Today the Broadcasting Centre Europe, in Luxembourg, hosted the draw of the pools of the CEV ZEREN Group Champions League Volley: A. Carraro Prosecco DOC Conegliano has been included in group D with LKS Lodz, Dresden and Ankara Zeren Spor .
The group stage matches will start on November 25 and will close on February 4, the Panthers will play the matches against the opponents of the group both in the first and second legs. First place gives the guarantee of access to the quarter-finals, while the second and best third will go through a further play-off with two matches between the two legs. The Final Four, on the other hand, will be played on 2 and 3 May with a venue to be defined.
In addition, the captain of the Panthers, Asia Wolosz, was present at today’s ceremony, who participated in the draw of the teams of the groups in the men’s edition of the top European competition.
DICHIARAZIONI COACH DANIELE SANTARELLI
“Our group will be competitive and we will have to get there in the best possible way, it is a more difficult group than last year. There are some teams where we have never played like Dresden and Lodz, the Poles are insidious teams like the Germans, they play fast. I will study their rosters, the level has dropped compared to a few years ago, but they are respectable teams. Then there is Zeren, they have been fished out and will want to do very well: there are Serbian players I have met and some Turkish players I still work with. We’ll see what happens.”