Davide Mazzanti, the truth about Paola Egonu

The words of Davide Mazzanti

Davide Mazzanti for the first time after his farewell to Italvolley è returned to talk about Paola Egonu in an interview granted to Gazzetta dello Sport: "After the 2022 World Cup semifinals Paola told me that she would no longer work with me".

"Before the summer I had a confrontation with her: she è apologized, we started again from the collegiate in Florence, but in the retreat she struggled. She could not rest and thereò sometimes it did not allow her to start or finish training", added the'now former coach, replaced by Julio Velasco.

"We talked with Professor Vercelli, our psychologist, and we identified, in agreement with the Federation, two ways: exclude her from the European Championships or reinstate her with a progressive path. Taking her out of the starting position had to rekindle her desire to be a leader again. The path was è interrupted at the end of the European Championships. It è was not continued at the pre-Olympic becauseé Egonu at the European Championships could no longer accept this situation of initial reserve", concluded Mazzanti.