Trento, 28 September 2021

BLM Group Arena, three European gold medals in the group: Lavia, Sbertoli, and Pinali

From today, three gold medals in the recent European 2021 are at work at the BLM Group Arena. The first day of the sixth week of pre-championship preparation was characterized by the addition in the group of Daniele Lavia, Giulio Pinali, and Riccardo Sbertoli. Back from a Monday in Rome to receive between Quirinale and Chigi Palace the thanks of Italian institutions for the great result obtained in Katowice, the three new yellow-blue made themselves available to Angelo Lorenzetti and his staff, already undergoing this morning a session in the weight room. In the afternoon, the first contact with the field of the BLM Group Arena, together with other six players who have undergone the entire preparation and with the Serbian middle blockers Lisinac and Podrascanin (at work already from yesterday).
“Trento welcomed me very well: today is a fantastic day also from a meteorological point of view, and, for a Milanese like me, waking up the morning and finding myself surrounded by mountains and the sun immediately made me breathe cheerfulness and calm – said Riccardo Sbertoli - . The win at the European, but also the participation at the Tokyo Olympics offered us surely more awareness and self-confidence, because they have been experiences that changed us and made us grow. All of this will surely help us to live even better this first season in Trentino Volley.”
“The players of the European like me, Lavia, Sbertoli, Podrascanin, and Lisinac will have just a few days to catch up with the other teammates, but we are already ready mentally to arrive in shape for the debut in the championship – explained Giulio Pinali - . This morning, we entered the BLM Group Arena right with this goal: we know that difficult matches wait for us because we still have to create the play idea of the team, but we don’t lack the determination. I’m sure that we can have good satisfaction”.
“In Katowice we have crown a dream and four of the group will still play together here in Trento: it’s very nice that it’s so and, personally, this makes me feel good – added Daniele Lavia - . The relationship between us is obviously very good, also thanks to what happened nine days ago in Poland, and we will try to put this feeling at the service of Trentino Volley. We are ready, we want to start as soon as possible together with our audience, which can return to be our seventh man on the field”.
Lavia, Lisinac, Pinali, Podrascanin, Sbertoli, and Zenger will regularly take part in the away game on Wednesday afternoon in Modena, the moment in which Itas Trentino undergo a joint training at the PalaPanini with Leo Shoes PerkinElmer. The technical staff will value case by case if make some of them compete.

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