
Stoytchev with Mosna
Years (seasons) Coach Matches Win Lost Titles won
2000 – 2003 (3) Bruno Bagnoli884048
2003 – 2005 (2) Silvano Prandi613823
2005 (1) Andrea Burattini1037
2005 – 2007 (2) Radames Lattari643133
2007 – 2013 (6) Radostin Stoytchev2932444914 (3x 3x 1x 3x 4x )
2013 – 2014 (1) Roberto Serniotti4729181x
2014 – 2016 (2) [note 1] Radostin Stoytchev9675211x
2016 – present Angelo Lorenzetti156110461x 1x

Notable players

Individual records
  • Number of matches
Matches Player Position Seasons
345 Emanuele BirarelliC2007–2015 (8)
Massimo ColaciL2010–present (7)
339 Andrea BariL2005–2013 (8)
334 Matey KaziyskiR/A2007–2013 & 2014–16 (8)
252 Filippo LanzaR/A2011–present (6)
215 Dore Della LungaR/A2005–2009 & 2010–2012 (6)
193 Osmany JuantorenaR/A2009–2013 (4)
191 Łukasz ŻygadłoA2008–2012 & 2014–2015 (5)
RaphaelA2009–2013 (4)
Jan ŠtokrO2010–2013 & 2016–2017 (4)
  • Points Record
Points Player Position Seasons
4945 Matey KaziyskiR/A2007–2013 & 2014–16 (8)
2622 Osmany JuantorenaR/A2009–2013 (4)
2539 Emanuele BirarelliC2007–2015 (8)
2535 Jan ŠtokrO2010–2013 y 2016–2017 (4)
2301 Filippo LanzaR/A2011–present (6)
1425 Tsvetan SokolovO2009–2012 & 2013–14 (4)
1401 Mitar Djuric [note 2]C/O2011–2013 & 2014–16 (4)
1362 Leandro VissottoO2008–2010 (2)
1209 Andrea SartorettiO2003–2005 (3)
1191 Michał WiniarskiR/A2006–2009 (3

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.[12]

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. Total de Stoytchev: 8 temporadas, 389 partidos, 319 ganados, 70 perdidos y 15 títulos ganados.
  2. En la temporada 2014–15 Djuric disputó solamente los playoff sumando 9 partidos y 119 puntos.
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    gollark: Lots!
    gollark: There are other rules. Weird ones. Stupid ones. Unlisted ones. Arbitrary ones.
    gollark: I can probably do >4 aeons, though not very neatly.
    gollark: *since technically they both have wants...*

    References
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    2. "Intervista a Diego Mosna" (in Italian). Retrieved February 26, 2010.
    3. "Storia dell'Itas Diatec Trentino" (in Italian). Archived from the original on September 26, 2009. Retrieved February 26, 2010.
    4. "legavolley.it – 1a giornata 2000–2001" (in Italian). Retrieved February 26, 2010.
    5. "legavolley.it – 2a giornata 2000–2001" (in Italian). Retrieved February 26, 2010.
    6. "Classifica stagione 2000–2001" (in Italian). Retrieved February 26, 2010.
    7. "Classifica stagione 2001–2002" (in Italian). Retrieved February 26, 2010.
    8. "L'Itas è Campione d'Italia" (in Italian). Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved February 26, 2010.
    9. "Trento-Salonicco 5 aprile 2009" (in Italian). Archived from the original on January 8, 2011. Retrieved February 26, 2010.
    10. "PGE Skra Bełchatów-Trentino BetClic" (in Italian). Archived from the original on November 11, 2009. Retrieved February 26, 2010.
    11. "Symbol".
    12. pubblicita, Prima. "BLM Group Arena".
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