Last week of August for the Block Devils working at full capacity under the vaults of the Pian di Massiano plant. After the return to Perugia of Simone Giannelli, Roberto Russo and Kamil Semeniuk, the group is complete and coach Angelo Lorenzetti and the Juventus technical staff have structured the week with double training sessions, in the morning in the gym and in the afternoon on the taraflex. Joint training with Cisterna is scheduled for Friday 30 August, a first seasonal test to “warm up the engines” in view of the imminent start of the season which this year will open with the Super Cup, scheduled for Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September at Wanny altarpiece from Florence.
The second pre-season match for the Bianconeri will be on 7 and 8 September away to Lublin, Poland, for the third edition of the “Bogdanka Volley Cup” tournament: Sir Perugia will take the field with three Polish teams: the local team of ‘LKPS Lublin, Jastrzębski Węgiel and Asseco Resovia.
«I’m very happy to go there, it will certainly be a nice tournament organized in a perfect way, we will play two matches and this is good to prepare ourselves before the start of the season».
Juventus spiker Kamil Semeniuk, who returned to Perugia last Thursday afternoon, commented on the international event in “his” Poland. For him this is the third consecutive year with the Sir Susa Vim Perugia shirt: in just two seasons he won two Super Cups, two Club World Cups, an Italian Cup and a scudetto with president Gino Sirci’s club and he says he is ready and impatient to start this new season:
«This season will certainly be difficult, we have returned to the Champions League so we also have another trophy to fight for and as in every season we want to win everything!»
Tomorrow’s appointments, Tuesday 27 August
Preventive session in the gym tomorrow morning for the Block Devils who will train on the taraflex in the afternoon, starting from 5.30pm
