Gioiella Prisma Taranto is a professional Volleyball based in Taranto, Italy. It plays in 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 to 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 to Martina Franca, by management decision.
Team Team roster – season 2022/2023 No.NameDate of birthPosition 1 Tommaso Stefaniopposite 2 Oleg Antonovoutside hitter 3 Giovanni Maria Gargiulomiddle blocker 4 Aimone Allettimiddle blocker 5 Marco Falaschisetter 6 Marco Rizzo libero 7 Manuele Lucconiopposite 8 Eric Loeppkyoutside hitter 9 Hampus Ekstrandopposite 10 Jacopo Larizzamiddle blocker 13 Charalampos Andreopoulosoutside hitter 14 Francesco Pierrilibero 18 Francesco Cottarellisetter Head coach: Vincenzo Di Pinto
Team roster – season 2008/2009NumberNameHeight (m)Date of birthPositionNationality 1Antonio Ricciardello 1,88 27/07/86Libero 2Manuel Coscione 1,88 29/01/80Setter 3Josè Luis Moltò 2,06 29/06/75Middle blocker 6Matej Černič 1,94 13/09/78Outside hitter 9Francesco Guglielmi 1,91 22/04/72Libero 10Milos Stoijkovic 2,00 17/05/87 Outside hitter 11Luigi Mastrangelo 2,02 17/08/75middle Hitter/Blocker 12Francesco Corsini 2,02 01/01/79Opposite 13Valdir Sequeira 1,95 22/11/81Outside hitter 14Davide Quartarone 1,96 29/04/86Setter 15Bruno Augusto Furtado 1,96 25/07/78Outside hitter 18Israel Rodriguez 1,94 27/08/81Outside hitter Source: Team info from Lega Volley official site
References
External links Official website Team profile at Volleybox.net