The World Championships, which will take place in Italy, are just around the corner. The 24 teams are taking care of the last few details before the big kick off on September 25.
In the 20-player lists of the national teams (to be soon reduced), no less than 55 athletes, representing 14 nationalities, will take part in the 66th Italian Serie A leagues this coming season.
Bulgaria is the most represented country, after Italy obviously, with 7 players, followed by Serbia (6), France and Venezuela (4).
The Bulgarian National team is guided by Italian coaches Silvano Prandi and Camillo Placì. Treviso’s coach Roberto Piazza will be there too as ‘trainer’ of the Russian team, alongside Daniele Bagnoli.
Here are all the Serie A players fighting to be in the final lists that will take part in the Word Championships:
ARGENTINA
Facundo Conte (S, Lube Banca Marche Macerata A1), Nicolás Uriarte (Se, M. Roma Volley A1)
AUSTRALIA
Nathan Roberts (S, Globo Banca Popolare del Frusinate Sora A2), Aidan Zingel (M, Marmi Lanza Verona A1)
BULGARIA
Metodi Ananiev (S, Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia A1), Valentin Bratoev (S, Itas Diatec Trentino A1), Matey Kaziyski (S, Itas Diatec Trentino A1), Nikolay Nikolov (M, Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia A1), Vladimir Nikolov (S, Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo A1), Tsvetan Sokolov (S, Itas Diatec Trentino A1), Viktor Yosifov (M, M. Roma Volley A1)
FRANCE
Jean-François Exiga (L, Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza A1), Hubert Henno (L, Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo A1), Pierre Pujol (Se, Sisley Treviso A1), Romain Vadeleux (M, Lube Banca Marche Macerata)
GERMANY
Sebastian Schwarz (S, RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia A1), Patrick Steuerwald (Se, RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia A1), Dirk Westphal (S, Geotec Isernia A2)
ITALY
Andrea Bari (L, Itas Diatec Trentino A1), Rocco Barone (M, Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia A1), Emanuele Birarelli (M, Itas Diatec Trentino A1), Simone Buti (M, Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza A1), Alessandro Fei (S, Sisley Treviso A1), Michal Lasko (S, Marmi Lanza Verona A1), Loris Manià (L, Casa Modena A1), Davide Marra (L, Copra Morpho Piacenza A1), Matteo Martino (S, Lube Banca Marche Macerata A1),Gabriele Maruotti (S, Sisley Treviso A1), Luigi Mastrangelo (M, Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo A1), Simone Parodi (S, Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo A1), Andrea Sala (M, Itas Diatec Trentino A1),Cristian Savani (S, Lube Banca Marche Macerata A1), Dragan Travica (Se, Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza A1), Valerio Vermiglio (Se, Lube Banca Marche Macerata A1), Ivan Zaytsev (S, M. Roma Volley A1)
JAPAN
Yu Koshikawa (S, Pallavolo Padova A2)
PUERTO RICO
Jose Manuel Rivera Caamano (S, Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia A1)
CZECH REPUBLIC
Jiri Popelka (S, Andreoli Latina A1), Jan Stokr (S, Itas Diatec Trentino A1)
RUSSIA
Yury Berezhko (S, Casa Modena A1), Alexander Volkov (M, Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo A1)
SERBIA
Nikola Grbic (Se, Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo A1), Nikola Kovacevic (S, Andreoli Latina A1), Milos Nikic (S, RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia A1), Marko Podrascanin (M, Lube Banca Marche Macerata A1), Dragan Stankovic (M, Lube Banca Marche Macerata A1), Sasa Starovic (S, Andreoli Latina A1)
SPAIN
Sergio Noda Blanco (S, NGM Mobile S. Croce A2), Israel Rodríguez (S, BCC-NEP Castellana Grotte A1)
UNITED STATES
Matthew Anderson (S, Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia A1), Maxwell Philip Holt (M, Copra Morpho Piacenza A1), Sean Rooney (S, Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza A1)
VENEZUELA
Luis Diaz (S, Casa Modena A1), Thomas Ereu (S, Energy Resources Carilo Loreto A2), Ivan Marquez (S, Pallavolo Pineto A2), Rodman Valera (Se, Geotec Isernia A2)
