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Italian Blengini credits reserve players
- Updated: August 9, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 9, 2016 – Italian Coach Gianlorenzo Blengini credited the players who came from the bench to contribute to the victory over United States in their men’s volleyball match at Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Tuesday.
Blengini refused to consider them as bench players saying that to him they are all front-liners as valuable as the starters.
Gianlorenzo Blengini, Coach of Italy: I am really pleased with the result against a bi squad like USA that was coming back to play as hard as possible after losing their first match. Approaching the match and getting the players focused was our major difficulty. I really have to give credit to the players who came from the bench and did a good job. I really don´t consider them as bench players because they are front row players.
On the ankle injury of Emanuele Birarelli:
I can’t comment right now about the extension of the injury. …
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