After two wins over Korea and before two decisive matches against Cuba, Italian coach says about the goals that his team aspires to, the team spirit and probable lineup for Final 8 in Poland.
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The last two matches the Italian team will play with Cuba in Parma and Modena. Both Italy and Cuba are sure to take part in the Final Eight games played in Gdansk, Poland. However, these straight games will decide which team will be promoted from the first place. Before the last weekend Italy leads in the standings with 25 points, Cuba is behind them with 20 points. Then Korea (10 points) and France (5).
On the press conference before the matches in Modena Mauro Berruto said: “It’s a pleasure to be here. We represent the national team and there cannot be missed the invitations from a city where the history of volleyball was created.
The first objective has been achieved by nine victories of ten matches. This tournament is very important for us and we wanted to play as well as possible. Till now 18 from 20 players invited to play in the national team have showed their abilities on the court. Now we have to finish this round on the first place in order to go and see closely, from the other side of the net, the teams that have created the history of volleyball, Russia, Brazil… Every player of our team would give the same answer.
From the first match in 2011 World League we wanted to talk about how to create a team. The team is something more than a choice. It’s an homogeneous and close group in regards to targets, desires. From a beautiful defense to sign 2000 autographs. From all the groups that I have trained this has the most extraordinary feeling, love for this game.
In refer to the “BIG” teams we will have to face there isn’t a word like “anxiety”. There is a desire, an expectation. We respect all of our opponents, but we would like to think that there is somebody that is thinking about us in the same way. We would like to become a team that the others don’t want to face down…”
Source: volleyball.it