He volley It is a sport of moods, otherwise the ups and downs experienced set by set and at each point cannot be explained. This is how he lived it Argentinawhich swept away Serbia in the League of Nations and took a key step in qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, until the Europeans began to turn the story around.
The final result says that Argentina ended up winning in five sets by 28-26, 25-18, 18-25, 22-25 and 15-13, taking a key difference from Serbia in the ranking that ensures six places for the Olympic event that begins at the end of July in the City of Light. But in this match there was a hero who appeared in time to say the right words: the captain Luciano De Cecco.
The point guard, emblem of the National Team, spoke in the fourth set, when the opponent was about to take the set comfortably, hitting the Albiceleste on and off the court, taking the mental battle with total comfort. In a minute requested by coach Marcelo Méndez, De Cecco took charge of what was happening and spoke.
“It’s going away, huh. Then we’re going to cry about it, we’re going to watch the Olympics on TV guys,” said raising his tone, who at 36 years old stands out playing for Pallavolo Modena in Italy and dreams of the chance to play a new Olympic Game, the fourth with his country’s shirt. And he worked.
Argentina returned to the field with a different attitude and put up a bit of a fight in that fourth chapter that ended up going 22-25. But the effect was already beginning to show on the faces of the kids who accompany De Cecco, many of them in search of his first “Olympics”.
Facundo Conte also lit up, key in that fourth set that was played and fought as if life was leaving with every ball. Hence the celebrations at the end and De Cecco’s smile, between relief and pride for what this team is showing that combines youth with experience, and that wants to go to Paris to endorse what was done in Tokyo, when they returned with the bronze. To continue dreaming, the captain’s desire demands it.
