Paolo Nicolai

Paolo Nicolai ( born August 6, 1988 in Ortona ) is an Italian volleyball player.

Career

Nicolai in 2006, at Francesco Giontella the final of the U19 World Cup in Bermuda, which decided the Germans Jonathan Erdmann and Marvin Klass for themselves. In the next two years, the young Italian won the U21 World Cup in Modena and Brighton. The second title win Nicolai most valuable player (MVP) has been selected. In 2009 he formed a new duo with Matteo Varnier, which reached fifth place of the Open tournament in Rome. At the World Championships in Stavanger Nicolai / Varnier came a second group in the first round of the main subject and there Canadians van Huizen / Redmann. Then she dropped out in the first round of the European Championship in Sochi and were ninth. They were also this year by Italian masters.

Since Varnier got health problems at the shoulder, Nicolai played in 2010 with changing partners. In the U23 European Championships in Kos he was with Paolo Ingrosso third parties. The next year he first played two open tournaments with Daniele Lupo before he took at the World Championships in Rome with Matteo Martino and after three sets failed because of the Spaniards Herrera / Gavira only in the second round. Since the Grand Slam in Stare Jabłonki Nicolai and Lupo are reunited. In August, they did not come at the European Championship in Kristiansand on the first round out. At the Olympic Summer Games 2012 in London, they were fifth. At the 2013 World Championships in Stare Jabłonki Lupo / Nicolai reached after four wins in a row the second round, where they did against the Spaniards Herrera / Gavira and occupied ninth place.