Cristian Savani

Cristian Savani
2011 in Piacenza
portrait
Date of birth	February 22, 1982
place of birth	Castiglione delle Stiviere, Italy
size	1.95 m
position	Acceptance / outside
societies
2000–2001 2001–2004 2004–2006 2006–2008 2008–2010 since 2010	Carpenodolo Volley Gabeca Montichiari Itas Diatec Trentino M. Roma Volley RPA Perugia Lube Macerata
National team
since 2001	A national team
successes
2003 2003 2005 2008 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012	World League Finalist European Champion European Champion Winner CEV-Pokal Winner Challenge Cup Winner Challenge Cup Vice-European Champion Italian Champion Olympic Bronze
As of August 14, 2012

Cristian Savani (born February 22, 1982 in Castiglione delle Stiviere ) is an Italian volleyball player .

Career

Savani began his career in 2000 with the fourth division Carpenodolo Volley. A year later he was signed by the first division club Gabeca Montichiari . On November 24, 2001, the attacker made his debut in the Italian national team . With the Italians he reached the final of the world league in 2003 and then became European champion . In 2004 he switched to Itas Diatec Trentino . The following year Italy managed to defend their title at the 2005 European Championship . In 2006 Savani went to M. Roma Volley . He won the CEV Cup with the Romans in 2008 . He was then committed by league competitor RPA Perugia . In 2010 the club won the Challenge Cup . Savani switched to Lube Macerata and repeated the triumph in the Challenge Cup the following year . In the same year, Italy reached the final of the European Championship with the outside attacker . In 2012 Savani became Italian champion with Macerata. With the national team he won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London .

Web links

Commons : Cristian Savani  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cristian Savani in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Personal website (Italian)
• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile at legavolley.it (Italian)