Today is Jordi Ramon Ferragut’s day. The Spanish spiker arrived this morning at Fiumicino airport after his adventure at the European Championship and will immediately be available to coach Guillermo Falasca to begin physical preparation with the rest of the team. «I am very happy to have arrived in Cisterna and I can’t wait to start working with my new teammates – explained the Iberian place four – A new club and a new championship, there are many objectives to achieve and to do so we have to work immediately with maximum commitment: I can’t wait to start writing this new story.”
The Spaniard played the pool B matches in Bulgaria with his national team, finishing in fifth place with two victories and three defeats: Ramon was the protagonist of the victory (3-1) against the Bulgarian hosts, totaling 21 points with 79 % in attack (and five aces) in the match played in Varna on 29 August, in the three-set defeat against Croatia the Cisterna Volley spiker still scored 13 points with 57% in attack, then 18 points (59%) in the Spanish victory (3 -1) against Finland, while in the two defeats against Ukraine (0-3) and Slovenia (0-3) Jordi scored 12 points (44%) and 8 points (38%) respectively.
Pavle Peric and Aleksandar Nedeljkovic, players involved in the European Championship with Serbia, will be at the sports hall in via delle Province around the first ten days of October, rather close to the start of the Super League championship due to the Olympic qualification still to be played. Serbia, after having qualified for the round of 16 of the European Championship in Ancona, was eliminated in the quarter-finals at the hands of Poland. Against Leon and his associates Pavle Peric scored 9 points (35%) starting as usual as a starter while the central Nedeljkovic in that match lost 3-1 (26-28, 25-15, 36-34, 25-17) was not was used by coach Kolakovic. The Turkish Efe Bayram, playing in pool D in Israel, finished in fourth place behind France, Portugal and Romania (two wins and three defeats) and will arrive in Cisterna after the qualifying phase for the Olympics just like the two Serbian athletes.
