Lube Civitanova places shot Petar Dirlic

Official: Petar Dirlic è a new player of Lube Civitanova

After the signings of Gargiulo and Boninfante, Cucina Lube Civitanova, through a note issued on its official channels, announced the arrival of opposite Petar Dirlic from Allianz Milano, who è was one of the best top scorers of the Superleague 2022/2023 regular season with an impressive 409 points scored.

"A.S. Volley Lube announces for the 2024/25 championship the signing of Petar Dirlic, class ’97, 205 centimeters tall, native of Split. The Croatian athlete, with four years of SuperLega behind him and back from a season at Allianz Milano spoiled at the start by an ankle problem then solved, thus completes an opposing department of quality and quantity alongside Adis Lagumdzija. Coach Giampaolo Medei canò count on the two highest scorers of the penultimate Regular Season, giants capable of putting up in the 2022/23 regular season as many as 828 points in two with a large margin over rivals: 409 the Croatian national, 419 the Turkish national.

Growing up in his homeland in the Mladost Kastela nursery, which later saw him star in the first team, Dirlic won seven consecutive national titles in his career between Croatia (4) and Slovenia (3), distinguishing himself beyond the borders of his own country with the Ljubljana jersey, with which he won, in addition to the three Scudettos, three Slovenian Cups and two Mevza Cups (international competition of the teams of’Eastern Europe).

The Italian experience è began with a taste of the SuperLega among the ranks of Tonno Callipo Calabria Vibo Valentia in 2020/21, and then took a very important step in the next two years with Top Volley Cisterna, years in which the Croatian forward showed all the strokes of his repertoire by racking up points and highlighting himself for great solidity at the wall. The already mentioned ankle injury did not allow Petar to start at top form with Allianz Milano in the 2023/24 tournament, which nevertheless ended with third place and a historic pass for the meneghini for the Champions League. The bomber è returned to his levels and wants to prove it. To be mentioned, between the experience in the Pontine land and the one in Lombardy, the parenthesis in Qatar with the Police Union team, worth the conquest of the national cup.

The Lube newcomer, who blew out 27 candles last week, ès struggling with her country’s selection in the European Golden League. After bronze medals in 2022 and 2023, on the strength of an excellent start, Petar aims to reach the Challenger Cup to chase qualification for the 2025 VNL. In Civitanova Dirlic will re-embrace Barthelemy Chinenyeze and Giovanni Gargiulo, his teammates during the’year in Vibo Valentia" this is the note issued by the Marche club.

“Dirlic’s signing embellishes the roster. He arrives an athlete who in the last year, despite having benefited from few opportunities to put himself in the spotlight in Milan, due to some initial problems and to the explosion of his ward mate, has scored a good haul of points in the scraps of play granted. Having in the team group Dirlic and Lagumdzija, the two best scorers of the penultimate season, who two years ago struggled almost on equal footing by pulling away from everyone, è a great enrichment and on paper è a guarantee of a performing offense. Among other things, Petar è a guy who knows how to be a team player, literally a ‘locker room man’, young with his 27 years, but very mature and able to give a great support to his teammates” these are the statements of Lube Civitanova’s Dg Beppe Cormio.

“Having faced Lube several times, I am very happy to represent such an important club. I expect to contribute to the team’s victories and I can’t wait to start training with Giampaolo Medei and with a team that has revolutionized the’roster. The ingredients to give my best are all there: a solid company, a group of motivated players with important characteristics from a technical and athletic point of view, a new coach who comes from an exciting international triumph and fans who are always present and respected in all the arenas of Italy!" these, finally, are the first words of Dirlic as a new player of Civitanova.