Don’t be fooled by the two defeats in a row, between the championship (0-3 against Motta di Livenza) and the Italian Cup (1-3 against Forlì, in the semi-final of the competition): Gabbiano Mantova will reach the Spes Arena with the pedigree of the team to beat. And with ferocious motivations, as the technical assistant of Belluno Volley, Roberto Malaguti, explains: «It will be a really interesting match. Mantua’s sextet will need two points to be sure of competing in the promotion final against Macerata. And, in the next matches, he will have to put as much hay as possible in the farm, in order to have a greater number of points than in Macerata and thus be able to play for the A3 Super Cup against Palmi.”
In a nutshell, coach Serafini’s Gabbiano will “fly” across the Dolomites with just one goal: victory. Also because the team is strong: «At the dribble, Martinelli is very precise, while Depalma is the reigning Italian champion. In Trento’s ranks, last season, he was Sbertoli’s deputy.”
The match on Sunday 10 March (it starts at 6pm at the Spes Arena) will also be the return match of Marco Novello, the great ex: «Marco is having an excellent season, he is the reference athlete for the Virgilians – he resumes Malaguti -. Then pay attention to the Bulgarian Yordanov: born in 1991, he boasts a career spent in the top flight of various foreign championships. And he played in Pordenone’s Tinet Prata, together with Novello: he is expert, strong in attack, as well as in reception.” While the pair of central defenders is the same one that obtained promotion from Serie B, formed by Ferrari and Miselli, Parolari and Scaltriti must be contained in the squad: «The first comes from the Trentino youth team and has experienced a somewhat unlucky season due to some physical problem. The second, however, is in his sixth season in Serie A and has also been used as an opposite. Regarding the libero, it’s Catellani: another very technical profile.”
