Matteo Piano (born 24 October 1990) is an Italian

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player, a member of

Italy men's national volleyball team The Italy men's national volleyball team represents the country in international competitions and friendly matches. The national team is controlled by the Italian Volleyball Federation, the governing body for Volleyball in Italy. It is one of the ...

and Revivre Milano. Matteo Piano has a standing reach of 209 cm. He was silver medalist at the

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and the 2015 World Cup, silver medalist at the

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, and bronze medalist of the World League (

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Career

National team

Piano debuted with the

in 2013. In 2013 Italy, including Piano, won bronze medal of World League. In the same year he achieved silver medal of

. In 2014 he and his Italian teammates won bronze of World League held in

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. He was also part of the team that won the silver medal in the

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and in the

2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup was the 7th staging of the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup, a quadrennial international men's volleyball tournament organized by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (F ...

Sporting achievements

Clubs

National championships

* 2014/2015 Simple gold cup

Italian Cup, with

Modena Volley Modena Volley is a professional volleyball team based in Modena, Italy. It has played in the highest level of the Italian Volleyball League without interruption since 1968. It is the most successful Italian club, having won both the national le ...

* 2015/2016 Simple gold cup

Italian Cup, with DHL Modena

National team

* 2013

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* 2013

CEV European Championship * 2014 Bronze medal with cup

* 2015

FIVB World Cup * 2016 Silver medal with cup

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Individual

* 2017

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References

External links

FIVB profile

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* * * * 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Asti Italian men's volleyball players Modena Volley players Olympic volleyball players for Italy Volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Middle blockers 21st-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-volleyball-bio-stub