Volleyball: Catania returns to the Superlega and takes the Vibo Valentia title

Tonno Callipo Vibo’s SuperLega title remains in the South: it is acquired by Farmitalia Saturnia, a Catania club that has just celebrated promotion to the A-2 men’s division after winning the play-offs in Casarano last Sunday had. The Society of President Luigi Pulvirenti made the evening available to the President of the League, Massimo Righi, presenting the project, the economic availability and the possibility of speaking with Vibo about exchanging documents to acquire the title.

26 years later

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Farmitalia will bring back the highest category to Catania after 26 years, after the ruinous fall of 1996-97 at the end of an endless cycle that has its origin in the Paoletti Championship of Pittera, Nassi and Greco in 1978, a new cycle of exploits of volleyball Catania by Lo Bianco, Conte and Kantor between the late eighties and early nineties, with an epilogue on the threshold of the new millennium thanks to the promotion of Traco to the A-1 by Travica and Grbic, with subsequent performances by Sarmientos, Despaigne, Ivanov. Official announcements and presentation of the activity in the next few hours. Which at a technical level begins with the confirmation on the bench of coach Waldo Kantor (one of the champions of the golden age as a player) and could record the arrivals of the free Cavaccini and the opponent Buchegger, precisely from Vibo. In a football-mad city, back in Serie C with Sicilian-Australian entrepreneur Ross Pelligra at the helm, driven by an audience averaging 15,000 spectators per game, volleyball played a leading role: Competition 1 of the final with Casarano 3500 spectators followed, which almost completely filled the palaCatania. The historical tradition has never been lost. A top team has been missing for too many years. Gap closed at the table, but with an economic solidity that is reassuring.