The 81st Italian A1 women’s volleyball championship begins with Monday Night: on the first day, Prosecco DOC A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano faces Eurotek Laica UYBA on Monday 6 October at 20:30, at the E-Work Arena in Busto Arsizio. It will be the first official match of the 14^ season in the history of the yellow-blues, against one of the most faced teams ever. The “butterflies” of coach Enrico Barbolini, last season, closed the Regular Season in 6th place, going out in the play-off quarter-finals against Savino del Bene Scandicci. Full team for coach Daniele Santarelli.
EX: Asia Wolosz returns to face the first Italian team of her career, with whom she played a two-year period from 2013 to 2015. A large component of ex-Panthers among the players of Busto Arsizio. Among them, the setter Nanami Seki and the middle Katja Eckl, will be able to debut in official competitions after having played last season in Conegliano, winning 5 trophies. Also unforgettable ex is the spiker Alessia Gennari, who in two seasons between 2022 and 2024 won 7 trophies. The spiker Valeria Battista, on the other hand, is a product of Imoco Next Gen, the yellow-blue nursery.
REFEREES: Goitre and Nava
AVERAGE: It will be possible to follow the match live on free-to-air TV on Rai Sport HD and streaming on Volleyballworld.tv. Live updates and post-match interviews on Imoco Volley’s social profiles
PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS: There are 32 victories against the bustocche in the record of Prosecco DOC A. Carraro Imoco, 11 defeats in the previous 43 in national competitions.
DICHIARAZIONI COACH DANIELE SANTARELLI
“There is a lot of excitement for the start of this season. It will be a strange away game, we are not used to starting away from home, especially on Monday. But we can’t dwell on these things, now the points are heavy and count for the positions in the standings in the Regular Season. We start against a team that against Galatasaray showed that they are in very good condition, they recovered all the pieces they didn’t have at the beginning. Seki, Eckl and Gennari played with us a short time ago, we know them well and we have remained attached to them, but now the three points in the standings are up for grabs. Busto is a historic square on the Italian scene, but we want to start on the right foot by bringing home the victory. We are in good shape, even if we are not at the top we want to start in the best way. We have studied our opponents well, the girls are fine and are all available. We hope that our fans will also follow us to the arena even if it is not an easy trip, but we know that despite it being Monday someone will certainly be there to support us”.
CUNEO
PRESALEThe Panthers will return to the Palaverde for the first time in the season on Sunday 12 October at 4 pm, they will challenge Cuneo Granda Volley in the 2^ day of the championship. The pre-sale on vivaticket.com is already active.