As part of the school project, a representative of Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza participated in a meeting this morning with the students of the G. Anguissola Primary School in Pontenure.
Coordinated by Vittorino Francani, representative of Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza for the school project and by Simona Ratti, physical education teacher, during the meeting the technical manager of the youth sector of the red and white club Renato Barbon, the coach Nicola Barbon, the spiker Yoandy Leal and center back Fabio Ricci talked about volleyball to around a hundred fourth and fifth grade students.
Renato Barbon also made an invitation: “sport helps us to be together, to socialize and share moments of the day. Sport helps us grow and teaches a lot, come and visit us, come and be part of our world.”
Many questions were asked by the young students to the two players. From how they started playing volleyball to what they eat before playing, from what their best victory was to how they deal with defeats. And again: what are the Olympics for you, how is your relationship with your opponents, what sports do they play besides volleyball, what shoe size do you wear.
Yoandy Leal: “I have always liked basketball but then as a child my teacher advised me to play volleyball, parents are fundamental when you are little and you have to choose a sport, the Olympics are the fulfillment of a dream for an athlete . Diet is important for an athlete, I am happy with my sporting path and I hope to play in the next Paris Olympics, my shoe size is 49. All victories are beautiful, you have to know how to experience defeats.”
Fabio Ricci: “Certainly the dream of every athlete is to be able to play in the Olympics but since I’m also a realist, I’ll watch the Olympics in Paris from the sofa of my house. Volleyball is a small world, rather than opponents they are all friends and former teammates but when you enter the field you only have to play and win, when the last ball falls you become friends again. I started doing many sports, in the summer I still do cycling, proper nutrition is very important, you have to eat healthy foods, winning is always nice but you have to be good at getting up even when you lose because in sport there is also defeat. I wear size 49 shoes, volleyball shoes also size 50″.
Great closing with dozens and dozens of photographs, the signing of a large poster and the presentation, by the young students, of a medal to each of the two players.
