BERLIN Recycling Volleys
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TRENTINO Itas
Top Scorer
- 22 - Alessandro MICHIELETTO (ITA)
- 18 - Timothée CARLE (FRA)
- 17 - Giulio PINALI (ITA)
Officials
Tudor POP
Risto STRANDSON
Head-to-Head
- TRENTINO Itas defeated BERLIN Recycling Volleys 3-0 in their home match in this quarter-final tie on 10 March. It marked the fifth Champions League meeting between these teams, after double encounters in the 2013/14 group stage and the 2020/21 quarter-finals.
- In that match on 10 March, Alessandro Michieletto (13) was the only player on court to collect more than 11 points.
- Last season, TRENTINO Itas defeated BERLIN Recycling Volleys 3-1 away and 3-0 at home in the quarter-finals. Nimir Abdel-Aziz scored 40 points in total for TRENTINO Itas in those matches, but has since left the club.
- In the 2013/14 group phase, both teams won their home match: 3-1 in Trento and 3-0 in Berlin.
- TRENTINO Itas have a W7-L2 record against German teams in the Champions League (includes one awarded win), while BERLIN Recycling Volleys have a W3-L11 record against Italian opposition in the competition.
- The winner of this quarter-final tie will play Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA in the semi-finals.
BERLIN Recycling Volleys
- BERLIN Recycling Volleys are hoping to reach the Champions League semi-finals for a third time, after 2014/15 (when they did so as organisers of the Final Four tournament) and 2016/17. In those seasons, they finished respectively third and fourth.
- The only German team to win the Champions League is VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN (2006/07).
- BERLIN Recycling Volleys only recorded more Champions League wins in 2016/17 (7) than in the current campaign (6).
- BERLIN Recycling Volleys' last three defeats in the competition all came versus TRENTINO Itas, in last year's quarter-finals (2) and in this year's quarter-finals (1). The Germans won all six of their matches in-between.
- For only the second time in their club history, the BERLIN Recycling Volleys will play a return match in the knockout phase of the CEV Champions League at home in their Max-Schmeling-Halle on Wednesday evening.
- In 2017 the Berliners won 3:2 on their way to the Final Four in Rome in the playoff-12 against Istanbul BBSK (TUR) after a 2:3 away defeat and 0:2 set deficit and then also decided the "Golden Set" in their favour.
- The club from the German capital can only advance to the semi-finals this season again via "Golden Set". To do so, head coach Cedric Enard's team needs a 3-0 or 3-1 home win to neutralise the first leg result and play the deciding set to 15 points.
- While Itas Trentino played five sets against Milano at the weekend (3:2) but secured third place in the Italian league, the BR Volleys won in a hurry in the German Bundesliga. A clear 3-0 home win against the Helios Grizzlys GIESEN in the first playoff quarter-final brought the Berliners a big step closer to the semi-finals.
- The biggest crowd in more than two years (since start of the Corona pandemic) is expected at the "Volleyballtemple" on Wednesday. 60 percent capacity of the arena is actually allowed, which corresponds to a maximum of about 5,000 spectators.
- This is BERLIN Recycling Volleys' 100th match in the Champions League (W47-L52).This number includes three 3-0 awarded wins: two in 2020/21 and one in 2021/22.
- Benjamin Patch (72) and Timothée Carle (70) have won the most points for the club this Champions League season.
TRENTINO Itas
- TRENTINO Itas won the competition three times, in consecutive editions from 2008/09 to 2010/11. The Italians also claimed a top-three finish in 2011/12 (3rd), 2015/16 (2nd) and 2020/21 (2nd).
- Only Zenit KAZAN (6) have won the Champions League more than three times. The Russians (10) are also the only other team to claim as many as six podiums in the competition.
- TRENTINO Itas have won five of their seven matches this Champions League season, only losing in their meetings with Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA (0-3 home, 0-3 away).
- Of TRENTINO Itas' last eight defeats in the Champions League, seven came against Italian teams. The exception in this run is a 1-3 defeat in last season's final versus Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE.
- Alessandro Michieletto (95) and Daniele Lavia (91) are TRENTINO Itas' leading point scorers this Champions League season. Six players have already reached the 100-points mark this season, all representing teams which have been eliminated from the competition.
- Only Hebar PAZARDZHIK's Viktor Yosifov (33) and Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA's Robertlandy Simon Aties (22) have collected more points from stuff blocks this Champions League season than Lavia (20).
