«I am highly motivated and honored to arrive in Busto Arsizio to present my volleyball in a sports hall that I love».
Words from Giovanni Caprara the new coach of Uyba Volley.
Born in 1962, with palmares as a “top coach”, Giovanni Caprara will arrive at the E-Work Arena in the next few days to begin «giving strength to the technical project: working hard, every day, in the gym. One of the objectives is to contribute to the constant individual growth of each player, to then benefit from it at team level. There is a path to complete, it will take patience, but I am certainly not backing down.”
Giovanni Caprara then explains what convinced him to choose Uyba: «I received several offers, but when Carmelo Borruto called me I had no doubts. I have known him for many years and I have always “spoken” the same volleyball with him. In agreement with the company we have set up an interesting team. In the next few days I will arrive in Busto for the first contact with the staff members and the players. I am sure that we will lay the foundations to experience a satisfying season together.”
All this in the spaces of the E-Work Arena: «A sports arena that I love, assuring you – underlines Caprara – that it is not a cliché. I have always said, even when I arrived as an opponent, that a unique atmosphere is created in that sports hall. An atmosphere that must be one of our strong points.”
WHO IS GIOVANNI CAPRARA
Born in Medicina, Bologna, on 7 November 1962, Giovanni Caprara rightfully enters the ranks of the most successful coaches in Italian volleyball.
He sat on a bench for the first time in Bergamo, in 1998 as Marco Bonitta’s assistant at the legendary Foppapedretti with whom, in two seasons, he won the scudetto, the European Cup twice and the Italian Super Cup twice.
Caprara returned to Bergamo as first coach and won the scudetto again in 2003-2004, bringing the Orobiche to the throne of the Cev Cup, the Italian Super Cup and, in 2005, the Champions League.
2005 is also the year that sees him at the helm of the Russian national team where he scores a hat-trick: bronze at the 2005 European Championships, gold at the 2006 World Championships and bronze at the 2007 European Championships.
In 2013 he led River Piacenza to the Scudetto for two consecutive championships, 2012-13 and 2013-14, also adding two victories in the Italian Cup and one in the Italian Super Cup.
Having left the confines of the country, Giovanni Caprara is also a protagonist abroad: leading the Turkish team Eczacıbaşı, in 2015 he won the Champions League and the Club World Cup.
Before arriving in Busto Arsizio, Giovanni Caprara managed the Romanian side Târgoviște which he led to their first historic national title in the 2020-21 season.
In his palmares, the new coach of the “Farfalle” also includes the promotion to Serie A1 achieved as coach of Spezzano as well as the Italian Cup and Super Cup won with Reggio Calabria
Giovanni Caprara also coached Asystel Novara (2010-2011, 2011-2012), Villa Cortese (2012-2013), Casalmaggiore (2016-2017, 2017-2018), San Casciano (2018-2019, 2019-2020)
From 2009 to 2011 he was Technical Commissioner of the Greek national team, in 2019 he led the Azerbaijan national team and at the end of the same year he moved to the Netherlands national team where he remained until March 2020
He also participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympics when he was Russia’s coach, taking 5th place.
One last curiosity: in 2001, as coach of Virtus Reggio Calabria, Caprara won the scudetto which was later revoked by Fipav due to the irregular registration of a player.
