Coach Ortenzi: “The serve was decisive in Monza, but also the patience.” Petkovic: “Let it be a new beginning.”
Never lose your smile, whatever happens to you you will invent something, you can’t see it but it’s your path. Coach Ortenzi is happy on his birthday. In reality, the youngest coach in the Super League never lost his smile, not even at the end of a cursed first round, which ended without victories and was decimated by numerous injuries to some key men. He didn’t lose it even during the week, when “his” Yuasa had to leave Oleg Antonov at home while leaving for Monza due to the flare-up of a muscle problem on the immediate eve of one of the most important matches of the season. Preach patience, continually, in training. You’ll invent something, writes Nesli in this piece later made famous by the voice of Emma Marrone. “We didn’t invent anything, in reality – says the coach – other than the fact of playing our best volleyball doing what we had to do, that is, always remaining attached to the game, something that we have constantly repeated to ourselves since the beginning of the season to compete at these levels.” Something, we add, in reality coach Ortenzi and his staff (which should never be forgotten) invented it, and it is the frenetic pace that his team has given to the serve, compared to a resistance in reception that in other matches had not been of the same level, and instead yesterday allowed Zhukouski to express his best version.
