The comments by Mastrangelo, Mosna, Prandi, Righi, Sintini and Zorzi. On the website www.legavolley.it, in the photogallery, the free pictures of the event.
Diego Mosna, president of the Volley League, said after Volley Land: “Full arenas are something wonderful, for any sport. We got over the 17.500 presences of last year, and that was our target. Once again the Volley League and its clubs, all of them, created something magic”.
Massimo Righi, managing director of the Serie A Volley League, is glad for how the event came out to be: “Even if, hearing the news from radio and television today, I got the impression that we just organized the four matches of the Tim Cup Finl Four, and not an enourmous Volley fair, with thousands of families, which other sports do not succeed in doing. We don’t do this things for autocelebration, but to let the sport we love get over its edges and reach an always increasing number of people. It’s not just for our people, we must go on. It seems to me impossible that the medias don’t notice the numbers we make, it looks like volley could be bothering. Most of all because in these days people came from all over the world to watch us. From Japan, with reporters taking pictures of everything to propose it there for the world championship, from Sweden to Brasil…”
Fomer world champion Andrea Zorzi was a active promoter for Volley Land Tim 2006. “It is dtrange how easily one can in one year forget how beautiful Volley Land is. When you are there you realize that ‘doing’ Volley comes good together with ‘watching Volley’, and you realize that such an event is one of the biggest sport resources, where there is almost never contact between who plays and who watches. Volley Land is like the snow: you forget it for one year, and then you find out again how beautiful it is to watch it falling down. I had lost the real sensation it gives, and I found it all backon Saturday and Sunday. It is the real communion between applauding sport and making it”.
Luigi Mastrangelo, from Cimone Modena: “It was my first tima at Volley Land. And I must say I saw an organisation that is grand. Not only for the central arena where matches are disputed, but fot the whole fair, filled with nets and children that came from all over Italy to watch us. They make you feel important and loved. I signed autographs everywhere, some girls wanted it on their arms. Then I played in the small courts, where the champions challenge the kids: I was meant to just play one set, but all or none… so I played in every court”.
Giacomo “Jack” Sintini, setter fo the Luba Banche Marche Macerata: “Funny situation, for both the days of Voley Land. For me the central zone was very useful, the one of the Tim Cup, because I was defeated twice and I went watching who defeated me and I got my will even bigger to be there next time. And then the fair, where space and enthusiasm can calm professional tension: it’s a wonderful feast, you can see how many people love volley and play it. Be there and play with them is something very particular. And the Volley Academy Awards: I felt very rewarded. A real success, I would like the League to make it more often during the year”.
Silvano Prandi, coach for the Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo: “Last year in Forlì I could enjoy the feast entirely, walking around and watching what our sport can really make. As I’m so glad for the Cup, I’m sorry I didn’t have time for going to the Fun Area. I didn’t see anything. But my brother Enzo, who works with the youngs sector of Volley, told me yesterday what a wonderful occasion it was to live the environment and meet the complete Volley world. My doctor took part to a specific meeting for Volley, and my preparer had good meetings with his colleagues. I think Volley Land is even this. And it was nice and rare to see the japanese at our training session. They stared at one player, dreaming of taking him to their teams, and I thought he was Giba, but he was Sandro Fabbiani…”.
Volley Land Tim Magics.
