Falcons Men name new Head Coach
We are proud to announce Phill DeSalvo as the new Head Coach for the Mens program in 2010.
Phill joins the club after representing Australia as Libero in the senior team for 150 games and junior team for 100 games. During this time he competed in the 2003 Youth World Championship (ranking 5th as individual best digger in the tournament), 2006 World Championships, 2007 World Cup, and was also part of the team who were 2007 Asian Champions and also 2007 Commonwealth Champions. This national team was also ranked 11th in the world in 2007. He was also part of the Olympic Shadow Squad in 2004 and 2008.
Over the recent years Phill has been playing professionally in Germany and the Czech Republic. He played for:
- Sonneberger Volleyball Club – Germany (2nd Bundesliga)
- Volleyball CZ Kladno – Czech Republic (Czech Superliga)
- Volleyball CZ CZU Praha - Czech Republic (Czech Superliga)
- Volleyball SG Eltmann – Czech Republic (1st Bundesliga)
Phill has now come back to Melbourne for study, and has great plans for a revamped Mens program in 2010. This year Falcons should be represented in Honours, Division 1, Division 2 and Junior State league in the mens competition.
Congrats Phill! Thats awesome.
January 26, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Look forward to being part of the new era program of Phils
January 27, 2010 at 1:21 AM
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All the best Phil for a successful season, if you need any tips or hints feel free to contact me, ok?
January 29, 2010 at 8:29 PM
So with Devo’s dead is there where everyone will come to b*tch????
February 1, 2010 at 12:41 PM
We’ll have to start scouring the web for our info now
February 2, 2010 at 7:53 AM
But wait
I have a whisper of perhaps someone setting up a devo 2
February 2, 2010 at 8:13 AM
Kraft put a poll out to the Volleyball public and they came back with iDevo 2.0
(oh god what a terrible decision that was haha)
February 2, 2010 at 8:15 AM
Suggest people look at http://ozvolleycommunity.wordpress.com/
February 3, 2010 at 4:53 PM
PS Good luck Phill … sure you will do well
February 1, 2010 at 12:41 PM
lol … Devo, you closed off befor a proper send off was possible … so on behalf of myself and the rest of the vollyeball community (not sure all would want me speaking for them, but tough luck) thanks for the work you put into the site and I hope you enjoy your “retirement”.
February 2, 2010 at 10:25 AM
LOL – a devious plan.
Thanks mate.
February 2, 2010 at 11:38 AM