He is very young, 15 years old, he is the son of an artist and is trained by both parents. The international big names are already interested in him and, in blue, he contributed to winning an excellent silver at the Youth World Championships
The first time that Italian table tennis took notice of Danilo Faso was in 2022, when he won the Italian third category championships in Riccione. An event in which there are two numbers to consider. The first is that “Third category” which to us football-centric people might make us think of mangy suburban fields and linesmen recruited from the players’ parents; in Italian table tennis, also thanks to a particularly delusional ranking system, there are already real professionals in the third category. The second number is 11: Faso’s age when he climbs onto the first step of the podium.
