Some loves don’t end, they make immense rounds and then they come back. This is the case of Peppe Longo and Pallavolo Bari who, after three years, find themselves on the path that leads to a new adventure together, this time in the Serie A3 Credem Banca championship.
The strong bond established in the 2019/2020 season (series B championship played as protagonists but ended early due to the pandemic) had a significant influence on the return of the enfant prodige of the Materdomini cantera to the court of president Antonio Laforgia, able to defeat the market the competition of numerous companies (even of superior categories) strongly interested in him.
Coach Falabella, therefore, will be able to count on the inspiration and imagination of the strong and talented twenty-four-year-old setter who, even in the last A2 championship, distinguished himself in the control room with the New Mater Castellana Grotte jacket (reaching the quarter-finals playoffs and the final of the Del Monte® Coppa Italia A2).
For Longo it will be the third experience of his career in A3, a category he knows very well having already faced it with the shirts of Aurispa Libellula Lecce (2020/2021 sports season) and Med Store Tunit Macerata (2021/2022 sports season).
“I return to Bari with great enthusiasm, happy to find managers and fans to whom I remained very close after my first parenthesis in red and white – says the new director of Volleyball Bari -. I am preparing to experience this second chapter with a different maturity and with a greater awareness of my means. The seasons in Lecce, Macerata and Castellana Grotte have made me grow a lot both as a person and as an athlete. I’m ready to play an important season. I can’t wait to get back to defending the red and white colors – he confesses – A long and difficult championship awaits us, characterized above all by tough and insidious away games that we will have to face with courage, concentration and determination to emerge victorious. In a competition like A3, it counts to be united as a group, especially in times of difficulty, and set up a good schedule that will allow us to reach the top in April, when the whole season is decided – he concludes – I prefer not to say too much about the objectives. Our only concern will be to work hard and well during the week. By approaching the season with this mentality, I am convinced that we can go far.”
