Olympic Volleyball: start of the women’s and men’s seasons

After both the men and women started work on Monday afternoon (September 04), we completed a double first training session in the Olympiakos volleyball sections.

Men made the start. New coach Daniel Castellani, as well as internationals Raphael Koumentakis, Dimitris Tzurich, Alain Pagenk and Tonsek Stern (they will be integrated in the next period) were absent from Olympiacos’ “first” team in Rentis, while Dragan Travitsa was “present”.

The team manager, Nikos Madouvalos, welcomed the Thrylos athletes to the Rentis indoor arena, while the general manager, Yiannis Dalezios, spoke on the management side.

Antonis Vourderis said: “I don’t see it as the start of a new year but as a continuation of the previous one as most of the faces are the same. We achieved very important goals last year. This year it’s the same faces, on the same field, in the same team, in the same situations, we’ll try to get that one step up, namely qualifying for the Champions League groups, that’s our first goal of the season. “

For his part, Dragan Travica said: “We’re back to our family, we’re back here. We are very excited to get back together after a long summer. We have to work hard to build our team, which has many goals, many games. We hope to do our best together with our fans. Good luck everyone, good luck with good volleyball.”

A little later, the women’s volleyball team also completed their first training session under the leadership of Spyros Saranditis. Coach Lorenzo Micelli and international athletes Mikaela Mleinkova, Jas Nizetich and Bianca Fariol were absent from the “first” team of Olympiakos in Rentis (they will be integrated in the next period), while Gina Lambrussi, Militsa Koumboura, Julia Carraro, Melina Emmanuilidou, Maria Tsitsigianni, Emily Constantellou, Konstantina Vlahaki, Evangelia Tanis, Marialena Artakianou, Ifigenia Sampatis, Paraskevi Zafiriou and Valia Dagre. The Thrylos athletes were welcomed by team manager Nikos Katsiouras in the closed Rentis, while General Manager Yiannis Dalezios spoke on the management side.

Spyros Saranditis said: “First of all, I wish the entire volleyball world to be healthy. And this year the championship will be very competitive, with very good teams. Our team is ready, a very good team, with a lot of appetite. We will give everything.” “Every one of us to achieve the goals that Olympiacos has set.”

Gina Lambrousi in turn said: “New season. I’m really looking forward to starting here again this year. new faces. We can’t wait to get started. We have some deficits because some girls and the coach are missing, but I think they will integrate very quickly.” In the work that we will do here. I want to say to Usha, captain of this great Olympiakos side where we have had very nice moments, that we will do our best, we will bring the team where it belongs.”