Agazzi's first words as Sofia Goggia's new coach: "I work on technique to reduce risks"

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Agazzi's first words as Sofia Goggia's new coach: "I work on technique to reduce risks"

The man from Bergamo, after his experience with the Canadians, will be the personal coach of the three-time downhill cup winner. His interview on the columns of "L''Eco di Bergamo". All confirmed also for Bassino and Brignone with their respective technical references.

It is already programming time, with important milestones and certainties for the stars of a women's national team that will restart from the "trident" made up of Sofia Goggia, Federica Brignone and Marta Bassino. With Gianluca Rulfi always at the helm as technical director, the change for the 2022/23 season concerns the choice of adding a personal coach to each of the blue champions. Luca Agazzi for Sofia Goggia, Davide Brignone for his sister Federica, this time directly within the national team, and Daniele Simoncelli with Marta Bassino. The official will arrive only at the moment of the presentation of the teams at the beginning of May, but it's all done. His colleague Federico Errante interviewed Luca Agazza on today's edition of "L''Eco di Bergamo": the 48-year-old coach from Leffe returns to Italy after an intense and productive experience in Canada, with the satisfaction of to have made an excellent slalom team grow, with young people like Nullmeyer and Smart being great protagonists this season. Like the skiman Barnaba Greppi, Agazzi is also from Bergamo and it will be important for Goggia, also at an environmental level, to be able to count on a staff of this type. Although, paradoxically, Luca and Sofia have never crossed paths at the ski club level: "A satisfaction and a responsibility to be able to work with a top skier like her - the words of Agazzi - Yes, the new structure of the national team will guarantee each of the top exponents a personal trainer, as far as Sofia is concerned we want to build a more balanced skiing, so that her power can be optimized. How to do it? We will also use the slalom skis to devote ourselves to the technique at very low speed, then we will work on the position for the giant curve, a specialty that remains the basis, so that even if it were at 80% of the condition, the performance does not resents. We have to remove the risk factor, this is the concept ". At the same time maintaining the "free spirit" of the national government.
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