ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The 2025 definitely deserves a high vote. It was the last international season extremely positive: demonstrates the medals conquered in all disciplines and in all age categories through individual, team and bracket performances obtained by a generational replacement necessary to face a new four-year period with equal ambitions of the past. The results confirm the solidity of federal projects and the movement, the great work of athletes, coaches and their societies, symbol of a true Italian miracle”. It is more than satisfied, the president of the Italian Nuoto Federation, in drawing a budget on 2025 lived by water sports, as evidenced by the results obtained at the World Cup in Singapore. A total of 19 medals for the blue expedition, the appeal was missed only the polocy, appeared in the circumstance the weak ring of the tricolor team.
“Defining the pallanuoto a weak ring is improper – the number one of the Fin, former swimmer, class 1954 emphasizes at Italpress – because the international competition is very high and the pallanuoto remains among our most successful sports, as well as one of the technical excellence of the federation. In recent years the Settebello has won a World Championship and has lost two finals iridate to the penalty shoots… The Setterosa climbed the podiums to the World Cup and Europeans. The Paris Olympics are known, alas, for the arbitral error that conditioned the path of the boys who seemed to be thrown towards the medal, with even successful ambitions. At youth level, national selections usually attend medal zones. The Italian championships are among the most probate and coveted in the world for quality of play and protagonist athletes. All this means guarantee of continuity, cyclicity, future. Obviously you can and you must always work to elevate the standards achieved. Our technical staff are reliable from experience, expertise and career and will certainly identify the paths needed to improve.”.
As you guarantee such a continuous generational change in the pool is soon said: “Continuity comes from a structured work on multiple levels and now started over twenty years ago. The companies are the columns of the Federation, the artifacts of our successes thanks to managers and coaches among the most competent in the world. The basis of practitioners who continue to increase through dissemination and promotion work allows us to discover talents, which are trained with skill and accompanied during their growth up to national teams. The most experienced athletes facilitate their integration, maintaining their leadership and acting as an example and emulation, just think of Gregorio Paltrinieri, Thomas Ceccon, Nicolò Martinenghi, Simone Cerasuolo, Simona Quadarella, Chiara Pellacani, Geneva Taddeucci, Lucrezia Ruggiero, the captains of the national swimming team who recently won the European championships of Lublin Lorenzo Zazzeri and Silvia Di We have so many virtuous examples, many that I have not mentioned and this shows how deep and heterogeneous the composition of our national teams.”.
“Italy has a system that invests from the base to the high level, feeds the training of coaches through courses of study and technical updating, realizes federal centers responding to the needs of the territory and guaranteeing spaces water and technical-organizational points of reference: this is how young people like Carlos D’Ambrosio and Sara Curtis manage to emerge and to fit among the big ones”. On the part of politics, according to Barelli, parent of Forza Italia alla Camera, “it is always more attention. The Italian sports companies, which guarantee every day the citizens of every age access to sports, have resisted Covid first and then the enormous rise in energy costs thanks to personal and financial sacrifices. The support of the government and local institutions, which I thank for the sensitivity shown, was very important and shows the attention to sport and in particular towards the aquatic disciplines that play a social, educational and fundamental role. Let us remember that we live a country with 8,000 kilometers of coasts and multiple mirrors of internal water. Learning to swim is indispensable to live safely; know how to swim save life and if necessary also that of others through the fundamental work of bathing assistants and the entire section of swimming for rescue”.
In view of the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Games, “the 2026 will be a year of further growth. National teams are demonstrating compactness, talent and ability to renew themselves. The projects are designed to consolidate the technical density and competitiveness of the groups, promote the inclusion of young people, protecting the most mature athletes to arrive super-competitive to international events including the Europeans of pallanuoto in Belgrade and Funchal, the Europeans of the other aquatic disciplines in Paris, the Mediterranean Games, the Swimming Worlds in short tub in Beijing that will close the year. Italy will continue to be the protagonist, I am sure, and will be ready to face the most difficult two years of the four-year period – Barelli concludes – that will guide us to the Olympic Games of Los Angeles through the World Championships of Budapest”.
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