Simone Del Dio and his winning France: "Pinturault and Noel the references, difficult to teach him something"

The Piedmontese coach by adoption has already been at the helm of the transalpine slalom national team for four years. To the microphones of Milan Ski Team said that ...

Thursday 2 April 2020 5 minutes reading time

He is one of the most sought after technicians, on the other hand it is not new that the Italian coaches are a reference and, together with his colleague Matteo Joris who leads Daniel Yule's Switzerland, the world slalom has been practically everything in their hands. Simone Del Dio celebrated, as manager of the transalpine national team, the three seasonal hits of Clément Noel and the pearl of Alexis Pinturault in Val d''Isère, even if the World Cup final was mocking, with the phenomenal 22 year old native of the Vosges who lost the slalom crystal ball by just 2 points (in favor of Henrik Kristoffersen), with the last three races canceled, while the Savoyard left the Norwegian the giant cup by 6 points and the general one. Connected with the friends of Milano Ski Team, the Genoese technician who has become "a real Piedmontese by adoption", told his competitive path and what has been accomplished in the last 4 years with France. “I graduated in sports sciences, then I faced an adventure that led me from Prato Nevoso to Bardonecchia, until I came to train in committee with Paolo Deflorian and Spain as the first national team. Male Italy represented the great leap, then from 2016 I am with France ". There is talk of Clément Noel and how a 1997 class is now a certainty of slalom, if not the one that all opponents look at as a beacon after Hirscher's farewell: "You could see the quality, but at the beginning it never arrived after all - says Del Dio referring to the first team approaches between 2016 and 2017, ed - He then had a very fast escalation, he burned the stages and when you are dealing with such a winning athlete, like me Beppe Vercelli (psychologist who has also been working with FISI for years) teaches you must think how to raise his level in less developed areas, but it is not easy with samples of the genre. In the case of Clément, she is intelligent enough to facilitate the task, because she can put everything into practice quickly; I think he has not yet known the moment of difficulty that every athlete has to face during a career, even if he has had his little disappointments like at the Are World Championship, but I also think he will be able to find the way out necessary. " Del Dio speaks of tension for a technician: "The beauty is always feeling it, because it means being alive and attentive, then there are particular moments such as, for example, I remember in Sochi with Gross running for the medal", but also the management itself of the race in the relationship with the athletes: “There is little to say to him at the start, especially in the first heats of slalom. With Italy, after having inherited the role of a master like Claudio Ravetto, I have always lived the start, while with the French national team I am on the track and it is another way of living it ".

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