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Lorenzo Benvenuti writes history for Sammarinese Volleyball following transfer to Italy’s top club Azimut MODENA
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Article Sat, Jun 30 2018
San Marino, June 30, 2018. Lorenzo Benvenuti will soon become the very first player from San Marino to compete in Italy’s Superlega, the highest division of the Italian national league. He will be wearing the shirt of Azimut MODENA and work with legendary coach Julio Velasco.
“I still have to fully realise that this is actually going to happen but as soon as I think about it, I get goose bumps,” Benvenuti says. “I will be playing together with elite players that I have seen only on TV this far, such as Ivan Zaytsev, Maxwell Holt, Simone Anzani, Denys Kaliberda, Micah Christenson and Salvatore Rossini.”
Born in 1994, Benvenuti is 187 cm tall and he has been playing as libero since he joined the team of Conselice back in 2015. “I went there to play as an outside hitter but moved to the libero position after an injury suffered by our starting player. I eventually asked to finish the season as a libero,” Benvenuti recounts. Lorenzo has been playing Beach Volleyball as well and last summer claimed the top honours from one of the stops of the Italian national tour.
Benvenuti comes from a Volleyball family. His late father, Paolo, was a player, coach and manager and every year the Sammarinese Volleyball Federation organise an international tournament to pay tribute to his memory. Mum Maria Luisa played Volleyball as well while his sister Valeria is playing as a setter in the Italian Serie C. Lorenzo will be working in Modena together with two real Volleyball legends, Velasco and his assistant Luca Cantagalli.
Lorenzo started playing the game with Beach & Park San Marino. “The Sports Director of MODENA, Andrea Sartoretti, phoned me on June 18 asking whether I was interested in playing for their team. I obviously said that I was even though initially I thought that this was a joke. I did not expect this at all. Last summer I had a couple of try-outs with Bunge RAVENNA and Vero Volley MONZA, but the eventual outcome was not a happy one,” Benvenuti adds.
Benvenuti writes history for Sammarinese Volleyball. Previously only Valerio Guagnelli, born and grown up in France, had played in the French highest division and in the Italian Serie A2.
“This news obviously makes us very happy,” said Gianluigi Lazzarini, President of the Sammarinese Volleyball Federation. “It acknowledges the good work done by our Federation and Beach & Park as well, as we are committed to contributing to the technical, physical and psychological development of our players.”
Azimut MODENA are one of three Italian teams set to compete in the 2019 edition of the CEV Volleyball Champions League – Men.
“I still have to fully realise that this is actually going to happen but as soon as I think about it, I get goose bumps,” Benvenuti says. “I will be playing together with elite players that I have seen only on TV this far, such as Ivan Zaytsev, Maxwell Holt, Simone Anzani, Denys Kaliberda, Micah Christenson and Salvatore Rossini.”
Born in 1994, Benvenuti is 187 cm tall and he has been playing as libero since he joined the team of Conselice back in 2015. “I went there to play as an outside hitter but moved to the libero position after an injury suffered by our starting player. I eventually asked to finish the season as a libero,” Benvenuti recounts. Lorenzo has been playing Beach Volleyball as well and last summer claimed the top honours from one of the stops of the Italian national tour.
Benvenuti comes from a Volleyball family. His late father, Paolo, was a player, coach and manager and every year the Sammarinese Volleyball Federation organise an international tournament to pay tribute to his memory. Mum Maria Luisa played Volleyball as well while his sister Valeria is playing as a setter in the Italian Serie C. Lorenzo will be working in Modena together with two real Volleyball legends, Velasco and his assistant Luca Cantagalli.
Lorenzo started playing the game with Beach & Park San Marino. “The Sports Director of MODENA, Andrea Sartoretti, phoned me on June 18 asking whether I was interested in playing for their team. I obviously said that I was even though initially I thought that this was a joke. I did not expect this at all. Last summer I had a couple of try-outs with Bunge RAVENNA and Vero Volley MONZA, but the eventual outcome was not a happy one,” Benvenuti adds.
Benvenuti writes history for Sammarinese Volleyball. Previously only Valerio Guagnelli, born and grown up in France, had played in the French highest division and in the Italian Serie A2.
“This news obviously makes us very happy,” said Gianluigi Lazzarini, President of the Sammarinese Volleyball Federation. “It acknowledges the good work done by our Federation and Beach & Park as well, as we are committed to contributing to the technical, physical and psychological development of our players.”
Azimut MODENA are one of three Italian teams set to compete in the 2019 edition of the CEV Volleyball Champions League – Men.