From the escape from Argentina to the generation of Phenomena, from his past in football to “whoever wins celebrates and whoever loses explains”; all the edges of a sporting phenomenon who has spent his life surprising
Julio Velasco, a name, a guarantee. Of salvation, of charisma, of protection for those who choose it. But also of media attention, pressure, expectations. It is the fate of Julio who, fleeing from the military regime’s Argentina, became the prophet of volleyball in Italy, the coach who started an epic and who definitively changed our local volleyball, making it the first sport by diffusion after football and the most successful team sport in Italy. Since then, from the Generation of Phenomena, but also from the dialectical intuitions of a coach destined to leave the gym to strike the collective imagination, Velasco’s path has always been marked by the wait for the feat: from men’s volleyball to women’s volleyball , for the first time, from football manager to coach again.