Velasco gold with ItalVolley at the Olympics: a lesson for young people

3-0. It is an amazing productItaly against the United States in the final of Olympics de Paris 2024. On August 11 the Italian volleyball team presented another amazing result from to Italy, the first in history in the subject. To cheer with the girls, they say a coach Julio Velascowho spoke of the Olympic final as “the best game we’ve played”. Velasco knows it young: He has been training them for 45 years. This is what he said about the new generations and their parents.

Velasco a lesson on the new generations and their parents

In a technical meeting between coaches, the coach of the women’s national volleyball team Julio Velasco he focused on a question from a coach who complained about the difficulties of training today’s youth compared to those of the past.

“me young today they are no different from those before, but the parents are different from previous generations“, said Velasco. “Many of these have wrong ideas in them children – he continued -. Think of a boy who has a problem school and parents they tell him that the problem is not the teachers. How do you get feedback from this guy? He’s always right.”

He continued: “Now, when he becomes an adult and leaves his home, what will happen? You will find a new world, where you will not find out among a thousand problems and a thousand problems. He will think of the parents who always proved him right, parents who lied, out of love, but they lied. You are not always the best“, Velasco continued.

“In sports teams we often find this problem in many children – said the coach -: the most widespread side todayinsecurity in yourself just because of this idea of ​​parents. Not getting antibodies to frustrationbecause I wasn’t wrong, I didn’t make any mistakes and blaming others has become constant. All this creates insecurity and fear of making mistakes in young people. What personality will they have in the future?”, concluded Julio Velasco.

Julio Velasco and victory in Paris 2024

Julio Velasco is a popular coach. Of his great coaching skills, the one that is particularly recognized is his ability to work as a team player. He emphasized this too Paola Egonu who, after the victory, had a few words of respect for the coach: “He was very good at uniting us all and building the team that had been missing for some time.

Velasco joined the Italian women’s national volleyball team in January 2024. In just 8 months, the coach led the Italians to victory in the Volleyball Nations League and the gold medal at olympic games from Paris, the first in the history of Italian volleyball and in Velasco’s own career. It came close in 1996, when ad Atlantic (SA) coach took the Italian men’s national team to the final at Olympics. At that time the Azzurri lost, winning the money.

“Peace after Atlanta? No”, answered Velasco to journalists after the ItalVolley victory in Paris, as reported by ‘TgCom24’. “I don’t feel like Baggio – he continued – who says he doesn’t have peace because he missed the penalty, he should be at peace too. Happening. That team was an exceptional team that lost a game by two balls. I accepted it because it’s a fun thing. I never had the obsession that I was missing gold.”

And about the effect Paris 2024 he said: “We still have to understand what we have done. It was an amazing Olympics – he continued -, we only lost one set, I think it’s a record. The girls were fantastic never losing the thread, we were always in the game with great clarity and fire. The final was the best match we played.”

Velasco then said he was “very proud for this team, for this staff and for Italian volleyball. The federation and CONI have put us in the best conditions to work. It’s a win for the movement.” And again: “With this victory, women’s volleyball can make a leap. It’s a victory that came after 4 months of work, these girls have come together as a group“.