Water polo, Settebello, the race for the World Cup starts: in Imperia test with Croatia

The beginning of a new era? Maybe. But something changes in the Settebello that seeks momentum after the Tokyo Olympics closed in seventh place. Meanwhile, we are still the world champions, and the World Cup will be the biggest event of 2022, in Fukuoka from 13 to 29 May. Then the European Championships in Split will arrive, from 27 August to 10 September. However, Sandro Campagna’s gaze is already turned to the Paris 2024 Games, or rather to Los Angeles 2028: this explains the creation of the “Technical Project”, selection of a young group of members of the first team. It will work in parallel (seven winter colleges are already planned) and will show how much it is worth in the Mediterranean Games or at the Universiade. After all, there is a good base, as evidenced by the silver won at the Under 20 World Cup under the guidance of Alberto Angelini.

REPLACEMENT

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Settebello and “Progetto Tecnico” meet again today in Imperia for four days of training: the start of the new Italian season. On Tuesday, at 7.30 pm, the Cascione swimming pool will host a friendly match with Croatia (live on RaiSport) which will then receive ours in Zagreb on December 7th. Five senators from the team that took part in the Japanese Games are missing: Matteo Aicardi, Pietro Figlioli, Mike Bodegas, Niccolò Figari and Stefano Luongo. They are over 30. “I made some first choices, but everyone has the opportunity to return. Nobody should feel out, among those I have not summoned. These five I know so well that there is no need to test them. It is normal, at the start of an Olympic cycle, to widen the squad to those with less experience ”explains the technical commissioner. So here in the Settebello are the nineteen-year-olds Filippo Ferrero dell’Ortigia and Matteo Iocchi Gratta del Savona (clubs that know how to make the most of nurseries), here from Telimar Palermo the twenty-three year old Mario Del Basso and Luca Marziale, who is not young – born in 1991 – and covers the delicate role of the center.

PHENOMENON

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Campagna wants a team that knows how to interpret the referees’ moods well: between one event and another, uniformity of judgment remains a chimera. And he sets the record straight: “We are starting again with the awareness that there is great balance between the strongest national teams and it will be the details that make the difference. We weren’t supposed to feel like phenomena in 2019 and we weren’t supposed to feel like the bottom of the class now. Along the way he weighed a bit of bad luck and there is something to improve, but certainly Settebello can and must be among the greats in the world ”. We do not lack champions, and neither are the champions. Like Francesco Di Fulvio, even more empowered after the rest granted to some senators. He is the man of records: on the fourth day of A-1, in the 21-4 of his Pro Recco against Milan, he scored a goal (Ligurians now at +3 against direct rivals Brescia, surprisingly defeated by a sumptuous Trieste ). An irrelevant but special goal: the twenty-eight-year-old attacker son of art – father Franco hit the treble with breaking latest news in 1987, there was also the deputy coach Amedeo Pomilio – has scored from 100 consecutive games. The last match in which he remained dry dates back to May 6, 2017, when the Pro Recco lost 7-6 in Brescia.