A sensational blow for the Italy of the skeleton: "Willi" Schneider will lead the Azzurri from next season

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A sensational blow for the Italy of the skeleton: "Willi" Schneider will lead the Azzurri from next season

With the announcement of the national teams for 2022/23, here is the arrival of an authentic guru also in terms of materials and work on details. Valentina Margaglio the reference of a group that is already looking to Milan-Cortina 2026.

A great blow for the Italian skeleton, in view of the next competitive season and, more generally, to plan the four-year period that will lead to the Olympic Games at home. Today's news, together with the official status of the blue organic for the 2022/23 vintage, the choice of the director Maurizio Oioli and the Federation to guarantee Valentina Margaglio & Co. a technician with enormous experience qual is Wilfried Schneider. The German coach will be in charge of team "A", he who worked between Canada and the United States until his arrival in Russia, bringing his athletes to many triumphs, such as Alexander Tretyakov in Sochi 2014 and the South Korean Yun in PyeongChang 2018. At his side, there will be deputy Thomas Platzer, another highly respected technician who will be able to allow the blue team to make a decisive leap in quality also in terms of materials and attention to detail in general. Valentina Margaglio, the flagship of the national team which will count on 14 athletes for the next season, will benefit from this. In team A, together with the Alexandrian champion who finally climbed the podium in the CdM, here are Alessia Crippa and Alessandra Fumagalli as regards the women's group, and the men's trio with Amedeo Bagnis, Mattia Gaspari and Manuel Schwaerzer. Team B will have 8 athletes: they are Angel Nohuwa Osakue, Chiara Duzioni, Giovanni Marchetti, Pietro Augusto Drovanti, Marvin Moscar, Gabriele Marenchino, Francesco Pellicani and Giovanni Maria Pontiggia.
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