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| Full name | Gioiella Prisma Taranto | ||
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| Founded | 1997 | ||
| Ground | PalaMazzola, Taranto (Capacity: 5,000) | ||
| Manager | Vincenzo Di Pinto | ||
| League | Italian Volleyball League | ||
| Website | Club home page | ||
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Gioiella Prisma Taranto is a professional Volleyball based in Taranto, Italy. It plays in Italian Volleyball League. It was created in 1997 under the name of Magna Grecia Volley, and now it is named Prisma Volley.
A first club was founded in 1997, by the president Antonio Di Battista, that moved the Magna Grecia Volley franchise from Matera to Taranto. The team, with the classical red and blu jerseys, start its first championship in Serie A2, achieving the promotion to Serie A1 at the end of 1999-2000 season. The team played two years in the first division with the sponsor names La Cascina and Vini Borgocanale, before it went bankrupt. In 2002 the Magna Grecia Volley vice-president, Antonio Bongiovanni, founded the Taranto Volley. The team started from Serie D, won in 2003 and, in the summer of the same year, was acquired Belpasso (Serie A2) franchise. The return in the first division arrived in 2004 season, after the acquisition of Unimade Parma franchise. At the end of the year, the team come back to the second division. After a winning season (2005/2006), the team conquered, for the first time in its history, the playoff qualification in 2006/2007 season. At the same time, even the qualification to the Coppa Italia Final Four was reached. At the end of 2007/2008 championship, ended with the keeping of higher division, the club was moved from Taranto to Martina Franca, by management decision.
Team roster – season 2022/2023
| No. | Name | Date of birth | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Tommaso Stefani | 4 May 2001 | opposite |
| 2 | Oleg Antonov | 28 July 1988 | outside hitter |
| 3 | Giovanni Maria Gargiulo | 3 June 1999 | middle blocker |
| 4 | Aimone Alletti | 28 June 1988 | middle blocker |
| 5 | Marco Falaschi | 18 September 1987 | setter |
| 6 | Marco Rizzo | 2 January 1990 | libero |
| 7 | Manuele Lucconi | 9 February 1999 | opposite |
| 8 |  Eric Loeppky | 1 August 1998 | outside hitter |
| 9 |  Hampus Ekstrand | 28 October 2003 | opposite |
| 10 | Jacopo Larizza | 22 August 1998 | middle blocker |
| 13 |  Charalampos Andreopoulos | 23 January 2001 | outside hitter |
| 14 | Francesco Pierri | 14 September 1999 | libero |
| 18 | Francesco Cottarelli | 16 October 1996 | setter |
| Head coach: Vincenzo Di Pinto | |||
| Team roster – season 2008/2009 | |||||
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| Number | Name | Height (m) | Date of Birth | Position | Nationality |
| 1 | Antonio Ricciardello | 1,88 | 27/07/86 | Libero | Italy |
| 2 | Manuel Coscione | 1,88 | 29/01/80 | Setter | Italy |
| 3 | Josè Luis Moltò | 2,06 | 29/06/75 | Middle blocker |  Spain |
| 6 | Matej Černič | 1,94 | 13/09/78 | Outside hitter | Italy |
| 9 | Francesco Guglielmi | 1,91 | 22/04/72 | Libero | Italy |
| 10 | Milos Stoijkovic | 2,00 | 17/05/87 | Outside hitter |  Serbia |
| 11 | Luigi Mastrangelo | 2,02 | 17/08/75 | middle Hitter/Blocker | Italy |
| 12 | Francesco Corsini | 2,02 | 01/01/79 | Opposite | Italy |
| 13 | Valdir Sequeira | 1,95 | 22/11/81 | Outside hitter |  Portugal |
| 14 | Davide Quartarone | 1,96 | 29/04/86 | Setter | Italy |
| 15 | Bruno Augusto Furtado | 1,96 | 25/07/78 | Outside hitter |  Brazil |
| 18 | Israel Rodriguez | 1,94 | 27/08/81 | Outside hitter | Spain |
| Source: [1] | |||||
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