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Girls in Italian Serie A1 are ready: Check out all team rosters, signings and departures for 2017/2018 season!

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Novara, as the reigning champions, are going to have a difficult job to keep the trophy, as there are many title contenders in 2017/2018!

Megan Easy

Easy

The women’s Serie A1 is set to begin tonight at 20:30. Three games will be played and we will have an opportunity to watch very interesting games, as the reigning champions Novara are meeting Busto Arsizio, Pomi are playing against Conegliano, while the third game is Nordmecanicca Modena vs. Scandicci.

We expect a very exciting season and these rosters of the teams prove that! Let’s see who made the greatest job for the 2017/2018 season:

IGOR GORGONZOLA NOVARA

SIGNINGS: Barbolini (coach, Eczacibasi), Vasilantonaki ( Busto Arsizio), Skorupa (Imoco Conegliano), Egonu (Club Italia), Gibbemeyer (Pomì Casalmaggiore), Enright (Firenze), Camera (Saint-Raphaël), Populini (moved from squad b)

DEPARTURES: Fenoglio (coach), Barun (Modena), Dijkema (NED), Pietersen (NED), Cambi  (Pesaro), Barcellini, Alberti (Firenze), Donà (Soverato)

ROSTER: Skorupa (setter) – Egonu (opposite), Piccinini (outside hitter) – Plak (outside hitter), Chirichella (middle blocker) – Gibbemeyer (middle blocker), Sansonna (libero). BENCH: Camera (setter), Vasilantonaki (Opposite/Outside hitter), Enright (outside hitter), Populini (outside hitter), Bonifacio (middle blocker), Zannoni (libero). COACH:  Massimo Barbolini.

 

IMOCO VOLLEY CONEGLIANO

SIGNINGS: Santarelli (coach), Easy (Henan), Wolosz (Chemik Police), Hill (Vakifbank Istanbul), Melandri (Firenze), Fabris (Casalmaggiore), Papafotiou (Mulhouse), Nicoletti (Monza)

DEPARTURES: Mazzanti (Coach, Italy), Skorupa (Novara), Ortolani (Monza), Robinson (Vakifbank Istanbul), Malinov (Bergamo), Fawcett (Praia Clube), Costagrande (?), Barazza (Olbia)

ROSTER: Wolosz (setter) – Fabris (opposite), Hill (outside hitter) – Easy (outside hitter), Danesi (middle blocker) – Folie (middle blocker), De Gennaro (libero). BENCH: Papafotiou (setter), Nicoletti (opposite), Bricio (outside hitter), Cella (outside hitter), De Kruijf (middle blocker), Melandri (middle blocker), Fiori (libero). COACH: Daniele Santarelli.

 

POMI CASSALMAGGIORE

SIGNINGS: Abbondanza (coach, Fenerbahce), Guiggi (Bergamo), Lo Bianco (Bergamo), Zago (Scandicci), Starcevic (Halkbank Ankara), S. Pavan (Shanghai), Rondon (Scandicci), Napodano (Volleyrò Casal De Pazzi Roma), B. Martinez (Busto Arsizio), Zambelli (C, Bolzano), Zeng Chunlei (Pechino), Cyr (-).

DEPARTURES: Gianni Caprara (coach), L. Bosetti (Scandicci), Gibbemeyer (Novara), Lloyd (Fenerbahce Istanbul), Fabris (Imoco Conegliano), Gibertini (Marignano), Tirozzi (Firenze), Peric (Club Voleibol Barcelona), Garcia Zuleta (Perugia), Turlea (ROM), Bacchi (Teodora Ravenna).

ROSTER: Lo Bianco (setter) – S. Pavan (opposite), Brayelin Martinez (outside hitter) – Zeng Chunlei (outside hitter), Stevanovic (middle blocker) – Guiggi (middle blocker), Sirressi (libero). BENCH: Rondon (setter), Cyr (setter), Zago (opposite), Guerra (outside hitter), Starcevic (outside hitter), Zambelli (middle blocker), Napodano (libero). COACH: Marcelo Abbodanza.

 

LIU JO NORDMECANICCA MODENA

SIGNINGS: Barun (Novara), Calloni (Firenze), Bisconti (Soverato), Pincerato (Bolzano), Montano (Chemik Police), Partenio (Bergamo), Tomic (Khimik Yuzhny), Pistolesi (Scuola di Pallavolo Anderlini), Vesovic (Telekom Baku).

