Vuelle Last Tango at Home: With the Right Step

Last lap under the vaults of the spaceship of the month of February for the VuelleThe red and whites who face this evening Cividale del Friuli (tip-off at 20.30pm) will return to play at Vitrifrigo Arena only on March 9th against Sebastiani Rieti. A month away from home is not a small amount of time for a team that has built most of its successes in front of its home crowd and will therefore be called to a very tough test.

Also for this reason the two points up for grabs in this challenge against the former Pillastrini are more than precious. In the end the Friulians were unable to sign the new purchase Michael Anumba in time because Pistoia has not yet deposited the termination of his contract at the headquarters of the Serie A Basketball League, where the guard-forward has played so far. Martino Mastellari's absence remains uncovered, but the big names in this Gesteco are others and they are all there, from Lucio Redivo (who scored 38 in the first leg!) to Doron Lamb, another former player of great depth, from the rising star Francesco Ferrari (class of 2005) to Giacomo Dell'Agnello, born in this very city, where he will play for the first time. Compared to that January 5, in which Cividale prevailed 97-86 with the fields reversed, Pesaro instead he put a new one back into the engine Danilo Petrovic at full speed.

"It will be wonderful and a great honor to play on a field like Pesaro, just a few days after another away game on a historic field with a great tradition like Cantù – Pillastrini emphasizes –. A very difficult match: Pesaro is coming off 8 consecutive home wins and has a very important consistency of performance, especially at home, so we will have to play a perfect match. It will be important to try not to let the many guns they have shine, therefore trying to deploy our defense first of all, because if they manage to play at speed they are unstoppable. Furthermore, it will be necessary to limit the great performances that many of their players can make. At the same time, we should play with confidence and balance in attack, always creating credible shots, as well as having good percentages. It will be essential to play a great match also at a competitive level, never taking a step back. There will be moments in which Pesaro will seem unstoppable and that is where we should go: where physicality or technique cannot reach, heart and will must reach. So we will try to play a great team game because for us, winning in Pesaro at this moment would be an extraordinary step forward".

Words full of meaning and energy that an expert coach like Pillastrini tried to convey to his boys in front of a trip of great charm for the Friulian team, called to represent on the parquet a town of just over 10.000 souls. Game entrusted to the whistles of Marco Vita of Ancona, Salvatore Nuara of Treviso and Umberto Tallon of Bologna.

Elisabetta Ferri