The boy from Sedico who grew up in Spes always among the best The Wezva cup matches counted as qualifiers
VIBO VALENTIA
It could only be Alessandro Bristot who ground the 25-23 ball with which Italy under 17 won the third set of the Wezva cup final against Belgium, thus winning, together with the prestigious international trophy, also the qualification for the European Championships of July in Albania.
THE DECISIVE MAN
The Sedicense spiker born in 2005, who grew up in Spes Belluno and then in Treviso, before joining Trentino volley where he exploded in the last two years, proved to be probably the most decisive blue of the five days of competitions in Vibo Valentia. The Italian national team took home five out of five wins, leaving only one set on the road. Bristot, always deployed in the starting sextet, managed to become the protagonist with personal treats always around the double figure.
The path
In the group stage the Azzurri had obtained three victories against Spain (3-0 and 13 points for Bristot), Germany (3-1 with eleven stamps from Belluno) and Portugal (another 3-0 embellished, this time, from ten points of the player from Sedico. On Saturday and Sunday, the epilogue of the tournament rewarded the team coached by coach Monica Cresta. In the semifinal, the Italian sextet overwhelmed France 3-0 (25-20, 25-17, 25-16) also thanks to Bristot’s 13 points who, at the end of the match, also deserved a brief interview on the official Federvolley Youtube channel. The ticket for Sunday’s final against Belgium arrived. A final in which, once again, the azzurrini have shown that they have no rivals at the moment. Bristot (9 points) and teammates defeated the Belgians 25-17, 25-23 and again 25-23, thus obtaining the qualification for the European championships in their category, in program in Albania from 10 to 18 July 2021. In the final for third place, inve ce, France beat Germany at the tie-break. These are the twelve players: Nicola Agapitos (Cuneo), Tommaso Barotto and Pietro Bonisoli (Brugherio), Francesco Giacomini and Filippo Melonari (Civitanova); Alessandro Bistrot and Chourb Sam Spagnolli (Trentino); Lorenzo Magliano and Matteo Sacco (Vero), Umberto Caporossi (Viterbo), Germano Latella and Giacomo Russo (Meta).
To the Europeans also the girls
Like the azzurrini, the girls of the under 16 women’s national team also achieved qualification for the 2021 European Championships. “Both teams have played two splendid tournaments”, the federal president Giuseppe Manfredi commented, “and the final result was the logical consequence of a series of games played to the maximum and dominated”. At the end of the final on Sunday, for the azzurrini, there was no lack of traditional festive photos. Alessandro Bristot, jersey number three, arms wide raised to the sky. How to take flight. Two days after his sixteenth birthday. –
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