The first volume of “Le città del Volley”, the historical atlas of Italian volleyball, by the Ferrara journalist and writer Remo Borgatti and published by Ultra Sport, is out tomorrow, December 2, 2022.
“The starting stations of the most beautiful championship in the world are Ravenna and Bergamo, but in almost eighty years of history, the trains of Italian men’s and women’s volleyball have stopped in dozens of cities throughout the peninsula, including the islands. The official activity of Fipav began in 1946, and from that moment the evolution of the clubs has followed and in some cases preceded that of the national teams. The first volume of this unique work is the first half of an ideal journey through the most representative societies and places of a sport born on clay courts and in church courtyards and which has developed more and more, until it enters the hearts of hundreds of thousands of practitioners and millions of supporters. From the bread and salami volleyball (and almost only bread) of the early days to the millionaire one of the new millennium, for the first time, city by city and era by era, the whole chronicle of the events that filled the arenas with fans is told, enriched by exclusive testimonies of the protagonists. A must-have reference for fans of this magnificent and often incredibly overlooked sport.”
