ABBA Pineto Volley is pleased to announce that it has appointed Simone Di Tommaso as coach of the senior team that will start the 2024/25 Serie A2 Credem Banca championship.
An Abruzzo with five circles, therefore, for the association of President Guido Abbondanza. Originally from Pescara, 42 years old, Simone Di Tommaso is fresh from participating in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as the technical guide of the pair made up of Paolo Nicolai and Samuele Cottafava, who reached the round of 16 of the men’s beach volleyball tournament.
After having concluded his Italian experience on the beach – reaching the semi-final at the European Championships last weekend in the Netherlands – the new ABBA coach attended the team’s first training session of the season, on 19 August at the Pala Santa Maria, kicking off the new Pineto technical course.
The first words of Simone Di Tommaso in blue and white: “I am very happy to be here and to start this journey. It was a busy summer, but I worked closely with the club, with sporting director Massimo Forese, to set up a team ready to compete in the next Serie A2 championship and get some satisfaction.” On the experience at the Olympic Games: “Beach volleyball and volleyball are children of the same mother, after all. I come from an important experience, which led me to see and deal with many different sporting cultures. This has enriched me from a professional and human point of view and I will try to bring this experience of mine into a locker room and into a team which will also have its own baggage, with the aim of uniting and enhancing the peculiarities of each one.”
“We have seen the rosters of this Serie A2 championship – continues Di Tommaso – and there are teams that are very well set up for the category. As far as we are concerned, this is not the time to make proclamations. I am sure that a team with very distinct qualities is coming to life, to be enhanced in the work in training. The game system will be that of a team that will try to impose its own game and will make technique its strong point.”
On the public: “It’s always breathing in the atmosphere of the Pala Santa Maria. The hope is that the stadium will be warm again this year, but, rather than making proclamations to the fans, I would like the staff and team to be able to deserve on the pitch, with our performances and our dedication, the warmth and support of the fans. fans.”
Simone Di Tommaso therefore takes on the role of First Coach, assisted by Loris Palermo (2nd coach) and the athletic trainer Angelo Marolla.
