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2010 Men's Volleyball
World Championship
Organizing Committee
Headquarters
Via Chelini, 5 00197 Rome, Italy
Phone +39 06 80690093
Fax + 39 06 80663206
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April 2009
Pope presented with Italian national team shirt, World Cup ball and memento of the event. Delighted children in Saint Peter's Square for this unique event
Rome, April 1 2009 - 300 children playing mini-volleyball in Saint Peter's Square and the Pope holding an Italian national team shirt in his hands, with "S.S. Benedict XVI" printed on the back - these are just two of the lasting images of an unforgettable day for the 2010 Men's Volleyball World Championship Organising Committee who had an audience with the Pope this morning.
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On Wednesday 1 April 2009 a delegation of organizers of the 2010 Men’s Volleyball World Championship, a tournament to be held in Italy from 24 September to 10 October next year, will participate in an audience with Pope Benedict XVI.
A delegation from the National Organizing Committee of the 2010 Men’s Volleyball World Championships will participate in an audience with Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday 1 April 2009 while three hundred jubilant children play mini-volleyball in Saint Peter’s Square.
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April 2009
Francesco Ghirelli used the "Non Solo Sport" program on Vatican Radio's "One O Five Live" channel to outline the objectives of the Organising Committee, which will have an audience with the Pope on 1 April
Audience with the Pope on 1 April when 300 children will play mini-volleyball in Saint Peter's Square; commitment to help those less fortunate; the promotion of Italy internationally. The 2010 Men’s Volleyball World Cup was featured on "Non Solo Sport" - a program broadcast every Monday (11.30-12.30, repeated at 18.30) on Vatican Radio's "One O Five Live" channel (105.0 FM).
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March 2009
Twice a month they leave their troubles behind and descend onto the real court to begin their training like a Premier League team. A few months ago - thanks to their passion for volleyball - these inpatients from the Castiglione delle Stivere secure psychiatric hospital in the province of Mantua were taken under the wing of Mauro Berruto, coach for Acqua Paradiso Gabeca Montichiari, to embark on an important journey.
A journey that Italian television’s “Dribbling” show will feature in tomorrow’s edition, scheduled to be broadcast at 1.30 pm on Rai Due. Journalist Cristiano Piccinelli spent an entire day following each stage of their training - from the moment they arrive at the home ground, the PalaGeorge - documenting the expressions on their faces, the excitement, and how it must feel for them to be “free” for a few hours, despite their custodial sentence.
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March 2009
"Crisis and sport management" - the 14th International Study Day held at the University of Rome Tor Vergata School of Economics - was opened by President of the School of Economics, Michele Bagella. The conference, chaired by Professor Sergio Cherubini, Director of Sport Management at CEIS (Centre for Economic and International Studies) Tor Vergata, then saw the contribution of Francesco Ghirelli, Executive Director of the 2010 Men’s Volleyball World Championship, who said: "The forecast for the two-year period 2009-2010 has been for an ’annus horribilis’ for the economy. But the crisis is also an opportunity" - a key phrase that Ghirelli emphasised more than once.
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March 2009
Having presented the new Italian national “B” team coach, Lorenzo Bernardi, the man it is hoped will lead the team to success in the forthcoming Mediterranean Games (to be held in Pescara from 26 June to 5 July 2009) and the list of players selected for Andrea Anastasi’s World League team, the Chairman of Italian Volleyball Federation, Carlo Magri, confessed that it felt “a little like the first day at school”. Nevertheless he then proceeded with the official presentation of the list of fixtures in which the 22 members of the Italian National Men’s Volleyball Team will participate during the 2009 World League tournament.
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March 2009
The participation of a top national team and the chance to host the quarterfinals (in which the 5th - 8th place winners will be decided) of the 2010 Men’s World Championship at PalaPanini Stadium in Modena were the requests presented by Modena Local Organizing Committee to representatives of the National Organizing Committee at a meeting in Bologna.
Furthermore, with a view to enhancing the long tradition of Italian volleyball, Modena Local Organizing Committee also asked that Modena be the venue for next autumn’s World Volleyball Championship Pools Draw.
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March 2009
Presented by Local Councillor for Sport and Leisure of the Municipality of Milan, Giovanni Terzi, in the magnificent Palazzo Marino in Milan, the Milan Local Organizing Committee of the 2010 Men’s Volleyball Championships – of which Councillor Terzi has been appointed Honorary Chairman - will be responsible for organizing the opening ceremony and various rounds of the 2010 Men’s World Volleyball Championships which will commence on 24 September 2010. The committee will be chaired by Luca Cabassi. During the presentation, which was attended by both the Chairman of the Italian Volleyball Federation, Carlo Magri, and the Italian men’s volleyball team coach, Andrea Anastasi, Chairman Cabassi assured that “the 2010 World Championships will offer Italy, and especially the city of Milan, a great opportunity to continue developing the entire volleyball movement”, while Magri confirmed that the Italian national team “will participate in the first phase of the tournament in Milan and thus we expect a lot in terms of quality of the event and response from the territory”.
