Dolomiti Bellunesi, give your all. And don’t make calculations. Above all, you do not set any limits. The diktat comes from the coach Renato Lauria. Who is working tirelessly on the field, despite the suspension of the championship. Yesterday there should have been the last first leg in Mestre, but Covid has once again disrupted calendars and routes.
Nothing new, just remember the strangeness of the last tournament which lasted until mid-June and with a mountain of midweek rounds. All in all, the Dolomites are doing well, having had to deal with some positivity between players and technical staff and a series of quarantines. Too bad they stopped at an ideal time, given the fifth place hooked before Christmas.
Mister, for starters: is it right to stop the season?
“Public health is the priority aspect. Cases are on the rise and now it was necessary to pull the brakes waiting for the situation to improve, but if not others it becomes more manageable ».
You will return to the field one month after the match won 3-0 against Spinea. Are you sorry or worried about such a long stop, for you who were in a magical moment?
«We come from a wonderful period, in which our pace and our work have allowed us to obtain certain results. It is a pity not to be able to give continuity to this but one thing reassures me, which is the way in which the boys train. Here the pace is always kept high and Sunday performances become the logical consequence. Even now I feel the same commitment and I am sure we will be ready at the restart ».
Are you sorry for the limping path you had in the first two months of official matches?
«A team always needs about a month and a half of work, if it intends to be able to put all the various dynamics together. However, our times got longer because we were building a new team and we started late. It is not a fault, God forbid. The merger was an important process, which required certain steps. Once we got the necessary knowledge, the season went on and on. Now we have our own clear physiognomy, and now it is only a question of progressing in improvements ».
So you see a Belluno Dolomites that can do even more?
«It is up to us to identify the aspects in which to grow. In the meantime, for example, the inclusion of Episcopo and Raimondi will be perfected, who have yet to get to know each other better with their companions. And then, more generally, yes, there is always room for development. Every game you have to find the mistakes you made so as not to repeat them the next time ».
To get where, speaking of rankings?
«Well, making calculations or setting such goals would be wrong. If you look too far, you lose the sense of reality, you miss the present ».
We come to her. When the results did not arrive at the beginning, the company has always compacted around its role. “Lauria is not in question,” he heard himself say. And this also in the summer, when many, perhaps, would have made different choices on the players to keep of the three teams. Is that so?
«Trust is very important and it is a pleasure. Above all, I think the presence of managers was fundamental when things worked less well. They spoke in the right ways and at the right times, giving us the necessary push. And the results we get are not just the merit of those who play, but everyone gets them: from the president to the collaborators. As for the summer choices, the comments are there, they are part of the game. But it is enough to have clear ideas ».
Individual chapter. Many say: “Who knows if we had had Raimondi from the beginning…”. What went wrong with Sivilla?
«Unfortunately he had to deal with some physical problems, then the characteristics did not prove to be functional, perhaps compared to those of Raimondi. It happens to make a mistake in a choice, while there is no question of the boy’s skill and professionalism: just look at how many goals he has already scored at Athletic Carpi ».
Young people. Cossalter and De Paoli are two guys from whom the leap in quality is perhaps expected, in the second part of the season. For a thousand reasons they may have had less impact than expected. Agree?
«In Alex’s case, everyone expects a class play from him or the perfect touch of the ball from an aesthetic point of view. Instead I believe he is above all improving in the things that make him a more complete player. I’m talking about defending together with the team, finding the right space to unmark and so on. As for De Paoli, we are still talking about a 2002, in the second year as an age of over-the-limit regulation in hand. Its potential is enormous, but it must be convinced of this. He has everything to be decisive, starting from the seriousness with which he trains and plays ».
Belluno and Union Feltre often anticipated the times by deploying an under younger than necessary, in order to have them ready for the following year. Is there any 2004 to keep an eye on?
«In pink we have the goalkeeper Canova, then Ballestin, De Pellegrin, Fremiotti and Piazza. Not to mention how many are part of the youth teams. Everyone trains well, they listen to the advice of their teammates and believe me, training together with the adults already makes you grow a lot ».
Will you be happy at the end of the season if …?
«If we have fully expressed our potential. And if we know how to go forward step by step, without calculating ».
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