Volleyball Super Cup, Michieletto-Lavia against Giannelli: this is how the Azzurri start again after the disappointment in Paris. And Bovolenta debuts in Serie A

Perugia against Trentowe always start from there, with the two great rivals. Before the Olympics, but also after the Paris Games. A chapter in the history of volleyball opened with enormous hopes for the world champions and closed with the disappointment of fourth place. Giannelli e Russo on the one hand, Michieletto, Lavia and Sbertoli on the other: it is the backbone of the team George’s Fatherwhich meets on Sunday in the final of the Del Monte Supercoppa in Florence, live on RaiSport from 6pm. If Paris is still in the memories that are most difficult to get rid of, now begins a season that will lead to the World Cup in the Philippines from 12 to 28 September 2025: the opportunity for great redemption for the young champions who will have to reconfirm themselves three years after the feat of Katowice.

Italy beaten 3-0 by France, the Olympic curse of volleyball continues

Mattia Chiusano

07 August 2024

It wasn’t the final of the last championship, Perugia-Trento: in a phase of the season in which it won the Champions League, Itas fell against Monza, missing the last act of the tournament despite a very rich squad, richer than that of the Mint Vero Volley which in the meantime has lost some of its protagonists (Galassi, Maar, Loeppky, Takahashi). The effects of the market were felt in a one-sided semi-final in PalaWanny: Trento beat Monza in three setswho however came out with her head held high, fighting harder than the scores of 25-20, 25-21, 25-23 suggest. But it’s tough when you’re faced with a Lavia top scorer with 17 points, 3 aces of which 2 were decisive to close the match. Also in double figures Michieletto (13) e Gabi Garcia entered the second set in place of the injured player Rychlicki. In short, signs of an immediate reaction to the disappointment come from the pair of world champion spikers.

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Perugia, on the other hand, fought much harder, always recognizing themselves in captain Giannelli, the one who aced the Japanese who had match point in the quarter-finals. One of the most exciting matches of recent times, even if the feat was only the prologue to the 3-0 taken by France. But who knows the mature ones blue how many shots will they still have available, while the future remains at the disposal of the Azzurri who remain the youngest national team amidst opponents who will have to renew themselves a lot. The first step of this new path for Giannelli and Russo is a small revenge on Brizard who did badly in Paris, but this time with the jersey of Piacenzamade decisive errors when the first set was within reach: together with the other Italian Galassi, who arrived from Monza, he fought and then succumbed 3-1 (25-22, 23-25, 25-20, 25-21 ) against Sir. Speaking of the future, the debutant entered the first three sets in Piacenza Bovolentawho has now left the minor leagues to definitively debut in Serie A: 3 points with 100% in attack are the first brick of a career that he already imagined as magnificent at the 2023 European Championships. It’s time to leave again, passing through a final between dearest enemies.