Volley Piacenza

LPR Piacenza was a professional Italian volleyball team based in Piacenza, northern Italy. It plays in Italian Volleyball League. Piacenza is ranked 17th (as of October 2016) in the Men's European clubs ranking.[1] Although the club reached the Italian 1st division for the first time only in 2002, after have dominated the Italian 2nd division and winning also the Italian Cup, it has already played 9 finals in Italy, including 5 for the Italian Title(winning only in 2009 versus the strong Trento), 2 for the Italian Cup(won in 2013 and lost in 2006) and 2 for the Italian Supercup (beating Macerata 3-2 in 2009 and losing versus the same team in 2014 again after a tie-break). Piacenza played also a Champion's League final, lost 3-2 in Poland versus Russia's Zenit Kazan, 2 Cev Cup finals (again losing twice) and won 2 other European cups: in 2006 the Top Teams Cup, and in 2013 the Challenge Cup, defeating Ural Ufa from Russia with a 3-0 win in both first and second legs of final,[2] achieving also an impressive 12-0 record, without losing a single set. It's among the strongest teams in Italy and also in Europe since 2003.

LPR Piacenza

Nickname	The Wolves
Dissolved	2018
Ground	PalaBanca Piacenza, Italy (Capacity: 3,800)
Manager	Alberto Giuliani
League	Italian Volleyball League
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home Away

Piacenza team in October 2010.

Achievements

• CEV Champions League

  2008

• CEV Cup

  2006

• CEV Challenge Cup

  2013

• Italian Championship (SuperLega)

  2009

  2007, 2008, 2013

• Italian Cup

  2014

• Italian SuperCup

  2009

• Italian Championship Serie A2

  2002

• Italian Cup Serie A2

  2002

Team

Team roster - season 2020/2021
Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza
No.	Name	Date of birth	Position
1	Leonardo Scanferla	December 4, 1998	libero
3	Georg Grozer	November 27, 1984	outside hitter
6	Fabio Fanuli	February 10, 1985	libero
7	Oleg Antonov	July 28, 1988	outside hitter
9	Michele Baranowicz	August 5, 1989	setter
10	Iacopo Botto	September 22, 1987	outside hitter
12	Alberto Polo	September 7, 1995	middle blocker
13	James Shaw	March 5, 1994	outside hitter
14	Aaron Russell	June 4, 1993	outside hitter
17	Trevor Clévenot	June 28, 1994	outside hitter
18	[[Raydel Hierrezuelo {{{last}}}|Raydel Hierrezuelo {{{last}}}]]	July 14, 1987	setter
19	[[Marco Izzo {{{last}}}|Marco Izzo {{{last}}}]]	November 17, 1994	setter
20	[[Davide Candellaro {{{last}}}|Davide Candellaro {{{last}}}]]	June 7, 1899	middle blocker
21	Mohammad Mousavi	August 22, 1987	middle blocker
Head coach: Alberto Giuliani Assistant: Francesco Cadeddu

Team roster - season 2016/2017
LPR Piacenza
No.	Name	Date of birth	Position
1	Loris Manià	January 27, 1979	libero
3	Simone Parodi	June 16, 1986	outside hitter
4	Aimone Alletti	June 28, 1988	middle blocker
6	Samuele Papi	May 20, 1973	outside hitter
7	Leonel Marshall Jr.	September 25, 1979	outside hitter
10	Georgios Tzioumakas	January 23, 1995	outside hitter
11	Hristo Zlatanov	April 21, 1976	Outside Hitter
12	Viktor Yosifov	October 16, 1985	middle blocker
13	Luca Tencati	March 16, 1979	middle blocker
14	Raydel Hierrezuelo	July 14, 1987	setter
15	Fernando Hernandez Ramos	September 11, 1989	outside hitter
17	Trevor Clévenot	June 28, 1994	outside hitter
18	Francesco Cottarelli	October 16, 1996	setter
Head coach: Alberto Giuliani Assistant: Marco Camperi

Notable players

2002–2003 Đula Mešter 2003–2004 Simone Rosalba 2003–2004 Osvaldo Hernández 2003–2007 Nikola Grbić 2003–2007 2008–2010 Leonel Marshall 2003–2008 Vigor Bovolenta 2004–2005 Anderson Rodrigues 2005–2008 Vencislav Simeonov 2006–2008 Paolo Cozzi 2007–2008 Frantz Granvorka 2007–2008 Sérgio Santos 2007–2008 Israel Rodríguez

2007–2010 Novica Bjelica 2007–2010 Dante Boninfante 2007–2010 2014–2015 Marco Meoni 2008–2009 Guillermo Falasca 2009-2010 Valdir Sequeira 2010–2013 Maxwell Holt 2011–2012 Vladimir Nikolov 2011–2012 Andrey Zhekov 2012–2014 Robertlandy Simón 2013–2014 Kévin Le Roux 2014–2014 Valerio Vermiglio 2014–2015 Aleksey Ostapenko

2003–2017 Hristo Zlatanov 2010–2017 Luca Tencati 2011–2017 Samuele Papi

References

1. Eurotopteams
2. CEV Challenge Cup 2012/2013 Final Phase ScoresPro.com