Barbara Rossi head of the FIGC psycho-pedagogical area and coordinator of the mental area of Vero Volley: “Athletes are people first of all. And young people are telling us in every way that we have to listen to them”
There is a wave of pain and helplessness after the death of Julia Ituma, the player of Igor Gorgonzola Novara and of the national team who tragically fell on Tuesday from the sixth floor of an Istanbul hotel where she was staying with the team. “First of all you need to have a lot of respect for the family and the sports club, moreover the dynamics have not yet been clarified – says the sport psychologist Barbara Rossi, head of the psycho-pedagogical area of the FIGC technical sector and is the coordinator of the mental area of the Vero Volleyball (men’s and women’s) – but regardless of what the investigations will ascertain, situations like these remind us that athletes are people first and foremost. In this historical period, young people are telling us in every way that we must listen to them”.