A few days, four to be precise, and then the official start of the 2023-2024 season with the start of preparation for players not involved with their national teams. Sunday evening convivial meeting and then Monday morning first day of work therefore for six athletes of the first team: the free players Massimo Colaci and Alessandro Toscani, the opposite Wassim Ben Tara, the central players Sebastian Solè and Davide Candellaro and the spiker Tim Held. To complete the working group available to the new coach Angelo Lorenzetti and his staff (the assistant coach Massimiliano Giaccardi, the assistant coach Andrea Piacentini, the athletic trainer Sebastian Carotti, the scoutman Francesco Monopoli and all the medical and physiotherapy staff) five elements drawn from the Juventus youth sector that will allow Lorenzetti to be able to set up a more complete job in this phase of forced lack of personnel: the spiker Riccardo Fiori, the central players Filippo Fossa and Michele Severini and the setters Mattia Cassieri and Vitale Tesone.
With the PalaBarton obviously unavailable in this first phase because one of the venues for the men’s European championship will be the PalaSir of Santa Maria degli Angeli (one of the structures in the youth sector) the headquarters of the Block Devils while for work in the weight room the team will take advantage the availability of the Corpus Wellness and Fitness Club in Perugia.
BLOCK DEVILS INTERNATIONAL
Meanwhile, the international activity of the Block Devils continues with their respective national selections.
Final rush in preparation for the European Championships for the Azzurri Giannelli and Russo (who will play two matches in Pool A with Italy also at the PalaBarton on Thursday 31 August and Friday 1 September), for the Poles Leon and Semeniuk (on the pitch in Macedonia for Pool C), Slovenian Ropret and Ukrainian Plotnytskyi (who will be opponents in Pool B in Bulgaria). The continental review kicks off on Monday 28 October with the inaugural Italy-Belgium match in Bologna.
Precisely from the perspective of preparation, the “Hubert Wagner Memorial”, now in its twentieth edition, which will be held at the Tauron Arena in Krakow in Poland from tomorrow 18 August to Sunday 20 August and which will see four sure protagonists of the next continental event, is very interesting : the current European and world champions, the hosts of Poland, fresh winners of the last VNL, the current Olympic champions of France and the European vice-champions of Slovenia.
Herrera and Flavio are also at work respectively with the national teams of Cuba and Brazil.
