The Cucine Lube Civitanova meeting is just around the corner in view of the 2024/25 competitive season. Tomorrow morning, Thursday 8 August, the red and white team will meet at the Eurosuole Forum.
From the first day of the Cucina preseason, the Marche club will have eight athletes available: libero Francesco Bisotto, setters Mattia Boninfante and Santiago Orduna, opposite player Petar Dirlic, central players Giovanni Gargiulo, Jacopo Larizza and Davi Tenorio. The only regular spiker already available, Alex Nikolov, trained during the summer to recover after back surgery and in the first phase of preparation, although added to the group, he will observe differentiated work.
The staggered arrival of the teammates in the next few weeks is scheduled: the opposite player of the Turkish national team, Adis Lagumdzija, the spiker of the Iranian selection, Poriya Hossein Khanzadeh, and the four athletes protagonists at the Paris Games, the libero Fabio Balaso and the spiker Mattia Bottolo, the French central defender Barthelemy Chinenyeze and the Canadian spiker Eric Loeppky.
The athletes will be welcomed by the head coach Giampaolo Medei, the second coach Romano Giannini, the assistant coaches Enrico Massaccesi and Matteo Zamponi, the athletic trainer Massimo Merazzi, the scoutman Alessandro Zarroli and the physiotherapists Marco Frontaloni and Tommaso Pagnanelli. The health manager Mariano Avio will join the group in the next few days, while the other health manager, Danilo Compagnucci, will see the team throughout the morning.
Present at the launch of the new season were the vice president Albino Massaccesi, the general manager Beppe Cormio, the team manager Matteo Carancini and the logistics officer Claudio Leonardi for the delivery of the designer material.
The program of the day
Blood tests and the first medical evaluations will be carried out at 8 o’clock. Followed by the visits for competitive sports eligibility.
At 3.30pm the group will meet in the weight room for the opening speech. Afterwards, the kids will flex their muscles in the gym.
The first sensations
Mattia Boninfante: “The impact is positive! We met early and are already forming a nice group. There is a great desire from all of us to get started. This summer I finished work with the U22 national team relatively early, I had a few days to switch off and now I feel recharged!”
Petar Dirlic: “I am happy to be part of Lube and to be at the Eurosuole Forum, my new home.
