A new week of preparation for Sir Susa Vim Perugia started again with this morning’s training.
A decidedly rich menu also in this fourth block of work with double sessions today, tomorrow and Friday and closing on Saturday morning with a technical training session at PalaBarton. There are always six players available to coach Lorenzetti with the precious contribution of the kids from Perugia youth sector to also strengthen the group numerically.
The incipit of the fourth week of preparation is given by the expert middle blocker Davide Candellaro, one of the new faces of this season.
“We have reached the fourth week of work, we are now almost at the halfway point of preparation and we are starting to see a bit of volleyball because obviously the first few weeks are very useful to reactivate the engine after the summer. So far I would say that, despite the small group, we are working very well and with great intensity. The coach is obviously trying to ensure that we can all quickly return to the levels with which we finished last season and I must say that I have found the same Angelo (Lorenzetti, ed.) that I left behind a few years ago (in the two-year period 2018-2020 in Trento, ed.), but volleyball continually evolves and he too has changed in some things compared to then. How am I here? On a personal level everything is going very well, it’s true that in this moment without the spice of competitions things are always good. But the group is good, I already knew the guys and they are all good, the young people in the group work a lot and are very willing.”
All still inside the Block Devils engaged in the European Championships underway after the first direct elimination round.
The Juventus contingent arrives en masse at the quarter-finals with six out of six athletes ready to compete for entry to the Final Four in Rome.
The first to take to the field will be Gregor Ropret and Oleh Plotnytskyi this afternoon in Varna, Bulgaria. Slovenia against Ukraine is in fact the first of the quarter-finals with the Slovenians coming from behind to beat Turkey in the round of 16 and the Ukrainians defeating Portugal in three sets without major problems.
Tomorrow afternoon it will be the turn of Wilfredo Leon and Kamil Semeniuk’s Poland, who won the round of 16 in four sets against Belgium and await a challenging quarter-final against Serbia. The match venue will be the PalaFlorio in Bari where tomorrow evening it will be the turn of Simone Giannelli and Roberto Russo’s Italy who, after having had an easy time in the round of 16 against North Macedonia, will have to raise their level and the bar in the quarterfinals against the Netherlands.
