The 79th Credem Banca 2023-24 Super League Championship kicks off on Sunday 22 October, Gioiella Prisma’s first home match will be early at 4pm at PalaMazzola against Rana Verona.
After two months of intense pre-season and official presentations, the time has now come for President Bongiovanni’s team to take to the field for the first championship match, which will see the Ionian team clash with Rana Verona, a team coached by Rado Stoytchev, who last year it reached the championship play-off quarter-finals, coming out only against Civitanova in game 5. Last year, in fact, Verona was the surprise of the championship, making a nice winning escalation in the second round.
However, he was unable to get the upper hand with the rossoblù who won both in Verona and at the PalaMazzola on the return leg, and gave the Scala team a hard time.
At Gioiella Prisma the environment is charged and motivated, all the members have joined the team and are ready to fight, even the American Jendryk who arrived on Tuesday, joining the roster with great commitment and dedication in training.
Verona comes to the call for the first bell of the season with an important diagonal, on the dribble Spirito, alternatively the Serbian Jovovic and the Malinian Keita, even if the latter seems unable to play due to recovery from a shoulder injury. To replace him in the opposite role, coach Stoytchev could opt for the Slovenian spiker Mozic or probably the Iranian Amin Esmaeilnezhad, Mosca, Grodzdanov and Zingel in the center, in place 4 the strong Dzavoronok and will therefore manage the other spiker who will not be used in the role out of the way. As libero, the young man from Ostuni D’Amico, ex Lube, who has stood out well in recent years in a top team. A really well prepared team that will arrive at PalaMazzola with a knife between their teeth and ready to “avenge” the two recent defeats suffered by the Apulians.
