The Japanese spiker Yuga Tarumi is a new player for Cisterna Volley and will be at the start of the next Super League season. The Japanese hammer, in his first season in the Italian championship, is 187 centimeters tall and comes from the Panasonic Panthers, the team with which he achieved second place in the Japan SV.League (the A1 series of the Rising Sun) in the season just ended led by coach Laurent Tillie and had finished third in the previous tournament. Yuga Tarumi will be part of the battery of spikers that coach Guillermo Falasca will have available for the Super League championship which also includes Jordi Ramon, Efe Bayram and Willner Rivas. This is the second Japanese volleyball player to arrive in the province of Latina after Yuki Ishikawa who played in Pontine from 2016 to 2018.
«The Italian Super League is the most important championship in the world and a tournament of such a high level that everyone aspires to be able to play sooner or later – declared Yuga Tarumi, who also started studying the Italian language to improve the ability to communicate right from the start. immediately with the teammates and staff of his new Club – I can’t wait to experience the very high level, the power and also the atmosphere of the matches of the top Italian championship which, at least in this historical period, are certainly different from those of the Japanese championship”.
For Tarumi this is the first time away from Japan where, before his experience among the panthers of the Panasonic Panthers, one of the most ambitious and strongest teams in Japan, he had played in the reference teams of his high school and his university: first in high school Rakunan and then in the University of Tsukuba.
«What kind of player am I? I consider myself an athlete with a competitive personality, on a physical level I am certainly not very tall, but I am confident that I have many weapons to focus on such as my speed, my jumping ability and also the desire to work hard both on a technical level be physical to continue to improve – added Tarumi – I will arrive in Italy because I had the desire to play for a team abroad and with the help of many people I decided to move».
