Volley Piacenza


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, 2 for the Italian Cup and 2 for the Italian Supercup. Piacenza played also a Champion's League final, lost 3–2 in Poland versus Russia's Zenit Kazan, 2 Cev Cup finals 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, 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.

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Notable players

2002–2003 Đula Mešter2003–2004 Simone Rosalba 2003–2004 Osvaldo Hernández2003–2007 Nikola Grbić2003–2007, 2008–2010 Leonel Marshall2003–2008 Vigor Bovolenta2004–2005 Anderson Rodrigues2005–2008 Vencislav Simeonov2006–2008 Paolo Cozzi2007–2008 Frantz Granvorka2007–2008 Sérgio Santos2007–2008 Israel [Rodríguez (volleyball)|Israel Rodríguez]2006–2010 João Paulo Bravo 2007–2010 Novica Bjelica2007–2010 Dante Boninfante2007–2010, 2014–2015 Marco Meoni2008–2009 Guillermo Falasca 2009–2010 Valdir Sequeira2010–2013 Maxwell Holt 2011–2012 Vladimir Nikolov2011–2012 Andrey Zhekov2012–2014 Robertlandy Simón2013–2014 Kévin Le Roux2014–2014 Valerio Vermiglio2014–2015 Aleksey Ostapenko2003–2017 Hristo Zlatanov2010–2017 Luca Tencati2011–2017 Samuele Papi