On Sunday we could see the third match in this season between Itas Trentino and Lube Banca Macerata. This time successful were players from Trento, but it’s not the end of the matches between those teams. Jan Štokr argued that both of them will face each other in the finals of the league.
This season players of Itas Diatec Trentino won for the second time in a row Coppa Italia, going down in history as the fifth team which managed do it. Before they went to this, only clubs from Parma, Modena, Treviso and Macerata won the trophy two times in a row. For Jan Štokr this fact seems to be completely irrelevant. – The most important thing is that we defended the trophy and for this reason I’m very happy – he said, explaining that about the winner of the final match was decisive who made less mistakes. – Volleyball is a game of mistakes, and we made them less than Lube Banca Macerata and that was the key.
In the fourth set all the fans gathered in the hall in Milan was froze in fear as the Czech spiker was injured and had Nikolai Uchikov had to replace him. – I ran to to take the ball and I slided on the floor in place whre was a bump. I immediately fell down to save the ankle but it’s a little sprained. But I hope that in a week I’ll get to him and get back to the game.
As for the number of games this season, Jan Štokr is the basic player and in the league match it hasn’t happened that he’s not in the starting line-ran. He’s also changed very rarely by Uchikov: only for a short time or if it’s necessary but for him it’s not be a problem at all. – I feel very fine. Of course, sometimes I’m tired, but I like to work hard and it is natural that I am very happy when I can play the whole game.
But as we talk about the league, this year in Serie A were implemented some changes. First of all it was decided that the players will play balls Mikasa, also abandoned introduced in season 2009/2010 V-Day, returning the same to the traditional play-off system. – Changing the ball was a bit difficult for me because I prefer to play Molten. Now we play with Mikasa from the beginning of the season so I got used to the ball. If we talk about V-Day and play-off it’s difficult to compare both. V-Day and the play-off system are very different from each other. In the first you have to be focused up, because it’s game for all or nothing. In the play-offs are more chances for you to win – explained Czech. And when he was asked about who is the main candidate to play in the final battle for the championship of Italy he said that it would be the only thing that will not change in comparison with the previous year. – I think that once again fight for the scudetto will be between Trento and Macerata.
In addition to play in the finals of the Serie A for players from Trento also important will be to get promotion to the Champions League Final Four in which they’re regular participants since 2009. Will we this year also see Itas Diatec Trentino among the four best teams in Europe? – This year it’ll be very difficult to get a promotion because on our way to the Final Four there are two Russian teams. Both are very strong. However I’m looking forward confrontation with them – ended Jan Štokr.
source: siatka.org
