Second market move for the Italian vice-champions. An experienced offensive terminal is arriving, with ice-cold eyes and explosive determination, protagonist at the start of VNL 2025, with 33 points scored in two games as a starter in the Canadian stage.

A.S. Volley Lube announces the signing for the 2025/26 season of the Argentine international Pablo Kukartsev, opposite hitter born in 1993 and 203 cm tall, native of Buenos Aires. Son of former volleyball players Sergej Kukartsev and Mila Koukartseva, in the last two seasons “Kuka” has stood out in the top French league with Tourcoing Lille Metropole, a team with which he won the French Cup a few months ago. The Argentine giant in 2022/23 proved to be a worthy opponent of Cucine Lube Civitanova in the CEV Champions League Group as the offensive terminal of Knack Roeselare, a Belgian team that then continued its journey by going down to the CEV Cup until the final act. Charged for the next experience, the athlete stood out in the first week of VNL with a great debut, closed as best scorer, against France, leading his Argentina to a 3-1 victory thanks to his 15 points. Then the athlete repeated himself against Italy, without being able to prevent the 3-1 defeat, but closing the parenthesis in Quebec with another 18 points and many applauses received.