For Italy of sport, September 4th is (and will be) a day to be framed. It wasn't just there hat-trick in the women's 100 meters at the Tokyo Paralympics: with 3 sets to 1, the National women's volleyball team won the European Championships. And he took his revenge, against that Serbia that - at the Olympics - scored to his exclusion in the quarter-finals.
The victory of women's volleyball
They had been running for two weeks in Eastern Europe, the European women's volleyball. A competition in which the tricolor national team scored victories and achieved goals. Excited, the audience and the TV. Until, on Saturday 4 September, he raised the cup to heaven. Replicating what happened in 2007 and then in 2009. The final saw Italy fight against the feared one Serbia, one of the strongest national teams in Europe and in the world. But, the "terrible girls" led by Miriam Sylla, did not let themselves be fooled. Indeed, they crushed their opponents. Filling the building with joy, jumps and smiles after a triumphant 3 sets to 1. "We were looking forward to playing against Serbia. We remembered the Olympics game well, we felt a little ashamed because we knew we hadn't played as well as we could. We wanted to prove something, we did it and I'm really happy. This medal cancels the failure of the Olympics: we didn't give up, we came back and we won”Confessed Sylla. With a smile in the eyes of those who, this time, made it.
Drawn by an extraordinary paola egono, awarded as the best player of the competition, the blue thus climbed to the top of Europe. As already, in this 2021, the Italian football team did. Then Marcell Jacobs, the boys of the relay, the many sportsmen who - at the Olympics and Paralympics - sang the hymn with their hand on their heart and pride on their face. "I swear that tomorrow I'll try to find the words" wrote Egonu on Instagram. With words broken by an emotion that cannot be explained.
The company of the blue
There were 20 thousand people cheering for Serbia, inside the Belgrade building. The home stars won the first set, 26 to 24. But they lost the following ones: 22 to 25, 19 to 25, 11 to 25. Italy reassembled them, surrounded them, cornered them. It proved that a false step was taken at the Olympics. And that, when the Italian flag is in the mood for revenge, that one revenge he takes it.
"It was a long summer, we struggled, but the girls did something extraordinary. It was an incredible effort to get back on the pitch, to have fun”The words of Davide Mazzanti, Italian volleyball women's coach. Who, interviewed after the victory, struggled to find what to say for those girls of his who - who have come from a very tough period - have channeled anger and frustration where it was needed: on the field.
Featured photo taken from the Facebook page of Lega Pallavolo Serie A Women
