Marco Mencarelli is a well-known face at the Italian
Volleyball Federation having worked with a number of teams since starting work
for the Federation in 1992.

From 2001 until 2004 the 52-year-old worked as an
assistant coach for the women’s national team when they won the 2002 FIVB
Volleyball Women’s World Championship and competed at the Athens 2004 Olympic
Games.

Mencarelli coached an experimental team to the
bronze medal at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almeria and then took over the
U20 women’s team. He led them to three European titles in 2006, 2008 and 2010
before they won the 2011 World Championship in Peru. For good measure he added
a 2014 European bronze.

He has been Technical Director for the national
age-group teams and took over the U18s in 2012. In 2015 as coach of U18 women’s
Italy team he won the gold medal  at U18
World Championship.

Since 2015 is the head coach of Unet Yamamay Busto
Arsizio.