Delta Group Porto Viro is bringing a precious diamond from Italian volleyball back to Polesine: the opposite owner of the Under 19 national team, Tommaso Barotto from Stiano, born in 2005, 212 centimeters tall, arrives in black and fuchsia.
Raised in the nursery of the 4 Torri Ferrara, from 2020 Barotto begins to orbit in the youth sector of the Diavoli Rosa di Brugherio, with whom he played his first Serie A3 championship last year, closed with a personal tally of 382 balls placed on the ground , of which 30 aces and 33 winning blocks. Phenomenal numbers for a boy who has yet to turn 18, predestined numbers. On the other hand, in Stienta’s baby giant bulletin board there is already a whole gallery of titles and personal acknowledgments that speaks for itself.
Two championships in the U17s crowned by the palm of best player in Italy, a second national place in the Under 19s, in 2022 he also won the Del Monte Junior League of the Serie A Volleyball League, reserved for the Under 20s, touching an encore in June of this year (Brugherio only surrendered at Monza in the final).
In Azzurro he can boast a fourth place at the 2020 U17 European Championship (with the tournament’s best opposite prize) and above all gold at the 2022 U18 European Championship, in which he was voted MVP of the event, while next August it should be part of the Italian expedition that will fly to Argentina for the U19 World Cup.
With such a palmares it would be easy to get overwhelmed, instead Barotto is all bread, work and humility, and he also demonstrates it in his first statements as a Delta Group player: “I was hoping to take a further step of growth in my volleyball career, but the Porto Viro’s call to A2 was a nice surprise for me too… I thank the club for this opportunity, I will face it with a great desire to grow both from a sporting and human point of view. Wearing the shirt of a Polesine club really fills me with pride, being able to represent my territory, the areas where I was born, makes this adventure even more special”.
Last year the first Serie A championship, a few months before the victory of the European Championship with the Under 18 national team. Two experiences that accelerated Barotto’s maturation process: “Coming from the youth teams, arriving in Serie A represented a very significant in my growth path.
