Emanuele Birarelli

Emanuele Birarelli
2011 in Piacenza
portrait
Date of birth	February 8, 1981
place of birth	Senigallia, Italy
size	2.01 m
position	Middle block
societies
1995–1999 1999–2000 2000–2002 2002–2003 2005–2006 2006–2007 2007–2015 since 2015	Pallavolo Falconara Corbordolo Artic Morciola Pallavolo Falconara Sira Cucine Ancona Mercatone Uno Pineto Marmi Lanza Verona Itas Diatec Trentino Sir Safety Perugia
National team
since 2008	Junior national team A national team
successes
2000 2008 2008 2009 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2015 2016	Vice European champion Junior Italian champion Olympic fourth Champions League winner Italian cup winner Champions League winner Italian champion Champions League winner Vice European champion Italian cup winner Olympic bronze Italian cup winner Italian champion Vice European champion Italian champion Olympic silver
As of August 21, 2016

Emanuele Birarelli (born February 8, 1981 in Senigallia ) is an Italian volleyball player .

Career

Birarelli began his career in 1995 in the offspring of Pallavolo Falconara and joined the club's first division team in 1998. After he had played for third division Corbordolo Artic Morciola in 1999/2000 , he returned to Falconara, which was initially in the second division for a year. With the Italian juniors, the middle blocker became vice European champion in 2000. After a season with Sira Cucine Ancona, he paused from 2003 to 2005. He then continued his career with the second division Mercatone Uno Pineto and was active in 2006/07 with the first division Marmi Lanza Verona . In 2007 Birarelli was signed by his current club, Itas Diatec Trentino , with whom he became Italian champion in the first season. He also made his debut in the senior national team in 2008 . He took part in the Olympic tournament in Beijing , which ended in fourth place for Italy. In 2009 Birarelli won the Champions League with Trentino . In the following year, the club managed to win the national cup and defend its title in the Champions League . In 2011 Trentino became Italian champions again and achieved the third Champions League victory in a row. With the national team Birarelli reached the final of the European Championship . In 2012 he was again Italian cup winner. With Italy he won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London .

Web links

Commons : Emanuele Birarelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Emanuele Birarelli in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile at Itas Diatec Trentino (Italian)
• Profile at legavolley.it (Italian)