“Unity is our strength”

It will be a fiery last round of Serie A, the one that will take place this weekend. Just eight days after the Italian Cup final, and this time on the parquet of the “PalaPansini” (even if Cely Gallardo’s girls play at home due to the calendar) in Giovinazzo, Bitonto C5 and Tiki Taka Futsal are back to face each other . First versus second. The best that Italian women’s futsal can offer.

Fresh from the defeat in the Cup, the Abruzzo team will do everything they can to ruin the black-green party and reduce the gap in the standings on the gong and gain second position in view of the play-offs. For Bitonto, however, the ingredients for another, yet another, day to remember are truly all there.

In a stadium that promises to be sold out in every seating order and with the people celebrating for the conquest of the second consecutive Italian Cup, the lionesses will try both to put the icing on the cake by beating the yellow-reds, confirming themselves as the team to beat, and to send the first and unequivocal signal to all the teams involved in the next championship play-offs: for the tricolour, you must always go through the black and greens.

The black-green leader Gianluca Marzuoli does not allow himself to be distracted by the celebrations: These close comparisons between the same teams in different competitions are always a risk. Drops in concentration and intensity are just around the corner. Compared to last Sunday we face each other in completely different ranking conditions and the Abruzzo team need to win to finish the regular season in second place. It means that we will meet a team with a knife between their teeth who will perhaps have even more competitive spirit than last Sunday. However, in front of our audience we cannot afford drops in tension or low cost matches. We must enter the field determined and with the desire to win that we are used to in order to close an extraordinary regular season in style and confirm our leadership in the standings. Then another season will begin…

Nicoletta Mansueto is increasingly one of the souls of the neroverdi: Taking the field with this shirt is now an emotion every Sunday. The unity that characterizes our group means that we always manage to perform at the top thanks to mutual help. We are having a good season and we can make it more than unique. This objective, however, requires each of us to give more than 110% on the pitch at the service of the team. Being ready must be our main objective. And then, on Sunday there is our audience. Even in Genoa, 1000 km away there were dozens. The only way we can thank them is to always play our best game possible.

The match will be refereed by Chiara Perona, first referee, Luca Paverani will be the second referee while Antonio Dan Campanella will be on the clock.

So the appointment is Sunday 28 April at the “PalaPansini” in Giovinazzo for Bitonto C5 vs Tiki Taka Francavilla. Start at 4.00pm.

Danilo Cappiello – Bitonto C5 Women’s Press Office