A few days after the official announcement, Rana Verona officially presented Axel Truhtchev, one of the latest additions to the summer market to join the band department for the 2023/2024 SuperLega season. In the press conference, Verona sporting director Gian Andrea Marchesi explained the reasons for choosing to focus on the French spiker, before giving the floor to Truhtchev himself.
These are the words of sporting director Marchesi: “Axel is a player we’ve been following for a long time; we had the first contacts a few years ago. From then on there has always been constant contact and now he has finally arrived in Verona. He has proven to be a great fighter and that’s what Rana Verona is looking for: players who are lions on the pitch. He is a very physical and powerful athlete. He won the last Bulgarian championship and was named MVP. For us it represents a great acquisition and I wish him a good job here in Verona”.
“As a structure we are at 95% – the sporting director of Verona pointed out – We are defining a couple of positions; that of the free is certainly the most delicate. We are in the finishing straight. We are very happy with what we have done; we managed to bring the players we wanted to Verona. One of the central elements is certainly being combative on the pitch. With the arrival of the new ones this element will be even more evident. Opposite department? We are still defining everything. During the season we will see how we play, we will see it at the right time. At the moment we cannot say. We have a very large roster with many possibilities to vary”.