DEPARTURES: Brakocevic (?), Belien (Bursa BBSK), Ozsoy (Toyota Auto Body Queenseis), Bianchini (Scandicci), Caracuta (Legnano), Valeriano (?), Marcon (Bergamo), Partenio (maternity leave), Petrucci (?)

ROSTER: Ferretti (setter) – Barun (opposite), C. Bosetti (outside hitter) – Montano (outside hitter), Heyrman (middle blocker) – Calloni (middle blocker), Leonardi (libero). BENCH: Pincerato (setter), Tomic (opposite/outside hitter), Vesovic (outside hitter), Pistolesi (outside hitter), Garzaro (middle blocker), Bisconti (libero/outside hitter).COACH: Marco Gaspari

 

UNET E-WORK BUSTO ARSIZIO

SIGNINGS: Gennari (Bergamo), Wilhite (Minnesota, NCAA), Bartsch (Bolzano), Piani (Club Italia), Chausheva (Maritza Plovidiv), Orro (Club Italia), Dall’Igna (Monza), Botezat (Club Italia).

DEPARTURES: Pisani (?), Vasilantonaki (Novara), Signorile (CSM Bucarest), Fiorin (?), Witkowska (Grot Budowlani Lodz), B. Martinez (Casalmaggiore), Moneta (Baronissi), Cialfi (?).

ROSTER: Orro (setter) – Diouf (opposite), Gennari (outside hitter) – Bartsch (outside hitter), Stufi (middle blocker) – Berti (middle blocker), Spirito (libero). BENCH: Dall’Igna (setter), Piani (opposite), Wilhite (outside hitter), Chausheva (outside hitter/opposite), Botezat (middle blocker), Negretti (libero/outside hitter). COACH: Marco Mencarelli.

 

FOPPAPEDRETTI BERGAMO

SIGNINGS: Micoli (coach, Novara), Malinov (Conegliano), Boldini (Montichiari), Marcon (Modena), Malagurski (Montichiari), Strunjak (Mladost Zagabria), Roslandy Acosta Alvarado (Potsdam), Imperiali (Orago)

DEPARTURES: Lavarini (coach, Minas), Gennari (Busto Arsizio), Guiggi (Casalmaggiore), Skowronska (Hinode Barueri), Suelen (Praia Clube), Lo Bianco (Casalmaggiore), Mori (Béziers), Partenio (Modena), Venturini (outside hitter)

ROSTER: Malinov (setter) – Malagurski (opposite), Sylla (outside hitter) – Marcon (outside hitter), M. Popovic (middle blocker) – Paggi (middle blocker), Cardullo (libero). BENCH: Boldini (setter), Battista (outside hitter/opposite), Roslandy Acosta Alvarado (outside hitter), Strunjak (middle blocker), Imperiali (libero). COACH: Stefano Micoli.

 

SAVINO DEL BENE SCANDICCI

SIGNINGS: Parisi (All., Le Cannet, FRA), Bosetti L. (Casalmaggiore), Carlini (Wisconsin, NCAA), Haak (Beziers), Papa (Bolzano), Bianchini (Modena), Martina Ferrara (Club Italia), Mancini (Club Italia), I. Di Iulio (Pesaro), Samadova (Telekom Baku), De La Cruz (Dinamo Moscow).

DEPARTURES:  A.Beltrami (coach, Filottrano), Rondon (Casalmaggiore), Zago (Casalmaggiore), Loda (Monza), Cruz (beach volley), Meijners (pause, personal reasons), Casillo (Marignano), Scacchetti (Teodora Ravenna), Crisanti (Sassuolo, serie B), Havlickova (?), Giampietri (Perugia)

ROSTER: Carlini (setter) – Haak (opposite), Bosetti L. (outside hitter) – De La Cruz (outside hitter), Adenizia (middle blocker) – Arrighetti (middle blocker), Merlo (libero). BENCH: I.Di Iulio (setter), Bianchini (opposite), Samadova (outside hitter), Papa (outside hitter), Mancini (middle blocker), Martina Ferrara (libero). COACH: Carlo Parisi

 

IL BISONTE FIRENZE

SIGNINGS:  H. Tapp (Schwerin), Alberti (Novara), Santana (Mulhouse), C. Di Iulio (maternity leave), Prokopic (Bursa BBSK), Tirozzi (S, Casalmaggiore)

DEPARTURES: Enright (Novara), Brussa (retirement), Calloni (Modena), Melandri (Conegliano), Bayramova (Seramiksan Manisa), Norgini (Brescia), Repice (Perugia, A2)

ROSTER: Bechis (setter) – Sorokaite (opposite), Santana (outside hitter) – Tirozzi (outside hitter), H. Tapp (middle blocker) – Alberti (middle blocker), Parrocchiale (libero). BENCH: Bonciani (setter), C. Di Iulio (outside hitter), Pietrelli (outside hitter), Milos Prokopic (middle blocker). COACH: Marco Bracci.

