# Prisma Volley

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Prisma_Volley
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Prisma_Volley.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisma_Volley
> Source revision: 1318566098
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

**Gioiella Prisma Taranto** is a professional [Volleyball](/source/Volleyball) based in [Taranto](/source/Taranto), [Italy](/source/Italy). It plays in [Italian Volleyball League](/source/Italian_Volleyball_League). It was created in 1997 under the name of **Magna Grecia Volley**, and now it is named **Prisma Volley**.

## History

A first club was founded in 1997, by the president Antonio Di Battista, that moved the Magna Grecia Volley franchise from [Matera](/source/Matera) to [Taranto](/source/Taranto). The team, with the classical red and blu jerseys, start its first championship in **Serie A2**, achieving the promotion to **Serie A1** at the end of 1999-2000 season. The team played two years in the first division with the sponsor names *La Cascina* and *Vini Borgocanale*, before it went bankrupt. In 2002 the Magna Grecia Volley vice-president, Antonio Bongiovanni, founded the *Taranto Volley*. The team started from **Serie D**, won in 2003 and, in the summer of the same year, was acquired Belpasso (Serie A2) franchise. The return in the first division arrived in 2004 season, after the acquisition of Unimade Parma franchise. At the end of the year, the team come back to the second division. After a winning season (2005/2006), the team conquered, for the first time in its history, the playoff qualification in 2006/2007 season. At the same time, even the qualification to the Coppa Italia *Final Four* was reached. At the end of 2007/2008 championship, ended with the keeping of higher division, the club was moved from [Taranto](/source/Taranto) to [Martina Franca](/source/Martina_Franca), by management decision.

## Team

***Team roster – season 2022/2023***

No. Name Date of birth Position 1 Tommaso Stefani 4 May 2001 (age 25) opposite 2 Oleg Antonov 28 July 1988 (age 38) outside hitter 3 Giovanni Maria Gargiulo 3 June 1999 (age 27) middle blocker 4 Aimone Alletti 28 June 1988 (age 38) middle blocker 5 Marco Falaschi 18 September 1987 (age 38) setter 6 Marco Rizzo 2 January 1990 (age 36) libero 7 Manuele Lucconi 9 February 1999 (age 27) opposite 8 Eric Loeppky 1 August 1998 (age 28) outside hitter 9 Hampus Ekstrand 28 October 2003 (age 22) opposite 10 Jacopo Larizza 22 August 1998 (age 28) middle blocker 13 Charalampos Andreopoulos 23 January 2001 (age 25) outside hitter 14 Francesco Pierri 14 September 1999 (age 26) libero 18 Francesco Cottarelli 16 October 1996 (age 29) setter Head coach: Vincenzo Di Pinto

Team roster – season 2008/2009 Number Name Height (m) Date of birth Position Nationality 1 Antonio Ricciardello 1,88 27/07/86 Libero 2 Manuel Coscione 1,88 29/01/80 Setter 3 Josè Luis Moltò 2,06 29/06/75 Middle blocker 6 Matej Černič 1,94 13/09/78 Outside hitter 9 Francesco Guglielmi 1,91 22/04/72 Libero 10 Milos Stoijkovic 2,00 17/05/87 Outside hitter 11 Luigi Mastrangelo 2,02 17/08/75 middle Hitter/Blocker 12 Francesco Corsini 2,02 01/01/79 Opposite 13 Valdir Sequeira 1,95 22/11/81 Outside hitter 14 Davide Quartarone 1,96 29/04/86 Setter 15 Bruno Augusto Furtado 1,96 25/07/78 Outside hitter 18 Israel Rodriguez 1,94 27/08/81 Outside hitter Source: [1]

## References

1. [Team info from Lega Volley official site](http://www.legavolley.it/DettaglioSquadra.asp?IdSquadra=4241)

## External links

- [Official website](https://prismatarantovolley.it/)
- [Team profile](https://volleybox.net/prisma-taranto-volley-t1774) at *Volleybox.net*

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Prisma Volley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisma_Volley) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisma_Volley?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.