Paris 2024 Olympics, Julio Velasco is already thinking about the Netherlands

Paris 2024 Olympics, Julio Velasco already thinks about Holland

Here are the words of Italy women’s coach Julio Velasco immediately after the 3-1 victory, with some uncertainty, against the Dominican Republic in the opening match of the Paris 2024 Olympic women’s volleyball tournament. The quotes are quoted from the Gazzetta dello Sport website.

"È a match that will serve us well, that is why I am very happy. È Clearly, taking the three points was crucial, but that second set lost when we were ahead threatened to rattle the girls. Instead they were good at fighting back, fighting on every ball in the third and fourth sets”.

“If one never suffers è a problem and we won the VNL by suffering too little: having the experience of suffering a little creates antibodies, which are essential in an event like this where every match è difficult. Look at what è happened between Germany and Japan yesterday….  Sometimes there's too much desire to win and we attack in an unordered way, the idea that we cannot fail creates anxiety. We must know that difficulties will be there and we must not think too far ahead. It is useless to imagine the quarters, it would be a tremendous mistake: now it is necessary to have only Holland in mind and then only Turkey".

" We won as a team, and some players who did badly in the second were amazing in the third and fourth, like Paola Egonu for example. And then we saw that we have very good changes that give tranquility" to the team, at the end we closed the match with two players who came in from the bench (Giovannini and Omoruyi, ed.) who performed very well".