Davide Mazzanti (born 15 October 1976 in Fano, Italy) is an Italian volleyball coach of the Italian national team, which he coached at the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship [1] as well as the 2019 edition. [2]
Charles Frederick "Karch" Kiraly is an American volleyball player, coach and broadcast announcer. In the 1980s he was a central part of the U.S National Team that won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. He went on to win the gold medal again at the 1996 Olympic Games, the first Olympic competition to feature beach volleyball. He is the only player to have won Olympic medals of any color in both the indoor and beach volleyball categories. He played college volleyball for the UCLA Bruins, where his teams won three national championships under head coach Al Scates.
VakıfBank Sports Club is a Turkish volleyball club based in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 1986, VakıfBank SK are currently one of the best women's volleyball teams in the world, having won the FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship a record four times and the European Champions League five times to date.
Slobodan Kovač is a Serbian volleyball coach and former volleyball player, Olympic Champion Sydney 2000, bronze medallist at the Olympic Games Atlanta 1996.
The Italy women's national volleyball team is governed by the Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (FIPAV). The team's biggest victories were the gold medal at the 2002 FIVB Women's World Championship, being the first team to break the domination of Russia, Cuba, China and Japan, and the 2007 and the 2011 World Cup, winning 21 out of the 22 matches in both tournaments.
The Serbia men's national volleyball team is the national team of Serbia. FIVB and CEV considers Serbia the inheritor of the records of SFR Yugoslavia (1948–1991) and Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006). Serbia won gold at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and bronze at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
The Turkey women's national volleyball team is formed by the Turkish Volleyball Federation (TVF) and represents Turkey in international CEV and FIVB organizations.
Irina Vladimirovna Kirillova, also known as Irina Parkhomchuk, is a retired competitive volleyball player and Olympic gold medalist for the Soviet Union, later competing for Croatia.
Giuseppe Mazzanti is an Italian baseball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2009 World Baseball Classic, and 2019 European Baseball Championship. Mazzanti also had a brief stint with the minor league AZL Mariners of the Seattle Mariners franchise. Mazzanti has had most of his success in the Italian Baseball League where he was named MVP both in 2007 and 2008.
Brankica Mihajlović is a Serbian professional volleyball player. She plays for the Serbia women's national volleyball team where she won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She also competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. In 2019, she returned to the Turkish club Fenerbahçe after a 3 year break. She is 1.90 m tall.
Giovanni Guidetti is an Italian volleyball coach. He's been coaching Turkish team Vakıfbank Spor Kulübü since 2008 and also coaches the Turkey women's national team since 2017.
The Slovenia national men's volleyball team represents Slovenia in international volleyball competitions and friendly matches, and is governed by the Volleyball Federation of Slovenia. Slovenia was the runner-up of the European Volleyball Championship three times, in 2015, 2019 and 2021. As of September 2022, Slovenia is ranked 9th in the FIVB World Rankings.
Tijana Bošković is a Serbian volleyball player for the Serbia women's national volleyball team. She was the leading scorer for the Serbia women's national volleyball team in her debut in the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, and 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. She has won the Serbian Championship title and two Serbian Super Cups. Her current club is Eczacıbaşı VitrA since the 2015-2016 season.
Francesca Ferretti is an Italian professional volleyball player who plays as a setter. As a member of the Italy women's national volleyball team she played in many international competitions and is a World Cup and European Championship winner. At club level she plays for Liu Jo Nordmeccanica Modena and has won national and international competitions with the clubs she played for.
Mazzanti Automobili is an Italian company that produces handcrafted high performance cars. It was founded in 2002 by Luca Mazzanti and Walter Faralli as Faralli & Mazzanti
This article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the Women's European Championship 2017 in Baku and Ganja, Azerbaijan and Tbilisi, Georgia.
This article shows the roster of all participating teams at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.
Elena Pietrini is an Italian volleyball player who plays as a wing spiker for the Italian national team. She made her debut appearance at the Olympics representing Italy at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
This article shows the roster of all participating teams at the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. The 16 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 21 players, which every week's 14-player roster must be selected from. Each country must declare its 14-player roster two days before the start of each week's round-robin competition.
This article shows all participating team squads at the 2019 Women's European Volleyball Championship, held in Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Slovakia from 23 August to 8 September 2019.
This article shows all participating team squads at the 2021 Women's European Volleyball Championship, held in Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania from 18 August to 4 September 2021.