Daniele Santarelli (born 8 June 1981 in Foligno) is an Italian women's volleyball coach. He is the current head coach of Imoco Volley and the Turkey women's national volleyball team. Previously, he was coach of the Croatian national team, and the Serbian national team with whom he won the 2022 World Championship.[4][5]

Daniele Santarelli
Personal information
NationalityItalian
Born (1981-06-08) 8 June 1981 (age 43)
Foligno, Italy
Coaching information
Current teamItaly Imoco Volley Conegliano
Previous teams coached
YearsTeams
2012–13
2013–14
2014–15
2015–17
2017–

2018–22
2022
2023–
Italy Robursport Volley Pesaro (assistant)
Italy Robur Tiboni Volley Urbino (assistant)
Italy Pomí Casalmaggiore (assistant)
Italy Imoco Volley Conegliano (assistant)
Italy Imoco Volley Conegliano

Croatia Croatia[1]
Serbia Serbia[2]
Turkey Turkey[3]
Medal record
Head coach  Turkey
FIVB Nations League
Gold medal – first place 2023 Arlington
FIVB World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2023 Tokyo
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Belgium/Estonia/Germany/Italy
Head coach  Serbia
FIVB World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2022 Netherlands/Poland
FIVB Nations League
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Ankara
Head coach  Croatia
European Volleyball League
Silver medal – second place 2019 Varaždin
Silver medal – second place 2021 Ruse
Gloria Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Belek

Playing career

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Santarelli played as libero in various lower categories of Italian league (Serie B) in Foligno, Vicenza, Legnago and Terracina before pursuing his career as a youth coach at a young age.[6][7][5]

Coaching career

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He was a coach for Italian teams such as Snoopy Pesaro, Robursport Pesaro, Robur Tiboni Urbino Volley. He currently leads Imoco Volley. With Imoco, Santarelli has won the Italian national league four times (2015, 2018, 2019, and 2021), 3 Italian Cups (2017, 2020 and 2021), 4 Italian Super Cups (2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020), 1 Club World Championship (2019)[8] and the last edition of the CEV Champions League.

In the summer of 2018 he took the position of head coach of the Croatia women's national volleyball team, a position he held until the end of the 2021 European Championship. During that time he won two silver medals in the European league, held in Varaždin and Ruse.[9] In January 2022 he became the head coach of Serbian women's national team[10][11] and won bronze medal at FIVB Women's Nations League same year.[12]

In October 2022, the Serbian national women's team headed by Santarelli won the world title at the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship held in Poland and the Netherlands. The team thereby successfully defended the 2018 title won under the previous coach Zoran Terzić.[13] On 27 December 2022 it was announced by the TVF that Daniele will be the new head coach of the Turkey women's national volleyball team, and the details of the agreement would be announced at a press conference to be held jointly by TVF President Mehmet Akif Üstündağ and Daniele himself.[3]

Clubs

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FIVB Club World Championship:

CEV Champions League:

Italian Championship:

Italian Cup:

  •   2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Italian Super Cup:

  •   2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

National Team

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FIVB World Championship:

FIVB Nations League:

FIVB Volleyball World Cup:

CEV European Volleyball Championship:

CEV European League:

Personal life

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Santarelli has a degree in physical education.[14] He has been married to the volleyball player Monica De Gennaro since 2017.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Imoco's Daniele Santarelli Named Head Coach Of Croatian Women's NT http://volleymob.com – 11-07-2018
  2. ^ "Santarelli new head coach of world champions Serbia". volleyballworld.com. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  3. ^ a b GENGÖNÜL, Burak (27 December 2022). "Filenin Sultanları'nın Yeni Başantrenörü Daniele Santarelli". Türkiye Voleybol Federasyonu | TVF (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Daniele Santarelli new head coach of Team Serbia | CEV". www.cev.eu.
  5. ^ a b Pavić, Zoran (21 January 2022). "Danijele Santareli: Odbojka kao droga". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Foligno in festa per Santarelli campione". umbriaON (in Italian). 30 April 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Daniele Santarelli – Imoco Volley Conegliano". Imoco Volley Conegliano (in Italian). Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Da Foligno al tetto d'Europa Santarelli vince anche la Champions". umbriaON (in Italian). 1 May 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  9. ^ "Hrvatski odbojkaški savez nije produžio ugovore s izbornicima reprezentacije Santarellijem i Zaninijem". January 18, 2022.
  10. ^ "OSSRB – Danijele Santareli novi trener seniorki Srbije". www.ossrb.org.
  11. ^ "Thompson, Drews lead USA women into Tuesday's Volleyball Nation's League opener". Volleyballmag.com. 30 May 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  12. ^ Arcari, Marco (17 July 2022). "Pallavolo – Egonu MVP, Bosetti miglior schiacciatrice: l'Italia domina il 6+1 ideale della VNL". Eurosport (in Italian). Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  13. ^ "Novi selektor Srbije ima visoke ambicije: Vodim najbolju ekipu na svetu, ali nisam ja osvojio te trofeje". Euronews.rs (in Serbian). 4 February 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  14. ^ "Foligno in festa per Santarelli campione". April 30, 2018.
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