It is Brazil’s Dentil Praia, vice-champion of South America and current leader of the Brazilian league, the first opponent tomorrow at 5:30 a.m. Italian time for Prosecco DOC Imoco Volleyball who arrived day before yesterday in Hangzhou, China, for the rainbow event. Star-studded welcome for Prosecco DOC Imoco Volley’s Chinese star player Zhu Ting, besieged by fans and local media since her arrival at the airport, she who is a living legend in her homeland will be the big attraction of this intercontinental event for the local public. Full team for coach Santarelli, who today directed training at the arena where the match will be played, capable of 8,000 spectators.
At 2 a.m. Italian time (9 a.m. local time) the other match of the round, between the Japanese Red Rockets and the Vietnamese LP Bank Ninh Binh, will be staged instead.
Referees: Alblooshi (Uae) and Luo (Chn)
Media: The match will be broadcast live at 5:30 a.m. on DAZN and on volleyballworld.tv, subscription only. Interviews on the Imoco Volleyball Youtube channel.
STATEMENTS SARAH FAHR, CENTRAL PROSECCO DOC IMOCO VOLLEYBALL
“We arrived on Sunday, settled in and took some of the dross out of the trip with a session of weights and exercises, then we spent the night and absorbed the jet lag and today we were in the gym for the first practice in the arena where we will play the games. A nice arena, big, we will see how many people will be there because there is great enthusiasm here especially for the arrival of our partner Zhu. We are ready to start, tomorrow we have the first match and it is immediately a very challenging match because the Brazilians are a very experienced team with high level players like Macris or Adenizia, especially in my role there are central players who have made history like also Gattaz, but also others like Kuznetsova or the opposite Reed, we will have to start already at our best because in a group of four teams you can’t make any missteps.”
