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{{Short description|Italian volleyball coach (born 1964)}}
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| currentclub    = [[Galatasaray S.K. (women's volleyball)|Galatasaray (W)]] <br> [[Italy women's national volleyball team|Italy (W)]] ({{Tooltip|AC|Assistant coach}})
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'''Massimo Barbolini '''(born 29 August 1964) is an Italian [[volleyball]] coach. He is coach of [[Italy women's national volleyball team|Italy (W)]], and [[Galatasaray S.K. (women's volleyball)|Galatasaray (W)]]. 

Coaching [[Italy women's national volleyball team]], he has won the [[2007 Women’s European Volleyball Championship|2007]] and [[2009 Women's European Volleyball Championship]].

==Career==
Born in [[Modena]], as a boy he played [[volleyball]] as setter but was forced to retired from volleyball due to a serious injury when he was 20 years old. 

==Coaching career (club)==
He soon become assistant coach of [[Julio Velasco]] at [[Panini Modena]] then in 1989 he was named coach of Sanyo [[Agrigento]]. With the Sicilian team he reached the Italian serie A1 (first division) then he trained [[Modena Volley]].

In 1993 he was named coach of [[Latte Rugiada Matera]], his first assignment in woman volleyball. With that team he won  two Italian championship and two Italy Cup a European Supercup and a European Champions League. 

After a year with Gierre Roma, he was named coach of [[Despar Sirio]] of [[Perugia]]. With the [[Deapar Sirio]], which he trained from 1997/1998 to 2006/2007, he  won 3 Italian championship (2003, 2005 and 2007), a European Champions League (2006) and a European Cup Winner's Cup, two CEV Cups, as well as 4 Italy Cup (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007).

===Galatasaray===
It was announced by the club that he became the Head Coach of [[Galatasaray S.K. (women's volleyball)|Galatasaray (W)]] on 27 May 2025.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.galatasaray.org/haber/voleybol/kadin-voleybol/imza-toreni-massimo-barbolini/57887|title=İmza Töreni - Massimo Barbolini|publisher=Galatasaray S.K.|date=27 May 2025|access-date=27 May 2025}}</ref> 29 May 2025, signed a 2-year contract with Galatasaray.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.galatasaray.org/haber/voleybol/kadin-voleybol/basantrenor-massimo-barbolini-ile-2-yillik-sozlesme-imzalandi/57898|title=Başantrenör Massimo Barbolini ile 2 yıllık sözleşme imzalandı|publisher=Galatasaray S.K.|date=29 May 2025|access-date=29 May 2025}}</ref>

==Coaching career (national team)==
In the August 2006, after the firing of [[Marco Bonitta]] from Italy women's national volleyball team, Barbolini led the team in the [[2006 FIVB Women's World Championship|World Championship]] to the 4th place.

In summer 2007 the Italy women's national volleyball team arrived third at [[Volleyball Grand Prix|Grand Prix]] and won its first European Championship. In November 2007 Barbolini's team also won the [[2007 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup|2007 Volleyball World Cup]]. At [[2008 olympics|2008 summer olympics]] the Italian team managed by Barbolini was defeated by the [[United States women's national volleyball team|USA]] at the quarter-final match.

In 2009 he led the Italian woman volleyball national team to the victory at [[2009 Women's European Volleyball Championship|European championship]]. 

In 2011 he led the Italian national team to the victory of [[2011 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Cup]]

==References and sources==
{{Reflist}}
*Despar Sirio website [https://web.archive.org/web/20070823142309/http://www.pallavoloperugia.com/giocatrici/barbolini.php]
*September 2007 Edition of monthly magazine ''Pallavolo Supervolley''

==External links==
*[https://women.volleybox.net/massimo-barbolini-p41814 Profile at Volleybox.net]

{{Galatasaray Women's Volleyball Team Squad}}
{{Women's European Volleyball Championship winning managers}}
{{2007 Women's European Championship Champions}}
{{Italy women's championship Squad 2009}}
{{Eczacıbaşı Vitra - 2016 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship (Champions)}}

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[[Category:1964 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Modena]]
[[Category:Italian volleyball coaches]]
[[Category:Volleyball coaches of international teams]]
[[Category:Italian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey]]
[[Category:Galatasaray S.K. (women's volleyball) coaches]]
[[Category:Eczacıbaşı Dynavit coaches]]
[[Category:Turkey women's national volleyball team coaches]]