TRIESTE A reunion of old friends, to meet on a parquet before the new season begins. The opportunity to train happily and talk a little about basketball before arriving at their respective destinations and starting their preparations.
Marco Legovich, the former coach of Pallacanestro Trieste who has arrived in Varese to start his second season as an assistant at Openjobmetis, talks about the days spent in the Aquilinia gym with some of the players who have become part of his new that yesterday. From Juan Fernandez to Matteo Schina, from Tommaso Baldasso to Matteo Visintin, from Tommaso Fantoma to Federico Stoch. Players born and raised in Trieste or children who have now become close ties to our city and should be considered Trieste by adoption.
Among them, for sure, is Lobito Fernandez. “I saw Juan very well – said Marco – Serene, inspired, happy with the idea of going back to doing what he loves. He has been training for a while, strong and ready to start again. Of course, he is missing on the competitive side only being used to playing will get you but it’s only a question of time. I believe that a year at a club like Reyer, which will give him the satisfaction of playing in the cups, will speed up his recovery process. For Venezia, more than what he can give as a player, a man like Lobito is a valuable asset for everything he can give in the locker room and outside the pitch.
From Fernandez to the two Triestes expected in A2 for a significant period. Matteo Schina of Turin and Tommaso Fantoma of Brindisi left to confirm the excellent things shown last season. «For A2 Schina today is a certainty – continues Legovich – A mature player, who has gained a lot of experience and has the opportunity to develop further by taking advantage of the upcoming season with Boniciolli. Fantoma has a big chance in Brindisi, it’s up to him to take advantage of it. But I have no doubt that he will do well because he is a wonderful worker and has a great ability to understand and assimilate the advice given to him. Tommaso listens and thanks to this he grows every day.”
After leaving Trieste, Legovich returned to Varese where he started the new season. “We are working with a group of men Under 19 and U17, there will be part of the first group of the team. We decided to start a little early starting from the assumption that the next championship will be very balanced. In behind Milan, Bologna and Venice and immediately below Tortona I see a large group of teams that can do well. Among them I undoubtedly include Trieste This is a team with tin – well appointed leaders like Ross, Brown and Brooks, two very important additions like Uthoff and Johnson and the confirmations of Ruzzier and Reyes that represent absolute guarantees for the category Italian, we saw it in Pistoia last season, could be an important starting point for a unified base —