Two months after the start of the Olympic Games, the women’s volleyball team changes its captain. And not a rejection for those who leave (Cristina Chirichella, Novara central) a huge recognition for those who from today will be the face, voice and symbol of that Italy. She Miriam Sulla and has been wearing the national team jersey since 2015, with which he won a World silver and a European bronze. Maturing, exploding, becoming indispensable to the group in the decisive moments. The coach Davide Mazzanti he made an unexpected decision, motivated both by technical choices (giving all four power stations on the list for the three seats on the plane to Japan the same chances), and by character. Of her he says: He has a contagious energy and has taken more and more field and obviously he does not mean only in reception. Fresh from the Scudetto and Champions League with Conegliano, Paola Egonu’s life sister and best hitter at the 2018 World Cup, born in Palermo in 1995.
Integration history
Its history made of sacrifices, redemption, pain and tenacity. a story of integration and emancipation his. And before his parents. Because Miriam’s journey starts from the Ivory Coast, from where her father arrives in Italy in search of fortune. In Palermo, after experiencing very difficult situations, he finds salvation thanks to the help of an Italian family. Gets a job and does come to Sicily also his wife, Salimata (passed away at the end of 2018). Miriam was literally born thanks to the humanity of those who will forever be hers special grandparents. Then the family moves to the north and from Lecco begins his passion for volleyball.
Difficult childhood
Of his story he told: We were poor, it was hard to make it to the end of the month, so at home I was a very good child, an angel. My parents have always been superheroes to me, they came back tired from work and I tried to speak little, to be calm. What I had inside I vented at school, if it happened I got to pull even the benches. My father came twice to pick me up at Emergency room. My classmates made fun of me for the color of my skin, they called me black, they emptied my backpack for the whole bus and didn’t let me sit next to them. Then comes the volley, the first regional trophies, the youth teams of Villa Cortese and the debut in Serie A.
The charges from which she was cleared
In National, in 2017, she must also defend herself from a doping charge from which she is cleared. When, after the silver at the 2018 World Cup, the women’s national team is received at the Quirinale by Sergio Mattarella, the President hopes that our country will look like these girls. Today it probably does a little more. In the past, he also expressed himself peremptorily on the Ius soli. I took citizenship when I was fifteen only because my father had it, but I have always been Italian. In the Ivory Coast I only went there once in my life, when I was eight. You understand that when they asked me to talk about my country it was frustrating, because my country was Italy. Don’t pass the law from retrograde. To take the national volleyball team by the hand that for the first time in Tokyo she could win an Olympic medal, she’ll be there, Miriam Sulla, captain of the people and of Italy.
May 14, 2021 (change May 14, 2021 | 14:35)
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