Everything is ready for Race 1. Farmitalia Saturnia warms up the engines for tomorrow’s match, Sunday 14 May 2023, when starting at 19:00 it will compete with Leo Shoes Casarano with the aim of conquering the A2 series of Italian volleyball.
For the company of the president Luigi Pulvirenti, it is the second PlayOff final reached in two consecutive seasons: “It is certainly a great achievement, which confirms the solidity of the corporate project. Last year we closed the season with a defeat in Grottazzolina, today we can certainly say that we are better and more solid at all levels and this makes us believe we can take that extra step, which was missing last year . The A2 objective is therefore concrete, thanks above all to the tenacity of the players: “Qualification for the final is the best answer to those who, in the period of confusion at the end of the championship, no longer believed in us. Instead, the team has proven to be made up of people with the attributes who have not only been able to get out of the black hole, but have actually improved their game. They arrive at tomorrow’s final in excellent physical and mental condition.”
In any case, Sunday’s match will not be an easy match. Leo Shoes Casarano, in the Regular Season defeated Saturnia both in the first and second round. She is the real outsider in these playoffs of the Serie A3 Credem Banca 2022/23 Championship, which gave a hard time to titled and structured opponents by eliminating them from the competition, as Pulvirenti recounts: “They are worthy young people who are playing on the wave of enthusiasm and that they are coached by a great coach, Fabrizio Licchelli. They will reach tomorrow’s final with the wind in the sails of those who have an extra weapon on the pitch: youth which perhaps also allows for greater serenity in the game”.
Kick-off at 19:00, but the doors of the PalaCatania will be open as early as 18:00, when the warm-up of the two teams will begin. At the box office it will be possible to buy the ticket at the price of 3 euros, but the Company supports online pre-sale on LiveTicket or in the La Coccinella stationery shop in Aci Castello. In fact, the public is expected for big occasions, President Pulvirenti concludes: “Tomorrow we could take the field with a packed PalaCatania as happened in 2018 for the national team matches. We don’t play only for the white and blue colours, but for the whole Sicilian volleyball movement. The A2 Series, if we win it, will not only be from Saturnia”.
