Beginning of the 2020/21 journey for Zadar

Monday, 03. August 2020 at 17:11

As it has been announced, Zadar squad have begun with their training camp ahead of the 2020/21 season.

(Photo: Zadar/Zvonko Kucelin)

“We are satisfied with our first practice. We are missing four more players, that will be joining the team soon. Two of them are Bursać and Worku, that will join us by the end of the week. We also have two players, that we are trying to sign. One is covering positions 2 and 3 and one is covering the center position. We will take advantage of this first week to test the condition that players are in and mostly we will work on physical preparation of the players. Next week we will be able to start practicing normally. We have enough time, since ABA League start has been rescheduled for two weeks, so we will have enough time to prepare ourselves properly,” Veljko Mršić, head coach of Zadar told.

Coach Mršić also explained how the preseason period of Zadar would look like: “Our plan is to spent this and next week in Zadar. We will probably move to Poreč for the period between 17 and 21 August and we are planning to play a preparation game there. Afterwards we will move back to Zadar and on 28 August we will play the memorial Tomislav Knežević tournament, along with Split, Šibenka and Sonik Puntamika. The tournament will be played in semi-final and final format.”

The players that have attended the first practice are Martin Junaković, Dominik Mavra, Jure Planinić, Dominic Gilbert, Domagoj Vuković, Edis Korman, Karlo Uljarević, Filip Paponja, Jan Palokaj, Duje Brala, Filip Vujičić, Domagoj Horvat, Tomislav Buljan and Ante Beljan.

Aleksandar Bursać and Eyassu Worku will join the team by the end of the week.

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Zadar započeo s pripremama

Kako je i najavljeno Košarkaši klub Zadar s današnjim danom, započeo je svoje pripreme za sezonu 2020/2021.

“Zadovoljni smo s prvim treningom, nedostaju nam još četiri igrača koji će se uskoro priključiti ekipi, dva su Bursać i Worku koji će se priključiti do kraja tjedna. Imamo i dva igrača koje pokušavamo dovesti, jedan koji pokriva pozicije 2/3, i jedan centar. Ovaj uvodni tjedan ćemo iskoristiti malo da snimimo stanje igrača, većinom ćemo raditi na kondicijskoj pripremi igrača. Već sljedeći tjedan možemo početi s normalnim košarkaškim treningom. Imamo dovoljno vremena, zato što se ABA liga odgodila za dva tjedna, tako da ćemo imati dosta vremena da postavimo stvari kako želimo”, komentirao je prvi trening Veljko Mršić.

Trener Mršić također je otkrio kako će izgledati ovaj pripremni period u klubu: “Plan je da ovaj sljedeći tjedan provedemo u Zadru, najvjerojatnije ćemo od 17. do 21. kolovoza biti u Poreču i tada bi trebali odigrati prvu utakmicu. Nakon toga slijedi povratak u Zadar, 28. kolovoza igrat ćemo memorijalni turnir Tomislav Knežević protiv Splita, Šibenke i Sonik Puntamike. Turnir će se održati u formatu polufinale i finale.”

Igrači koji su se priključili na prvom treningu su Martin Junaković, Dominik Mavra, Jure Planinić, Dominic Gilbert, Domagoj Vuković, Edis Korman, Karlo Uljarević, Filip Paponja, Jan Palokaj, Duje Brala, Filip Vujičić, Domagoj Horvat, Tomislav Buljan i Ante Beljan.

Aleksandar Bursać i Eyassu Worku će se priključiti prvoj ekipi do kraja tjedna.

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