Roda is a fury: "You can't do worse than this, space for young people", but the director Lorenzi still believes in it

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The harsh words of the federal president after the first giant of Santa Caterina Valfurva, disastrous for the Italian national team.

Sunday 6 December 2020 4 minutes reading time

The start of the season was also encouraging, with four men in the points and both Luca De Aliprandini and Giovanni Borsotti, the two strikers of the team and the only ones currently in the world top 30, respectively 10th and 13th in the opening of Soelden. After another preparation seasoned by changes within the technical staff, as the technical director Roberto Lorenzi had to deal with Roberto Saracco's farewell, bringing back to Italy an excellent coach which is Walter Girardi, the Italian national team of giant had the time to better prepare, after the first on the Rettenbach in mid-October, the three consecutive specialty races on home snow. The first of the three exams, or the giant yesterday in Santa Caterina Valfurva, was however a half disaster, with only two qualified athletes and the Borsotti-De Aliprandini duo forced to settle for back-up positions, from 21st to 23rd square, never running for a hefty result. The same Trentino, the only one in the first two sub-groups of merit, spoke of a race so strange that he did not want to analyze it and therefore project himself towards the next one, or the second giant moved to Monday. The number 1 of the FISI, Flavio Roda, was however directed in the post-race 1, to the microphones of Ettore Giovannelli in the parterre of the “Deborah Compagnoni”. “It cannot be done worse than this, it will therefore be necessary to analyze everything very seriously - he said in the Rai Sport interview - and understand what the problems are, having the courage to start again with the young. We need to make a change in a discipline that has not given us results for years, despite the fact that the FISI works hard on all specialties. We are sorry to live days like this, they do not repay us for what has been done ". Roberto Lorenzi himself spoke, again to Giovannelli's microphones, of "disappointment on our part, with the clear desire to work for something more - the analysis of the blue dt - However, I believe that the potential is still there to prove, even though we couldn't do it yesterday. We have to insist, without excuse for the first race here in Santa Caterina: the time to justify themselves with the fact that the Italians are only strong on icy tracks is over. The future with young people? It is clear that we need to build something from behind, we are doing it and the more experienced guys themselves need liveliness within the team ”.

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