Volley Piacenza was an Italian professional men's volleyball club based in Piacenza, northern Italy. They played in the Italian Volleyball League. The club ceased to exist in 2018 due to financial problems.
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,CEV Challenge Cup 2012/2013 Final Phase ScoresPro.com 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.
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 2016–2017 LPR PiacenzaNo.NameDate of birthPosition
Team roster – season 2016–2017 LPR PiacenzaNo.NameDate of birthPosition Loris Maniàlibero Simone Parodioutside hitter Aimone Allettimiddle blocker Samuele Papioutside hitter Leonel Marshall Jr.outside hitter 10 Georgios Tzioumakasoutside hitter 11 Hristo ZlatanovOutside hitter 12 Viktor Yosifovmiddle blocker 13 Luca Tencatimiddle blocker 14 Raydel Hierrezuelosetter 15 Fernando Hernandezoutside hitter 17 Trevor Clévenotoutside hitter 18 setter Head coach: Alberto GiulianiAssistant: 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 2006–2010 João Paulo Bravo 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
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