Paris 2024 Olympics, Julio Velasco sheds light on Paola Egonu
The words of Julio Velasco
Julio Velasco spoke after Italvolley's 3-0 win over Holland: "Meanwhile, we are happy to have qualified for the quarterfinals; obviously we have no idea who we are going to face, but it was important to reach this first goal. In this Olympiad easy matches don't exist, in both scoreboards there are really strong teams; now we think about Turkey, after that we'll focus on the quarterfinals".
"Todayè’s match was a good team effort, Paola had low blood pressure so I kept her at rest, Kate in her place gave a great performance and also Gaia è was really good in the moment when I called her in; all this gives confidence and peace of mind; to the group. We always have to play better than our opponents to win also because right now the level of international volleyball è very high. Ours è was a good test, the girls” were really good.
Ekaterina Antropova è was the best on the court: "I’m happy with the performance and playing, honestly I didn’t know I was going to play as a starter; my duty forò è is to be ready and of course I’m glad I helped my teammates. For me è everything is very exciting, è my first Olympics and everything è incredible. We did not know that the Prime Minister was here, of course we are very pleased about that. Now we hope to continue like this and to improve race after race because in my opinion we can do even better”.
