Porto Ravenna Volley

Porto Ravenna Volley was a historical volleyball club from the city of Ravenna in Emilia-Romagna. Ravenna founded by a group of businessmen and lovers inspired by Giuseppe Brusi, it landed in A1 at the end of the eighties, continuing a tradition that makes the city one of the "cradles" of Italian volleyball.

The tradition dates back to other male volleyball club from Ravenna, where the G.S. Robur, won five league titles at the turn of the forties and fifties, and Casadio, who was born on the initiative of the Fire Department, and he served in A1 and A2 from the sixties then. In 1987 Giuseppe Brusi and a consortium of local businessmen took over the Casadio and the right to participate in the Series A2 and changed its name to Porto Ravenna Volley. In the nineties, with the sponsorship of the Ferruzzi Group, the team took the name "il Messaggero" Volley, and won a league title, an Italian Cup (1991), three consecutive European Champion Cups (1992, 1993 and 1994), two European Super Cups and the Club World Championship.

In the 1990-91 season (training Vullo, Timmons, Kiraly, Margaret, Gardini, Masciarelli) with coach Daniele Ricci the team won, with a high standard of play, the league and the Italian Cup. Among the players who dressed then the white-yellow-red jersey of the company includes those Brazilian Renan Dal Zotto and Giovane Gávio, the great Russian Fomin, also the Italians Vigor Bovolenta and Andrea Sartoretti.

Porto Ravenna Volley also boasts success in the field of youth. From 1990 to 2000 the club won four times the Junior League, three league titles Under-18, Under-16 two league titles, one Scudetto under 14 and a Boy League. The youth activities (which over the years Il Messaggero was coordinated by the Polish Olympic champion Alexander Skiba) led to the formation of the players who dressed the national team and that still tread the fields of Serie A. The Italian Under-16 title won on June 4, 2000 with victory in the final against Sisley Treviso, remains to this day the last championship of volleyball Ravenna.

With the financial crisis of the industrial group Ferruzzi-Montedison and the tragic death of the entrepreneur Raul Gardini in July 1993, the sports club gradually lost subsidies needed and went to meet a decline or loss; it continued its work (summarizing the name Porto Ravenna Volley), winning one more European title in 1997, the CEV Cup combined with several sponsors that allowed her to continue trading in Serie A until 2000. In that 'year, due to financial problems, the rights to participation in the championship of A1 were transferred to Trento.

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