 

SAUGELLA TEAM MONZA

SIGNINGS: Pedullà (coach), Ortolani (Conegliano), Hancock (Impel Wroclaw), Dixon (?), Loda (Scandicci), Rastelli (EuroHotel Monza, B1F), Havelkova (Shanghai), Bonvicini (Garlasco, B1), Orthmann (Munster)

DEPARTURES: Aelbrecht (Pesaro), Dall’Igna (Busto Arsizio), Lussana (Legnano), Tomsia (Filottrano), Nicoletti (Conegliano), Segura (Cuneo), Bezarevic (Linamar Bekescsabai), Eckerman (Proton Saratov)

ROSTER: Hancock (setter) – Ortolani (opposite), Havelkova (outside hitter) – Loda (outside hitter), Dixon (middle blocker) – Candi (middle blocker), Arcangeli (libero). BENCH: Balboni (setter), Rastelli (opposite), Begic (outside hitter), Orthmann (outside hitter), Devetag (middle blocker), Bonvicini (libero). COACH: Luciano Pedulla.

 

LARDINI FILOTTRANO

SIGNINGS: Alessandro Beltrami (coach, Scandicci), Hutinski (RC Cannes), Tomsia (Monza), Gamba (Pesaro), Agrifoglio (Caserta), Melli (Club Italia), Mitchem (University of Hawaii, NCAA)

DEPARTURES: Bellano (coach, Club Italia), Rita (?), Vanzurova (Cuneo), Marangon (Caserta), Galazzo (Caserta), Tosi (Vicenza, B1), Cappelli (?).

ROSTER: Bosio (setter) – Tomsia (opposite), Mitchem (outside hitter) – Scuka (outside hitter), Hutinski (middle blocker) – Mazzaro (middle blocker), Feliziani (libero). BENCH: Agrifoglio (setter), Melli (outside hitter), Negrini (outside hitter), Cogliandro (middle blocker), Gamba (libero). COACH: Alessandro Beltrami

 

MYCICERO PESARO

SIGNINGS: Van Hecke (Besiktas Istanbul), Aelbrecht (Monza), Cambi (Novara), Nizetich (Seramiksan Manisa), Bokan (Azerrail Baku), Baldi (Brescia), Lapi (Brescia), G. Carraro (Olbia), Arciprete (Club Italia)

DEPARTURES: Degradi (Legnano), Gamba (Filottrano), I. Di Iulio (Scandicci), Tonello (Mondovì), Mastrodicasa (Cuneo), Santini (Orvieto), Kiosi (Trento, A2), Pamio (Montecchio Maggiore), Rimoldi (Perugia)

ROSTER: Cambi (setter) – Van Hecke (opposite), Nizetich (outside hitter) – Bokan (outside hitter), Aelbrecht (middle blocker) – Olivotto (middle blocker), Ghilardi (libero). BENCH: G. Carraro (setter), Baldi (opposite), Arciprete (outside hitter), Bussoli (outside hitter), Lapi (middle blocker). COACH: Matteo Bertini.

 

SAB GRIMA LEGNANO

SIGNINGS: Caracuta (Modena), Lussana (Monza), Martinelli (Brescia), Degradi (Pesaro), Newcombe (Sichuan), Ogoms (PTPS Pila), Pencova (BKS Bielsko Biala), Cecchetto (Caserta), Cumino (Settimo Torinese), Drews (Criollas de Caguas), Bartesaghi (Caserta)

DEPARTURES: De Lellis (Chieri), Mazzotti (Mondovì), Grigolo (Orvieto), Figini (Bolzano, B1), Paris (Teodora Ravenna), Furlan (Marsala), C. Muzi (?), Facchinetti (Marsala), Kosareva (Montecchio Maggiore), Bossi (?)

ROSTER: Caracuta (setter) – Drews (opposite), Degradi (outside hitter) – Newcombe (outside hitter), Ogoms (middle blocker) – Pencova (middle blocker), Lussana (libero). BENCH: Cumino (setter), Mingardi (opposite), Coneo (outside hitter), Bartesaghi (outside hitter), Martinelli (middle blocker), Cecchetto (libero). COACH: Andrea Pistola

 

This is how Italian Men’s Serie A1 rosters look like

 

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