First friendly of the season, tomorrow at 7pm at the Palacattani, for Virtus Segafredo Bologna. Against Pesaro, the Juventus team will also take the field for a good cause: the proceeds from the ticket office, in fact, will be donated to the Faenza Lotta Sports Association – Lucchesi Gym in aid of the flooded populations of Emilia Romagna. Tickets available here
On the eve of the start of the pre-season, Assistant Coach Andrea Diana spoke, taking stock of these first days of training: “We have reached the tenth day of training, we are progressing both in terms of workloads both from a technical point of view. We were surprised by the attitude of the newcomers but also from those who were there last year. We are under construction, we are at ABC: the priority at the moment is the physical part even if we are also working from a technical point of view. New players are motivated, listen and practice what we are working on. For now we are at the basics, the goal right now is to grow week by week up to the first official match which for us will be the Italian Super Cup. At the moment there are no internationals, we are in reduced ranks and we are introducing players from the youth sector to raise their bar and let them taste the first team. We expect daily growth, waiting for the full team.”
“Dunston has just started training, it’s a bit early to put him on the field and we are still waiting for a few days. Tomorrow’s match is a training session for us, the boys will immediately have the opportunity to get to know each other in a competitive field of matches: from a technical point of view, little has been done for now but we will try to put some concepts on the field already. Our game philosophy starts from the defensive aspect and certainly from sharing the ball in attack.”
“The teams must be seen when the right moments arrive and the necessary evaluations will begin there. Our new players are all in the midst of growing careers. They all approached the job with great motivation. Ours will be a team that cannot do without a strong defensive identity.”
The players in the national team? “We look at them every day, we get a statistical report and video on all of them as well as messages from coach Scariolo who watches all our workouts even from a distance. We feel a lot of closeness from everyone, from those who are at the World Cup right now but also from our club, which in these first few days is already present at our training sessions obviously with Paolo Ronci but also our CEO Luca Baraldi . We feel very protected and very much a group from this point of view.”
The video, thanks to Sport Press.
2023-09-03 06:15:44
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