So far away and yet so close. From the goal of Christian Gytkjaer to the dunks of Isabelle Haak there is a world made of athletic gestures, victories (several) but above all emotions. So many emotions. Because the athlete is a happy Sisyphus, who pushing his boulder contours his own limits and tries to overcome them. And when he succeeds he also drags those who follow him into his joy, supports it, supports it. It was an exceptional year for Venetian sport, in all disciplines and at all levels, without distinction. And it’s not a closed game yet, because the great chance for the Vicenza with Red license plate to center the promotion in B series with the playoff final. Already tomorrow, at the Menti, against the Carrarese, we will understand a lot about what will happen on Sunday in the return match. And it would be the apotheosis, the lap of honor for a year so beautiful that it can already be placed in the annals and brought out when the desire arises to think back to the best moments. It’s all there in this season: talent, class, strength, discipline, planning, study, technique, inventiveness. There is rationality and a hint of surprise. It’s all there. There is also solidity, business management, “knowing how” and “knowing how”. There are investments, the ability to team up and do business.
Hellas and Venice in A
Emotions, it was said. Emotions came from all sides. So, how to cast a trawl net, in no particular order: the salvation which has something miraculous about Verona, with a transfer market in January which had indeed brought something like that into the club’s coffers 45 million euros, but he had also revolutionized the team. And instead Hellas will be in Serie A for the sixth year in a row, the tenth season among the big teams for the president Maurizio Setti. Ten out of 34 total of the yellow-blues in Serie A, the calculations are easy to do, with a total capacity of Self-financing which should be studied, demonstrating that good football can be played in Serie A even without being able to spend very high sums. And then this promotion to Serie A for Venezia, the second in three years with the American Duncan Niederauer leading the club. A club that, burned by mistakes, now wants to start again without making any more mistakes. Or making as little mistakes as possible, because perfection always needs a little flaw to be perfect. A club that has grown and has been able to equip itself with a state-of-the-art sports center like Ca’ Venezia: functional, modern, intelligent. A home for everyone, where fans can often meet their idols without barriers.
A very Venetian C series
And again the Vicenza Of Renzo and Stefano Rossowho dreams while awake there B seriesleaving that C where, instead, Padova will have to play again, having left playoffs at the end of a season as an authentic protagonist, never below second place. And it will be a very Venetian Cbecause there will also be a solid Arzignanothe «working class» of Virtus Verona, that Legnago brought to the headlines by a very good and incredibly “advanced” coach Massimo Donatiand the two debutantes at the ball Clodiense And Caldiero. A lot of stuff, in jargon. So far football, which shows its predominance but be careful, someone comes along and elbows it.
The battleship Conegliano and the glory of Petrarca
Let’s talk about that volleyball which still placed it at the top of Italy and Europe Prosecco Doc Imoco Coneglianoa real battleship based on a very solid and “short” club and on a fabulous coach like Daniele Santarelli, a champion, someone who in volleyball is as good as Pep Guardiola in football for how he changed the game of women’s volleyball. Italian Cup, Super Cup, Scudetto and Champions League won. When we say net path. And then? And then the Petrarch which dominates the Scudetto final in rugby and rejoices for the fifteenth time in its glorious history, in a sport made of effort, sweat, collisions and respect. Where you pass the ball back, because alone you are nothing, with the tricolor title in the women’s won by the girls of Villorba.
The women’s Reyer title
From the oval ball to the segmented ball, also here declined to the feminine, where theUmana Reyer beats Famila Schio in the final and wins the title for the second time in three years. A global success, which goes hand in hand with the men’s good season until the playoff semi-final lost against the battleship Virtus Bologna. A virtuous circuit, that of Reyer, from the smallest to the top teams, with a base of many companies adhering to an increasingly broader project and with the same basic values. There is a lot, it was said, in this Venetian year of sport. There is a lot at a competitive level but there is also a lot at the level of load-bearing structures. Of ideas, like the consortia of Imoco and Treviso basketball associates, where hundreds of entrepreneurs support the clubs and can also get to know each other, talk to each other, understand more about each other, think about new projects together. Is called “business to business» and it also helps the economy a lot. It is the right path, most likely, the path of the near future, in a reality where the large properties are increasingly rare and where foreign giants and investment funds find their way increasingly open. And if one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century like Emile Cioran he maintained that true moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one’s victories as defeats, here there are so many victories and they are so beautiful that putting on a mask would be a crime. From Gytkjaer to Haak, so far and so close.
