Sebastian Solè remained in Perugia. After the sporting season, the Argentine middle blocker with an Italian passport did not leave for his native Argentina, but decided to spend the summer season in Italy surrounded by the affection of his loved ones in what has now become to all intents and purposes his second home.
“I feel good in Perugia, my family too, the children are growing up, people live and work well here. It’s my fourth year in the city, I’ve had great moments and others not, but it’s in the sport. But people are always very excited, they rejoice with us for victories, maybe they get angry when things don’t go well, but this too is part of the logic of things, we are the first to be angry when we lose”.
A long summer without commitments with the national team awaits Solè.
“I am following a work program with the new athletic trainer (Sebastian Carotti, ed) whom I had four years in the Argentine national team and whom I have known practically since I started playing volleyball in Rosario. I’m doing some weights, some aerobic work and I’ll also do some beach volleyball to keep my muscles going for the start of next season.”
Next season, Perugia will see a squad very similar to that of last year with ten confirmations out of fourteen, but with a completely new technical staff.
“Yes, the team is more or less the same and it is strong. It’s a good thing, we know each other well and we can work together on what we need. I know Lorenzetti, I’ve already had him as a coach. He knows volleyball like few others, he has a good working method and surely, once he gets to know the players better, he will put his mark on the team. We will have to work hard with patience and calm and understand the moments, which we have lacked in recent years. The season is long and we will have to work with the awareness that the season finale is fundamental”.
SEVEN YOUNG BLOCK DEVILS PROTAGONISTS AT THE REGIONS TROPHY
There will be seven young Block Devils on the field at the next Trophy of the Regions, one of the most important national youth events.
The Umbrian men’s under 16 team, with athletes born in the two-year period 2007-2008 and led by coach Andrea Piacentini and his assistant Marco Ferraro, will hold the last technical work sessions in Perugia from 22 to 24 June and then leave for Campobasso where the Trophy of the Regions 2023 will be held from 26 June to 1 July, an event that sees the best under 16 prospects of Italian volleyball on the field.
