The World Championships kick off tonight with the opening ceremony at the Strehler Theatre in Milan. All in all, 24 teams in the starting blocks among which Anastasi’s Italian team, which will play its first game in Assago against Japan tomorrow at 9pm.
The various squads have released their official team lists. 18 Italians club (12 A1 and 6 A2) will be represented for a total of 50 players.
Here are the clubs represented in the A1:
BRE BANCA LANNUTTI CUNEO: Nikola Grbic (Se, SRB), Hubert Henno (L, FRA), Luigi Mastrangelo (M, ITA), Vladimir Nikolov (S, BUL), Simone Parodi (S, ITA), Alexander Volkov (M, RUS)
ANDREOLI LATINA: Nikola Kovacevic (S, SRB), Jiri Popelka (S, CZE), Sasa Starovic (S, SRB)
LUBE BANCA MARCHE MACERATA: Facundo Conte (S, ARG), Marko Podrascanin (M, SRB), Cristian Savani (S, ITA), Dragan Stankovic (M, SRB), Romain Vadeleux (M, FRA), Valerio Vermiglio (Se, ITA)
CASA MODENA: Yury Berezhko (S, RUS), Luis Diaz (S, VEN)
ACQUA PARADISO MONZA BRIANZA: Simone Buti (M, ITA), Jean-François Exiga (L, FRA), Sean Rooney (S, USA), Dragan Travica (Se, ITA)
COPRA MORPHO PIACENZA: Maxwell Philip Holt (M, USA), Davide Marra (L, ITA)
M. ROMA VOLLEY: Nicolás Uriarte (Se, ARG), Viktor Yosifov (M, BUL), Ivan Zaytsev (S, ITA)
RPA-LUIGIBACCHI.IT SAN GIUSTINO: Milos Nikic (S, SRB), Sebastian Schwarz (S, GER), Patrick Steuerwald (Se, GER)
ITAS DIATEC TRENTINO: Andrea Bari (L, ITA), Emanuele Birarelli (M, ITA), Valentin Bratoev (S, BUL), Matey Kaziyski (S, BUL), Tsvetan Sokolov (S, BUL), Jan Stokr (S, CZE), Andrea Sala (M, ITA)
SISLEY TREVISO: Alessandro Fei (S, ITA), Pierre Pujol (Se, FRA)
MARMI LANZA VERONA: Michal Lasko (S, ITA), Paul Lotman (S, USA), Aidan Zingel (M, AUS)
TONNO CALLIPO VIBO VALENTIA: Matthew Anderson (S, USA), Nikolay Nikolov (M, BUL), Jose Manuel Rivera Caamano (S, PUR)
In the A2:
GEOTEC ISERNIA: Rodman Valera (Se, VEN)
ENERGY RESOURCES CARILO LORETO: Thomas Ereu (S, VEN)
PALLAVOLO PADOVA: Yu Koshikawa (S, JAP)
PALLAVOLO PINETO: Ivan Marquez (S, VEN)
NGM MOBILE SANTA CROCE: Sergio Noda Blanco (S, SPA)
GLOBO BANCA POPOLARE DEL FRUSINATE SORA: Nathan Roberts (S, AUS)
