Fabrizio Nassi

Fabrizio Nassi was an Italian volleyball player. Domestically he began to play in the First League in the 1972-73 season with CUS Pisa, where he remained for three years. Afterwards, he moved to Paoletti Catania for five seasons and, in the 1977-78 season, he won his only Italian title under coach Carmelo Pittera, the man that brought the national team to a second-place finish at the 1978 World Championships, held in Italy, where Nassi was the captain.

Nassi débuted with the national team in Ninburg on 1 July 1972 in a defeat against Czechoslovakia. He participated at two Olympic Games, finishing eighth in 1976, where Italy took part for the first time in an Olympic volleyball tournament, and ninth at the 1980 Moscow Games.

Nassi’s last international match was at the 1982 World Championships, held in Argentina (14th place overall), in a losing match against USA (3-0). In total he earned 144 caps. After finishing his career during the 1988-89 season, in the First League with Olio Venturi Spoleto (after years in Second and Third League), he became a teacher in physical education.