Match day for the Italian National team coached by Ferdinando De Giorgi who, at 7:30 pm today, Wednesday 25 June, live on DAZN and VBTV, will challenge Poland in the match that opens Week 2 of the Volleyball Nations League 2025.
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In Chicago, United States, home of the second stage of the VNL, Simone Giannelli and his teammates will continue their journey in the competition, with the aim of getting a place in the Finals in Ningbo, China, from 30 July to 3 August.
The complete calendar of the VNL 2025
The first match of this week pits Italy and Poland against each other: the Poles, currently first in the general ranking, can count on Kamil Semeniuk, Perugia’s strong point in the SuperLega.
At the end of the press release are the complete rosters of the teams that Italy will face in this Week 2, namely Poland, China, Brazil and the United States. Among the acquaintances of the Italian championship, in Brazil there will be Fernando Kreling in the control room, for three years in force in Monza and now headed to Milan for the next season, in addition to Darlan and Arthur Bento, already announced respectively by Verona and Modena; among the centers Flavio, Italian Champion 2024/25 with Trento together with the American Gabi Garcia. Last year in the ranks of Verona also the spiker Jordan Ewert, part of the United States National Team.
Week 2 (Chicago, Stati Uniti) – Pool 1
Mercoledì 25 giugno 2025, ore 19.30
Italia – Polonia
Venerdì 27 giugno 2025, ore 23.00
Italia – Cina
Sabato 28 giugno 2025, ore 23.00
Italia – Brasile
Lunedì 30 giugno 2025, ore 2.30
Italia – Stati Uniti
I 14 convocati per la Week 2
(Le squadre specificate fanno riferimento alla stagione sportiva 2024/25)
Palleggiatori: Simone Giannelli (Sir Susa Vim Perugia), Riccardo Sbertoli (Itas Trentino).
Centrali: Giovanni Gargiulo (Cucine Lube Civitanova), Lorenzo Cortesia (Rana Verona), Giovanni Sanguinetti (Valsa Group Modena), Gianluca Galassi (Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza).
Schiacciatori: Mattia Bottolo (Cucine Lube Civitanova), Alessandro Michieletto (Itas Trentino), Daniele Lavia (Itas Trentino), Luca Porro (Sonepar Padova).
Opposti: Yuri Romanò (Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza), Kamil Rychlicki (Itas Trentino).
Liberi: Gabriele Laurenzano (Itas Trentino), Fabio Balaso (Cucine Lube Civitanova).
Polonia: 4. Komenda (S), 8. Czunkiewicz (L), 11. Sliwka (S), 12. Szalpuk (S), 16. Semeniuk (S), 18 Granieczny (L), 27. Gierzot (S), 31. Adamczyk (C), 34. Jakubiszak (C), 35. Sasak (O), 44. Kozub (P), 50. Gomulka (O), 72. Poreba (C), 73. Nowak J. (C). Nikola Grbic (All.).
Cina: 1. Wen Z. H. (O), 2. Jiang C. (O), 3 Wang H.B. (P), 6. Yu Y.T. (S), 7. Yu Y.C. (P), 9. Li Y.Z. (C), 10. Ji D.S. (S), 12. Zhang Z.J. (C), 14. Zhai D.J. (S), 16. Qu Z.S. (L), 20. Rao S.H. (C), 21. Miao R.T. (C), 23. Wang B. (S), 26. Li T.Y. (L). Vital Heynen (All.).
Brasile: 1. Alan (O), 5. Matheus G. (P), 6. Adriano (S), 7. Matheus (C), 8. Honorato (S), 11. Judson (C), 12. Thiery (C), 14. Fernando (P), 15. Maique (L), 17. Alexandre (L), 19. Arthur (S), 20. L. Bergmann (S), 23. Flavio (C), 28. Darlan (O). Rocha de Rezende Bernardo (All.).
Stati Uniti: 4. Jendryk (C), 5. Ensing (O), 6 Isaacson (P), 7. Pasteur (S), 9. Garcia (O), 10. Dagostino (L), 12. Holdaway (C), 14. Ma’a (P), 15. Hobus (O), 18. Robinson (S), 22. Shoji (L), 25. Champlin (S), 26. Knigge (C), 29. Ewert (S). Karch Kiraly (All.).
La Volleyball Nations League maschile 2025 in TV e streaming
I match degli azzurri in VNL saranno visibili in diretta su DAZN e sulla piattaforma streaming a pagamento VBTV che trasmetterà tutte le partite del torneo.
Link per accesso a VBTV: welcome.volleyballworld.tv
