In a friendly match held in Trento, the world champion Trentino overrun the Italian league runner up, Piacenza, by 3-1 (21-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-23). This way, middle blocker Sebastian Sole could celebrate against his partner in Argentina, Luciano De Cecco.

 

In a friendly match held in Trento, the world champion Trentino overrun the Italian league runner up, Piacenza, by 3-1 (21-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-23). This way, middle blocker Sebastian Sole could celebrate against his partner in Argentina, Luciano De Cecco.

Different objectives measured face to face in the field, besides reediting last season final in Italian league. While Trentino is looking for its best level to participate in World Club Championship, where they seek to win another title, Piacenza has its head in removing the thorn that Trentino seeded upon them a few months ago.

With a very deep renewal in its roster, Trentino does no longer count with its backbone and heart: Raphael, Kaziyski, Juantorena and Stoychev departed for Turkish league. As for Piacenza, the managers made a really big effort to maintain De Cecco, Simon, Fei and Zlatanov, but the team will not be complete till October the 8th.

Argentinean setter gave his team 3 points (2 from the service and 1 from the attack phase), and showed the 1200 spectators that he is one of the best in the world. In the other side of the net, Sole contributed with 9 points (8 spikes and 1 block) and had a very fine match at the serve phase.

Luca Monti started the first match oh the season with Alessandro Fei again as a middle blocker. Last season, the Italian player was the first alternative in the opposite position, but this season will fight with Simon and Tencatti for a place in the middle of the net. Piacenza had a 48% spike efficiency and a 56% receiving efficiency. Regarding this aspects, De Cecco said to VolleyCountry “I was never a statistics lover. I think we played better than we expected. As for Fei as a middle blocker, I’m still not used to it, but will get more familiar during the season. We have to understand that Trento is far beyond our preparation because they need to play sonner than we do”.

There will be time for revenge, as the two teams will face each other on December the 15th in the regular phase of Italian League.