Italy men's national volleyball team

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Italy

Federation		Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (Italian)
Website		www.federvolley.it
Confederation		CEV
Head coach		Andrea Anastasi
FIVB ranking		10 (as of 2008-01-05)

Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver	1996 Atlanta	Team
Silver	2004 Athens	Team
Bronze	1984 Los Angeles	Team
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Team
World Championships
Gold	1990 Rio de Janeiro	Team
Gold	1994 Athens	Team
Gold	1998 Tokyo	Team
Silver	1978 Rome	Team
European Championships
Gold	1989 Stockholm	Team
Gold	1993 Turku	Team
Gold	1995 Athens	Team
Gold	1999 Wien	Team
Gold	2003 Berlin	Team
Gold	2005 Rome/Belgrade	Team
Silver	1991 Berlin	Team
Bronze	1948 Rome	Team
Bronze	1997 Eindhoven	Team
World League
Gold	1990 Osaka	Team
Gold	1991 Milan	Team
Gold	1992 Genova	Team
Gold	1994 Milan	Team
Gold	1995 Rio de Janeiro	Team
Gold	1997 Moscow	Team
Gold	1999 Mar del Plata	Team
Gold	2000 Rotterdam	Team
Silver	1996 Rotterdam	Team
Silver	2001 Katowice	Team
Silver	2004 Rome	Team
Bronze	1993 São Paulo	Team
Bronze	2003 Madrid	Team

The Italy men's national volleyball team is the volleyball national team of Italy. It dominated international volleyball competitions in the 1990s and early 2000s, by winning three World Championships in a row (1990, 1994 and 1998), six European Championships, one World Cup (1995) and eight World League (1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2000).

1 Results
- 1.1 World Cup
- 1.2 World Grand Champions Cup
2 Squads
3 Current team
- 3.1 Team
4 See also

[edit] Results

[edit] World Cup

1989 — 2nd place
1995 — 1st place
1999 — 3rd place
2003 — 2nd place
2007 — did not compete

[edit] World Grand Champions Cup

1993 — 1st place
1997 — did not compete
2001 — did not compete
2005 — 3rd place

[edit] Squads

2002 FIVB World League — 4th place

Luigi Mastrangelo, Dante Boninfante, Pasquale Gravina , Ferdinando De Giorgi, Valerio Vermiglio, Alberto Cisolla, Leondino Giombini, Marco Molteni, Samuele Papi, Andrea Sartoretti, Cristian Casoli, Mirko Corsano, Hristo Zlatanov, Andrea Giani, Alessandro Fei, Daniele Vergnaghi, Luca Tencati, and Matej Cernic. Head Coach: Andrea Anastasi.
2003 FIVB World League — 3rd place

Luigi Mastrangelo, Marco Meoni, Pasquale Gravina , Paolo Torre, Valerio Vermiglio, Samuele Papi, Francesco Biribanti, Alberto Cisolla, Cristian Savani, Luca Tencati, Hristo Zlatanov, Damiano Pippi, Andrea Giani, Alessandro Fei, Daniele Vergnaghi, Vigor Bovolenta, Paolo Cozzi, and Matej Cernic. Head Coach: Gianpaolo Montali.
2005 World Grand Champions Cup — 3rd place

Luigi Mastrangelo, Giacomo Sintini, Valerio Vermiglio , Alessandro Paparoni, Alberto Cisolla, Luca Tencati, Mirko Corsano, Alessandro Fei, Michal Lasko, and Matej Cernic. Head Coach: Gianpaolo Montali.

[edit] Current team

[edit] Team

Head coach: Andrea Anastasi

#	Name	Birthdate	Age (2007)	Club
1	Luigi Mastrangelo	1975-08-17	32	M. Roma Volley
2	Manuel Coscione	1980-01-29	27	Bre Banca Cuneo
3	Simone Parodi	1986-06-06	21	Famigliulo Corigliano
4	Marco Nuti	1970-10-02	37	Prisma
5	Giordano Mattera	1983-08-29	24	Maggiora
6	Alessandro Farina	1976-05-16	32	Sisley Treviso
7	Alessandro Paparoni	1981-08-17	26	Lube Banca Macerata
8	Alberto Cisolla	1977-10-10	30	Sisley Treviso
9	Christian Savani	1982-02-22	25	M. Roma Volley
10	Luca Tencati	1979-03-16	28	Sisley Treviso
11	Mauro Gavotto	1979-04-16	28	Acqua Paradiso
12	Matteo Martino	1987-01-28	20	Premier Hotel
13	Lorenzo Perazzolo	1984-10-30	23	Acqua Paradiso
14	Alessandro Fei	1978-11-29	29	Sisley Treviso
15	Andrea Semenzato	1981-09-12	26	M. Roma Volley
16	Christian Casoli	1975-01-27	32	Cimone Modena
17	Andrea Sala	1978-12-27	29	Acqua Paradiso
18	Matej Cernic	1978-09-13	29	Fakel Novi Urengoi
19	Cosimo Marco Piscopo	1983-07-18	24	Banca Antonveneta