Date of birth: 26/04/1991
Place of birth: Parma
Height x weight: 2,00 x 95
Position: Opposite hitter
First Club: Volley Parma
Club: Modena
First Coach: Alberto Rhao
Coach: Andrea Giani
Other sports: Tennis
Hobby: Reading, cinema, radio
Relationship Status: Single
Olympic Games Participation:
1 (Rio 2016)
Biography
Volleyball player/philosopher, the 'wise one'. He once said: "reading a book is more enjoyable than playing volleyball". The twenty-five-year old from Parma, in fact, loves reading - especially Pavese and Pasolini - and studying philosophy. If he had not played volleyball (which he took up after playing soccer at primary and secondary school), he could have seen himself in the academic world. After High School, he enrolled at Dams, temporarily abandoning the sport. The son of a painter and a teacher, the aspiring artist wrote his 'Small Manifesto' on volleyball, calling it "an invisible sport, but one that is alive". Seen as a maverick, a hit with the ladies, the opposite hitter from Emilia Romagna carries a small hourglass that encourages him to seize the opportunities that time gives him. He will do everything he can not to waste this one in Tokyo.
Palmares
PrintOlympic Games
2° Rio (BRA) 2016
World Championships
13° Polonia 2014
European Championships
2° Danimarca-Polonia 2013
3° Italia-Bulgaria 2015
World Cup
2° Giappone 2015