Into the Sport

When on October 22nd the “Invincible Busto Army” sank the former Italian champion Scavolini Pesaro with a resounding 3-0, Carli was about to join the Italian club coached by Carlo Parisi and to start her brand new adventure as a professional volleyball player. Two months passed before I personally had the chance to see her in action, and...who could imagine that despite the very short lapse of time, the American setter would be able to fit-in so perfectly with the patterns of the Butterflies? Indeed, Busto's victory over their arch-enemy Villa Cortese was thanks to Carli Lloyd's great management of her attackers. But how did she succeed in doing that without even speaking Italian? What is her secret? Hard work and a little help in Italian: “I was a bit worried about the fact that when I arrived in Busto the championship had already started. Actually, I had come for 10 days at the beginning of September before the games began, and I could tell at once that the standard was very...

Let’s start this new English version of Pallavoliamo with a brand new acquisition from the Czech Republic : Aneta Havlickova, opposite hitter of Chateau D’ax Urbino. The young Czech player – born 1987- in fact, tells us that she can’t speak Italian: “ Italian is such a difficult language for me. When somebody speaks I can understand, but it is too difficult to speak. I started speaking English only this year: it is complicated to learn another language so soon. I would need more time to learn a bit of Italian. At the moment, I can only say a few words… you know, the usual things: “buongiorno, come stai?” but I am not able to make a conversation. Actually, I am afraid of speaking Italian as I never know whether I am using the right word or if I say something completely wrong. So I communicate in English ”. Thus, what a better opportunity to start this new section by telling the story of this player who in her first year in the Italian First League has been one of the top scorer of th...