Schio approaching the season

Exactly halfway through its pre-season preparation (which started on August 22nd and will end on October 21st), the time has come for the men’s Itas Trentino team to make their seasonal debut in an official friendly match. The opportunity will be provided by the “1st City of Schio Trophy”, an event that will take place on Saturday 23 September in the Schio area in a single match between the Italian Champions and the Valsa Group Modena: kick-off scheduled for 6 pm in a Palasport Livio Romare “sold out” for a few days already (2,200 tickets sold in advance).
For coach Fabio Soli, making his debut on the yellow-blue bench, it will be the first test: it will come at the end of the fifth week of training. The new Trentino coach will have to do without Magalini (who sprained his right ankle in training in recent days), but will be able to count on all the other seven players in the new squad, who will be integrated into this appointment with six players from the Sector Giovanile and the German spiker Baumann (working in Trento in this period). “After so much physical and technical work, I believe that playing a real match, in front of many spectators and against a top-ranking opponent like Modena, could be very useful both for the players and for us on the technical staff – explained Soli -. We have come from intense weeks and little dedicated to the six-on-six game; this match will allow us to outline the situation, while at the same time guaranteeing us many ideas for the next period. It will also be a great opportunity for the young people who are supporting this part of the preparation together with us and I thank them for their continued availability. Their Serie B championship with UniTrento Volley will begin on 8 October and even more so they will want to demonstrate that they are ready and always useful to the cause.”
Beyond the net, Itas Trentino will find an opponent like Modena who in these first weeks of training has already been able to work with ten of the fourteen members of the new staff (only Bruno, Brehme and the Italians Rinaldi and Sanguinetti are absent), including also the former Juantorena and Pinali. Coach Francesco Petrella (on the bench of Trentino Volley in the previous six seasons as Lorenzetti’s assistant) will also be able to count on Stankovic and Sighinolfi at the center of the net, under the direction of his son Boninfante and, on a high ball, on the Belarusian Davyskiba (formerly Monza ) and on the Russian Sapozhkov (ex Verona). This is the second outing of the season for the Canaries after the 4-0 success against Reggio Emilia the previous weekend.