TREVISO
An Academy in Treviso: Benetton wins one of its “historic” battles, a high-level training center supported by Fir will start at Ghirada and from the 2022/2023 season there will be another Benetton on the field: the Pro 14 Next Generation is born. , a competition reserved for Under 23 teams, which will mainly take advantage of the breaks for international activity to give space to the best promises and talents of the countries of the Celtic League.
These are the first two effects of the high-level reform launched on Sunday by the Fir after the meeting in Verona, the super table where Fir, Benetton, Zebre, Alto Level and Top 10 clubs have developed a new technical and structural subject. The emerging national team will be relaunched, the exchange between Fir, franchises and the Top 10 will be encouraged, the training process and the permit players formula to support the training clubs will be completely revised.
The departure of the Academy and the Pro 14 Next Generation are considered two big hits by Benetton, which makes them as many building blocks of its future. Being able to field the best young players in a year and a half can only give yeast to the technical plans of Benetton, which in recent years has decided decisively, also with the permit player formula shared with the Venetian clubs, on the renewal of the squad and on investment in the best young people who have left the territory.
The will of the Pro 14, shared by Treviso, was to start with the new competition already this autumn-winter but the pandemic and the consequent uncertainties on the programming led the board to postpone everything to 2022.
At the table were presidents Marzio Innocenti and Giulio Morelli, president and head of the national teams, the technical leaders of the Fir (the manager Daniele Pacini, the coach Kieran Crowley, the head of the High Level Franco Smith and that of the elite youth training Stephen Aboud ), the delegations of Benetton and Zebre, the top 10 club leaders. A circuit, hopefully virtuous, will be created of exchanges and information on technical and medical management plans between national franchises and Top 10 clubs. will manage the recovery of the injured, headed by Dr. Niccolò Gori. –