C’it is those who have not yet found the right one, like Turin still on the hunt for a point guard made in the USA. There are those who had welcomed them in cities like Casale but saw one leave suddenly just yesterday for personal reasons. And there are those who, like Edilnol, have signed contracts and two flight tickets with open date booked, but are forced to wait for the Americans because all the documents necessary for expatriation are still missing. The arrival of Tj Cromer and Steven Davis has been postponed by a few more days, who have overcome the first obstacle, that of landing in Europe with the cycle of anti-Covid vaccines completed, but not the second, to have the entry visa that will allow them to train and play until June. Damiano Olla, the general manager, imagines them in front of the mailbox waiting for the right pieces of paper to arrive. From Biella everything possible has been done, including contacts with the ASL to transform the vaccination certificate into a European green card in a very short time, a condition that will reduce the prescriptions necessary to take the field to the single buffer on the day of arrival. Also thanks to this they will not have to observe any quarantine as had happened last season to Teddy Hawkins. But perhaps the rossoblù clan was expecting a bureaucratically more serene summer, after the landing from Serbia of Lazar Lugic, the other foreigner from last season’s start, was anything but simple because it happened when a large part of the Balkans was considered a red zone, with the borders towards Italy closed.
The arrival date of Cromer and Davis thus moves to the beginning of the coming week, with little chance of seeing them already on the pitch for the first friendly of the season. Wednesday 1 September against Omegna (behind closed doors at 5.30 pm at the Forum) they could be content to act as spectators, pto begin to get acquainted with your companions. There will be three pre-season matches, divided between before and after the Super Cup. The fourth, a face to face with Desio in the middle of the week before the Super Cup, was missed due to organizational problems. Thus, after the match in Omegna (derby in A2 for a single season, in 2015/2016), the rossoblù will return to the field again at the Forum on Saturday 4 with another “neighbor” in Serie B, the newly promoted College Borgomanero. For those arriving from the Under 18 it is almost a revenge: the same backbone of the team that won the C Gold was cloned in the grouppo that he graduated regional champion to the detriment of the Biella Next of the various Vincini, Loro, Pietra, Aimone, Finetti and Castelli. The third friendly, after the week dedicated to the Super Cup, will also be the only one with an equal categoryria: Saturday 25 September Edilnol travelederà up to Orzinuovi.