“I’m grateful for life,” says the volleyball player, captain of Vero Volley Milano and our athlete of the year: “I’m always hungry, I’m not satisfied.” Then the national team, Turkey, racism, anxiety, Sanremo and new love
The days no longer depend on how one wakes up: light and darkness keep each other company. A new balance for Paola. The strongest volleyball player in the world has put the pieces together. The internal chaos, the anxieties and panic attacks, the controversies and the obligations to always represent something else (the values of integration, the freedom to love beyond genders), an infinite number of successes that perhaps would have changed anyone (Olympic, World, European gold, two triumphs in the Nations League, three Champions Leagues with Novara, Conegliano and Vakifbank, 36 consecutive victories with the national team, Piccinini’s points record just broken, 5,379 against 5.359), the role of captain in Vero Volley, a new love which she delicately mentions: all pieces that have gone into composing another Paola Egonu.