Ivrea rugby at the start on Sunday Lots of news, confidence in the future

We start away in Lombardy, positive notes from the last friendly match. Coach De Meyer: “The team is growing, there are details to improve”

IVREA

It’s time to get serious. Next Sunday, October 17, the Ivrea rugby club will start the Serie B championship. It will play on the pitch of the Brescia side of Franciacorta. Ivrea is included in group A. The formula provides that the first of each group is promoted to Serie A. No relegations are foreseen.

The Ivrea players played a friendly match against Alto Vicentino (C1) on Sunday, winning 19-8. “We played a good match, an important test in view of the imminent start of the championship – says the sports director Alessandro Ghitalla – the boys are slowly assimilating the game system that the new coach Chris De Meyer is bringing to the team, in this match. we wasted a lot, however, we must be more concrete in the final stages. Certainly against Franciacorta it will be completely different music, the Brescia players, trained by the former blue player Roberto Mandelli, are a tough team, strong in the scrum and difficult to face especially at home. In the last championship played, I remember that we were the ones who won, but almost two years have now gone by. In any case, we will go to play for it, confident of our means, with the awareness that, since there is no relegation in this championship, we will be able to treasure the experience we will be able to acquire on the field, thus continuing on the road to building a formation able to perform well in the future of the Ivrea oval ball “-

The debut is always an unknown factor even the expert coach Chris De Meyer knows well: «The team step by step, inch by inch is really growing, it takes time and we are all aware of this. The kids listen, learn, and put a lot of effort into weekly workouts. In the last friendly match I was able to verify many positive aspects but as many details still to be improved even if I have noticed significant improvements in the various phases of the game. Against Franciacorta, away from home, it will certainly not be easy as we are going to face an aggressive and physically strong team that will want to put us on the ropes, a lot will depend – concludes the South African coach – on how the boys decide to face the match, if it will be with the commitment and determination seen against Rugby Alto Vicentino, then we will surely sell our skin dearly ».

Meanwhile, the Argentines Pedro Del Torno, born in 1996, Flanker, La Plata, the club of origin, and Geronimo Pavan, born in 1999, utility back, Club Rosario, landed on the banks of the Dora to complete the Ivrea squad.

Here are the other matches scheduled: Lecco-Piacenza, Varese-Cus Milan, Amatori & Union Milano-Sondrio, Monferrato-Rovato, Amatori Capoterra-Bergamo. –