Massimo Barbolini (born 29 August 1964) is an Italian

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coach. He is coach of

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, and

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, he has won the

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and

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Career

Born in

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, as a boy he played

as setter but was forced to retired from volleyball due to a serious injury when he was 20 years old. He soon become assistant coach of

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at Panini Modena then in 1989 he was named coach of Sanyo

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. With the Sicilian team he reached the Italian serie A1 (first division) then he trained

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. In 1993 he was named coach of

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, his first assignment in woman volleyball. With that team he won two Italian championship and two Italy Cup a European Supercup and a European Champions League. After a year with Gierre Roma, he was named coach of Despar Sirio of

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. With the Deapar Sirio, which he trained from 1997/1998 to 2006/2007, he won 3 Italian championship (2003, 2005 and 2007), a European Champions League (2006) and a European Cup Winner's Cup, two CEV Cups, as well as 4 Italy Cup (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007). In the August 2006, after the firing of

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from Italy women's national volleyball team, Barbolini led the team in the

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to the 4th place. In summer 2007 the Italy women's national volleyball team arrived third at

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and won its first European Championship. In November 2007 Barbolini's team also won the 2007 Volleyball World Cup. At

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the Italian team managed by Barbolini was defeated by the

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at the quarter final match. In 2009 he led the Italian woman volleyball national team to the victory at European championship. In 2011 he led the Italian national team to the victory of 2011 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Cup

References and sources

*Despar Sirio websit

*September 2007 Edition of monthly magazine ''Pallavolo Supervolley'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Barbolini, Massimo 1964 births Living people Sportspeople from Modena Italian volleyball coaches Volleyball coaches of international teams Italian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Galatasaray S.K. (women's volleyball) coaches