Last match of the season for Omag Mt San Giovanni this evening in Perugia. A match that will then be followed by the A2 League celebration for the promotion of Perugia, which has now arrived mathematically first in the Promotion Pool, and which will therefore rise directly to A1. But the Marignano team have no intention of presenting themselves as a simple side dish, on the contrary there is a desire to finish well after last Sunday’s 2-3 defeat at home against Talmassons. “We also want to do well in Perugia after the latest defeats – says Serena Ortolani, symbol spiker of Omag Mt – also because we want to always demonstrate our value to ourselves too”. The Marignano environment is experiencing the bitterness of a vanished dream after some important feats including the 3-0 inflicted on Perugia at the PalaMarignano a few weeks ago: “We believed in the play-offs after some truly exciting victories in this Promotion Pool – continues Ortolani – like against Perugia and Messina both 3-0. But then against Como we unfortunately lost both away and at home and we were unable to recover an already deficient ranking, even for a regular season where we left too many points on the way, to cause of the many injuries.” This evening (8.30 pm) Carolina Pecorari will also be at the match, who seems to have recovered from her ankle injury two weeks ago but is still not at her best. And in the meantime we are already looking to the future, Serena Ortolani goes unbalanced: “We have to evaluate some things, but I would like to stay here in San Giovanni and try the A1 dream again, it is a dream that is always in our thoughts. The environment is excellent and I’m very happy with it. This year we also had a lot of bad luck but certain performances confirm that the base is solid.” Significant words for the entire environment that always dreams of the big leap after 8 consecutive seasons in A2 and considering that the next one will be the ninth. President Stefano Manconi himself has already reiterated: “We are partly saddened but also partly satisfied with what this group has been able to do. The idea of the A1 series is there and remains, we will work on it from next year”. This evening ends, hoping for another good victory against the battleship Perugia.
Luca Pizzagalli
