Salerno Guiscards: Lisandra Valdes’ arrival is official

Ready to return and leave her mark. With enthusiasm, determination and grit Lisandra Valdes Perez he puts his shoes back on with the aim of dragging the Salerno Guiscards. The Cuban, born in 1988, absent from the playing fields since 2018, is ready to get back into the game to make her skills available to the team of coaches Cacace all its power, class and explosiveness. The coup carried out by the president Pino D’Andrea it’s definitely one of those sensational ones.

Valdes, in fact, is a player who, despite her long inactivity, has what it takes to be a protagonist in the next championship. Serie B2. In her first year with Guiscards, for the strong Cuban spiker it is as if it were a homecoming. It was in fact president D’Andrea who signed her up and made her debut in Italy wearing the Royal Salerno jersey, after a long and rewarding career in Cuba. After starting with minivolleyball in Havanawinning several titles, Valdes was selected for the sports initiation school that brought together all the athletes who could potentially be part of the national teams. Thus, she was selected for the national team at thirteen years old, taking the satisfaction of wearing the captain’s armband of the Cuban under-20 team at the Women’s Junior Championship.

Then the arrival in Italy, two years of training without being able to take the field with Pontecagnano due to problems related to the membership, the debut with Royal, followed by the seasons played in B1 with the Scafati shirt, before the arrival at Indomita in Serie C, the last experience before this new electrifying challenge with the Foxes shirt: «I am very happy to start this adventure with Salerno Guiscards – declared Lisandra Valdes – in these years of stop I dedicated myself to a beautiful and rewarding experience for a woman like having and raising a child. Then it was him who pushed me to resume and start living volleyball again which for me is a great passion also because he wants to see me play».

In his “second life” in volleyball, Valdes meets many familiar people: «I am happy to start again in Salerno with the president Pino D’Andrea and to find many people, including managers, staff and companions, passionate about this sport.». To best prepare for the start of the season, Valdes has already started a specific recovery program followed by the specialists of the Strong Groupwhich will also be a partner of Salerno Guiscards this year: «My body is really responding in the best way in these first days of work and I feel really good. For this new season my first goal will be to have fun on the pitch sharing this passion with the group, then things will come by themselves. The unity between us, on and off the pitch, as well as teamwork, is an essential requirement. By doing so we will surely go far and have fun».

After having met and appreciated her at Indomita, Enzo Nicolaodirector of Salerno Guiscards, enthusiastically embraces Lisandra Valdes: «Lisandra’s return to competitions can be an added value for our team. She has great experience and explosiveness in attack. Despite the long period of inactivity, the girl trained all summer to be in line with her teammates at the beginning of the preparation and then compared to the other new purchases she has the undoubted advantage of already knowing the Guiscards family».