Gabriele Di Martino, major renewal
The words of Gabriele Di Martino
Important renewal at home Mint Vero Volley Monza. Gabriele Di Martino, a Roman central player class ’97 played, in the last sporting year, 46 matches and 173 sets between SuperLega (Regular Season + Playoff Scudetto), Coppa Italia and CEV Challenge Cup, scoring 289 points.
For Di Martino, among the protagonists of the fantastic season that led the Lombard club to qualify for the CEV Champions League 2024/2025, this is the ninth consecutive season in the top league, after those experienced with Molfetta/Piacenza, Sora and Taranto.
Among the qualities of the Vero Volley central, very solid at the wall and in attack (his best performance of the season è was 14 points against Catania in Sicily on the ninth day of the regular season), where he finished last season with 54.8%, there’è also an excellent float serve, often proved useful to Monza to create break situations.
In the Azzurri, Di Martino made his debut with the senior representative two years ago, precisely on May 25, 2022 in the friendly played in Cavalese between Italy and Bulgaria (2-3), then winning a Bronze at the Mediterranean Games in 2022 (in Oran, Algeria). With the youth national team of Italy, whose entire trafilament he did, instead, he won a Silver at the 2015 Pre-Junior European Championships.
“I am very happy to stay in Monza for the third consecutive year – Di Martino–s words; we come from a spectacular season in which we reached 3 finals. I bring with me some great memories, and I hope to experience as many next year with a new team and new players. I am proud to represent Monza in such an important and challenging competition as the Champions League, in which I am sure we will do well. We will have to try to create the same team chemistry as last season, to make the next one unforgettable”.