Trento, 30 September 2019

BLM Group Arena, the preparation week has begun

The preparation of Itas Trentino has begun in the early afternoon of today in view of the beginning of the 2019/20 season. After two days of rest, the yellow-blue team is back to train at BLM Group Arena of Trento. On Tuesday 1st October, between 3.00 pm and 6.00 pm, Lorenzetti's team will be at PalaBanca in Piacenza for a training session together with the new-promoted Gas Sales, with Trento still incomplete due to the absence of some players involved with the national teams (Nelli and Krsmanovic , for example) but with already many quality elements on its roster (Stankovic, Cavanna, Fei, Botto and Fanuli).
On Thursday, October 3, the BLM Group Arena of Trento will host an unofficial friendly match; starting from 6.30 pm (free admission), Itas Trentino will face the Belgian of the BDO Hassrode Leuven (in Italy in this period to complete the preparation with a test match). On that occasion, there will also be Simone Giannelli, who will start training together with the team starting from Wednesday, after having done a training session in the weight room together with Vettori (who will miss the trip to Piacenza, where Lorenzetti will use Djuric for the whole duration of training in the role of opposite). The seventh week will also distinguished by a double workout on Wednesday (weights and ball) and a single session between Friday afternoon (technique) and Saturday (physical strengthening). With the inclusion of the Captain, the technical staff will be able to count on seven players from the new team: the setters Daldello and Giannelli, the opposites Djuric and Vettori, the spiker Sosa Sierra, the middle-blocker Codarin and the libero De Angelis. Parodi and some other youngsters will also train together with the yellow-blue team, who will play the Serie A3 championship with Trentino Volley. The young players, from next week, will be replaced by the veterans of the European Cebulj, Grebennikov, Kovacevic and Lisinac (working in Trento from 7 October).

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