Giovanni Maria Gargiulo, middle blocker born in 1999 for 209 cm is confirmed in the middle for rossoblù team for the 2023-24 season. Giovanni is the first confirmation that he will join Alletti, Rizzo and Ekstrand already contracted last year with a two-year contract.
Originally from Sorrento, Gargiulo entered the A2 series with the Castellana Grotte shirt, where he played 5 seasons before landing in the Superlega in Vibo Valentia.
A two-year experience in Vibo from 2020, to then reach Taranto, in the presence of President Bongiovanni, where he performed well in the championship every time he was called into question, demonstrating great grit and professionalism as well as humility and team spirit that convinced the ionic leadership to hold on to an athlete with these characteristics.
He has 29 victories in the top flight in his baggage, with 756 points scored.
His palmarés also boasts a silver medal, won with the Italian national team at the junior world championship in Bahrain in 2019, an Italian summer that gave the center back from Campania an important awareness and maturity for his young age, qualities that allowed him to compete at his best in the top Italian championship in the recent seasons in Vibo and Taranto, excellent training seasons, in the last one alongside Alletti, from whom he was able to learn a lot and refine his fundamentals both in blocking and in attack where he obtained excellent percentages .
