The basketball blues begin tomorrow on their way to the 2023 European Championship, which will be played in Slovenia and Israel, going to face Slovakia in Piestany in the first match of group H which also includes Luxembourg and Switzerland.
Costanza Verona, Beatrice Barberis and Sara Crudo will make their debut in the senior national team, while in Italy Matilde Villa and Mariella Santucci remain, who will rejoin the group from Friday.
"Slovakia are tough opponents, they have talent and quality distributed over many players and they are an atypical team, with long physically fit but also dangerous from the perimeter - explained the coach, Lino Lardo -. We are positive and motivated, there are many faces. new and therefore a great desire to show off. We cannot ignore the defense, which for us equates to pressure across the board. It will not be easy at all but at the same time we are eager to impose our pace ".
After the match in Slovakia, the national team will move to Faenza where they will face Luxembourg on Sunday.