After 13 years, Bper Rari Nantes Savona returns to play in a championship final. At 6.45pm Alberto Angelini’s red and whites face the Italian and European champions Pro Recco away in the first match of the series which will award the Italian title.
On the occasion of the match that will be played in Recco, in the legendary “Ferro” swimming pool of Punta Sant’Anna, the predictions are all for the hosts, in search of what would be their 36th national title. The two Ligurian teams face each other for the fourth time in the last act of the season: in the previous three, a victory for Savona in the 1991-1992 season and two for Recco in the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 seasons.
Recco and Savona have faced each other three times this season, twice in the championship and once in the Italian Cup, with the Reccollini always victorious. A score that, however, does not discourage the red and whites as confirmed on the eve of the striker Bogdan Durdic: “These matches must be faced with a lot of heart, we are ready to face any team: we are playing against the strongest team in the world, but we believe in it” .
Optimism also transpires from the words of president Daniele Polti who confided: “We have players like Figlioli and Rizzo who have won a lot and we can count on two world vice-champions like Bruni and Nicosia who are used to playing important matches, why consider ourselves beaten at the start?”.
The match will be directed by the referees Bruno Navarra of Rome and Riccardo Carmignani of Messina, the Fin Delegate will be Dante Saeli of Venice. The match will be broadcast live on Rai Sport.
Game 2 will be scheduled for Saturday 25 May at the “Zanelli” in Savona, a match for which the anticipation in the city is frantic to the point that the club has recently issued an update note on the sale of tickets: “Given the excellent performance of the pre-sale for Game 2, which continues until the tickets are sold out, we inform you that the direct sale of the same in the swimming pool before the match is not guaranteed – Rari underline –
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