Who Is Bintu Diop: Stats, Career and the Opposite's Power
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Who Bintu Diop is
Bintu Diop is an Italian opposite, left-handed, 194 cm tall. In the 2025/26 season she finished among the top ten scorers in Serie A1 with 502 points for Cuneo, and made the list of 30 players eligible for the VNL. From the 2026/27 season she plays for Numia Vero Volley Milano.
A useful clarification here too, because the transfer market has moved: anyone still looking for her at Cuneo will find out-of-date information.
Profile: the essentials
- Name: Bintu Diop
- Date of birth: 2 March 2002
- Place of birth: Castelfranco di Sotto (PI)
- Position: opposite, left-handed
- Height: 194 cm
- Club: Numia Vero Volley Milano (from 2026/27)
- National team: Italy
We're not quoting jump numbers because there are no verifiable public measurements.
Her path through the clubs
In 2020/21 she won a Serie A2 title. In the 2024/25 season, still in A2, she took the best server award of the league: a detail that says quite a lot about the arm.
She played the 2025/26 season at Cuneo, in Serie A1, and that was the turning point: 502 points, among the top ten scorers in the competition. Those are numbers you only put up if the team gives you the ball and you handle it. From 2026/27 she moves to Milano, where she shares the opposite slot with Paola Egonu.
Her national team career
In 2022 came the Under-21 Europeans and the Mediterranean Games. In 2026 her name appeared on the list of 30 players eligible for the Volleyball Nations League: after the season she had at Cuneo, it was the logical consequence.
What it physically takes to play opposite
194 cm helps, obviously. But a tall opposite who doesn't jump much gets blocked anyway, because the opposing block is taller than the gap between you and a 185 cm opposite.
The position asks for three things in particular:
- Power that holds up over time. The opposite is the offensive end point: she gets the difficult balls, the ones with the block already set, and she gets a lot of them. The jump that counts is the one on the 45th attack, not the first.
- A short, adaptable approach. From position 2 there isn't much room. Anyone who can only take off with a long, perfect approach ends up exposed half the time in a match.
- A solid shoulder–trunk–hip chain. Ball speed doesn't come from the arm: it comes from the rotation of the hips and the trunk. A weak core is power lost on the way, as well as a shoulder that takes too much load.
With very tall players there's a recurring mistake: training only maximal strength because "she's already got the centimetres". Usually it's the opposite — a longer lever makes ground contact slower, and you need elastic work to make up for it.
Where you're starting from
If that's the position, the number to keep an eye on isn't how much you lift in the gym but how high you jump on court, and how that number behaves at the end of a session. With the free JHP test you measure your jump from a two-second video: you upload it, you get the centimetres, and you have a figure to compare against in a month. The analysis runs in the browser and the video stays on your device.
The next step
Being tall isn't enough: what counts is how you take off and how long you hold it
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