Volleyball: Trento folds Civitanova and wins the fifth championship

Trento-Civitanova 3-0 (25-20, 25-20, 25-19) Trento’s eagle returns to fly regal over the sports halls of Italy. Angelo Lorenzetti’s team (the coach who has known since January that he won’t stay here) deservedly wins the Scudetto by beating Lube Civitanova, who had won the last three tricolors in a row, in an intense but marked game-5. In game 5, however, the Trentino players did not waste their second match ball after the clear defeat received on Friday in the Marches. After eight years of absence, Itas returns to dominate, perhaps in the most difficult year and certainly in the most fought year ever. Sextets confirmed by race-4 for the challenge which is worth the title number 78, while before the anthem the whole building applauds the people of Emilia Romagna hit by the flood. Blengini sends Bottolo and Yant onto the field, with the same form that had tied the series. Zaytsev at the baseline, next to the patron Giulianelli is embraced by his teammates before the match as if he were about to go on the pitch and from there he makes his voice heard.

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But the start is all Trento-branded with Lorenzetti’s team pushing hard on serve and block and creating an important break. But Civitanova doesn’t fit, he struggles in reception, but runs better and better in attack: Yant and Nikolov show they have special access. More than halved the disadvantage: 16-14. Hard battle, with exhibition of muscles. And then draw at 19 with a mistake in attack by Trento. Last gasp: then Itas’s joke extinguishes Lube’s ardor, 1-0. Civitanova doesn’t get lost, on the contrary he reacts by shooting even harder, De Cecco invents and Lube is above 11-8. But Itas doesn’t get upset: Michieletto is the great driving force who scores 8 points (88% in attack). In the set Trento signs 5 aces which are used to dig a furrow too deep for Lube. La Lube tries in every way to break through. The reception leaks and it’s not difficult for Itas to make the break that brings the scudetto number 5 in Trento’s history, 8 years later (it was 2015) from the last one. Civitanova also calls into question Gaby Garcia (in Nikolov’s place), Lube shortens, but that’s not enough. Blengini calls timeout and tries to stop the fury of Lorenzetti’s team, but fate is sealed.

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The coach from Fano is about to enter the restricted club of coaches with championships in 3 cities (Montali before him), after the successes in Modena and Piacenza. Trento is still there higher up than anyone, with a team with an immense champion Kaziyski (who has signed a large part of this city’s trophies, will be in Milan next year), but also with a strong blue traction. In addition to the “brain” Sbertoli, the diagonal Michieletto-Lavia who with the Italy shirt won a European and a World Cup. Yant tries not to give up, but Trent doesn’t lower his gaze or blows. And when it can Itas hits badly, more and more badly. After the years of fasting it’s time for a feast of joy and victory. Trento returns to celebrate.