And while the Volley Mercato will be staged tomorrow in Bologna, there are nineteen days left until the first official moment of the 2024-2025 Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza season. The meeting for the start of the preparation of the red and whites is in fact scheduled for the afternoon of Friday 2 August at the PalabancaSport. Delivery of material and routine medical checks are expected.

Preparation begins on Saturday 3 August with a double work session.

After the day of rest, from Monday 5 August four days with double training between weight room, practice and technique, beach volleyball and swimming pool. Friday 9 August training session only in the morning and then break ranks for Saturday and Sunday free.

For the day of the meeting there will be six players available to coach Andrea Anastasi and his staff: Robertlandy Simon, Robbert Andringa, Leonardo Scanferla, Fabio Ricci as well as the new Nicola Salsi and Moussé Gueye.

The technical staff that will assist Andrea Anastasi from the day of the meeting will be complete. Present were the assistant coach Roberto Rotari, the assistant coach Matteo Bologna, the Scout Man Antonio Mariano, the Athletic Trainer Davide Grigoletto, the Physiotherapist Riccardo Anfosso.

“The start of work – underlines coach Andrea Anastasi – will be very soft also because several players arrive after a long period of inactivity. The objective is to reunite the group that will begin training and that of the players involved in the national team at the end of August. We will have different levels and the situation will be evaluated day by day. The aim is to get the complete group ready for the first test match that we will play at the end of August. The team is new, those who arrive from commitments with their national team will have fifteen days of holiday. Perugia and Trento start with the underdogs, Perugia is even stronger than last season, we place ourselves in a large group of teams to be discovered, we are new just as Modena and Lube are new. After the first weeks of work we will evaluate with the sporting director Ninni De Nicolo whether some players can join to give us a hand in training”.