The Gialloblù superstar towards the challenges in Croatia with the national team On Instagram: “Never a defeat will make me doubt my path”
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“Failure”. If you are looking for banality, stay away from Paola Egonu. In fact, it is difficult for a sportsman to be so direct, precise, lucid in analyzing a moment. “Failure,” he wrote on Instagram, naming his Tokyo adventure. A definition that too many try to avoid, slipping between alibis and bad luck. Instead, she looked at that film, and put the right label on it: “failure.”
She had left social media after the match with China, she dived back on Instagram only to pay homage to her beloved paternal grandfather Ernest, who passed away at 93 years a few days ago. «I let a few days go by», he wrote Saturday, «they were intense, hard and full of meanings. I felt the need to disconnect, accept, elaborate and understand ». Paola remains a pillar of Italian sport, whoever disowns her is now guilty. It is a heritage to be protected, and she is the first to be aware of it. He had to understand, analyze himself.
Then it went further, it entered into the merits. «I have experienced important moments for my growth, first of all human and professional then. Experience stems from the lesson that failure imparts. Building and not demolishing ». He made a point, from the blows with China, the USA and Serbia he found the experience, which the young age forbids them. To think that before China he had 23 months of consecutive victories … and he hadn’t lost three in a row right from when he wore the Novara shirt, and was overcome in the Scudetto final by the Imoco.
“There will never be a single defeat, however complicated and painful, to make me doubt my path. I return to smile like this, always with my head held high », Paola concludes, with great lightness but equally solid lucidity. It is undoubtedly what Davide Mazzanti’s Italy needs, who with Monica De Gennaro, Miriam Sylla and Sarah Fahr (while Raphaela Folie is expected for tomorrow in Conegliano, he was already scheduled to skip the European Championships) is expected from the Croatian group. The blue will make their debut in Zadar on the 20th against Belarus (5.15 pm), then they will face Hungary (Sunday at 8 pm), Slovakia (Monday 23rd at 5.15 pm), Croatia (Wednesday 25th at 9pm) and Switzerland (Thursday 26th at 8pm); the first four move on to the second round to be played in Serbia, in the quarterfinals the bugbear could be Russia.
Of course, if Egonu is really able to assimilate the defeat in Tokyo, his European championship will become an extraordinary springboard for his third season with the Imoco shirt, called to defend all possible titles. Conversely, should the word “failure” appear again in large letters in her vocabulary, it will be up to the Conegliano core to protect her, to allow her to become herself again: the best in the world. –