In Assisi, in the Santa Maria Degli Angeli area, to be precise. Barely of age (born in 2005) and 175 centimeters tall. Despite his young age, he can tell people that he has already made his SuperLega debut with Sir Safety Perugia and that he has participated in the Italian Under 16/17 and 17/18 collegiate teams. What you have read is the identikit of the libero Vittorio Broccatelli, who has just joined the cohort of Coach Nunzio Lanci.
When he was only a seven-year-old boy, Vittorio got to know volleyball thanks to cartoons. The events narrated in the anime “Mila and Shiro” and “Mimì and the volleyball girls” were so engaging for little Vittorio that he decided to try to emulate his idols. Thus begins the journey of the Neo-Fearless in the minivolleyball sector of Bastia Volleyball. But even if TV no longer broadcasts those favorite cartoons of his, the passion for this sport does not subside and a few years later, Broccatelli is in the youth sector of Volleyball Assisi, before joining the ranks of the noble Sir Safety Perugia where he will continue the process of the youth teams up to earning a place in Serie C in 2019. With all evidence in Casa Sir they realized the boy’s makings because Vittorio is soon called to join the Serie B team, in which he played regularly in the 2021/2020 seasons. 2022 and 2022/2023. The Call, with a capital “C”, arrives in 2022 when, thanks to Colaci’s injury, Vittorio is asked to join the Superlega team. The exciting debut in the Olympus of Italian volleyball was against Ravenna.
And if Broccatelli had not yet crossed the borders of his region with club teams, he went much further when his first call-up with the Under-17 Junior National Team arrived in 2020, continuing to participate in the Azzurri collegiate teams until 2022.
