Luciano Pedullà

Luciano Pedullà (2009)

Luciano Pedullà (born August 3, 1957 in Novara , Italy ) is an Italian volleyball coach . From February to October 2015 he was the national coach of the German women's volleyball team .

Career

Luciano Pedullà studied sports science and has been a successful coach for various Italian volleyball teams since 1992. With Pedullà as coach, the Italian national junior team won the title at the European Championship in 2004 and finished fourth at the World Cup in 2005. In 2005 he was also the assistant coach of the Italian women's national team and achieved second place with the team at the Grand Prix and the European Championships . For several years he was the coach of Asystel Volley Novara, which under his leadership won the European CEV Cup in 2009 . Since 2013 he has coached the Italian Serie A1 women's team Igor Agil Volley Novara , with whom he won the Italian Cup in 2015.

On February 26, 2015, the DVV appointed Luciano Pedullà to succeed Giovanni Guidetti as the national coach of the German women's volleyball team . At the European Games in Baku he reached the quarterfinals with the team, which were lost 3-2 to Poland . In the World Grand Prix , the DVV team was seventh in the table and missed the finals of the six best teams. The German team then reached the quarter-finals at the European Championships , but lost there in the tie-break against Turkey and missed a medal. On October 30th, the DVV announced that he was separating from Pedullà.

Private

Pedullà is married and has one son. He lives with his family in Novara, northern Italy .

Web links

• Profile at legavolleyfemminile.it (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DVV appoints Luciano Pedullà as national coach for women - Italian top coach is to lead DVV team to Rio. (No longer available online.) DVV, February 26, 2015, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 16, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ DVV women: DVV and Luciano Pedullà split up. (No longer available online.) DVV, October 30, 2015, archived from the original on January 11, 2016 ; accessed on October 30, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.