E-Work The injury curse continues

The "curse of the knees" continues to hit E-Work. After the cruciate ligament rupture of the German Reichter, Parzenska also suffered the same injury, which occurred last Tuesday during the Polish national team training camp that was preparing for the last two games of the 2025 European Championship qualifiers (Poland no longer has a chance of qualifying after Thursday's defeat in Lithuania). The pivot made a sudden movement and collapsed to the ground, immediately making people think the worst, as confirmed by the sad verdict that arrived yesterday.

In the next few hours the player will undergo further tests and will return to Italy this week. Parzenska's season is therefore over and it is a very hard blow for E-Work that in the space of two weeks found itself without its power forward and its starting pivot. Moreover, both absences will be in the long department, which now consists of only Fantini and Jakpa. "The verdict of Aleksandra's injury leaves us speechless - reads a note from Faenza Basket Project -. Two such serious injuries in a few weeks represent a very hard blow for our team, but we have always shown that we know how to get back up in the face of difficulties".

Now it becomes essential to look for someone on the market (it will close on March 27) in view of the decisive direct clash at Villafranca on Wednesday March 5, because by winning it the Faenza team would mortgage direct salvation. However, it is not easy to find Italian or EU players, especially among the tall players and at a low price, considering that the possibility of an extra budget was not included in the budget by the Faenza Basket Project. The management is scanning the European market above all, because in the A1 series no one will move given that all the teams are in the running for a goal and from A2 someone would be needed who could really make the difference. Of course, for the Faenza team it is a real mockery to see the best season in its history in A1 complicated by injuries and at this point even the play outs become very dangerous. Paradoxically, E-Work could save itself even by losing all six remaining games if the pursuers took points from each other in the direct clashes: it would be an incredible epilogue, but the team would be compensated after the great bad luck it has had.

Luca Del Favero