Bread and volleyball have grown Antonio Ricciardi, the new managerial figure in the ranks of Gioiella Prisma, will accompany the team on away games away from Taranto.
He was born in Taranto in ’68, and since 1981 in middle school he approaches volleyball thanks to a coach Vito Pinca, a collaborator of the prisma for several years who coached his team at the school. In 1994 he moved to Verona continuing to play volleyball as an amateur setter, then in 1998 dragged by some friends he became a Fipav referee.
The job of referee, which fascinates him more and more, he practiced until 2016 when he ended his career as touch judge in the Conegliano-Piacenza championship final after having played in the 2010 and 2014 World Cups and several men’s and women’s championship finals at the time of Modena Treviso Bergamo.
He also gets a lot of satisfaction as a referee in the regional finals.
His statements: “Match after match after so many years as an observer in 2019, before the covid I left the world of refereeing which was wonderful for me. It can be said that I started with the sacred monsters like Tofoli, Bernardi, Gardini and left with Egonu. In all these years I have never stopped following volleyball and Prisma, I was present in one of the most beautiful pages in the history of Taranto or the victory in the Italian Cup in Bassano, against Alpitour Cuneo in the 2006-2007 season which he allowed us to go to the Assago Forum and play against Fei and Cisolla’s Sisley. In recent years I have read up on all the A2 and A3 super leagues and foreign championships”.
In recent years, the club has taken an interest in him due to his constant presence away from home in the super league despite being 1000km away from Taranto.
“ The club knows that it can count very well on my availability and passion – declares Ricciardi – I will make available all my experience as a man on the field and my professional inclination to organize things well I’m ready for a new adventure in the magical world of volleyball representing my city with the Prisma”.
