TRENT – The operation officially starts on Friday 3 May “SuperFinal” of the Champions League for Trentino Itas.
Around 9.30 in the morning the yellow-blue team will meet at the IlT Daily Arena to set off towards Antalya, a destination which will be reached by plane with a charter flight departing from Villafranca (Verona).
Trentino Volley will thus set foot in Türkiye for the eighth time in its history. two years and three months after the last previous match (26 January 2022 – success in three sets in Istanbul against Fenerbahce), for what will be the most important and final match of the 2023/24 season.
The most significant precedent in this nation remains that of 26 March 2019, when again in Istanbul the yellow-blues won the Cev Cup thanks to the tie-break victory over Galatasaray. The absolute debut on Turkish soil took place nineteen and a half years ago, on 15 December 2004, when the then Itas Diatec Trentino played the second leg of the CEV Cup round of 16 in Ankara, losing 1-3 and therefore being eliminated from the competition. .
The Trentino group will remain in Antalya until Monday morning, then returning to Trento in the early afternoon of the same day. The first contact with the Sports Hall, the ten thousand seat facility in which the Via Trener club will play for the first time in its history, will only take place in the early afternoon of Saturday. On Friday, after arriving in Turkey, the team will carry out a simple weights session in the sports facility next to the hotel where they will reside for all three days.
For this circumstance the coach Fabio Soli will have at its disposal all fifteen players who made up the squad in the final part of the season: the setters Acquarone, Garcia and Sbertoli, the opposites Nelli and Rychlicki, the spikers Cavuto, Lavia, Magalini and Michieletto, the central defenders Berger, D’Heer, Kozamernik and Podrascanin, the liberos Laurenzano and Pace. Together with them the entire technical, medical and managerial staff.
