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The A1 series volleyball in Modena. The A1 series men’s volleyball team is engaged in the championship. Regular A1 men’s season, placement and classification in the championship. The men’s volleyball team from Modena. Italian titles and trophies won by the men’s volleyball team from Modena
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The audience of Modena... what a great show |
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. HISTORY
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Tradition, passion, enthusiasm, competence: volleyball in Modena is this and much more. Because volleyball in Modena has profound social, cultural and of course sports roots.
Modena is the “cradle” of volleyball: it goes way back and every season there’s new life blood, there are new emotions, new stars for a history that looks at the past to score in the future.
The first Gialloblù successes are from the period between 1953 and 1956 with three victories of the national championship for Minelli, Modena with coach Leonelli, Olivo Barbieri, Mezzani, Vaccai, Adani, Elio Moranti and many others.
In 1956 it was Crocetta Modena, that ended second the year before that, who became national champion, while in 1957 the Italian title went to Avia Pervia with manager Anderlini di Federzoni, A. Guidetti, Buzzega, Mazzi and the Zanettis. The years of the derby are the ones in which the national championship was won with Ciam Villa D’Oro with Mignoli, Barone, Bovini, Bnaccini, Braglia and Bortolamasi.
Avia Pervia was also the best in 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1963, Ciam Villa D’Oro in 1958 and 1961.
Sports group Panini was born in 1966, when the company, famous all over the world for its production of figurines, decided to finance some sports activities among which volleyball.
The passion of the brothers Giuseppe and Benito Panini and the financial help of professor Franco Anderlini, moved a team of people from Modena from the C Series to the peaks of Italian volleyball.
The first Panini national championship victory arrived in 1969/1970 with Franco Anderlini on the bench while Barone, Buzzega, Giovenzana, Montorsi, Moranti, Musil, Nannini, Sbani, Guidotti and Marchesini were in the field. The great Panini was born, a model and a myth.
Another Italian title in 1972, then in 1974, 1976 and the four consecutive ones from 1986 until 1989 under the command of Julio Velasco and with players like Bernardi, Bertoli, Cantagalli, Dall’Olio, Rametto, Ghiretti, Lucchetta, Sacchetti, Martinez, Quiroga, De Giorgi and Vullo… In 1993 the Panini group passed over the organisation to the Daytona group and president Giovanni Randelli guided Modenese volleyball for over ten years of success, from Italian titles to international cups. Then there were the teams first with Daniele Bagnoli and then Angelo Lorenzetti on the bench. The years of rivalry with Treviso and the teams with Vullo and Cantagalli, Cuminetti and Bas van de Goor, Bracci, Giani and Sartoretti, and also Pippi, Gradini, Iakovlev, Ball, Bovolenta, Kazakov…
After having bought the organisation in 2005, there was the synergy between the Barone family (Antonio Barone and Catia Pedrini), the Grani family (Giuliano, Antonio and Enrico Grani) and Pietro Pela, continuing for three seasons (2005/2006, 2006/2007 and 2007/2008).
Three seasons during which the owners worked with intensity, passion and enthusiasm to keep Modena in the elite of Italian and European volleyball.
The economical investments were important and consistent as to set up a team (Cimone Volley) of constant high level first entrusted to coach Julio Velasco and then to Bruno Bagnoli and from the 2006/2007 season to Andrea Giani who after ten years of playing with Gialloblù decided to start a career as a trainer, and the oranisation decided to rely on him. Regarding the athletes of the last three seasons, there are many names to be mentioned: from Giani to Ricardinho and Mastrangelo, to Murek, Felipe, Rak, Pippi, Sartoretti, Murilo, Sidao, Bellini, Giombin, Cardona, Nalbert, Nascimento, Heller, Tennis, Tentati, Rinaldi and all the others. Modena Volleyball opened the showcase again in March 2008 when it won a prestigious European laurel: the Challenge Cup. Apart from being the organisation that won the most in Italy, Modena is the only club in Europe that has won all international cups!
And Modena also proved itself to be a city with an extraordinary passion for volleyball. Over the last three seasons the audience in Modena has been the most numerous one (and the most enthusiastic!) in Italy for the whole time: over 2500 season tickets per season and an average of 3500 spectators per match. At the end of the 2007/2008 season the Grani family and the Barone family signed an agreement that will pass Modena Volleyball completely over to Backstage Srl, the organisation that belongs to Pietro Pela and the brothers Giuliano, Antonio and Enrico Grani. And at the beginning of July 2008 a prestigious agreement has been signed with Trenkwalder: the Austrian company, after two seasons of co-sponsorship, decided to consolidate its partnership with Modena Volleyball becoming the main and title sponsor. Therefore in the 2008-2009 season the team that will take part in the A1 Men’s Series will be Trenkwalder Modena.
Today another chapter has begun in the glorious history of Gialloblù volleyball. A chapter named Modena Volleyball, named Grani and Pela. May history proceed…
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Modenese volleyball includes the following trophies:
- 11 Italian titles
- 10 Italian Cups
- 4 Champion Cups
- 4 CEV Cups
- 3 Cups of the Cups
- 1 Challenge Cup
- 1 European Supercup
- 1 Italian Supercup
- 1 Italian Open Trophy
subdivided as following:
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 Challenge Cup |
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| CEV Cup |
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 Italian Champion |
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 Italian Cup Champion Cup Italian Supercup |
| Italian Champion Italian Cup Champion Cup |
| Champion Cup European Supercup |
| Italian Champion Italian Cup Cup of the Cups |
| Italian Cup Italian Open |
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| Champion Cup |
| Italian Champion Italian Cup |
| Italian Champion Italian Cup |
| Italian Champion |
| Italian Champion Italian Cup Cup of the Cups |
| Italian Cup CEV Cup |
| CEV Cup |
| CEV Cup |
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| Italian Cup Cup of the Cups |
| Italian Cup |
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| Italian Champion |
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| Italian Champion |
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| Italian Champion |
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| Italian Champion |
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