The first seasonal tour de force begins for Allianz Milano, which will have to face four matches in the next 15 days, three of which within the friendly walls of the Allianz Cloud, including two midweek rounds.
After the two key matches of the SuperLega Credem Banca against Cucine Lube Civitanova on Sunday 12 November (6.00pm live VBTV) and Itas Trentino on Wednesday 15 November (8.30pm live VBTV), the longest away match of the 2023/2024 SuperLega on Sunday 19th Catania (6.00pm live VBTV), on Wednesday 22nd November we will return to breathe the air of Europe in Milan, with the CEV Cup (first match at 8.30pm) and the Belgian team of Decospan VT Menen.
In the preliminary round of the continental competition the Flemish team from West Flanders beat the Ukrainians from Epicentr-Podolyany Horodok in the Golden Set which ended 16-14. The Ukrainians had managed to overturn the 1-3 of the first leg to win the match 3-0, but the play-off set went in favor of the Belgian team, which includes, among others, the national team Arno Van de Velde (central of 210 cm) and completing the diagonal is the Croatian Stipe Peric, who last year played a good championship in A3 Credem Banca in Garlasco. Menen’s coach since 2019 is the former national team setter Frank Depestele, who as a player until 2018 had toured half the world, excluding Italy (Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, France and Argentina).
Presenting the first leg of the round of 32 scheduled for the 22nd at 8.30pm (return to Belgium the following week), obviously the young Belgian opposite of Allianz Milano, Ferre Reggers playing for Maaseik for the last two years.
“I confess that I was really happy when I saw that Menen had won the golden set in Warsaw – explains Reggers – because this meant that we would play a CEV Cup match in Belgium, close to my friends and family. Menen is a team that we cannot and must underestimate. They have an energetic and fluid game. On the one hand I think we will have to be very cautious and on the other put them under pressure from the start to impose our game and not suffer theirs” concludes Reggers.
