@Vincenzo#DavideMazzanti In 2021 we lost 3-0 against Turkey, and were eventually kicked out of Final4, finishing fourteenth out of sixteen teams: an infamous figure. The causes, in my opinion, were Mazzanti’s technical arrogance and tactical presumption. The basic idea was not to play, in VNL, the starting players to preserve their strength and make them train, separately, in view of the Tokyo Olympics. So he decided to deploy a junior team, with some potential talent and the addition of two or three good and experienced players, to challenge the best teams in the world: USA, Brazil, Turkey, Serbia, Russia, China... The Roster of Italy was this: Mingardi, D'Odorico, Lubian, Bosio, Guerra, Mazzaro, Fersino, Omoruyi, Nwakalor, Battistoni, Melli, Furlan, De Bortoli, Bonifacio. So while Italy was being taken - a pesci in faccia - Egonu and companions did not play a single real game, but training in the gym and using social media to warm their fingers: the result was to deploy in Tokio, a team psychologically discharged...everyone knows what happened. This year we will see, but it seems that even in Ankara, we will start quietly with Paola and others starting players on the bench...
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@Vincenzo #DavideMazzanti In 2021 we lost 3-0 against Turkey, and were eventually kicked out of Final4, finishing fourteenth out of sixteen teams: an infamous figure. The causes, in my opinion, were Mazzanti’s technical arrogance and tactical presumption.
The basic idea was not to play, in VNL, the starting players to preserve their strength and make them train, separately, in view of the Tokyo Olympics. So he decided to deploy a junior team, with some potential talent and the addition of two or three good and experienced players, to challenge the best teams in the world: USA, Brazil, Turkey, Serbia, Russia, China...
The Roster of Italy was this: Mingardi, D'Odorico, Lubian, Bosio, Guerra, Mazzaro, Fersino, Omoruyi, Nwakalor, Battistoni, Melli, Furlan, De Bortoli, Bonifacio.
So while Italy was being taken - a pesci in faccia - Egonu and companions did not play a single real game, but training in the gym and using social media to warm their fingers: the result was to deploy in Tokio, a team psychologically discharged...everyone knows what happened.
This year we will see, but it seems that even in Ankara, we will start quietly with Paola and others starting players on the bench...