Forty minutes worth a season. Today at 7.30pm at PalaPadua (the match has been brought forward for the national football team playing the European Championships against Spain) Italservice descends on Sicily to play the “match” of the promotion final against Ragusa. Whoever wins goes up to National B, whoever loses stays in Interregional B. “At the PalaMegabox on Sunday evening we extended the series thanks to a tough, tough match, where we improved some things compared to the game one – says coach Stefano Foglietti who recently became Francesco’s grandfather –. We certainly played better in attack, trying to do all that that we had prepared in training in the days preceding the second round, always ahead in the score, in which we also reached a good peak of the gap throughout the match.”
Now we return to Ragusa: “Unfortunately the draw has decreed the beautiful away from home. However, it’s time to not think about anything anymore. To stay united. It will be a match that will include difficulties, but we have demonstrated during the year, where we have had difficult moments, to always remain united, cohesive. We managed to win twice away from home in the playoffs, in Senigallia and Matelica, being forced to do so given the fifth place obtained during the second phase.
So we will go to the island without any fear and a lot of awareness: “This is the last step – he underlines –, there is only one missing and we want to face it to the fullest. It’s time to forget everything: there will be no tiredness, travel, push-ups of form. Nothing else. We will all go to Ragusa to achieve it.” Team manager Alessandro Rinolfi also intervenes: “I expect a very balanced match – says the former player who held the record for points scored in his long career -, it’s an important match because it marks the passage of the category, the leap is big. We arrive at this match with a healthy team, we are confident, even if it will be difficult. I don’t want to talk about the trip and tiredness, I know what it means because I too have been through a lot.” Rinolfi closes: “There will be 2000 people waiting for us – he warns –, a warm, fair audience. But for Pesaro it would be wonderful to have a team in B1 next year”.
Beatrice Terenzi