- Riccardo Sbertoli (61.78%) has the best setter efficiency in this season's Champions League.
Riccardo Sbertoli“We will go to Berlin to try to replicate what we did last Thursday in Trento. We will enter the field to win the match, without doing any kind of calculation because it is not the time to do them and because we want to leave the sports hall without any kind of regret”
Setter TRENTINO Itas
Angelo Lorenzetti“The result obtained in the home match was certainly important but, alone, it does not offer us qualification. We are at least sure that we can play the golden set, but it is clear that we will have to earn access to the semifinals first, by playing a shrewd and determined match, because we will find ourselves in front of a Berlin even more motivated and ready and pushed by its audience."
TRENTINO Itas
Ruben Schott"Despite the 0:3, everything is still possible. That's the beauty of volleyball, it's a completely new game and it starts all over again. I still have a few games in mind when I was younger and we beat favourites on our way to the Final Four in Rome in 2017 with our great homecrowd. We can achieve something like that again. "
Outside hitter BERLIN Recycling Volleys
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Match Polls
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Officials
First RefereeTudor POPROUSecond RefereeRisto STRANDSONEST
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Venue Information
Volleyball fans have ‘nicknamed’ the iconic Max-Schmeling-Halle ‘Germany’s Volleyball temple’. Actually, it is much more than just that – since this venue has played host to an impressive number of major international competitions as well, such as the 2002 FIVB Women’s World Championship, 2003 EuroVolley Men, 2013 EuroVolley Women, as well as the historic CEV Champions League Volley 2019 Super Finals back in May – to name only a few highlights. The Hall also plays as hosts to the Berlin Recycling Volleys, Germany's most decorated volleyball club with 10 Bundesliga titles and a CEV cup title in 2015/2016. The arena is located at Am Falkpl. 1, 10437 Berlin, Germany and holds up to 12,000 spectators. Capacity: 8533
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Team
- KLEIN Georg7 Middle blocker
- BREHME Anton8 Middle blocker
- KESSEL Cody11 Outside spiker
- TUIA Samuele12 Outside spiker
- PATCH Benjamin13 Opposite
- WEST Matt15 Setter
BERLIN Recycling Volleys 
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Glockenturmstr. 3 BerlinContacts
Previous Games
| 16/03/2022 | vs. |
3 - 2 | W | Go to Match Centre |
| 10/03/2022 | vs. |
0 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 17/02/2022 | vs. |
3 - 2 | W | Go to Match Centre |
- All Time
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18Competitions Played
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1Titles
- Competition
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8Matches Played
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7Matches Won
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88%Win %
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21Sets Won
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702Points Won
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47%Attack %
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43%Reception %
Team
- Birth Date: 1994
- Birth Place: Berlin
- Height: 192 cm
- Birth Date: 1995
- Birth Place: Illinois
- Height: 205 cm
- Birth Date: 1993
- Birth Place: Campsie
- Height: 203 cm
- Birth Date: 1995
- Birth Place: Toulon
- Height: 198 cm
- Birth Date: 1991
- Birth Place: Colorado
- Height: 197 cm
- Birth Date: 1986
- Birth Place: Mata-Utu/Wallis
- Height: 195 cm
- Birth Date: 1999
- Birth Place: Ceske Budejovice
- Height: 207 cm
Team
- KAZIYSKI Matey1 Outside spiker
- DEPALMA Niccolo'2 Setter
- COSER Stefano4 Middle blocker
- PAROLARI Raul11 Outside spiker
- LAVIA Daniele15 Outside spiker
- PODRASCANIN Marko18 Middle blocker
- LISINAC Srecko20 Middle blocker
- SPEROTTO Lorenzo22 Setter
TRENTINO Itas 
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Via del Brennero 276 TRENTOContacts
Previous Games
| 22/05/2022 | vs. |
0 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 07/04/2022 | vs. |
2 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 30/03/2022 | vs. |
3 - 2 | W | Go to Match Centre |
- All Time
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13Competitions Played
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5Titles
- Competition
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11Matches Played
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6Matches Won
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55%Win %
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22Sets Won
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939Points Won
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54%Attack %
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44%Reception %
Team
- Birth Date: 1984
- Birth Place: Sofia
- Height: 203 cm
- Birth Date: 1987
- Birth Place: Novi Sad
- Height: 204 cm
- Birth Date: 1992
- Birth Place: Kraljevo
- Height: 205 cm
Recent Results
TRENTINO Itas
BERLIN Recycling Volleys
(27 - 25, 25 - 19, 25 - 22)
BERLIN Recycling Volleys
Zenit SAINT PETERSBURG
(21 - 25, 25 - 21, 21 - 25, 28 - 26, 17 - 15)
Zenit SAINT PETERSBURG
BERLIN Recycling Volleys
(26 - 24, 25 - 20, 25 - 27, 22 - 25, 12 - 15)
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Player Statistics
Head to Head
Adam KOWALSKI
Libero
BERLIN Recycling Volleys
Wout D'HEER
Middle blocker
TRENTINO Itas
Captains and referees handshake before the kick off of the game
High five
Battle on the net
BERLIN Recycling Volleys celebrating a point
TRENTINO Itas team huddle
Fans enjoying the derby
What qualifying to the Semis means...
