Porto Ravenna Volley was a historical volleyball club from the city of

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. 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.

Achievements

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: Winners (3):

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

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1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

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1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

* CEV SuperCup : Winners (2): 1992, 1993 : Runners-up (1): 1994 * FIVB Club World Championship : Winners (1):

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

* Italian League : Winners (1): 1991 * Italian Cup : Winners (1): 1991

History

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, coached by Daniele Ricci, the team (with notable players Vullo,

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, Kiraly, Margaret, Gardini, Masciarelli) won the league and the Italian Cup. Among the players who have played for the team are the Brazilians Renan Dal Zotto and

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, the Russian Dmitry Fomin, and the Italians

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and

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. 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 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

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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. The activities of Porto Ravenna Volley continued at youth level, and in the 2009–2010 season, with the presidency of Vanni Monari came the return to a national championship: stravincendo the series C, was achieved promotion to Serie B2. The following season, immediately gets the promotion to Serie B1. In the 2012–13 season, after reaching the play-off promotion to Serie A2. At the end of the season now it merges with Gruppo Sportivo Robur Angelo Costa, going to create the Gruppo Sportivo Porto Robur Costa.

References

{{reflist Volleyball clubs in Italy Volleyball clubs established in 1987 Volleyball clubs disestablished in 2013 1987 establishments in Italy 2013 disestablishments in Italy History of Ravenna