Supercup, Vero Volleyball explains Paola Egonu’s forfeit

No Supercup for Paola Egonu

The Italian women’s volleyball Super Cup will be played without one of the announced protagonists, Paola Egonu. The Olympic champion, in fact, will not take part in the challenge between her Numia Vero Volley Milan and Imoco Conegliano, who face each other Sunday afternoon contending for the first seasonal trophy.

The reason è has been explained by the Lombardy club itself, through an official note: "The Consorzio Vero Volley announces that the athlete Paola Egonu will not take part in the Fineco Supercoppa match, due to the persistence of a flu syndrome that prevented her from training with the rest of the team in the last weekly sessions".

The 2024 Italian Super Cup pits this year's Imoco Conegliano, last year's winner of both the championship and the Italian Cup, against Numia Vero Volley Milan, which lost the final of the last national cup to the Venetian club. Venue for the match is the Palaeur in Rome.

Forfeit in the Supercup aside, Paola Egonu looks forward to the 2024/2025 season after a summer to remember: the 1998-born athlete è in fact, she was a great protagonist with the national team this summer, winning the Olympic gold medal as a protagonist and earning in Paris the title of best player of the tournament.