The coach is back on the Sassari bench after 12 seasons: “Happy and proud, we’re certainly not starting from scratch”
SASSARI. From one beard to the next, you never get bored at Dinamo. The after Pozzecco gushes from yesterday morning in the club house of the biancoblù club, which officially presented its coach for the next two seasons: Demis Cavina. A few less hairs and a lot more experience for a return to Sassari (before him in modern times only Michelini and Markovski) after 12 seasons. A return that sees him smiling, motivated and serene, because he is strong in the confidence built in the last two seasons in Turin under the presidency of Stefano Sardara, and in the awareness that his principles are and remain successful, also applicable to Dinamo. More, even: «Work, motivation and ambition. Hungry players, and a united group ».
President Sardara presented the coach as follows: “His path speaks for him, in Turin I met a serious professional and I am overjoyed that he agreed to come to Sassari”. For his part, Cavina said he was «excited and proud. I find this team among the big players, in the league and in Europe. I find Sassari, a little home for me. I find important goals and a lot of ambition. For me it is a great opportunity, I can’t wait to start ». Without looking at the budget (“It doesn’t belong to me, in 25 years I’ve never done it”), without fear of comparisons, he is diametrically opposed to those who preceded him. Another bearded man, Pozzecco: «Dinamo had great coaches – – he explains -, the results speak for themselves. Each has brought his being and I will carry mine. Then, congratulations for what has been done, but I and we all have to look ahead ».
With the arrival of the coach the transfer campaign can finally take off, but Cavina is the first to point out that there is already a good starting group, and the president next to him lists Devecchi, Spissu, Bendzius, Gentile, Treier, Chessa, Gandini. And Diop, who returns to the base from Turin: «Ousman had a goal, in A2, and hit it – continues the new Dinamo coach -. He worked to build the technical arguments with which to deal with the physical differences that he will find in Serie A. He too will have a goal, all the Dinamo players will have a written goal to achieve ». Then, the coaching staff will soon be completed. Giorgio Gerosa remains, and for the role of assistant coach turns the name of Giacomo Baioni, from Brescia. Another return. While Edoardo Casalone, who has just greeted Sassari, could happen to Cavina on the Turin bench. Stefano Sardara asks Cavina “to work to do well, to make Dinamo grow even more”.
And Cavina himself will ask “to be good at keeping the bar high”, and the team “to continue being Dinamo. The road has already been drawn ». Thirteen years later a more mature Cavina returns. With which basketball? «I hate labels, I like to have certainties and defense is one of them. But I’m not a catenacciaro, I like running a lot. A1 or A2 basketball is basketball, with some differences of course, but it’s still basketball. I? I … got older, I rounded a few corners but my values always remain the same: work, growth of individuals to make the team grow. What game will we play? I don’t know, I’ll think about creating the right feeling and adapting the game to the players. Let’s talk about it again when we have made the team ».
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