The new coach of the men’s national volleyball team of Bulgaria, Gianlorenzo Blengini, announced the expanded squad for his first camp in office. He will gather on May 3 in Sofia the players for the starting tournament from the League of Nations, which starts on May 21 in Antalya.
The team will play controls against Estoria on May 14th and 15th.
The Italian specialist will be presented to the media in the coming days, before the start of training.
There are 30 names on his list, and the absence of the distributor Georgi Seganov, who wished to withdraw from participation, is striking. It was he who held the position in the last months and tournaments in which Bulgaria played.
Our team kicks off the Nations League on May 21st against France in Antalya, and the other opponents in this first mini-tournament are Canada, USA and the Netherlands.
Here are Blengini’s picks:
Distributors:
Dobromir Dimitrov (Ortona, Italy), Luboslav Telkiyski (Beroe), Svetoslav Stankov (Petrochemist), Simeon Nikolov (Levski), Stoil Palev (Levski).
Diagonals:
Venislav Antov (Levski), Dimitar Dimitrov (Montpellier, France).
Welcomers:
Alexander Nikolov (Lube, Italy), Asparukh Asparukhov (Kuzbass, Russia), Vladimir Garkov (Levski), Georgi Tatarov (Narbonne, France), Georgi Petrov (Neftochemik 2010),
Denis Karyagin (Lokomotiv, Russia), Denislav Burdarov (IBB, Turkey), Dimitar Vasilev (Deya Sport), Martin Atanasov (Lokomotiv, Russia), Samuil Valchinov (Montana).
Central blockers:
Alex Grozdanov (Verona, Italy), Boris Nachev (Black Sea), Iliya Petkov (Zaksa, Poland), Krasimir Georgiev (Petrochemist), Lazar Buchkov (Long Beach, USA), Nikolay Kolev (Narbonne, France), Nikolay Kurtev (Arkas , Turkey), Svetoslav Gotsev (Levski), Stefan Chavdarov (Deya Sport).
Libero:
Damian Kolev (Levski), Kaloyan Botev (Rakovski), Martin Bozhilov (CSKA), Simeon Dobrev (Petrochemical).
