Supercup, the schedule for the Final Four in Florence
Supercup, the program
After the close of the 2023/24 season that saw Sir Susa Vim Perugia win the title of Champions of Italy, è everything is ready for the start of a new and exciting season that will open on September 21 and 22, 2024 in Florence with the Del Monte Supercoppa SuperLega.
The Semifinals, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 21, will be played at 3:30 p.m. (live on Rai Sport) and 6 p.m. (Rai Play); the match that will award the title will be staged on Rai Sport at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 22.
Four formations will compete at the Pala Wanny in Florence to win the first title of the season, with the event officially opening the’80° Serie A Championship: the two teams protagonists of the Scudetto Finals and Coppa Italia, Sir Susa Vim Perugia and Vero Volley Monza, as well as Itas Trentino and Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza, qualified by virtue of their placement in last season.
So it will be the Italian champions of Sir Susa Vim Perugia who will open the season, in the challenge against Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza. In the 3:30 p.m. match live on Rai Sport, the Block Devils, after last season’en-plein, will try to repeat, knowing full well that other teams have also been able to reinforce themselves. Arriving in Angelo Lorenzetti’s court, via Milan, are Yuki Ishikawa and Agustin Loser, who are ready to reinforce the setter and middle blocker departments, respectively. Piacenza, which è qualified for the event having finished third in the Regular Season last year, will still have Andrea Anastasi at the helm, with Antoine Brizard, fresh Olympic Champion in Paris 2024, who will try to lead his team to the Final, supported by new signings Stephen Maar, Gianluca Galassi and Uros Kovacevic.
Fans, from 18.00, will just have to move to Rai Play, where there will be active streaming of the match that will give the Pala Wanny spectators the second finalist. Playing for a place in the Final will be Itas Trentino, which finished in first place last Regular Season and ended its year by losing the Final 3° Place, still qualifying for the next CEV Cup, and Vero Volley Monza, which after the extraordinary year culminated with the participation in the Play Off Final for the award of the title, has renewed part of the roster but confirming Massimo Eccheli at the helm. The coach will be able to count on the return to Italy of Taylor Averill, U.S. center who just won the Bronze medal at the Olympic Games, and on the arrival of Osmany Juantorena. Trento, after Marko Podrascanin’s farewell, instead protected itself with the arrival of Flavio, who after winning four titles with Perugia last season will play this year in the Dolomite jersey. The club gialloblù then reinforced the roster with several grafts, including Nicola Pesaresi and Gabi Garcia.
