«This year we’ll play!» Coach Angelo Lorenzetti said it on the stage of the Sir Susa Vim Perugia Poker Fest last June 22nd, referring to the tricolor Taraflex that would accompany the team in the upcoming season. And today we started right from here: the new season has officially begun, with the first training session on the green, white and red carpet of the PalaEvangelisti.
Nine players are available to the Juventus coach, starting with the “veterans”, Massimo Colaci, Sebastian Solè, Wassim Ben Tara, Davide Candellaro, Oleh Plotnytskyi, Jesus Herrera and Alessandro Piccinelli, together with the new arrivals Nicola Cianciotta and Francesco Zoppellari.
«I hope that even in training this taraflex will make us understand the need we must have in the gym to try to stay at the top, try to maintain it, but above all try to continually be protagonists!» This is Coach Lorenzetti’s first comment before resuming preparation for a new ambitious season full of important objectives, in Italy and Europe.
With great enthusiasm and important objectives, the season of Sir Susa Vim Perugia restarted today, approaching the new Super League championship as Italian champions and also aiming high in Europe. Since yesterday afternoon the players, not involved with their respective national teams at the Paris Olympics, returned to Pian di Massiano and this morning they carried out a session in the weight room under the guidance of athletic trainer Sebastian Carotti.
The afternoon opened with the “media day”, the usual meeting with the press at the end of which coach Lorenzetti started the preparation.
Nine Block Devils present
Present at the PalaEvangelisti were the now cornerstone of the team, libero Massimo Colaci, this year in his eighth season in the Sir shirt and the “veterans” Sebastian Solè (fifth season for him as a Juventus centre-back), Davide Candellaro (centre-back in his second season) , the spiker Oleh Plotnytskyi (sixth season) the opposites Jesus Herrera (third season) and Wassim Ben Tara (second season). The libero Alessandro Piccinelli returns to Perugia after five consecutive seasons as assistant to Max Colaci and last season as a starter at Cisterna. Closing the group are two new faces: the former Padova setter Francesco Zoppellari, and the spiker Nicola Cianciotta, who this year for the first time in his career arrives in the Super League after having played in the ranks of the Apulian clubs (last season in A2 with Castellana Grotte).
