A1 – Venice, presented by Fassina and Santucci
Martina Fassina and Mariella Santucci, two new players from Umana Reyer and the national team, were presented to the press this afternoon at the Taliercio.
Martina Fassina
It’s been a month of hard work, but I think we’re doing well, so we’re positive. The club welcomed me very well and I got along very well with the staff and the new companions: there are all the positive feedbacks.
Compared to Reyer’s youth environment, where I passed a few years ago, that of the first team is different from the point of view of the structure of the team. I had a great time that year and obviously I feel good even now, even if we are still only at the beginning.
The one in Poland was a wonderful experience from a professional point of view, as well as a caesistic one, so I am very happy to have done it. And so I recommend it to anyone who will have the opportunity to have an experience in Europe or at the College. I think it has also made me grow in awareness and now I will try to bring all this baggage that I have built up here.
Even if this beginning can be more complicated, we are all young and we have a great desire to express, to do, to put all of ourselves. So I think that, once we have overcome the initial obstacle, we can do well and take our satisfactions.
Mariella Santucci
It’s been different from a busy month and then we’re not full and so that’s quite the way to play right now compared to what we’ll have in the future. We are seeing a lot of things, so it is an important workload. We are all positive about the work we have to do, but above all we are on the pitch and I think this is particularly important. Continuity was the most important word for me in Ragusa, the two years we did, always reaching the playoff semifinal. So I can say that I have some experience at the level of the Italian league, of the playoffs, of pressure from an important project and therefore I think I can be up to helping the team in these aspects.
From 4 years of experience in America, on a human level, but also as a player, I have learned to work a lot on myself and be available to do what the team needs to win. Maybe I’m not someone who averages 30 points, but I have a role in which I have to know how to manage the game and always bring intensity.
For me it is different to arrive in a group that has not yet been made and therefore it will be difficult to get to know each other at the beginning, even on the pitch: it will take more time, certainly but you have more way to be yourself. However, the Italians are almost all in the national team, so we know each other and we know how we play.
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