Tenth year of retreat in Agordino. Tonut and Vitali, veterans from Tokyo, will also join the Venetian team today
Tenth year in retreat in the Belluno area for Reyer Venezia, which passed from Alleghe-Caprile to Falcade. This is where the managers, staff and players all came up yesterday in the late afternoon to start the pre-season preparation. A shorter retreat than in previous seasons, given that Reyer will return to the plains as early as Thursday.
Headquarters at the Sport Hotel Cristal, a stone’s throw from Piazza Municipio, technical training sessions at the PalaFalcade, in via Trieste, to which fans and enthusiasts will be able to attend but only for 35% of the capacity, therefore about 100 seats, and the possession of green pass and mask. The multi-year agreement signed by Reyer will allow the orogranata club to also use the gym of the Ski College Veneto and the soccer field of Vallada Agordina.
Reyer was greeted by a downpour last night. After the accommodation in the rooms, a welcome meeting was scheduled on the terrace of the hotel by the representatives of Promo Falcade and the municipal administration. The president Federico Casarin and the team manager and scouting manager Mauro Sartori also arrived for the occasion. New look for Mitchell Watt: the beard is gone, the hair thicker and thicker, an absolute new experience for Phillip, Sanders, Chalarampapopoulos and Echodas, while Brooks is an “expert” in Italian retreats.
DE RAFFAELE
Eleventh season at Reyer for Walter De Raffaele, the sixth from the start as head coach. “I am obviously happy to be still at the helm of this group with renewed enthusiasm”, explained the technician from Livorno, “I approach this season with a great sense of challenge, with the great desire to try to get the most out of this new group, knowing that team chemistry will have to be sought with patience over time and knowing, above all, that it will be a group that will have to find dynamics and synergies by working ».
“The club has set up a renewed and rejuvenated but high quality roster, with the desire to create the best possible team,” he continued. «We are preparing to play an Italian championship of the highest level, all the teams have strengthened. The challenge will not be just two, even if Milan and Virtus Bologna are objectively a step above all ».
This morning the first outdoor workout.
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Today Stefano Tonut, seventh season in orogranata, and Michele Vitali, who arrived from Bamberg, will also be reunited with the two Italian players who participated first in the pre-Olympic in Belgrade and then in the Tokyo Olympics with the quintet of Meo Sacchetti. Only Michel Bramos will be missing from the Falcade retreat, who will be operated on his right foot in Naples tomorrow: an operation that will keep the orogranata captain out for a long time.
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