TRENTINO Itas celebration photo
MVP - Timotheé Carle of BERLIN Recycling Volleys
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TRENTINO Itas fly to the Semis
Despite a 2-3 loss this Wednesday, three times Champions League titleholders, and 2021 runners-up, Trentino Itas advance to the #CLVolleyM semis in this year’s edition of Europe’s elite competition, as they had seized a 3-0 win in the home match last week.
In the away fixture, Trentino came back after losing the first two sets, and securing the third and the fourth ones, it was enough for them to stamp their ticket to the next stage of the competition.
Berlin’s CLVolleyM journey ends to Trentino for a second consecutive year, as last season, the Italian and the German squads met again in the quarters, with Trentino defeating the Germans two times (3-1, 3-0).
On the road to the Super Final, Trentino will have to face in an all-Italian semi-finals serie the team of Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA.
To the delight of the fans at Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin, all the five sets were highlighted by great action, as both teams were delivering a rather equal performance on attack (54 to 53 winning spikes for BR Volleys) and at the serving line (eight to seven aces for Trentino). The better play on the block (13 to six) turned out to be the key to the success for the Italians.
Alessandro Michieletto contributed with some crucial aces in the deciding moments, becoming as well top scorer of the match with 22 points to his name. Timothée Carle from BR Volleys was named MVP of the game, finishing with as many as 18 points.
Timothée Carle:"It was a very intensive match, and we really put everything into it. It's hard to go through three or four sets against such a physically strong opponent. I'm still incredibly proud of the team. It was a great Champions League season for us, including today's match. There was an energy in the arena that I haven't experienced in the two years I've been here. It was great and, despite this defeat, it makes us look forward to the local playoffs a bit. We want to win the last remaining title!"
MVP of the match and player of BR Volleys
Angelo Lorenzetti“We are obviously happy, because reaching the goal of remaining among the top four teams in the Champions League was anything but simple. We knew this match was going to be very difficult; the players did well to come back. I have often congratulated this group, but in this case, we got a little too much tension and woke up only when we felt the danger of going to a golden set. There isn't much time left, but in this aspect, we will have to grow further from now until the end of the season ".
Head coach of Trentino Itas
The match in numbers
The combined total number of points scored by both teams throughout the entire match.
The total length of the match, from the first serve through until the last point has ended.
Total number of people in attendance at the venue – taken at the end of the second set.
The combined total number of successful spikes achieved by both teams throughout the entire match.
An average of the two team service reception percentages from the complete match.
The number of successful point winning blocks of BERLIN Recycling Volleys compared to TRENTINO Itas.
BERLIN Recycling Volleys number of service aces compared to TRENTINO Itas
Errors leading to points of BERLIN Recycling Volleys, next to those from TRENTINO Itas
Top Scorer
- 22 - Alessandro MICHIELETTO (ITA)
- 18 - Timothée CARLE (FRA)
- 17 - Giulio PINALI (ITA)
Top Attacker
- 14 - Alessandro MICHIELETTO (ITA)
- 14 - Matey KAZIYSKI (BUL)
- 14 - Timothée CARLE (FRA)
Top Blocker
- 4 - Giulio PINALI (ITA)
- 3 - Marko PODRASCANIN (ITA)
- 3 - Alessandro MICHIELETTO (ITA)
Top Server
- 5 - Alessandro MICHIELETTO (ITA)
- 2 - Sergey GRANKIN (RUS)
- 2 - Jeffrey JENDRYK II (USA)
Top Receiver
- 8 - Santiago DANANI (ARG)
- 7 - Ruben SCHOTT (GER)
- 4 - Matey KAZIYSKI (BUL)