Alan Nine
Volleyball.it spent June 18 split between active international competition and another steady block of domestic market news. The clearest headline came from the women's Volleyball Nations League, where Italy added another straight-set win, while the Italian club scene kept moving with new additions in Serie A rosters and planning for the months ahead. The day also brought a beach-volley calendar marker and a positive note from the men's youth national-team path.
International
Italy continued its run in the women's VNL by beating Serbia 3-0, a result that took the azzurre to five wins and 14 points in the standings according to the source report.
The international page also carried a men's development note. Italy's Under-22 men's national team beat Tunisia 3-0 in its second friendly match at the Centro di Preparazione Olimpica Acqua Acetosa. Even in brief form, the item added another useful sign for the national-team calendar: beyond the senior events, the federation's summer program remains active across younger age groups, with preparation matches already producing concrete results.
Italian Transfer News
The busiest category again came from News Mercato Italia. Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri '76 completed its opposite-hitter unit by signing Marina Giacomello, a player born in 2001 who arrives after her season in Serie A2 with Orocash Picco Lecco. The source article tied the move to her earlier development with C.B.L. Costa Volpino and listed her most recent production in 25 appearances: 36 points, including 15 aces and 15 blocks. For Chieri, the profile is clear from the numbers alone: a player still building upward, but already carrying measurable impact in serve and at the net.
Delta Group Porto Viro also opened a new chapter in the middle with the arrival of Grottoli, presented by the source as the club's first novelty in that role. The article retraced his route through Dossobuono, Porto Mantovano and Carpi, framing the signing as a step forward for a player still at the start of his senior path. It was not the loudest market item of the day, but it fit the familiar summer pattern of clubs balancing immediate needs with younger profiles.
Sir Susa Vim Perugia, meanwhile, moved on a different axis by adding Slovak opposite David Kollator. The source report identified him as a 206-centimetre player arriving from VKP Bratislava, where he closed the season with a silver medal in the Slovak top league. Perugia's role for him was stated directly: he will serve as the backup to Wassim Ben Tara Reggers in SuperLega. That made the item notable not only as a signing, but as a precise structural decision inside one of the league's most ambitious rosters.
Another market move came from Consar Ravenna, which added outside hitter Marco Pierotti for its attack. The source article described him as a 22-year-old from Parma and noted that he spent last season in Taranto. It also attached one important line of context: across four years he has already played 72 SuperLega matches. For a player still early in age terms, that figure gave the move extra weight and suggested Ravenna is not simply adding youth, but adding a player who has already spent meaningful time inside the top division.
Beach Volley
The day also turned toward sand, with the announcement that the first Gold stop of the Italian Absolute Championship will be played in Termoli from Friday, June 19, to Sunday, June 21. Even without a full competitive report yet, the scheduling item carried clear relevance because it marked the next major domestic beach-volley appointment and gave the national calendar one of its first central reference points of this phase of the season.
