Italy is world champion in the same year both with the men’s and female national team. The only precedent dates back to over 60 years ago and brings back to the Soviet Union in 1960 and before even in 1952 he managed to win both volleyball World Cup in the same year.
There are four, more than half, the blue players included in the Dream Team of the Manila World Championships won today by Italy on Poland at the end of a wonderful final for the technical aspect of the group and the individual players, and also of emotions. Appointed in the Dream Team, the free Fabio Balaso, the dribbler Simone Giannelli, the opposite Yuri Romanò, extraordinary in the final capable of 22 points, and the crusher and MVP, Alessandro Michieletto. The Italian team will return tomorrow with a flight that will land Fiumicino in Rome at 20.05 after a stopover in Dubai, the other players who were inserted are two players from Bulgaria, who returned to a world final after 55 years, Aleksandar Nikolov (crusher) and Aleks Grozdanov (central), and the Polish Jakub Kochanowski (central). Poland conquered the bronze medal after defeating the Czech Republic for 3 to 1.