from kups-volley sammelvuo changed to the french team, strasbourg, in 1997. sammelvuo played in strasbourg for one year, and after that, changed to poitiers. in poitiers, he won the france champions league, and silver in the 2000 season. then sammelvuo moved to italy, and started playing in cuneo. at first, sammelvuo played in the seria b-league in torino, but soon cuneo wanted him, and he was contracted to them. sammelvuo played for them for two seasons before changing to piacenza. in piacenza he won italian cup gold medal. in 2003 he returned to france and started playing in tours volley.