Volleyball Massa Carrara: Men's Serie C Playoff Semi-Final Already Assured

La Volleyball Massa Carrara is preparing to play the last day of the Promotion Round with the pass for the playoff semifinal of the men's championship of Serie C. An unimaginable achievement if you consider that the Apuan team had started the post season in last place among the eight contenders. "We started from a complicated situation – recalls the coach Luke Cei – and for this reason we told ourselves to play one game at a time without making calculations. At the end of the first half of the season the standings had shortened a lot and we started to make a bet on a place in the top five. Now that we have conquered it, it remains only to be seen whether we will finish in fourth or fifth place".

"It will be a strange last round – he continues – because several teams have already achieved their objective. For example, Turret Livorno he is already sure to arrive second as well as the Volleyball Prato third. To stay fourth we will have to beat the league leaders Arezzo who will come to Massa on Saturday having already celebrated promotion. On our part, there is the will to win to maintain the positivity in being. Whatever happens, we will play the first leg of the semi-final at home at the Palazzetto dello sport in Massa on May 3 and the return match away on May 10 with a possible tiebreaker on May 17. For the moment I can only congratulate the boys because it was not easy to do what they did. This year we have changed a lot and a period of adjustment was necessary. In this last period we have decided to set up a more attacking formation. We have gained in service and in offensive solutions but logically we lose something in reception and defense. We will see if we will also maintain our balance in the knockout matches".

"Certainly - he concludes - there is the desire to compete with teams that we have already faced in the regular season to test how much we have grown".

Gianluca Bondielli