Trento, 01 September 2020

The General Manager Da Re at “RTTR Volley”: “Lucarelli is the big news of the SuperLega"

The first episode of the 2020/21 season of “RTTR Volley”, the weekly program dedicated to Trentino Volley by the tv partner, has featured the studio-appearance of Bruno Da Re. During the interview with the presenter Sara Ravanelli, the General Manager has talked about many topics. Here are some of the most significant passages.

ROSTER. “Our team has changed so much during this summer; from the former titolar sextet only Giannelli e Lisinac remained, the others are all new faces. We had thought of this type of line-up before the emergency of Covid-19; in this occasion we had taken time to set up the roster, but we are happy to confirm our ideas even after the arrival of the pandemic, keeping the agreed commitments. Now all the players are ok, they are training without any particular problem and they are ready for the start of the season”.

PREPARATION. “Our pre-championship activity was absolutely particular, because there are players like Giannelli and Cortesia who have been working at the gym for three months now, having started doing something individually even before the reunion, and others who instead resumed very late, after being stationary for a long time like Lucarelli, who, however, has a great physique and is already in good condition. So it’s difficult to have already a good physical and technical balance, but I think that within a month we should all reach the same level”.

LUCARELLI. “He is the big news, not only for our company, but for the entire italian championship. We had been chasing him for many years, I for one; we couldn’t get him to Trento before, because in the past he preferred to remain in Brasil. So it’s a pleasure for us to finally see him here, but at the same time I’m satisfied that I had Nimir Abdel-Aziz wear the Trentino Volley jersey, an opposite of race. I had tried to sign Podrascanin back in the days of Treviso, but he was very young and made a different choice. We have great players, but I don’t want to exclude from this type of definition either Cortesia, Kooy, Rossini; I’m really satisfied with the team we created”.

JOINT TRAININGS. “I followed the first official test matches mainly via our YouTube channel, because currently we try to to get as few people into the arena as possible, leaving the team in a kind of bubble. We did good with Verona, less with Milano and then good again Saturday with Piacenza; the first impressions are the ones we expected on the debut: this is a line-up with great inclinations in serve and attack. We need to improve in fielding, while in defense I already saw that the team is well on track”.

OPPONENTS. “Besides the usual Civitanova, Perugia and Modena, it should be mentioned the roster of Piacenza, as well as those of Milano and Monza. It will be a very balanced championship; it’s true that we say that before the start of every season, but actually it’s an impression that is often confirmed. I only hope that the people could see it live”.

AMBITIONS. “I don’t like to hide them; with such a team and with the economic commitments we have made it’s fair to say that we will compete for very specific goals and with the desire to bring home some important victories”.

SUPERCOPPA. “We will play with a new formula, expanded in the program, which allow us to play a couple of matches more than usual, including even one at home. For us it represents an opportunity to test ourselves and rediscover the sensations of the field, of an official match".

AUDIENCE. “For several weeks we have been working with Aquila Basket, Asis and other provincial institutions, which I wanted to thank for their great availability, to reopen the BLM Group Arena for at least a small part of our audience. We decided to start with caution, taking one step at a time and then, if it is possible, expanding constantly the audience. The idea is to start with 500 spectators, but if this week’s test that Aquila Basket will make in Supercoppa with Venezia will be positive, then maybe we can have already 1.000 spectators for the home debut with Civitanova”.

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