Two sets each, the first two in favor of the ErmGroup Altotevere for 25-23 and 25-22, the other two in favor of the Philippine national team (25-17 and 25-19), in the first joint training of the season supported by the team biancazzurra in front of the friendly public at the San Giustino sports hall. Without two cornerstones of the team, the central Augusto Quarta and the spiker Ridas Skuodis, both struggling with physical problems related to the period, the ErmGroup competed against a group with good potential, which the new Italian coach Angiolino Frigoni is building to become a representative of international level. The test was therefore quite substantial and – as always happens in such circumstances – there are always the inevitable lights and shadows that emerge, but on which there is still time to work, when at the start of the Serie A3 championship Credem Banca is missing exactly one month. Coach Bartolini initially deployed the Biffi-Marzolla diagonal, Stoppelli and Galiano in the centre, Cappelletti and Carpita in the band and Poconi as libero. The two fractions won by the local team were hard-fought, with the young Filipinos finding themselves ahead by 22-19 in the first, then in key situations the ErmGroup managed to find the decisive sprint, thanks also to the addition of Battaglia, who especially on the wall he has proven to be a valuable piece, as well as highlighting an undoubted physicality. The other positive indications came from the young people in the orbit of the Under 20 national team: for Carpita it was the debut ever and his qualities emerged, as well as for Galiano, who at times also made a loud voice while serving.