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THE POLL FOR THE MASCOT FLIES HIGH: MORE THAN 40.000 VOTES IN A WEEKEND ON THE INTERNET WEBSITES!
ROME, 13 October 2008
It still doesn’t have a name, but in a few days the 2010 Men’s World Championship Mascot has already become a familiar face. In a sole weekend, more than 40.000 Italians have expressed their preferences by literally storming the sport newspapers websites (www.gazzetta.it and www.corrieredellosport.it) and the Organizing Committee website (ww.volley2010.com) in order to participate to the poll and to give their personal contribution to the choice of the name of this swallow that has instantly conquered Italian people, arousing immediately interest and great popularity.
The first calculation of the preferences, from those expressed by the participants to those of the party organized last Friday in Rome for the Mascot birth, records at present the head-to-head between two options: Mimmo and Italo, that gathered main consensus, both with a 30% share of preferences. Back to them, the other couple of names: Volly and Fly, that obtained consensus near to 20%.
Left behind, till now, the option Gamp.
But the poll is only in its initial stage and, given the high media participation, the ranking triggered after this voting weekend could be completely turned upside down. Even because the kids of the Roman schools and of the other nine cities of the World Championship (Ancona, Catania, Florence, Milan, Modena, Reggio Calabria, Turin, Trieste and Verona) haven’t come to the stage yet.
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2010 VOLLEYBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP,
LETTA CRIMI AND PETRUCCI BAPTIZED THE MASCOT
ROME, 10 October 2008
The egg hatched and came out at least, the Mascot. So it was born, in a balloons craclking the symbol of the 2010 Men's Volleyball World Championship, a blue swallow with a beautiful 10 printed on its breast.
A character that seems to come out of a comic, able to capture everybody. From the blue boys of the Phenomena Generation, to the present Institutions to give the Imprimatur, to baptize a World Championship
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2010 VOLLEYBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, THE MASCOT IS A SWALLOW
NAMES CHOSEN FOR THE POLL
ROME, 10 October 2008
The Mascot-Day, the day of the 2010 Men’s World Championship Mascot, began in the best way possible: in the press-preview organized in the Palace of Exhibitions of Via Nazionale in Rome, few hours before the evening event that will officially reveal one of the symbols of the world championship. The Mascot is a swallow of great media impact: nice, lively ... .
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2010 VOLLEYBALL WORLD CUP: TOMORROW IS MASCOT DAY
ROME, 9 October 2008
We’re almost there. Tomorrow, 10 October 2010, exactly two years before the final of the 2010 Men’s Volleyball World Cup, the mascot of the tournament will be unveiled in Rome at the end of a long day dedicated to volleyball. The event will take place in the presence of the undersecretaries to the prime minister Gianni Letta and Rocco Crimi, the president of the Italian National Olympic Committee Gianni Petrucci, and will be hosted by Carlo Salvatori president of the Organizing Committee and Carlo Magri president of Fipav.
PRESS CONFERENCE AT PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSIZIONI AT 3:30 PM ... . |
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ROME, 7 October 2008
Giorgia Surina will be the godmother of the event due to take place on Friday October 10th 2008 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in via Nazionale (Rome) where the Organizing Committee of the Men’s volleyball world cup will unveil the mascot of the international tournament. The beautiful and capable Milanese mistress of ceremonies will be assisted by Jacopo Volpi, vice director of Rai Sport in presenting the evening program.
Giorgia Surina started her career with MTV in September 1998, when she presented the Italian Hit list. Since November 1999 she hosted TRL or Total Request Live,...
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ROME, 7 October 2008
Italy, a country with a passion for volleyball, can plan and carry out a modern world-level competition, while preserving the traditional characteristics of a popular sport. This is the message conveyed clearly in the passage of the baton from the World Cup of the past to that of the future.
The evening event (10th October, Palazzo delle Esposizioni on via Nazionale in Rome) will unveil the Mascot, one of the symbols of the international tournament that will take place in two years’ time in ten Italian cities. At the presentation, due to take place in three days’ time, there could be no better link ...
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ROME, 3 October 2008
The countdown to the presentation of the mascot, one of the symbols of the 2010 Men’s Volleyball World Cup, continues.
There will be an exceptional preview for the communications sector / media on the afternoon preceding the evening events of 10th October at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome (Via Nazionale) during which material regarding the mascot will be handed out.
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TURIN, 29 September 2008
The focus of the afternoon shifted to the Drawing of Lots of the countries that
will qualify to take part in the FIVB World Championship, to be staged in Italy
for the Men and in Japan for the Women. In the Men’s tournament, with Italy
automatically qualified as the host country, together with reigning World
Champion Brazil, the main interest was in discovering the path that the United
States, the surprise Olympic Champion last August would have to face. The “Stars
and Stripes” team is in pool F in the third qualifying round, together with
Dominican Republic and the first two teams in pool E (second qualifying round).
In Europe, pool K is also very balanced, with ...
The drawing of
lots results are available here:
DOWNLOAD THE PDF FILE FOR MEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
DOWNLOAD THE PDF FILE FOR WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
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