The new season of the Credem Banca A3 series championship is upon us and for Moyashi Garlasco preparations continue for the first important away match in Cagliari, where on Saturday 14 October the neroverdi will face the newly promoted Sarlux Sarroch.
But before diving headlong into the championship, coach Vittorio Bertini and Matteo Pedroni, second black-green setter, take stock of the month and a half of preparation, which saw the Garlacticos engaged in various joint training sessions, including with Super League teams such as Powervolley Milan and Vero Volley Monza.
Vittorio Bertini: “Now the most exciting phase begins, with many unknowns, as is normal at the start of every season”
Almost at the end of the preparation phase, coach Vittorio Bertini takes stock of the situation, considering the work carried out over the past few weeks: “The pre-season preparation period is characterized by very distinct phases: in the first two weeks we worked exclusively on conditioning physicist. A good group mix was created and an excellent predisposition for work was immediately evident. The second and third weeks were dedicated to the recovery of the technical elements and to a very first, embryonic creation of team play. They were two difficult weeks because they were physiologically tiring, and within which the various test matches carried out left a bittersweet feeling, of “I would like but I can’t” or rather “I can’t”. Paradoxically, the certainly not exciting performances of the middle two weeks helped us find great motivation, concentration and ‘hunger’: thus the last two weeks were characterized by a ‘concentrated anger’ which, I am sure, will be crucial to face the very first days. We are lucky enough not to have had any stops due to the typical ‘pre-season’ ailments: this is due to a desire to support physiology and put programming at the service of our athletes’ bodies, and not vice versa. Also commendable in this sense were the various athlete-workers who gave wide availability in this period characterized by little seriality and many program differentiations from one week to the next”.
