MILAN, 29 DECEMBER 2025 – Last match of the year for Numia Vero Volley MilanThat Tuesday 30 December all ore 20.00another big match awaits: coach Lavarini’s team will be on stage at Fallen Igor per i Frecciarossa Italian Cup Quarter Finals. The match, visible in live on VBTVwill see the hosts of the Igor Gorgonzola Novara who, by virtue of the best placing obtained at the end of the first round (fourth place of the Piedmontese against fifth of the Milanese), will have the field factor in their favor. After the match in the championship last November 15th, played in front of 12,667 at the Unipol Forum in Assago which saw Novara prevail in the tie-break, Igor and Numia will find themselves face to face for a decisive match: the team that emerges victorious will win the passage to the Final Fourwhich will be held atInalpi Arena in Turin the weekend of 24 and 25 January 2026.
Egonu and his teammates arrive at the match strengthened by the splendid victory over Conegliano, in which the strength of the group and all the technical value of the Milan squad emerged; Novara, however, in the last round of the Regular Season prevailed in the fifth set over Bergamo and, with a rediscovered Tolok, will try to gain qualification for the final phase of the competition.
PRE-MATCH DECLARATION
Hena Kurtagic, central Numia Vero Volley Milan: “Against Novara it will be our last match of 2025: we are very happy and can’t wait for this important challenge. We will try to do our best, playing as a team and maintaining high concentration, as we demonstrated in the last match against Conegliano. We will take to the pitch with the aim of achieving the best possible result to bring home qualification for the Semi-final of the competition”.
THE OPPONENTS
Ups and downs in this first part of the second round for Igor Gorgonzola Novara, who in the last two rounds of Serie A1 Tigotà first suffered a 3-1 defeat in the derby against Chieri, and then a tie-break victory over Bergamo. Coach Bernardi’s girls therefore reach the Quarter Finals of the competition with five sets in their legs and in front of the home crowd they will try to win a place in the Final Four.
FRECCIAROSSA ITALIAN CUP QUARTER-FINALS PROGRAM
Tuesday 30 December 2025, 7.00 pm
Savino Del Bene Scandicci – Megabox Ondulati del Savio Vallefoglia (Live VBTV)
Tuesday 30 December 2025, 8.00 pm
Prosecco Doc A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano – Bergamo (Live VBTV)
Tuesday 30 December 2025, 8.00 pm
Igor Gorgonzola Novara – Numia Vero Volley Milan (Live VBTV)
Tuesday 30 December 2025, 8.30 pm
Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri ’76 – Eurotek Laica Uyba (Live VBTV)
FULL ROSTER | IGOR GORGONZOLA NOVARA
Setters: Change, Carraro
Central: Bonifacio, Squarcini, Baijens, Costantini
Crushers: Alsmeier, Ishikawa, Herbots, Melli
Opposites: Benchmark, Mims
Free: De Nardi, Leonardi
Trainer: Bernardi
FULL ROSTER | NUMIA VERO VOLLEY MILAN
Setters: Bosio, Miner
Central: Danesi, Kurtagic, Sartori, Modesti
Crushers: Pietrini, Lanier, Cagnin, Piva
Opposites: Egonu, Akimova
Free: Fersino, Gelin
Trainer: Lavarini
