Official withdrawal dates for the orogranata team which leaves Alleghe. After the boys, the girls will also arrive on 29 August
Michele Contessa / FALCADE
From Cordevole to Biois, it changes valley, but Reyer Venezia continues its “marriage” with Belluno for the pre-season retreat. After nine years spent between Alleghe and Caprile, the orogranata club has signed a multi-year agreement with the PromoFalcade Dolomiti tourism promotion consortium for the pre-season retreat of both the first orogranata teams.
Reyer will use the sports and accommodation facilities in Falcade, Canale and Vallada. Walter De Raffaele’s men’s team will retire on Sunday 22 August and will return to Mestre on Thursday 26 August, while the women’s team of Massimo Romano, champion of Italy, will stay in Falcade from 29 August to 2 September.
The training will be at PalaFalcade, in via Trieste, where the quintet then coached by Andrea Mazzon played a friendly at the end of the retreat in 2012 against Trieste. The two orogranata groups will also be able to use the gym of the Ski College Veneto and the soccer field of Vallada for athletics training.
The sessions will be open to the public.
«I speak on behalf of the tourism promotion consortium, citizenship and the municipality of Falcade», explained Fulvio Valt, councilor of PromoFalcade Dolomiti, «for many years we have been looking for this collaboration, which is of interest to us and to the whole mountain in which we live. We have always been inclined to host sports clubs in all seasons, so the agreement with Reyer is a source of great satisfaction. We are thrilled to undertake a path together with two teams as important as those orogranata ».
Falcade confirms its sporting propensity.
«It is a city of sports, both in winter and in summer. We will try to welcome the Venetian teams and fans in the best possible way. Falcade has felt Venetian since the time of the Serenissima and there are many Venetians who have built or bought a house ».
Federico Casarin, president of Umana Reyer Venezia was also satisfied.
«We are happy to have reached a multi-year agreement with Falcade and I thank the municipal administration and the PromoFalcade Dolomiti consortium with which there was immediately great harmony and desire to undertake a journey together. Falcade has excellent accommodation and sports facilities for the work of our teams. Furthermore, we have found enthusiasm and great willingness on the part of Renzo Minella and Fiorenza Manfroi of the PromoFalcade Dolomiti consortium with whom we have defined the agreement. The proximity to Alleghe, where we stayed for 9 consecutive summers, is also a sign of continuity with the Dolomites which we consider the Venetian mountains “.