Dante Bonifande emphasized that the men’s national volleyball team does not start with good performances in major competitions, he believes that Israel and protested the refereeing in the last phase in the tie-break and its general presence in the game and asked them to forget this match and deal with with Portugal.
Analytically: “We knew it would be a difficult game. Usually in the premieres we don’t play so well and, like last year in the qualifiers in Norway, today too. Israel played well, but we lost the game because we lacked patience in some phases. We should have been braver. It was the first game in a difficult group.
For the last phase, the second referee was in such a position that it was impossible to see how the ball went. He whistled the same in the tournament we played in Skopje. Some referees like to be these protagonists. He was more concerned with our bench and how we were sitting than with the game. It’s the only phase where you can’t get a video referee.
What happened, however, does not change. We didn’t just lose from the last phase, we lost from other situations. But, in the end the tiebreak ended badly. We have to pick up our pieces and start thinking about the future tomorrow”.
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