Ferdinand De Giorgi enjoys the big hit in Rio
Brazil-Italy 2-3
Hitting the jackpot in Rio de Janeiro for Italy, which captured its fourth win out of four matches in Volleyball Nations Leauge, beating hosts Brazil 3-2 (17-25, 25-15, 22-25, 25-17, 15-13) in a back-and-forth match, with the Brazilians good at winning the first and third sets, the team's first and second set;Italy good at keeping its concentration high by making the second and fourth sets its own before bringing home the decisive tie break thanks also to the pinwheel of changes made by De Giorgi throughout the match by sending Porro, Bovolenta and Galassi, in addition to Anzani from the start, good at being ready. Among the numbers in evidence was Alessandro Michieletto, the match's best scorer with 22 points, also author of 2 winning serves out of the team's 9.
The victory confirms high in the ranking Italy, which now wins 3.59 points, also taking the lead in the VNL standings alone with 4 wins and 11 points. The Italian delegation travels tomorrow to Canada ahead of week 2 of the Volleyball Nations League, scheduled for June 4-9 in Ottawa. The trip will include an early afternoon flight from Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo and then move in the evening from Sao Paulo to Montreal.
Fefè De Giorgi commented as follows: "These were four important matches for us we know what we are looking for and so we put in each match our ability to also improve and interpret the competition. It's definitely a positive balance and it è even more so with the closing of this match with Brazil, winning here at the Maracanè s è always è always a good story and after a good battle, having won as a team è even more beautiful. Also because è with two 20-year-old guys who came in, with Anzani, with others, in short with everybody we managed to turn the game around. The balance of this week è positive. What we have to look for è clearly what we do every game, but also with the head of a team that reasons to create itself in this season, which will not be very long. But these are important games. For us they are very much about preparation, every game has its own meaning of winning and losing and so they are important. The balance è definitely positive, then clear that we have things to improve. We came to this WNL with some training together, so even the matches are serving us, we need them to resume a pò of mechanism. I also have to thank all the guys, the staff and everyone who is following both groups in Cavalese with the Under 22 and the B group of players who are part of the VNL group. I know they are working very hard and that è important becauseé in short you have to be ready for sure in this VNL. In Canada it will be very important, now we will go directly to Canada, we will have a few days off and then we start training, we will have two friendlies with Canada and we will prepare as best as we can for this other week”.
