Having archived the championship with the title won by Conegliano (against whom, in a very heated semi-final series, the splendid journey of Igor Volley was interrupted), the club volleyball season is preparing for its last week, which will culminate in the Champions League Superfinals League on May 5th in Antalya. It’s time for clubs to draw a line and start setting the future or, as often happens, to reveal the moves already made in due course.
As for Igor Volley, it is the general manager Enrico Marchioni who takes stock: “We are waiting for the official conclusion of the club season to start revealing our moves and present the Igor Volley to the fans to come. I can say that as always at the starting line we will see an ambitious team, which, even outside the logic of auctions or outsized budgets, will know how to entertain its fans. It will be a team built over the last few months, keeping Lorenzo Bernardi’s playing philosophy in mind and encouraging the possibility of investing in young athletes who can make their definitive leap in quality with our shirt.”
Certainly the squad will be strongly renewed, with a cycle that has definitively closed, as already revealed in recent weeks, after 10 years: “We said goodbye to two girls who linked their careers to our club, such as Cristina Chirichella and Caterina Bosetti. Cristina was with us for ten years, while Caterina spent five seasons in blue, something she has never done with any other club. We are grateful for what they gave us but we are also convinced, for a series of reasons, that it was right now to take different paths. I take this opportunity to greet and thank six other girls who will not be with us next year: Anna Danesi, who leaves us after two seasons, and then Anne Buijs, Ludovica Guidi, Anastasiia Kapralova, Marina Markova and Greta Szakmary, who will continue elsewhere your career. On behalf of the club, I wish them the best: let’s say that they have left their mark, given that they all contributed in an important way to bringing our second European trophy, the Challenge Cup, to the trophy cabinet.”
