Greetings from the management and then the team’s departure for Fighille di Citerna, where the first training session of the new season was held on Wednesday 16 August at the Pampaloni sports centre. The second of ErmGroup San Giustino in the Serie A3 Credem Banca championship, in which more important ambitions are placed than the previous one. “I’m sure that this year too you will be able to build a good group – said the president Elena Gragnoli – and always hold on, because in this way the difficulties are overcome. On the pitch, let us dream and never give up.” Even the managing director Claudio Bigi tuned into the same wavelength: “Seriousness and maximum availability – he remarked – because the company will follow you. The results are important, but the determining factor must be the great commitment, which may also justify any non-positive results. The first days of preparation must be used to forge the group”. Sports director Valdemaro Gustinelli also insisted on the importance of creating a group that is still evolving due to the presence of eight newcomers. For the rest… “The purely summer work of the negotiations has been concluded, now we are getting into full swing”, he added. Passion, desire to excite and the ability to have fun are the ingredients transmitted immediately by the first coach Marco Bartolini, in a third season in blue and white that starts with the bar of goals raised: “Yes, absolutely. It is a team that we wanted to renew – he explained – since some pawns had reached the end of their cycle. We wanted to give a more precise impression to the squad, with athletes with outstanding attacking, blocking and serve skills; even in terms of physicality we have gained something, because our forwards are top tier, like the spikers Wawrzynczyk and Cappelletti and the opposite Marzolla, who has shown that he has talent and who will now want to prove himself. We will build our goals week after week, but only by forming the group can we aspire to certain goals. The first friendlies we will play will be a way to understand what some of our opponents are made of”. What changes with inclusion in the Blue group? “Without a doubt, we will have to be good at managing away games, as they will be long and will require recovery. A different management for each week, also because it will happen that you have to be away for a couple of days and therefore Monday will be important as a moment of recovery.
