JV Gioia del Colle is coming for game 1 of the playoff semifinal: Sunday, April 6, at the VHV Arena (first serve at 6 pm), a team that finished the regular season blue group in third place will arrive: «The team trained by coach Sandro Passaro – says Belluno Volley’s Roberto Malaguti – is a team built to win. The team boasts important and very experienced athletes, even in higher categories. Our next opponents are capable of bringing the games to a very high level. It will be a pleasure to compete with them».

CHARISMA – The control room is entrusted to Giuseppe Longo: «From Bari, born in 1998, he is in his ninth season between A2 and A3. An experienced athlete, with great charisma, in 2021-2022 he was in Macerata to replace Monopoli. Completing the diagonal is the bomber Edvinas Vaskelis: last season, the Lithuanian opposite hitter won the “Kuznetsov Award” as the best scorer in Serie A3. Arriving from Lagonegro, he has been on these stages for five years».

COMPLETE – One of the spearheads, moreover, responds to the name, and surname, of Sebastiano Milan: «In a few days he will turn thirty. He has been in Serie A for over a decade and, with the Treviso youth team, he won two Boy Leagues. Without considering a gold at the Mediterranean Games in 2018, a gold at the Universiade in 2019, in addition to the Italian Cup and the A3 Super Cup, in the ranks of Pineto. We are talking about a complete 4th place: in the regular season he was the second most prolific spiker with 313 points. And he is also very strong at serving».