First away match for Gioiella Prisma expected in Trento at the IlT Quotidiano Arena, a venue that only a few months ago saw the Trentino team lift the trophy that awarded them the scudetto.
An important match, the one on Saturday at 8.30pm in the Dolomites, against Itas Trentino, which will not be taken for granted at all considering the very high technical level that both teams put on the pitch in the first match of the championship. In fact, the Trentino team won the first match against Cisterna on a tie break, while the Ionian team gave the Verona team a hard time.
Many of the boys of the newly arrived coach Soli have recently returned from an intense Italian summer, just think of the European vice champions Michieletto Lavia and Sbertoli, who took to the pitch in Cisterna and immediately demonstrated that they were on the ball (Lavia top scorer with 18 points). But Trento has put a very poisonous arrow in its quiver, the newly Italianized Luxembourger opposite Rychlicki (in the running for a place in the Italian national team) who arrived from Perugia during the summer signing campaign, in fact, will be diagonally with Sbertoli, and in the center in addition to the seasoned Serbian champion Podrascanin there will also be the strong Slovenian Kozamernik. As a libero, the rossoblù acquaintance Gabriele Laurenzano, who blossomed in Taranto in the 2021-22 season, already a libero for the junior national team.
At Gioiella Prisma the atmosphere is always very electric: the Ionian team are looking for redemption, albeit against perhaps the toughest opponent in the championship, but they are even more determined to bring down all the certainties of the Italian champions in a match in which there will not be the pressure of the first championship, therefore the Ionian players will be able to face Trentino Volley “with free arm”.
Gioiella Prisma’s setter, the Spaniard Angel Trinidad De Haro, comments on it: “Saturday evening will be an important match to continue our evolution as a team. After the match against Verona in which we saw that the team has great potential, we need every day to sort out all the details. The climate is good and we are working hard to improve training after training, we will arrive ready to face the team from Trento, champions of Italy”
