Fouras dreams of making history and a European title against Milan
Jean-Paul Martin, a manager very involved in this file, recognizes this. “We discovered everything, that’s kind of what we wanted, to get our players out of the frame and give them an experience that’s not trivial. The Covid helped us a little, there were withdrawals that benefited us, but that doesn’t take anything away from the merit of those who fought. Saturday is a bit like a gift. »
The renewed team
The fourasine team will be the same as in Germany: Thibault Hillairet, Gaëtan Renaudon and Damien Provost. The Milan team will be made up of Fabio Mantegazza, Valentino Piacentini and Stefano Bosi. The players will be accompanied by their president, Marcello Cicchitti.
“We wanted to get our players out of the box and give them an experience that is not trivial”
The 2022 Intercup is played according to a very specific formula: three players follow one another in each team, each for two games plus a double, i.e. a maximum of seven games. The match takes place on a single table and stops as soon as a team has 4 points. The Maritimes have no knowledge of the level of Italian players, so this will be a discovery for them. But a continental victory would crown the efforts undertaken for several years to make Fouras evaluated from the amateur category towards professionalization.
An exceptional recruitment was also announced at the start of the week (the Croatian Andrej Gacina, 22nd in the world) with the aim of an exceptional 2022-2023 championship. This Saturday’s meeting must therefore be a celebration for the management, the players, the partners and the public. A final hurdle remains to be cleared. It’s hard to think that the competitors won’t be at their maximum…