Paris 2024, time of choices for Julio Velasco

Final collegiate gathering for the women’s national team

With the Olympic tournament just two weeks away, it is now time for Julio Velasco to make the final choices: to decide who will be the 13 athletes (12 on the official roster plus one reserve who may replace an injured athlete) who will make up the final list for the Paris 2024 tournament as far as women’s Italvolley is concerned, the Italian coach has called a final collegiate meeting, scheduled for Friday, July 15 at the Centro Pavesi Pavesi.t. azzurro has called a final collegial meeting, scheduled for Friday, July 15 at the Pavesi Center in Milan, in which 15 female volleyball players will participate.

These are the athletes summoned by Velasco, as announced by the FederVolley on Saturday: Carlotta Cambi, Alessia Orro (setters); Caterina Bosetti, Gaia Giovannini, Myriam Sylla, Stella Nervini, Loveth Omoruyi (setters); Marina Lubian, Anna Danesi, Sarah Fahr, Yasmina Akrari (middle hitters); Paola Egonu, Ekaterina Antropova (opposing hitters); Monica De Gennaro, Ilaria Spirito (libero).

There will not be the injured Alice Degradi, a 1996-class slapper, who suffered a knee injury in training: it will be Nervini and Omoruyi who will play for the last place in the role of slapper during the training days that will see their end on Friday, July 19.

The departure for Paris è set instead for Tuesday, July 23, the first match will be played on July 28 against the Dominican Republic: it will be the match that derà the start of Group C, which also includes Turkey and Holland and qualifies the first two directly to the quarterfinals (the two best thirds of the three groups advance in turn, the worst is eliminated).