Inside the pre-mondial retreat of Cavalese: change the DJ, Danesi La Golosa, Orro and De Gennaro the superstitious and … Sylla the casinist. “We don’t have the obligation to win, we want to win,” says the coach. In the Cavalese retreat
The gold of Paris? “The Olympiad is a century ago, finished: if we continue to think about it we make a huge mistake, because so we put pressure on our own and all the others do it. Now there is the world championship and we work to get to the maximum. Without anxiety: we do not have the obligation to win, we want to win”: the now famous ‘here and now’ of Velasco, which also applies as a cleansing of the questions of the journalists of 2024, accompanies the girls of the volleyball back from success (the second consecutive) in VNL. Not only in the field because it has become a philosophy of life, which translates to freedom: in the head and in reality. Let’s enjoy the present, therefore, and let’s live it in the best way, and then it is enough with the collegiate old ways: “I don’t want to do them too long, because they don’t stand them. It is ridiculous to think of controlling professionals who have a life outside the gym, you have to have good memory: when I was 18-20 years old, if one broke too much the cog …, woe. A lot of intensity, high quality, so much volume, then free time to pass with the families”. During the premonary withdrawal in Cavalese, a trip to the Pradazzo trampoline on which the magers of Milan-Cortina 2026 will fly. It will be because it will be to attend their summer training is unusual and fun, or perhaps because the five rims that dot the Val di Fiemme, indeed Trentino everything, is a vision that still Gasa the blue at the memory of the company of a year ago (Sorry), A few days after the departure for Thailand – the world championship starts for them next Friday against Slovakia – makes the idea of the serenity and strength of this group. Which, immediately keeps the coach, is not necessarily made up of friends, even if seeing them together seems like this: “In a team there are roles, the players give a hand because it is part of the game to help themselves, not for an act of solidarity. It is not that if you do a group of friends then you win, otherwise all the groups of friends would win. This is simply a special group”. Starting from the coach who reconstructed it by giving order, defining the hierarchies and bringing a turning point not only technical, but above all mental.