Ravenna on road in Bergamo

Thirty-five years later Ravenna returns to play in Bergamo. Tomorrow at 18, at the Pala Intred (live on volleyballworld.tv), for the sixteenth day of the A2 Credem Banca championship, Consar Rcm visits Agnelli Tipiesse, one of the most popular formations in the lot. The last of the three precedents in history in Lombardy (two victories by the Romagna players) dates back to 9 January 1988: it was a 3-0 for the then Moka Rica Ravenna. After having regained victory last Sunday after three knockouts in a row, tomorrow Consar Rcm will try to look for another exploit with a big, after the 5 points snatched from Castellana and the point taken from Callipo. Opposite there will be an Agnelli Bergamo back from the defeat in Prata, which slipped it to fourth place: the team from Bergamo begins its busy week, which will see it on Wednesday in Vibo for the semi-final of the Coppa Italia and on Sunday 22 on the Porto Viro parquet.
The challenge within the challenge will be that of the two coaches and tug at the heartstrings: Graziosi, who in the year in Ravenna (2018/19), which ended with salvation, has the only SuperLega experience of his career, has already lived the he emotion and joy of a warm welcome on his return to Romagna in the first leg match. Bonitta will experience these emotional factors just tomorrow, twenty-two years after the conclusion of her very happy three years in Bergamo at the helm of the Foppapedretti women’s team, with which she won two championships, three Super Cups, an Italian Cup and a Champions League. Once that page was closed, the Ravenna coach never had the opportunity to return to the Orobic city as head coach. “I was there as technical director of Club Italia – remembers Bonitta – in the group in which Egonu, Orro and many of the girls who are now in the national team played but as a coach it is really the first time and it will be exciting because my career started from Bergamo , I went there when I had just come out of the Ravenna youth team, because we won a lot there and because I am very attached to that city, to its truly splendid fans, to the people who worked there, who were on the staff and who I still feel with pleasure today . It is a truly deep affection that I feel for those three years”.
But as then happens in the world of sport, the match arrives and feelings must be left aside. Bonitta is no exception to the rule.