Italvolley is in history. At the end of a spectacular match, Italy beats Slovenia 3-2 and is crowned champion of Europe. After the triumph of the female selection, also the male one climbs on the roof of the Europe of the volleyball. Another resounding success for the Italian sport, which continues to ride the wave of a crazy summer.
A historic enterprise
Another night to remember for Italian sport, the men's national volleyball team wins a European title that has been missing since 2005, when Italy got the better of Serbia. This time the victory comes against Slovenia, at the end of a hard-fought match in which the Slavs have gone ahead twice. The Azzurri have been good at recovering the set of disadvantage on both occasions, then ending up having the best of Slovenia in the fifth set.
And to think that the final act, the highly anticipated fifth set, had started very badly for the Azzurri, with the Slovenians immediately ahead by three points. Italy was very good, however, at not breaking up and reacting, recovering the three points behind and then playing point by point with the Slovenians, before taking the decisive gap.
On the partial of 14-11, the Slovenian Cebulj misses the serve giving the point and the success to Italy. The blue expedition thus overtakes Slovenia at the end of a race with a thousand emotions. For the Slovenians comes another disappointment, another second place after that of two years ago. For Italy, on the other hand, a very important victory, a historic feat that gives the Azzurri the seventh European title in the history of the men's national volleyball team.
The ransom after Tokyo
The victory against Slovenia, which gives European gold to Italvolley, takes on an even more special flavor if you think back to the situation of the Italian national team a few months ago. The Tokyo expedition was a great disappointment for the Azzurri, eliminated by Argentina in the fifth set in the first match of the final phase.
A failure that has upset the Italian men's national team volleyball. The movement was able to react immediately and immediately make up for it in this European championship. The Azzurri won their group by obtaining five wins out of as many matches and then eliminated Latvia, Germany and Serbia in the final phase, conceding only one set to the latter.
The final act of a largely dominated European is tonight's victory against Slovenia, an exciting and suffered success, which marks another point of the amazing Italian summer, which began with the victory of the European football championships, continued with the achievements of the Azzurri at Tokyo and that it really doesn't seem to want to end anymore.
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