These are essential days for the For Recco. The water polo membership most titled on the planet with its 36 league titles, 17 Italian Cups, 11 Champions Cups, 9 European Tremendous Cups and 1 Adriatic League plus 1 league title, 1 Champions League and 1 European Tremendous Cup at girls’s stage, is in liquidation. Since final July 5, when the proprietor, entrepreneur and former water polo participant Gabriele Volpi, determined to step down after being on the high of the corporate for over 20 years, nobody has come ahead.
The announcement
Professional Recco, Gabriele Volpi’s farewell
by Massimo Minella
There may be time till July thirty first, in any other case goodbye Champions League
You’ve till the thirty first of this month. In any other case goodbye to the Champions League Leaguand, the principle worldwide membership competitors, which Professional Recco gained consecutively from 2021 to 2023. Registration for Serie A stays intact, even when the ambitions can be enormously scaled down. “It is going to most likely be a rearguard championship: we are going to combat for survival, with a crew primarily based on younger folks”, the president and former water polo participant anticipates Maurizio Felugo.
Among the many free brokers there are additionally 7 internationals
Presently the gamers are launchedfree to settle elsewhere. Felugo requested everybody to be affected person for a couple of extra days earlier than making selections. Amongst these are additionally 7 nationals (Condemi, Del Lungo, Di Fulvio, Echenique, Fondelli, Iocchi Gratta and Presciutti) who will quickly be busy on the Paris Olympics. Involved concerning the scenario, inevitably, can be the coach Sandro Campagna: “The temper of the boys is just not the most effective. Nevertheless, our sport has incredible values: the boys at the moment are centered on the Video games and won’t take a place on the matter. After Paris they may determine. The power of our motion is definitely not cash. I’m satisfied that President Felugo will do every thing to maintain Professional Recco alive. With what ambitions, nevertheless, it’s troublesome to say”.
Felugo: “The primary thought goes to the youth sector”
Felugo, for his half, continues to be hopeful: “The concept is to deliver collectively the most effective native forces and focus closely on our youth sector, an asset to be protected earlier than anything. These 80 children are our first thought, by advantage of the social repercussions on the territory and as a assure of the long run”.
Recco, a metropolis that lives for water polo
In actual fact, for Recco, a metropolis in Liguria with lower than ten thousand inhabitants, water polo has been the town sport for a few years: the crew was based in 1913 with the title of Rari Nantes Enotria and in 1959, when it was already known as Professional Recco, it gained its first Scudetto. In its historical past it has had two lengthy cycles of victories: the primary from 1959 to 1984, and the second from 2002 to at the moment, coinciding with the acquisition of the membership by Volpi. In April 2017, the membership achieved one other prestigious report: with 73 consecutive victories within the span of two and a half years, it turned essentially the most profitable in Italian sport, surpassing Olimpia Ravenna Volley girls, who had stopped at 72 in 1987.
Volpi’s Farewell
Volpi, who was additionally the proprietor of Spezia Calcio between 2008 and 2021, defined that, though it’s a “deeply painful” problem, the choice to depart is a part of “a progressive diversification of the initiatives of the Orlean group”, which he heads. “I hope that some Ligurian entrepreneur or water polo fanatic can acquire the extraordinary legacy of an inimitable expertise, the sporting title, the administration and the way forward for Professional Recco”. Time, nevertheless, is working out and the chance of a downsizing is more and more concrete.
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– 2024-07-18 11:04:34
