Tomorrow there will be the restart. With the images still in our eyes of a last season that delivered the Serie B Italian Cup and the leap from the second division to the top flight, at EnergyTime Spike Devils Campobasso the time has come to start the approach to what will be the first experience in the A3 Credem Banca series.
With the group that has already reached (or will reach in these hours) the regional capital and which has seen some elements already carrying out the medical examination at the sports medicine clinic of the Cardarelli hospital (structure resulting from the synergy between Unimol and Asrem) coordinated by Professor Germano Guerra, Monday will be the day in which, in the early afternoon, the competitive fitness process for the rossoblù roster will be completed.
Then the attention will move to the PalaIpia – the facility that has seen the evolution of a season of applause for the club – with a meeting between the team, management and staff at 6.30pm which will precede the actual start of the scheduled session by 7pm.
A week – the first – in which the work will be mainly oriented towards the physical side with the athletic trainer Luca Suliani with also a double morning session (on Tuesday and Thursday) on the sand.
«This work – explains the technician Mariano Maniscalco on the eve – will have an impact on the subsequent path. Without major leaps, we will then also work on the fundamentals and on some relevant technical aspects, which will also be an opportunity to verify the peculiarities of the group and the aspects to work on in the future.”
Alongside the friendlies already designated (the one on 12 September in Aversa and the double match between 28 September and 5 October with Sabaudia, one away and the other at home), the club has defined further dates in recent days. A test against Reggio Calabria is scheduled for 17 or 18 September with the match venue being halfway between the two centres.
In a team which, due to its composition, bases much of its essence on the effectiveness of the ‘first touch’, the first two weeks of work will be an opportunity «to verify the priorities of the work to be carried out – continues Maniscalco – seeing better understand the individual aspects to find the right balance between the ball change phase and the counterattack phase, an aspect that is not at all marginal. Last season we often insisted on the aspect of serving, but in some matches, and in some situations, we ended up making too many mistakes and in the decisive matches that wasn’t the most important fundamental.
