Sir Safety Perugia

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Sir Safety Conad Perugia
Club data
founding 2001
address Pian di Massiano 1, 06124 Perugia
president Gino Sirci
Volleyball department
league A1 series Italy
Venue Pala Evangelisti
Trainer Lorenzo Bernardi
Assistant coach Carmine Fontana
successes Runner-up 2014, cup finalist 2014
last season Playoff semi-finals, cup semi-finals
Was standing: January 18, 2016

Sir Safety Perugia is an Italian volleyball club from Perugia in the Italian province of Umbria . The club, founded in 2001, has been playing in Serie A1, the highest Italian league, since 2012. In 2014 Perugia became runner-up and reached the cup final.

team

The squad for the 2017/18 season consists of fourteen players.

Squad - 2017/18 season
Surname No. nation size Date of birth position
Fabio Ricci 2 ItalyItaly Italy 2.05 m July 11, 1994 MB
Andrea Cesarini 4th ItalyItaly Italy July 22, 1987 L.
James Shaw 5 United StatesUnited States United States 1.80 m 05th Mar 1994 Z
Aaron Russell 8th United StatesUnited States United States 2.05 m 04th June 1993 AA
Ivan Zaytsev 9 ItalyItaly Italy 2.02 m 0Oct 2, 1988 AA
Dore Della Lunga 10 ItalyItaly Italy 1.94 m July 25, 1984 AA
Tommy Siirila 11 FinlandFinland Finland 2.03 m 0Aug 5, 1993 MB
Alexander Berger 12 AustriaAustria Austria 1.93 m 27 Sep 1988 AA
Massimo Colaci 13 ItalyItaly Italy 1.80 m Feb. 21, 1985 L.
Aleksandar Atanasijevic 14th SerbiaSerbia Serbia 2.00 m 04th Sep 1991 D.
Luciano De Cecco 15th ArgentinaArgentina Argentina 1.94 m 0June 2nd, 1988 Z
Leo Andric 16 CroatiaCroatia Croatia 2.02 m July 20, 1994 AA
Simone Anzani 17th ItalyItaly Italy Feb. 24, 1992 MB
Marko Podraščanin 18th SerbiaSerbia Serbia 2.03 m Aug 29, 1987 MB

Positions : AA = acceptance / outside, D = diagonal, L = Libero, MB = middle block, Z = pass, U = universal

Slobodan Kovač has been the head coach in Perugia since December 2015. He replaced the Argentine Daniel Castellani , who was signed at the beginning of the season . Kovač was already a coach in Perugia from 2011 to 2014. His assistant is Carmine Fontana .

history

The 2016 team during training

The club was founded in 2001 in Bastia Umbra and first played in Serie C. In the first season Perugia missed promotion in the playoffs. A year later, Perugia qualified for the B2 series. After fifth place in 2003/04, the next promotion to the B1 series was achieved in 2005. There the team initially finished fifth. The following season, Sir Safety was defeated in the playoffs. After another fifth place in 2007/08, Perugia reached the playoffs again a year later. In 2010 he was finally promoted to the A2 series. In the same year the association, whose main sponsor is a security technology company , moved to Perugia. The team finished the first season in the second division in 13th place, in the playdown games they managed to stay up. Subsequently, the Serb Slobodan Kovač was committed as a new coach. Under his direction, Perugia played so successfully in the 2011/12 season that the team made it to Serie A1. There, the team around captain Goran Vujević reached in the 2012/13 season as sixth in the table directly to the quarter-finals of the playoffs. In the Italian Cup competition, Perugia also reached the quarter-finals. The club then signed another Serb, Aleksandar Atanasijević . The 2013/14 season was the most successful so far. Sir Safety qualified third in the main round for the playoffs. Perugia only had to admit defeat to the new master Lube Macerata in the final. In the cup, the team also reached the final and lost to Pallavolo Piacenza . As runner-up, Perugia qualified for the 2014/15 Champions League . Since Kovač moved to the Iranian national team , the former Serbian international Nikola Grbić took over as coach in Perugia. In the 2014/15 season, Sir Safety and German international Christian Fromm came fourth in the playoffs and lost to Trentino Volley in the semi-finals . Against the same opponent Perugia had to admit defeat in the cup semi-finals. In the Champions League, the team reached the playoffs as group winners. There Perugia met two Polish opponents. First, the Italians prevailed against Jastrzębski Węgiel , then they were eliminated against Skra Bełchatów . In 2015 Daniel Castellani came to Perugia as the new head coach. However, since the 2015/16 season was not as successful as hoped, the Argentine was dismissed in December and Slobodan Kovač returned as coach. In the Italian Cup, Sir Safety, who signed Denis Kaliberda as the second German player, is in the semi-finals. In the CEV Cup , Perugia prevailed against the Czech team ČEZ Karlovarsko in the first round and against Mirad PU Prešov from Slovakia in the round of 16 . In the quarter-finals, Sir Safety will play against German Bundesliga club SWD Powervolleys Düren in January 2016 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La squadra - Tutti i giocatori della Sir Safety Conad Perugia . In: Sir Safety Conad Perugia . ( sirsafetyperugia.it [accessed March 22, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b The Block Devils change coach! Boban Kovac is coming back to Perugia! (No longer available online.) Sir Safety Perugia, December 9, 2015, archived from the original January 18, 2016 ; accessed on January 18, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sirsafetyperugia.it
  3. ↑ Sir Safety, La Storia dei Block Devils