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Volleyball legend Virginie De Carne starts new life following appointment as head coach of Finland’s top team LP KANGASALA
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Article Fri, Apr 1 2016
Helsinki, Finland, April 1, 2014. Finland’s elite club LP KANGASALA announced on Friday that former Belgian Volleyball star Virginie De Carne – who was also the Tournament Director of the 2015 CEV DELA Volleyball European Championship – Women together with Peter Blangé – has been appointed as the coach of their women’s top team.
This is the start of a ‘second life’ for Virrie – as De Carne is known in the Volleyball community – who will be making her debut in Finland’s top division after maturing a great experience with a number of young Volleyball players from this same country. De Carne has indeed been sharing her passion for Volleyball as well as her knowledge and experience to turn into a real role model as Finland’s Volleyball stars in the making pursue their ultimate goal of a professional career in the sport they love.
During her competitive career she was one of the world’s best opposite players and now she wants to pass on her winning mentality and attitude to the team, hoping that – who knows!? – LP KANGASALA will participate in the 2017 edition of the revamped CEV Volleyball Champions League, which will be open to all national champions.
Ismo Tahvanainen, the current head coach of LP KANGASALA, said: “We were looking for something new in our club. Virginie has good connections in Europe, she is familiar with top level Volleyball, understands it and is interested in developing women’s Volleyball in Finland.”
“I am honoured to be the head coach of this club,” Virginie said. “I would like to sincerely thank the club president Jorma Malm for this great opportunity. I am very motivated for this new chapter of my life and I will work with the team to share the experience I got from playing in the most competitive national leagues in Europe. I am very happy because the club decided to support my plan to further develop the VDC Volleyball Academy and I am sure that together we will take the younger players to a professional level.”
A short bio
Virginie De Carne (born May 26, 1977) is a Belgian female former Volleyball player, who played as opposite. She played for the Belgian women’s national Volleyball team from 1994 to 2011, competing, inter alia, at the 2009 Women’s European Volleyball Championship in Poland. She started her career abroad in Modena (1998-99), her next steps were in Trecate, Ravenna, and Novara, where in three years she won the CEV Cup, the Italian Cup and the Italian Supercup. She left Italy for Tenerife, Zurich (where she became the best scorer of the 2007 CEV Volleyball Champions League), Omsk and LP Viesti Salo, with whom she claimed two titles in Finland’s national league. In 2012 she returned to Italy, and namely to Novara, before in 2013 she accepted the proposal to work as the head coordinator of the junior teams at Salon Viesti RY.
This is the start of a ‘second life’ for Virrie – as De Carne is known in the Volleyball community – who will be making her debut in Finland’s top division after maturing a great experience with a number of young Volleyball players from this same country. De Carne has indeed been sharing her passion for Volleyball as well as her knowledge and experience to turn into a real role model as Finland’s Volleyball stars in the making pursue their ultimate goal of a professional career in the sport they love.
During her competitive career she was one of the world’s best opposite players and now she wants to pass on her winning mentality and attitude to the team, hoping that – who knows!? – LP KANGASALA will participate in the 2017 edition of the revamped CEV Volleyball Champions League, which will be open to all national champions.
Ismo Tahvanainen, the current head coach of LP KANGASALA, said: “We were looking for something new in our club. Virginie has good connections in Europe, she is familiar with top level Volleyball, understands it and is interested in developing women’s Volleyball in Finland.”
“I am honoured to be the head coach of this club,” Virginie said. “I would like to sincerely thank the club president Jorma Malm for this great opportunity. I am very motivated for this new chapter of my life and I will work with the team to share the experience I got from playing in the most competitive national leagues in Europe. I am very happy because the club decided to support my plan to further develop the VDC Volleyball Academy and I am sure that together we will take the younger players to a professional level.”
A short bio
Virginie De Carne (born May 26, 1977) is a Belgian female former Volleyball player, who played as opposite. She played for the Belgian women’s national Volleyball team from 1994 to 2011, competing, inter alia, at the 2009 Women’s European Volleyball Championship in Poland. She started her career abroad in Modena (1998-99), her next steps were in Trecate, Ravenna, and Novara, where in three years she won the CEV Cup, the Italian Cup and the Italian Supercup. She left Italy for Tenerife, Zurich (where she became the best scorer of the 2007 CEV Volleyball Champions League), Omsk and LP Viesti Salo, with whom she claimed two titles in Finland’s national league. In 2012 she returned to Italy, and namely to Novara, before in 2013 she accepted the proposal to work as the head coordinator of the junior teams at Salon Viesti RY.