The first playing opportunity of the new season. With all the staff available, the EnergyTime Spike Devils Campobasso kick off their pre-season by visiting – on the second Thursday of September and meeting on the court at 6.30 pm – Aversa of the A2 series.
Among the little devils it will be a particular commitment for the central defender Stefano Diana, former matchday player. In the PalaJacazzi scenario against a team that has its sporting director in a Molise native – Alberico Vitullo – and on the pitch two senators of the caliber of the director Garnica and the libero (with experience also in Modena in the Super League and in the Azzurri) Rossini, the rossoblù will find an opponent who, as the coach Mariano Maniscalco explained on the eve of the game «has two more weeks of preparation in their legs as well as an extra category (the group entrusted to Giacomo Tomasello, former central defender with experience also at Fenice Isernia , is starting in A2, ed.). We are in our third week which is the crucial one in the preparation phase because the preventive physical work gives way to the technical-tactical aspect with significant loads and great attention to the specific team aspect, but it was the right opportunity to get back on track in terms of play.”
Overall – the coach further underlines – “substantial individualities and other elements are already emerging on which it will be necessary to work further and, in this phase, it will be crucial to find the right balance”.
«For us – continues Maniscalco – an important playing opportunity in which we will have to demonstrate the right psychological stability. We are aware that we will face considerable difficulties, but this does not mean we will have to give up, on the contrary.
