Los Angeles 2028 is the Italian coach’s long-term goal
Roberto Piazza, the brand new head coach of the Iranian males’s nationwide crew, has already said a transparent aim that he has set for himself on the brand new job and that’s to carry the crew again up among the many high eight groups within the FIVB Volleyball World Rating and preserve them there completely.
The Italian coach took over the Iranian crew on a four-year contract earlier this month, changing earlier head coach Mauricio Paes of Brazil, who was in cost through the 2024 season and below whose time period, Iran completed fifteenth within the 2024 Volleyball Nations League.
Iran are at the moment fifteenth within the World Rating as nicely and this isn’t the place the place their new head coach desires them to be. For probably the most a part of the 2023 season, they had been a high 10 crew, and the final time they had been within the high eight was through the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Males’s World Championship.
“My first dream and need is to be always within the first eight groups within the World Rating,” Roberto Piazza advised Volleyball World shortly after accepting the brand new job.
The 56-year-old Italian is taking on the Iranian nationwide crew with a four-year perspective, geared in the direction of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Video games, and the long-term time period goal being the crew’s return to Olympic participation after lacking out on Paris 2024 this 12 months. Iran made their Olympic debut at Rio de Janeiro 2016, the place they reached the quarterfinals, and likewise performed at Tokyo 2020, registering a ninth place end. Quick time period, Piazza’s first goals might be related to subsequent 12 months’s Volleyball Nations League and, after all, the 2025 World Championship within the Philippines.
At this level, Piazza didn’t reveal whether or not any main modifications within the squad needs to be anticipated below his mandate.
“It’s actually too quickly to speak concerning the gamers,” he mentioned. “A lot of them will play in several leagues and we have now to pick out the most effective ones for every place.”
Piazza celebrates Allianz Milan’s historic success, the 2024 SuperLega bronze
Earlier than taking on Iran, coach Piazza had been on the helm of the Netherlands since 2019. His earlier nationwide crew jobs embody teaching Qatar in 2016 and assistant-coaching Russia to an FIVB Volleyball World League bronze in 2009 and silver in 2010.
Since 2019, Roberto Piazza has additionally been head teaching the Italian membership crew of Allianz Milan, steering them to a historic nationwide championship bronze from the SuperLega final season. After assistant teaching Italian membership groups for a few years and incomes as many as three CEV Champions League crowns as such, amongst a number of different continental and home trophies, the previous center blocker took on his first head teaching place at Sisley Treviso in 2009 and has since been on the helm of Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo, Azimut Modena, in addition to golf equipment from Poland and Greece. Throughout his profession as a membership head coach, Piazza received the 2011 CEV Cup, the 2021 CEV Problem Cup, the 2016 Supercoppa Italiana, the 2018 Polish championship title, the 2017 and 2018 Polish nationwide tremendous cups and the 2016 Greek nationwide cup, amongst quite a lot of different continental and home podium finishes.
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