Paris 2024 Olympics, Julio Velasco didn’t see it coming

The words of Julio Velasco

Julio Velasco spoke after Sunday morning’s victory: "I expected a more difficult match, I am honest. Today we è everything went well and we enjoy the 3-0 that I honestly did not think would come in this way, because è Turkey è a very strong team, which now maybe has some problems, so è I would not like to find them again in the tournament. I don’t like to play again with teams that have already faced".

"Today the team è expressed itself very well, and è what we did was enough, forò we must never forget that on the other side of the net there's always an opponent who can put you in trouble; and if that happens; we must be ready to suffer. I often repeat a phrase, suffer, but do not suffer.  Now we are waiting to see who will be our opponent in the quarters and we will try to prepare it in the best way".

He was echoed by captain Anna Danesi, who was unbeatable at the wall: "We all played a great game in the wall-defense phase in my opinion; we touched a great amount of balls at the wall and consequently we were able to defend a lot. The team, choral è performance was really good and we are growing, this gives us hope for the continuation of the path".