Nice Volley, second in the LNB rankings, will host Asnières this Friday for the first day of the return matches, hoping to take their revenge on the team from the Paris region, who were easy winners in the first match.
After his team’s success against Orange last Tuesday, the coach of Nice Volleyball, Mladen Kasic, is already looking forward to receiving Asnières.
You begin the return phase this Friday. What will be the watchword for these next few weeks?
We just have to play our game and continue in our momentum. The rest of the championship is going to be tough for everyone. We also need to be careful not to get injured. So far, we’ve been spared. We asked the players to go to the physiotherapist as often as possible and to show maximum professionalism off the field.
Quickly following up with receiving Asnières, is that difficult to manage?
At a certain level, it’s completely normal. In my career, for ten years, I played every three days, between the Champions League and the championship. In fact, I think the players prefer to follow up this way because we focus mainly on recovery and try to fix technical details. While usually, training sessions are often harder than the matches. This morning, we have a weightlifting session. Tomorrow, we will do video analysis before training.
Asnières soundly defeated you in the first match of the championship…
Yes, you could say we took a huge beating; they humiliated us in the absence of our two Romanians (our spiker Ciprian Matei and the receiver/attacker Dan Borota, who were participating in the European Championship). We will really try to give back the beating we received in the first match.
