Ramagli: "Noble quarterfinal, one will cry: hopefully not us"

Alessandro Ramagli, the Scaligera Verona coach who scrambled Urania Milano on Sunday, commented on the pairing with Brindisi in the playoffs. “I am always very pragmatic, I never think about what could happen if I think about what has to happen since it seems much more important to me,” he said. “I don’t think Brindisi is a team in crisis, Brindisi is a strong team, very strong, so it will be a very tough opponent and we will be for them a very tough opponent as it is right to be. Both of us have the ambition to go far so we will be facing two teams that will put all their energy and resources on the court.”

“In some ways it doesn’t come back uncomfortable for us not to play right away, however, in 10 days we are on the court,” he added. “So I’ll take what comes, I’m not going to get back thoughts because they seem absolutely useless to me and let’s enjoy a nice quarterfinal because it won’t be a trivial quarterfinal. It seems to me a nice and spicy quarterfinal this one, we don’t find just any opponent we find a very strong team.”

“I’ve never seen them play in their new version, so it’s not easy to comment on a team that has played its first game with the new set-up: it’s hard to make a judgment. It’s clear that it seems to me a quarterfinal where there are, as they would say in the jargon, quarters of nobility, in short, that’s why two teams that at the beginning of the season were given among potential competitors to try to reach the ultimate maximum goal, both still have in front of them the chance to do so, not through direct promotion but through the play-offs, it’s clear that one of the two at the end will cry, let’s hope it won’t be us,” concluded the seasoned coach from Livorno.