Ladies’s volleyball, Italy is approaching Paris: Paola Egonu within the chair, 3-0 towards China

Italian ladies’s volleyball takes one other step in direction of Paris. After the defeat towards Brazil, Julio Velasco’s nationwide group instantly redeemed themselves within the Nations League by beating China 3-0 (25-23, 25-19, 25-16) in Macau. A outcome that earns the nationwide group treasured factors for Olympic qualification (9.3 factors on the planet rating) in addition to third place within the common rating of the event with 6 victories and 19 factors. The highest seven within the common rating plus host nation Thailand will advance to the Finals in Bangkok (20-23 June).

The perfect scorer towards the Chinese language was Paola Egonu with 16 factors, adopted by Myriam Sylla 12. As soon as the Macao stage is over, within the final week of play the Italian nationwide group shall be concerned from 11 to 16 June in Fukuoka (Japan), the place will discover Canada, South Korea, the US and Serbia on its path. “I am actually pleased, we have taken one other step in direction of our aim, so now most focus in direction of the following cease in Japan”, mentioned Egonu. “We noticed a gorgeous Italy: towards China we confirmed the optimistic indicators of the earlier days – mentioned Lorenzo Bernardi, one of many Argentine coach’s deputies -. We should at all times needless to say the group has been coaching collectively for 2 weeks, there’s nice potential. The group is working very effectively, I feel we’re seeing progress. There’s actually room for enchancment. The factors obtained are essential for Olympic qualification, which is our first actual and nice goal. Having mentioned that, we should not dwell with the obsession of wanting on the factors each match, what number of you win or lose, the principle factor is to take advantage of the large potential of the group. On this manner we are able to expertise the Olympic qualification with extra peace of thoughts.”

And the entire blue group is trying to the Video games. “I’m very proud of this victory as a result of it helps us get even nearer to Olympic qualification – mentioned Alessia Orro -, we performed a very good recreation and after the 3-2 defeat towards Brazil we noticed a really decided Italy on the pitch. We have been good at placing China beneath stress from the beginning, imposing our recreation. We had quite a lot of enjoyable and I feel it confirmed on the surface too. We knew we needed to win to get nearer to the Olympics, we did it and now the target shifts to the following one: we are going to go to Japan to attempt to win as many video games as doable and get that go, which we care a lot about.”