The first hit of the Omifer Palmi market could only be the best scorer of one of the top five teams in the last group standings, a company that is working hard to realize the great ambitions of an entire city.
It could only be a Calabrian, the first man from Crotone to climb the Olympus of the Superlega, to accept the suggestive challenge of bringing a team from his own region as high as possible. He could only be a big boy, 198 cm tall, who grew up on bread and volleyball, the reinforcement that opens the dance of the blue-gold market.
And so, here he landed among the coves of the Costa Viola the titan Francesco Corrado, mister 456 points, last year, with the Maury’s Com Cavi Tuscania, and many of the “PalaSurace” who admired him up close last year know it well year. Born in 1997, the strong Pythagorean spiker began playing volleyball at the age of only 10. He made his debut with Provolley Crotone and then moved on to Tonno Callipo at sixteen, where he was employed in the formation of B2. In 2015 he was called up to the Italian Under19 national team and in 2016 to the Under20 team. Also in 2016, he was included in the Serie A2 roster and the same year he won the Italian cup. For the following two years he played in the Superlega, always with the Tonno Callipo shirt. Corrado’s long career, despite his young age, is enriched with experiences in Serie A2, first with Catania and then with Lagonegro. Finally, the return to the base, with the last season played in A1 still in Vibo Valentia, the year of fifth place and the Scudetto play-offs. In 2021-22 the choice to marry the Aurispa Libellula Lecce project, in A3, and last year in defense of the colors of Tuscania (A3).
