Captain’s confirmation. Delta Group Porto Viro restarts from here in view of the next Serie A2 Credem Banca championship, from the expert hands of Fernando Gabriel Garnica, known as “Fefè”. The Italian-Argentine setter, born in 1980, 190 centimeters tall, is the first piece of the nerofuchsia mosaic, the pivot around which the new coach Daniele Morato will build the team.
Garnica will turn 43 in July, but ban on his identity card, last year, in his first season in Porto Viro, he showed that he still has the energy of a kid. Proof of this is that he started in all 108 sets played by the Delta Group between the regular season, the playoffs and the Italian Cup. In addition to inspiring his teammates’ play, the former playmaker (among others) from Reggio Emilia also took the personal satisfaction of putting 19 aces, 10 blocks and 67 points overall on the scoresheet, thus entering the top five of the most prolific setters in the league. cadetry.
In any case, numbers are not the daily bread on which an eternal player like Garnica feeds: “This has been my passion since I was a child, I was practically born on a volleyball field since both my parents played – he says – Feeling good physically and mentally allows me to have fun and go to training happy. Now that my second son has been born (Leonardo, ed), that I have received the second ‘battery’, I have two gears ahead… Also, feeling the trust of the company, which immediately told me that it wanted me for a long time here, it gives me the peace of mind to walk into the gym every day and give it my all. My family and I are grateful to Delta for that.”
Garnica then analyzes his first year in the nerofucsia shirt: “I think our season was a good one. The team has always been growing and finishing third in the regular season is no small feat. Too bad we didn’t get through the quarter-finals both in the cup and in the playoffs, but no regrets: on the contrary, we need this experience to learn and improve further, if we can”.
The Delta Group restarts from its captain but also from a new coach, coach Morato: “We have spoken several times in recent weeks, we immediately perceive that he is a person with a great desire to do well and with clear ideas. In Bergamo he gave the boys a big hand in a difficult moment. We hope to be able to create a good amalgamation between us players and the staff so that we can all express ourselves at our best,” says Garnica.
