Overview - Volero Zürich - FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship 2017

Teams

Volero Zürich

Overview

Team profile

Volero Zurich are competing in the FIVB Club World Championship for the fifth time, following three years of hosting the event in Zurich and last year's appearance in Manila.

In all four previous appearances Volero made it to the bronze medal match, but only stepped up on the podium in 2015, when they beat Rexona-AdeS Rio de Janeiro 3-0 for third place. Last year Volero lost 3-1 to VakifBank in the bronze medal game.

The club was founded in 1973 and has dominated the women's volleyball scene in Switzerland for the past decade. Since claiming their first national title in 2005, Volero have won the Swiss championship and the Swiss cup a total of 11 times each.

Volero's best finish in the European Champions League was a fourth place in 2007, when they lost in the bronze medal match to Spain’s VC Tenerife. They are competing this year in the FIVB Volleyball Club World Championship for the fourth time. After two unsuccessful attempts to win a place on the podium, they beat Brazil’s Rexona-AdeS Rio de Janeiro last year at home in Zurich to claim the bronze medal.

Coach

Zoran Terzic

Fresh from leading the women’s national team of Serbia to a historic silver medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Zoran Terzic took charge of Volero prior to the 2016 FIVB Club World Championship in Manila.

The 50-year-old Belgrade native has worked as a coach since the 1980s in Yugoslavia and has also had extensive stints with clubs in Romania, in addition to one season with Italy’s Sirio Perugia and three with Russia’s Omichka Omsk.

He took over the national team of Yugoslavia in 2002 (later Serbia & Montenegro and then Serbia), leading his teams to numerous successes, including a bronze medal at the 2006 FIVB Volleyball World Championship, a silver at the 2015 FIVB Volleyball World Cup, the European Championship title in 2011 and culminating with an Olympic silver at Rio 2016.