Nicola Brienzacoach of Estra Pistoia who as a freshman in the 2023-24 Serie A achieved a quiet survival and are now playing their cards for a place in the playoffs, spoke on the pages of L’Adige about what tomorrow will be his first return as former in Trento to face Dolomiti Energia.
The first one votes as an opponent. “I arrive with the absolute curiosity to understand how I will experience this return to an environment that esteemed me. Then, it’s true, despite the good European results the relationship was interrupted, but I am positively eager to see and say goodbye to people with whom I have worked, always giving of myself. For 4 seasons I haven’t had the chance to return to the Trentino area. In addition to the managers, I will greet the “survivors” of those times, captain Toto Forray and Luca Conti”.
Pistoia is one step away from qualifying for the LBA Playoff UnipolSai 2024. “If we immediately remove the “monkey” of qualification, it’s better. It would be important to take advantage of the opportunity of this away match, then at home with Mannion and Moretti’s Varese it will be equally tough, perhaps we will find the Lombards calm at 99%. Like Aquiia, it is another talented and quality team. We arrive in Trento to try. It’s true that we and the Bianconeri crept in, behind the poker of super favorites among the best eight, when last year there were the same Varese (later penalized) and Sassari. It is certainly a militant reality that we and L’Aquila have achieved an exceptional path. I consider Galbiati a colleague of my generation, with whom I didn’t cross paths when we were serving the youth teams of Cantù and Milan, but rather I faced him when he was in Turin. We congratulate each other, our clubs have achieved good results with pleasant strategies.”
