Matteo Guadagnini: "Despite the injuries of the injured, Goggia and Brignone can fight for the World Cup"

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After a record winter culminating with the third and fifth places of Sofia Goggia and Federica Brignone in the World Cup standings and with the historic victory in the ranking for nations there is a lot of curiosity for the blue team of Alpine skiers in sight Of the Olympic season. His head coach Matteo Guadagnini unveils his expectations at fisi.org and makes a point on summer preparation.

Thursday 15 June 2017 4 minutes reading time

"Our summer is developing mainly under the athletic aspect thanks to the support of Formia's Olympic Training Center, where we rely on the CONI's intervention," says the Trentino engineer. "We have planned two or three Very good training periods, in a structure that is particularly suited to our needs. Next year we will follow the same philosophy that has given us good results, we have strengthened the team of technicians by inserting a trained coach like Roberto Lorenzi And a preparer such as Marcello Tavola to give more quality to the athletic training, it will be a very long season, so it is important to enhance the athletic training and then the stage will be on the snow but we will not find it unprepared. South America at the end of August and return to Italy at the beginning of October, will split between Valle Nevado and Ushuaia. The springs will pass everything September in Ushuaia, while slalomists will be on skis in mid-July but will remain in Europe. " World Cup and Olympics are the most important seasonal appointments. "The girls have achieved a certain physical, mental and technical maturity," says Guadagnini. "They have the qualities to fight at the highest levels in both competitions, if they do not even win some extra races." Goggia and Brignone can compete for the best result in World Cup, have the weapons to win in three disciplines, though they will find opponents when they return after an injury that will increase competition. However, they are able to withstand this responsibility. " It will be important to recover the injured too: "Girls like Elena Curtoni, Pichler, Gasslitter and Midali are talents that we can not abandon, are recapturing and we must have the patience to wait for them." They will work together with the multi-faceted European Cup group and the slalom youth team. "Their goal is to raise the middle level, we have some interesting athletes of national interest that can get some satisfaction on the circuit as well."

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