Meana: "It will be an interesting final series to watch"
Belgrano was defeated and also Gigantes del Sur. Drean Bolívar arrived to a new Final, the 16th since the team has been coached by Javier Weber and the boys are motivated with the challenge of maintaining the title of Kings. It will be from this Thursday on, vs. La unión de Formosa, in the definition of the championship of the ACLAV A1 Men Teams Nativa Nación League, to be played to the best of seven matches.
Eventhough the team of Tinelli already concentrated in the city of Lobos, with the mind on the matches that will face the team coached by Waldo Kantor, Pablo Meana made a balance of the last rival, Gigantes del Sur, in the radio program Morgan Lo Hizo (morganlohizo.blogspot.com): "I think we had a good Semi-Final Series. Eventhough we suffered one defeat, we played at a good level all the Play-Offs matches. No doubt, we will have to improve some things as usual, but the team is all right so we expect the Final Series".
The Necochea player is one of the main clues of the team of Drean Bolívar and already has on his shoulders several battles. Therefore, an coming across the believe that Bolívar will defeat easily La Unión he added: "Eventhough all say we will win easily, it will not be so. We believe that La Unión is a strong rival and we will go match by match".
The backgrounds between both teams showed that the rivality grew along the time, specially this season, with the decision of Formosa team to reinforce itself to win the championshi. Therefore, they hired Milinkovic and Elgueta, with the last seven matches undefeated and finishing second in the Regular Season. Also, Kantor already knows how to defeat in a Final Bolívar, as he did as coach of the Swiss Medical Monteros Team in the season 2004/05. At that time, the doctor of Tucumán team, was Gabriel Solari. Now he works with Bolivar and just now was hired by the Argentine National Men and Boys Teams.
"I can imagine a very fought final series. We have been playing together for the last three years and most of the teams of this League knows us pretty well so they know how we play. The League has improved too and other teams also. La Unión has two great players as Marcos and Jorge that are in a great level and the other players also have showed a good output. It will be a very levelled Final Series, much more than the last two seasons vs. Gigantes del Sur and Chubut Volley, they will risk more. It will be nice for the people that enjoy volleyball to see such a series of matches" added Meana.
All the team of Drean Bolívar had lunch in the concentration of Lobos with Marcelo Tinelli, that travelled to wish them luck in this new challenge. Next Thursday and Friday, the local fans expect to see them at the VIP place in the República Venezuela Stadium in Bolívar, in the start of a series to the best of seven matches, all live broadcasted by ESPN+.
source: ACLAV