From the ashes, from hell, to heaven. The arrival of Julio Velasco at the helm of the Italian national team consolidates an environment frayed by internal controversies.
The leader of the generation of phenomena works in silence and begins to manifest his belief. After having won (almost) everything with the men in the nineties (the only thing missing was the Olympic gold, in the eyes of the fans there is still that silver medal in Atlanta), the Italian-Argentine coach focuses on the group. A granite group, led by the captain Anna Danesi.
Velasco today took more than one revenge and wrote the history of Italian sport by bringing Italy into legend by beating the American Olympic champions with a devastating 3-0The Azzurre played with the famous eye of the tiger and that’s how Italy ended a great Olympic tournament with a bang.
Applause for the entire Italian volleyball movement: Federation, managers, coaches, clubs, youth sectors.
Velasco: “I never lacked peace for Atlanta ’96”
“I have never lacked peace for Atlanta ’96”: says Julio Velasco, ct 28 years ago of the Italy of phenomena that was silver at the American Olympics, and today gold with the Italy women. “I have never had the obsession, I’m not like Baggio who always thinks about the penalty”, he added to RaiSport referring to the final of the USA 94 World Cup, lost by Italy. “Ours was an extraordinary team that lost the gold by two balls, this time we won by a landslide”.