Andrea Giani is an Italian professional volleyball coach and former player who scored numerous successes in the 1990s, including three World Championships with his national team. He is considered one of the best volleyball players ever. He was an all-rounder able to play both as outside hitter and as middle blocker, but he played several times as opposite too.
Nikola Grbić is a Serbian professional volleyball coach and former player, who is currently serving as head coach for the Poland national team. Grbić is the Olympic Champion Sydney 2000, a bronze medallist in the Olympic Games Atlanta 1996, and a multiple World Championship, European Championship and World League medallist. He was named the European Player of the Year in 2007 and inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2016.
Modena Volley is a professional volleyball team based in Modena, Italy. It has played in the highest level of the Italian Volleyball League without interruption since 1968. It is the most successful Italian club, having won the national league twelve times and the national cup as well. The club is one of the most prominent and prestigious in Europe too, having won thirteen European trophies including four CEV Champions League.
The Italy men's national volleyball team represents the country in international competitions and friendly matches. The national team is controlled by the Italian Volleyball Federation, the governing body for Volleyball in Italy. It is one of the most successful national teams in the history of volleyball, having won four World Championships, seven European Championships, one World Cup (1995) and eight World League. Italy is the reigning World champion, having won 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship.
Stéphane Antiga is French professional volleyball coach and former player. He was a member of the France national team from 1998 to 2010, and a participant in the Olympic Games Athens 2004. He is the current head coach of DevelopRes Rzeszów.
Julio Velasco is an Argentine former professional volleyball player and coach. He's had Italian citizenship obtained in 1992. Velasco was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2005. Velasco currently serves as a sports director for the Italian Volleyball Federation.
Renan Dal Zotto is a Brazilian former volleyball player who competed in three editions of the Summer Olympics and currently head coach of Brazil men's national volleyball team. He was born in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul. In 1980 he was part of the Brazilian team which finished fifth in the Olympic tournament. He played five matches.
Radostin Svetoslavov Stoychev is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and head coach.
Hichem Guemmadi is an Algerian international volleyball player.
CUS Torino Pallavolo was a professional men's volleyball team based in Turin, Italy. It is one of the most famous clubs which played in Serie A1 in the 1970s and in the 1980s, winning several Italian and European trophies.
Raúl Lucio Lozano is an Argentine professional volleyball coach and former player.
Giovanni Guidetti is an Italian volleyball coach. He is the current coach for Serbia women's national volleyball team He's been coaching Turkish team Vakıfbank Spor Kulübü since 2008. He coached the Turkey women's national team between 2017 and 2022.
Jonas Bastien Baptiste Aguenier is a French volleyball player. He was part of the French national team at the 2014 World Championship held in Poland. On club level, he plays for Italian team NBV Verona.
This article shows the rosters of the participating teams at the 1986 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in France from 25 September - 5 October 1986.
Wassim Ben Tara is a Tunisian professional volleyball player of Polish descent who plays as an opposite spiker for Sir Safety Perugia and the Tunisia national team.
Igor Kolaković is a Montenegrin professional volleyball coach and former player. He currently serves as head coach for the Serbia national team.
This article shows all participating team squads at the 2019 Men's European Volleyball Championship, held in France, Slovenia, Belgium and Netherlands from 13 to 29 September 2019.
Yacine Louati is a French professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Asseco Resovia and the France national team. Louati won a gold medal in the men's tournament at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Chaumont Volley-Ball 52 is a French volleyball club, founded in 1996 and based in Chaumont (Haute-Marne) and have played in Ligue A since the 2012-2013 season. It won the 2017 LNV Ligue A and the French Supercup in 2017 and 2021. The club finished second in the same year of the CEV Cup. It also participates in other major European competitions such as CEV Champions League and CEV Top Teams Cup.
Daniele Santarelli is an Italian women's volleyball coach. He is the current head coach of Imoco Volley and the Turkey women's national volleyball team. Previously, he was coach of the Croatian national team, and the Serbian national team with whom he won the 2022 World Championship.
