“I won’t allow you to ask me this question, I will be Mourinho, I will argue with all the journalists who ask me this question. We are a team, period. Don’t talk to me about this topic because I will never answer“. He immediately sets the record straight Julio Velasco during the press conference to present the 2024 season of the Italian national volleyball teams when he was asked who will be the starter among Paola Egonu and Ekaterina Antropova.
“All the players have to overcome their limits and for each of them I chose something that bothers them: we need a change of mentality and being tough in difficult moments. If you hear complaints, it means that we are doing well, if there are none, we lack the will to overcome them“, declared the new coach of women’s Italvolley in view of the Nations League and above all the Paris 2024 Olympics.
“I hope in a few years we will be able to say that there was also a generation of phenomena among women. The girls are working amazingly. We have only one problem that we cannot solve and which, for this reason, we do not dedicate more than 10 seconds to: the girls will arrive at 4 different times“, says the Italian-Argentine coach (source: Ansa).
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Velasco then explained one of the fundamental criteria used during the convocation phase: “I haven’t called up any players who weren’t regulars for the club: I think this is an important change, a deterrent for young players who prefer clubs with a nicer bus and a little more money. Personal freedom is absolute, as is our freedom not to call up anyone who doesn’t play for the club.”
