NOn the first time but it would be beautiful, as she hopes on Instagram, that it was the last. The story is that of an athlete, a volleyball player, who You can see pregnancy away from coming. Precisely in the country that cries its denatality and the family in alternate days and the family is a banner to be slammed on every occasion. She is Asia Cogliandro, 15 years of career in A1 and A2, now in Perugia, who has been pregnant in January of this year. “They were lapidaries,” he says, “they really wanted me to get out of the way. I in career I had some injuries: while you are firm they pay you, if you are pregnant you are to be removed».
Volleyball, the athlete Asia Cogliandro: “License because it is pregnant: I want to be the last”
Asia Cogliandro told him in an interview a Printingalso going in detail of an agreement attempted with the Perugina company, but not reached. «12 thousand euros danced on the expiry date of the contract, a figure that I consider to be rather ridiculous. The psychological violence suffered at that time, however, was remarkable: They wanted me to go on maternity immediately, but maternity takes place only two months before the presumed date of childbirth».
Cogliandro says he has attempted multiple roads to avoid breaking. “I proposed to help them manage social media or give me an office job for the months that were missingunfortunately their only intent was to get rid of me. I even hypothesized to freeze the contract, Until the return, under the same conditions. They gave me in the who threatened me. I was agreed to accept the agreement or I would no longer find a team. “
Gaia Giovannini during the game for the gold medal (won) of the Women’s Volleyball Nations League 2025 between Italy and Brazil, at the ATLAS Arena in Lodz, in Poland, July 28, 2025. (Photo by Andrzej Iwanczuk/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
In the aftermath of the Celebration of the National Olympic gold medal and winner of the Nations Leaguefor Italian women’s sport this is a bad day. So much so that, says Asia, “rather than returning to play I do the bricklayer. With all due respect, I would obviously not be able. However The sport I loved now disgusts me. I don’t want to know about that world anymore ».
It is not the first time: Laura Lugli was accused of “not having said of not wanting children”
The Cogliandro case, it was said, is not the first. We remember that of Laura Lugli, Pordenone volleyball playersent away to be pregnant in 2019 to which, moreover, The company caused damage because “she hadn’t said she wanted children”. At the time he even wrote the New York Times And the then president of Coni Malagò invited her to talk about her case in a public meeting.
“Lugli was not the first and if we continue to accept compromises I will not be the last. It’s time to say enough», It is the battle, today, of Asia Cogliandro. The theme are the Co.co.co contracts, at the time, far from the protections they would have if they were professionals.
Maternity is not an impediment to sport
And to say that of how much maternity everything is except an impediment to the sporting career, there is no shortage of examples. Just remember the Florentist Arianna Errigo who won the World Cup when he was pregnant with two twins. OR Valentina Vezzali (6 Olympic gold) who returned to train 18 days after childbirth. Last year at the Paris Games the Egyptian Slavmer Nada Hafez He challenged his rival as a future mother. The revelation came after the elimination of the individual female saber race in the round of 16.
Or even the American sprinter Allyson Felix, the most decorated athlete in the history of athletics, which became world champion even after pregnancy in the 4 × 400 and 4 × 440 mixed relay. And to say that Nike in 2018 wanted to take it out, because it is pregnant.
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