Process is starting

Now it's not so hot in St.Petersburg as it was during last month. It was raining and there were thunderstorms and storms in the city earlier. It was cloudy on Sunday but sun is shining on Monday. The weather is right. Not hot, not stuffy and not dull. Well, it's very good time now for starting work. Today Spartak had first meeting.
Certainly not all the players are in St.Petersburg now. Anton Ponkrashov, Evgeny Kolesnikov and Alexey Zozulin are in Russian National team now.
Yesterday head coach of Spartak saw the match of Russian team with New Zealand where Ponkrashov showed his trademark penetrations and Kolesnikov - assists. Zozulin is in Novogorsk now, he has medical treatment for his knee and continues to recover. The head coach of National team Blatt hopes to see him in team very much. And Spartak's coach staff has all the information about Alexey all the time. Spartak's newcomer Henry Domercant plays for Bosnian National team, Miha Zupan is in Slovenian team. Thompson and Lasme will come soon.
Players of Spartak has met in the club's office at 11.00. Levans Fileds greeted everyone in the office with hugs. He visited New York, Pittsburg, Los Angeles during 2 summer months. He saw many things and it's more important for him that he was with his family.
 "We have almost new team now. Many guys will play in other teams and we meet them during championships. I know where all of them are now. Where is Egor? In USA? He will learn? Ok. What about Lesha and Zhenya? How are they?" - said Levance. He saw Pasha Antipov. He will learn other players later.
After the meeting where players, coahes and medical staff discussed plans of season's preparation players left the office with club's presents in their hands. They have training at 18.30. The team will be in the city up to the Wednesday.
The camp in Finland will be in August 18-26. In August 29 Spartak will go to Italy for the second camp. The team will be in Bormio for 3 weeks and then will go from Italy to Turkey. In Samsun it will be tournament with Beshiktash, Turk Telekom, Spartak and Cibona. The team will return to St.Petersburg in September 21. The team presentation will be in September 24. The matches of Kondrashin and Belov's Cup are in September 25 and 26.