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Vitolo is back: «Diploma and National» – Sport

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“Good morning teacher, I wish you all my best wishes for Father’s Day and I announce that next week I will be back in the gym to resume training.” Team Boxing Gianluca Ceglia of San Valentino Torio has not lost its golden boy. The small crisis that had removed the three-time Italian champion (1 Schoolboys and 2 Junior) Giuseppe Vitolo from boxing lasted seven months. Vitolo on St. Joseph’s day phoned Gianluca Ceglia and gave him the smile again, which disappeared after the pupil of his heart disappeared from the ring. Vitolo is considered a talent, a champion capable of reaching unthinkable goals. At 17 he won three Italian titles in the youth categories and two Boxam Trophies in Murcia, Spain. To date he has played 28 fights in 3 rounds, losing only four times on points and by narrow measure. Few to understand if he will become an ace of the ring, but the stuff is there and the start is more than promising. The boy from Sant’Egidio Montalbino also played in three European Youth Championships, coming out beaten but with his head held high «because in the first two rounds I was blocked by emotion, but in the third round I melted and I won, but it was not enough. Now I have learned and I am curious to see how it will end next time ». The golden boy will have to make his way through the Youth and regain Coletta’s national team, but it won’t be a big problem if he has found desire and determination. But follow the interview he gave us, stuff that will disappoint the community of boxing denigrators and make those who believe that the noble art governed by the Marquis of Queensberry still exists in the sixth decade of the 1800s.

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Vitolo, at the age of 17, suddenly said no to a sport that has given her the satisfactions that many boxers of her age dream of but do not achieve. Tricolor titles, international podiums and the blue jersey were suddenly shelved. Why?

But no! These achievements took me to seventh heaven. The reasons for my retirement were very serious. At least for me.

Sentiamole.

The truth is, last year I suffered a drop in school. I passed just enough grades and felt a lot of physical and mental fatigue. I wanted to reflect. I wondered the reason for that decline, and I soon found the answer: the ring stressed me too much, I didn’t focus enough on the books and so I made a painful but necessary choice. I decided to put the boxer to rest and recover the student’s full potential.

Did it cost you so much to study? Did you think boxing didn’t allow you to be top of the class?

I don’t want to be top of the class, but I want to do my thing well. I am not one who likes to struggle. I tell what my day was so you will understand better. I attended the IV accounting department in Cava de ‘Tirreni and my mother woke me up at 5 in the morning. She would join my father at the bar they run and I would put my head on the books to review what I had been able to read the previous evening. I had breakfast and drove, with my father, to the Angri station to get on the 7.25 train with arrival in Cava after half an hour. From the station on foot to the institute and the same thing on the way back. If the train isn’t late, I’m home at about 3pm. If, however, as it happens, he does not respect the timetables, I sit at the table a little before 4 pm. An hour in bed, because I need it, look at the books and go to the gym where I leave at 8 – 8 pm, 30. I see Ale, my girlfriend, a student in Angri, or some friends, we are together for a while, a ride on a moped and I’m home at 10 pm. I study with my head stuck and with little desire. I fall asleep around midnight and, after 5, I resume the routine. It is logical that the study suffers. And if I am called up for the blue team or if I have to participate in the Italian championships or important tournaments it is exhaustion. Hence the decision to leave boxing. Not to have fun, but to study. Last year I only went to the disco once.

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Don’t you swear at remote schooling?

Rather. Honestly I have to say it fits me very well. I wake up at 8, sit at the table at decent times, study more and better and am much less stressed.

Is that why he decided to return to the ring?

Not for that. I studied, I achieved high grades and I have calmed down. I talked about it with Ale, who is judicious, with the physical education teacher and with my parents and they all encouraged me not to give up the sport of my life. But the study is in first place.

Maestro Ceglia has been waiting for you for months. He is arch-convinced of his natural talent and his great possibilities.

I know. Maestro Ceglia has been following me since my uncle took me to his gym. I was 10 and he taught me everything. I also tell her that the few times I lost it was because he wasn’t in my corner. He sees boxing like few others and knows how to give me confidence like no other. Everything I’ve done I owe to him. And, probably, also what good I will do. When he battles for the European title, I will be at his side as his most ardent supporter.

At 14 you won the national title of Schoolboys, at 16 and 17 you did not miss the two junior tricolors of 48 and 52 kg. Then he won two years in Murcia against Spaniards and other foreigners. A luxury start. How do you see the future?

Among the objectives I put the diploma with high marks, the Youth Championships, the senior national team and, then, we will understand where I can get. The training will have to give me the school, but boxing, my great passion, will have to complete me.

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