Slovakia before the League of Nations. Calzona led the first training session
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14 players reported to the new coach of the Slovak national football team, Francesco Calzona, at the meeting in Šamorín on Sunday. The Italian helmsman has expanded his implementation team with the second assistant Simone Bonomi, who he has added to Gianluca Segarelli. All of them then led the first training of their charges.
Most of the team was missing at the meeting, Martin Dúbravka, Peter Pekarík, Christián Herc, Matúš Rusnák, Martin Valjent, Norbert Gyömbér, Miroslav Káčer, László Bénes, Matúš Bero, Martin Regáli, Lukáš Haraslin, Dávid Ďuriš, Róbert Boženík and Samuel reported to the coach Frost. Bénes appeared in the national team after a year: “It’s a great feeling to be here again. I’m looking forward to the guys and I hope we can be successful.”
After the announcement of the nominations, Calzone announced that he sees Bénes as a very talented footballer. “I appreciate his words and the fact that he nominated me at the very first meeting. My task is to give 100 percent at the club and go to the meetings in shape. I don’t know the coach, but there will be time for that.” said the Slovak midfielder.
Bénes had the club changed, he transferred from the highest German competition from the team Borussia Mönchladbach to the second division Hamburg. “It’s a fantastic club with excellent fans and a stadium. We have a clear goal, we want to get promoted. I’m glad I managed to transfer there, it’s better. I scored a goal, I assisted twice. In the first seasons I was at the base, then I started for the last minute, now I’m back for 80 minutes. I came in good shape,” Bénes added.
The Slovak footballers want to try to advance in the upcoming Nations League matches against Abaijan (on Thursday, September 22 at 8:45 p.m. in Trnava) and Belarus (on Sunday, September 25 at 6:00 p.m. in Bačka Topola). Ahead of the final double-header in the C-Division Group 3 table, they are four points behind leaders Kazakhstan in second place. “There are some opponents waiting for us, but I think it will be about us. If we are ready. We have top players, we have to prepare well to handle it. We want to win both games. We will see what we like, the main thing is, for us to win in the first one,” Bénes concluded.