MACERATA – The new assistant coach of the orange team, which will be at the starting line of the Serie A2 championship, is coach Luca Martinelli. Marchigian from Loreto, born in 1982, he will sit alongside head coach Valerio Lionetti, thus forming a new and unprecedented pair of coaches to lead the Macerata club in the sixth consecutive season in Serie A.
For Luca Martinelli it is a return to Serie A2, a category in which he can already boast 6 seasons in the role of assistant coach between men’s (3 in Loreto and 2 in Potenza Picena) and women’s (1 in Orvieto, a team with which he reached the final promotion to A1 and in which the new orange opposite Clara Decortes played. In the last five seasons coach Martinelli has instead coached in youth sector of Nova Volley Loretoin his city, both men’s and women’s teams, also covering the role of technical director of the men’s youth sector in the season concluded and winning promotion to Serie C with his group. Previously, for the new orange coach also a few seasons in Porto Recanati and Osimo, also in the Marche region, at the helm of various youth teams.
«I chose to accept the proposal from CBF Balducci HR for the ambitious project behind it and because it is a very well structured company, also from the point of view of the staff who will face the 2024/25 season, truly valuable – says the new CBF assistant coach Balducci. I thank the Orange Club for the trust and the possibility of returning to experience another season at a high level, a trust that I hope to repay by achieving the objectives we have set ourselves. For my part, I will use the skills learned throughout my career and a lot of passion, I’m looking forward to working closely with coach Valerio Lionetti who won a lot in Conegliano: I partly know his working methods from having met him during his experience in Loreto. There will be a lot of work to do because he is in the gym and with work a great team is created and goals are achieved. We know we have an excellent roster availableas well as other teams in the next women’s Serie A2 championship: the difference will then have to be made on the pitch.”
The roster was completed with the last three announcements from deputy Bonelli, in the director’s chair: the Friulian Federica Braida, born in 2000, arrives from Perugia, newly promoted to A1. Instead, the Venetian powerhouse Lea Orlandi, born in 2006, arrives from the youth sector of Conegliano, with a height of 182 centimetres. height. It will be Orlandi’s debut in Serie A2. The last petal in the squad of Cbf Balducci is finally complete and then is Latina spiker Camilla Sanguigni. Born in 2001, you are fresh from the B1 season with Arzano. She joins the Argentine Bulaich, the only foreigner on the roster and also a new face like Decortes, Battista and Caruso who join the confirmations of captain Fiesoli, Bresciani, Bonelli, Morandini, Mazzon and Busolini.
