The Valencian red-and-white club begins pre-season training this Monday with two sessions, firmly intending to face fewer difficulties than in the previous campaign.
At 9 in the morning, the players are due at the athletics tracks of the Internucleos Sports Centre, where, under the guidance of fitness coach Pere Vicent Saez, they will begin to sweat through their shirts. After this morning session, the traditional welcome for the squad will take place at the Rene Marigil Pavilion in Sagunto (the Ovni is undergoing renovation), led by Sports Councillor Sergio Muniesa and the Board of Directors headed by Juanjo Bataller. The session will be open to all supporters wishing to attend and give Pachi Martí’s squad their first encouragement from 7 pm. Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto will have the full squad and the youth players who have been called up, with the exception of Nacho Plaza, who only finished competing in the European Junior Championship on Sunday afternoon, winning a bronze medal to add to his honours. The Valencians’ pre-season will consist of two daily sessions and will also include the usual friendly matches. The red-and-whites’ first appearance will be in Ontiyent, where at 7.30 pm on the 20th, excitement will be guaranteed in the triangular tournament featuring Latorre’s Benidorm, Vicent Nogues’s Maristas Algemesi and Fertiberia. The next fixture is scheduled for the 23rd, with the semi-final of the Valencian Community Cup against Maristas Algemesi, the newly promoted Division of Honour Silver team, taking place in Algemesi. Fertiberia’s presentation to its supporters will take place on 28 August, when, from 8.15 pm, BM Ciudad Encantada will test the red-and-whites at their Ovni home ground. The final match, should they win the semi-final, will be in Benidorm against the winner of Elda–Benidorm, with the Valencian Community Cup at stake. In addition to the scheduled matches, the red-and-white organisation has announced the club’s participation in the Volta a Peu del Puerto Sagunto on 9 August. As well as running, the red-and-white players will be available for photographs and autographs at the stand Fertiberia has designed to promote its membership recruitment campaign.
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