Daniele Santarelli (born 8 June 1981 in Foligno) is an Italian women's volleyball coach. He is the current head coach of Imoco Volley and the Turkey women's national volleyball team. Previously, he was coach of the Croatian national team, and the Serbian national team with whom he won the 2022 World Championship.
Playing career Santarelli played as libero in various lower categories of Italian league (Serie B) in Foligno, Vicenza, Legnago and Terracina before pursuing his career as a youth coach at a young age.
Coaching career He was a coach for Italian teams such as Snoopy Pesaro, Robursport Pesaro, Robur Tiboni Urbino Volley. He currently leads Imoco Volley. With Imoco, Santarelli has won the Italian national league four times (2015, 2018, 2019, and 2021), 3 Italian Cups (2017, 2020 and 2021), 4 Italian Super Cups (2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020), 1 Club World Championship (2019) and the last edition of the CEV Champions League.
In the summer of 2018 he took the position of head coach of the Croatia women's national volleyball team, a position he held until the end of the 2021 European Championship. During that time he won two silver medals in the European league, held in Varaždin and Ruse. In January 2022 he became the head coach of Serbian women's national team and won bronze medal at FIVB Women's Nations League same year.
In October 2022, the Serbian national women's team headed by Santarelli won the world title at the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship held in Poland and the Netherlands. The team thereby successfully defended the 2018 title won under the previous coach Zoran Terzić. On 27 December 2022 it was announced by the TVF that Daniele will be the new head coach of the Turkey women's national volleyball team, and the details of the agreement would be announced at a press conference to be held jointly by TVF President Mehmet Akif Üstündağ and Daniele himself.
Clubs FIVB Club World Championship: 2019, 2022, 2024 2021, 2025 CEV Champions League: 2021, 2024, 2025 2019, 2022 2018 Italian Championship: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Italian Cup: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Italian Super Cup: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
National team FIVB World Championship: 2022 2025 FIVB Nations League: 2023, 2026 2022 CEV European Volleyball Championship: 2023, 2026 CEV European League: 2019, 2021
Personal life Santarelli has a degree in physical education. He has been married to the volleyball player Monica De Gennaro since 2017.
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