Verona, the beautiful youth The average age is 24.7 years
Verona Volley celebrates a point in the match at AgsmForum against Perugia FOTOEXPRESS Rapha, on the right, with Massimo Colaci, another “ever greem of the season
Verona Volley celebrates a point in the match at AgsmForum against Perugia FOTOEXPRESS Rapha, on the right, with Massimo Colaci, another “ever greem of the season
Verona Volley deploys a lot of youth. It has been said and repeated but the data is confirmed by comparing the average age of the team coached by Rado Stoytchev (year of birth, not even the month) with that of the other Super League teams. There is only Padua which boasts an even more “green” line since its average age is 23.1 against the 24.7 of the yellow and blue ones. Rapha, the Brazilian setter, true veteran of the season, will raise the registry for Stoytchev’s team a little. With his 42 years of experience and trophies he is the oldest player in the league and just two months ahead of another ever green namely Daniele Sottile, the former blue director now married to Lube after a life in Latina. Speaking of Civitanova, it should be noted that Blengini’s battleship is the oldest team with an average of 29.6 years. Just a little younger Perugia, at 28.4, followed by Modena at 27.8 and Piacenza at 27.7. Given that it confirms that the big names, apart from the exception of Trento – fresh winner of the Super Cup with Monza (25.9 the average age with Michieletto and Lavia very young owners and already on the top of Europe with the national team) – pay the experience by raising the age bar a little. As for the singles, then, the youngest, however, is Mattia Orioli, spiker from Ravenna in 2004. He precedes Giuseppe Bellanova, director recently married in Modena in 2003, like Gabriele Laurenzano, free from Taranto. Verona, from this point of view, does not mess with the trio Magalini, Donati and Mozic, not even 60 years in three with the Slovenian, born in 2002, the youngest of the trio. Furthermore, Mozic and Laurenzano are the youngest athletes to have a starting shirt. On the height front, at team level, Perugia beats everyone from the top of its 199 centimeters of average. Followed by Trento at 198.5 and by Lube and Monza at 198. In this ranking Verona is in the middle of the table with its 197 centimeters just behind Piacenza (197.2) but higher than Ravenna (196.6), Taranto (196.4), Padua (195.7) and Modena (195.9), which among the big names is the lowest formation just ahead of Milan (195.4) and Vibo (195.3), this one last with the roster with less centimeters than the Super League, while the giants of the championship are two: both with 211 centimeters. The Turkish opposite of Piacenza, Lagumzija and the German central of Cisterna Krick. Verona fights well in terms of height because the team boasts the Danish opposite Jensen at 209 centimeters like the Serbian central Nikolic. The lower ones instead of the Superlega are two free, both with 173 centimeters. The Veronese Donati and Goi of Ravenna. A little higher Laurenzano at 176. •.