VfB Friedrichshafen
The arrivals at Bodensee confirm the team’s goal. National team star middle blocker Max Gunthor returns to his home club after several seasons as a captain of Unterhaching. Usually among the most international teams in Europe, VfB allowed the Estonian opposite Oliver Venno to move to Budvanska Rivijera Budva in Montenegro. Three new opposites were chosen for the new season – the Austrian bomber Tomas Zass (from Paris Volley) who will be expected to bring the former champions back to their winning habbits, the Bulgarian-born veteran and ex-Italian national team player Ventsislav Simeonov (last year in Pallavolo Padova, first club for him abroad) and the promising Danish Junior national team star Peter Trolle Bonnesen who impressed the assistant coach Uwe Quell so much during both the Juior European Championship in Poland and Denmark and the trial sessions that he was offered a contract and a chance to develop in the first team. The arrival of all three of them was facilitated by the problems of Anastasios Aspiotis who had to remain in his homeland Greece longer than expected and will not be part of Friedrichshafen this year.
Setters: Nikola Jovovic (Serbia), Juraj Zatko (Slovakia)
Outside hitters: Jose Rivera (Puerto Rico), Victor Batista (Dominican Republic), Idner Faustino Lima Martins ‘Idi’ (Brazil), Yannick Harms
Opposites: Tomas Zass (Austria), Ventsislav Simeonov (Italy), Peter Trolle Bonnesen (Denmark)
Middle blockers: Matthew Denmark (USA), Max Gunthor, Joao Jose (Portugal)
Liberos: Thilo Spaeth, Nikola Rosic (Serbia)
Champions League opponents: Zenit Kazan (Russia), Hypo Tirol Innsbruck (Austria), Knack Roeselare (Belgium)
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