Captain Asia Wolosz for the ninth season will be Pantera! Joanna “Asia” Wolosz, Polish class of ’90, setter, is the first confirmation for the 2025/26 season of Prosecco DOC Imoco Conegliano. She will wear, as always, the number 14 shirt, after Monica De Gennaro she is the second player in history for appearances in the history of the club in eight seasons so far in the yellow-blue.
Arrived in the summer of 2017 from the Chemik Police, the Polish director inaugurated the era of Daniele Santarelli who wanted her to direct operations on the field when he took office as head coach. Together they wrote history at the Palaverde: there are 26 trophies in the trophy cabinet, including 7 Scudetti, 6 Italian Cups, 7 Super Cups, 3 Champions Leagues and 3 Club World Cups. Since Asia directs the Panthers’ game in the control room, Prosecco DOC Imoco has always won the Italian championship, except for the interruption related to the pandemic in 2020.
The captain, idol of the Palaverde public, this season has reached and exceeded 350 appearances, now has 362 in yellow and blue (second only to Moki De Gennaro); with Prosecco DOC Imoco Conegliano, she is second for sets played (1249), first for serves made (4775), second for aces (170), second for blocks (319) and second for trophies won (26).
On 5 occasions, Wolosz has managed to win a trophy in yellow and blue as the best player in the competition, all in the Italian championship: in Serie A1 2018, Coppa Italia 2020, Supercoppa 2022, Supercoppa 2023 and Coppa Italia 2024. Asia’s extraordinary nature is also photographed by the award for best setter of the last Club World Cup that the Panthers won in Hangzhou.
ASIA WOLOSZ STATEMENTS
“In the many years since I’ve been here in Conegliano, I’ve had several summers in which other clubs have made me offers, and what offers! sometimes I even thought about whether after so many seasons it was time to change, but in these cases I made my personal table to evaluate the pros and cons of staying here… well there were always too many” pros “, too many positive things that made the decision easy for me! The environment here has become my home, working for a club like this, which has ambitions, which changes its skin while maintaining unchanged goals and stimuli, with teammates at the top as players and as people, with the special fans that only we have, with sponsors who team up, with a beautiful territory, all this is too good for me to think of leaving, So I’m so happy to still be here and to continue this fantastic story. We are writing pages that will remain forever, it is a pride for me and a continuous stimulus towards new goals. This year we did” All In “, but we don’t want to stop, we are already looking ahead and we still have many pages to write, all together. This summer I rest a bit, but my heart is in Conegliano, see you in August for another great season!”.