Saturday at Lupi at Pala Parenti in S. Croce sull’Arno. From 3pm the presentation of the entire youth sector and the regional and national series teams (the two Ds, male and female, the male B) is scheduled. Present were the Basso Tirreno Committee, the institutions, the managers of the red and white youth sector, Paola Puccioni and Fausto Zingoni, the president of the Stella Maris Foundation, Avv. Giuliano Maffei, who will be given the floor.
The president of the Lupi Piero Conservi, who recently passed away, will be remembered in the speeches.
The parade of the different groups will anticipate the entry onto the pitch of the first men’s A2 team, coach Bulleri’s Kemas Lamipel. The red and whites will be presented one by one and will receive the applause and greetings of all members of the club and the fans, with the Curva Parenti festively decorated. Then, the countdown to the “G. Memorial” will begin. Parenti”, the official preseason match between Kemas Lamipel and Emma Villas Siena, whose kick-off is scheduled for 6.00 pm.
In the time interval between the end of the presentation and the start of the match, those who want to take advantage of it will be given the opportunity to purchase the “Stampato sulla Pelle” season ticket for the 2023-24 season. A good opportunity to arrive without worries at the official “premiere”, scheduled again at Pala Parenti on Sunday 15 October, against ABBA Pineto Volley.
As regards the Memorial, it will be free to enter, with the possibility of making a small offering or a real donation to the Stella Maris Foundation (for info: fsm.unipi.it), which will be present with its own banquet from 3.00 pm until at the end of the day.
The Tuscan derby with Emma Villas will be a tasty appetizer of the upcoming championship, a match already in sight in the preseason in the form of joint training, played in Siena at the beginning of September (3-2 for the hosts). Former player of the match was the Juventus libero Federico Bonami, at S. Croce in 2011-12 (A2) and in the following season in Serie B, before returning to the banks of the Arno in 2016-17. The opposite Krauchuk (2019-20) and the central Copelli (2020-21) are also former players for a season.
The official match will be dedicated, as every year, to the figure of Giancarlo Parenti, a huge Wolves fan, founder of the “Fossa” in 1977 and who passed away in 1986 due to a tragic road accident. The sports hall is named after him, and the leading tanning support group, the Curva Parenti, also bears his name, which has inherited the legacy of the “Fossa”, together with other organized clubs. The first Memorial, dated 1987, was played at the Palasport of Fucecchio and saw the victory of the Wolves over Sestese
