This list includes: Simone Giannelli, Riccardo Sbertoli, Gianluca Galassi, Simone Anzani, Giovanni Gargiulo, Roberto Russo, Mattia Bottolo, Alessandro Michieletto, Luca Porro, Francesco Sani, Kamil Rychlicki, Yuri Romané, Fabio Balaso, and Domenico Pace. Champions. A stunning Italian men’s volleyball national team emulates their female colleagues and wins the World Championship for the fifth time in history. Coach Ferdinando De Giorgi's team claimed victory over Bulgaria in the final in Pasay City, the second district of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, which served as the tournament's elimination stage, with a score of 3-1 (25-21, 25-17, 17-25, 25-10), marking the conclusion of an extraordinary journey. There wasn’t much of a contest in the match at the SM Mall of Asia Arena, where the Azzurri confirmed their role as favorites, overwhelming their opponents—except for a slip in the third set—who had surprisingly reached the final act of the competition 55 years after their first and only appearance.