Further Personal Information |
Residence |
Brescia, ITA |
Sport Specific Information |
Club / Team |
AN Brescia: Italy |
General Interest |
Hobbies |
Technology, Neapolitan music. (anbrescia.it, 01 Sep 2020) |
Memorable sporting achievement |
Winning the 2015 Euro Cup with CN Posillipo, and claiming gold at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Republic of Korea. (mfsport.net, 13 Jun 2020) |
Most influential person in career |
Coaches Radko Rudic and Alessandro Campagna. (mfsport.net, 13 Jun 2020) |
Hero / Idol |
Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona, Italian MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi. (anbrescia.it, 01 Sep 2020) |
Ambitions |
To win a medal at the 2022 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and the 2022 European Championships in Rome, Italy. (sportdelsud.it, 27 Oct 2021) |
Sport Specific Information |
Name of coach |
Alessandro Bovo [club], ITA; Alessandro Campagna [national], ITA |
When and where did you begin this sport? |
He took up water polo as a child at the Posillipo Nautical Club in Naples, Italy. |
Further Personal Information |
Occupation |
Athlete |
Languages |
Italian |
General Interest |
Other information |
PLAYING IN CROATIA
He joined Croatian club Dubrovnik in 2017 and believes the one season he played for them helped him mature as a player. "It was a super positive year. I played a different water polo. We had a very difficult Champions League group and I played a lot of top-level matches. It certainly helped me a lot to improve and grow from all points of view, first of all because it was my first year outside of Naples, and secondly because I discovered a different sporting culture." (mfsport.net, 13 Jun 2020; waterpoloitaly.com, 01 Aug 2019) |
Sport Specific Information |
Why this sport? |
"I became passionate about water polo because when I was around three or four years old I used to go swimming and once my training finished I saw the bigger boys who played water polo coming in. I was curious because of the fact it was a team sport and the ball. So I decided to begin playing it, and I loved it immediately." |
General Interest |
Awards and honours |
In 2019 he received the Gold Collar of Sporting Merit from the Italian National Olympic Committee [CONI]. (ilmattino.it, 28 Jan 2022; coni.it, 2019) |
Sport Specific Information |
Preferred position / style / stance / technique |
Centre back |
