After the qualification phase of the 2006 World Qualification and the World League matches with Poland and China, Napoli is once again intended to be the international centre for all Volleyball fans with the match between Italy and USA for the 2007 World League.
I am sure that also in this occasion, as already happened in the past, the players will be warmly welcomed from the friendly public of Napoli and the whole event will meet great success.
Thanks to the triumphs reached during the time and the prestige obtained, the Italian National Team will be certainly attractive and will be able to place in a positive light the hospitality and the organizing skills of our city.
I would like to express my warmest welcome to the Italian and American players, who will certainly set up a great competitive volleyball event; as a matter of fact volleyball cannot be considered subordinate in comparison with other more popular sports in mass media point of view, as proved by the support of the public in the previous occasions already pointed out.  

Rosa Iervolino Russo
        Mayor of Napoli

The speech of the councilor
On behalf of the city of Napoli, I am very pleased to extend my friendly welcome to the players of the Italian and American National Teams, in the occasion of the World League challenge.
I would like to express my hearty thanks to the Italian Volleyball Federation to have agreed to our candidature to host such an important sports event.
During these latest years, several international volleyball events have been held in our city; we have had great success of public, a large following of mass media and a great organizing and sports success.
We wish that the continuation of this trend, in which our city is considered one of the best as venue for our National Team and for prestigious competition, could carry on. 
Certainly, once again the tested synergy between the municipality of Napoli and the Italian Volleyball Federation will be able to turn a high sports level competition in one event that could pass over the sports field and be a real celebration.

Alfredo Ponticelli
Sports Councilor

Info Napoli
Capital of South of Italy, is the largest city of Campania, capital of the province and the region, Naples is the third most populated city in Italy (after Rome and Milan), with over a million inhabitants, and is the most important industrial center and trading port for the South.
A point of embarkation for emigrants in the past, Naples now has a large traffic of merchandise (petroleum, carbon, cereals) and passengers. It is the largest Italian port, with a noteworthy nexus of railway and highways and a large international airport.In the vast urban area one can distinguish many different neighborhoods: the old center, characterized by buildings closely crowded together, is bordered on the west by the new administrative district and on the east by the business district, into which flows almost all the road and rail traffic. Other neighborhoods, with narrow climbing streets, rise around the base of the San Martino and Capodimonte hills. These neighborhoods have experienced intense development, typically of the simpler kind, in contrast to that of the residential neighborhoods that stretch out comfortably along the Vomero and Posillipo hills.The original nucleus of the city can be found on the little island of Megaride. Occupied today by Egg Castle (Castel dell’ Ovo), it was first a settlement of the Aegean Greeks, then the Rodi, followed by the Cumani, in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. The Cumani also occupied the Pizzofalcone heights and named the city Palaepolis (Old City). Around the fifth century B.C., Neapolis (New City) arose in the surrounding areas, exercising strong cultural influence based on its Greek roots.In the following century it was occupied by the Romans, surrounded by walls and characterized by blocks of streets formed in grids. Later it was occupied by the Byzantines, then the Goths, and then became capital of an autonomous dukedom.
After a brief period of Longobard dominion, it fell under Norman control, until Ruggero II of Altavilla, King of Sicily, was able to add it to his kingdom in 1139.
With the Angevin conquest in 1266, Naples became the capital and experienced notable demographic and urban growth. New growth occurred with the arrival of Alfonso of Aragon and with the reign of his successors (fifteenth century). After Charles VIII of France, the Spanish took over in 1503. Naples rose to the dignity of being a capital again in 1734 under the Bourbons, who reigned there until September 1860 (except during the brief French parenthesis, 1806-1815), at which time it was annexed to Garibaldi’s Italy. The bombardments of the Second World War, aggravated by the resistance of the German troops, caused death and destruction to the patrimony