Emanuele Zanini

Emanuele Zanini (born 15 April 1965) is an Italian professional volleyball coach. He serves as head coach for the Belgium national team.

Career as coach

He studied physical education at University of Bologna graduating in 1988.

He became a head coach in 2000. Zanini coached in his career several teams in Italy and also in Austria, Slovakia, France and Poland. In 1999–2000, he served as an assistant and a coach of physical preparation of the Italy men's national volleyball team. Since 2008, he has coached Slovakian men's national team for four seasons leading to their best results in the history.

In August 2013, he was appointed a head coach of the Turkey men's national team for three years. He replaced Bosnian-born Frenchman Veljko Basic, who served at this post since 2010. Zanini became a head coach of the French team Beauvais Oise UC Volley in the same time.

Honours

Club

• Domestic 2004–05 Austrian Cup, with Hypo Tirol Innsbruck 2004–05 Austrian Championship, with Hypo Tirol Innsbruck

Youth national team

• 2015 FIVB U23 World Championship, with Turkey

External links

• at the European Volleyball Confederation
• at LegaVolley.it (in Italian)
• at Volleybox.net