A ‘tulip’ to make spring bloom early in the rossoblù home. The EnergyTime Spike Devils Campobasso catch the second foreigner in their history in the Netherlands. This is the 196cm 24-year-old playmaker Tieme De Jong, who had started his season in Germany with Munich’s Haching in the Bundesliga.

Now his first experience in Italy in a career that has seen him as a great protagonist in his homeland among Compaen, Zaanstad, Papendal, Lycurgus and Simplex.

Partner of the opposite Iris Scholten – currently in Japan, but also seen at work in Italy in A1 in Trento with the Itas Trentino squad led by Davide Mazzanti – the latest addition to the rossoblù is particularly happy to live his first experience tricolor in which he will be accompanied by the jacket with the number 21 on the shoulders.

«I am happy to be in Italy – he argues – because it is a great country and it is a nation in which volleyball is a well-known and appreciated sport. It’s truly a pleasure to be here. Personally, I will try to work to do my best to help the team achieve the objective it has set for the rest of the season.”