This morning at the Salone degli Specchi in Palazzo di Città the inaugural press conference of the Tournament of the Two Seas was held, which will begin this evening in Taranto at the PalaMazzola after the collegiate of the Azzurri was held in the same venue from 27 June: a testing ground for the XX Mediterranean Games, organized by the Ta2026 Committee in collaboration with the Italian Volleyball Federation.

Present at the event in addition to the councilor for sport Azzaro, the mayor of Francavilla Fontana Antonello Denuzzo and the director of the Ta2026 Committee Elio Sannicandro, the regional and provincial Fipav presidents, Paolo Indiveri and Agostino Greco with the Italian delegations with coach Vincenzo Fanizza and Tunisian, Dutch and Japanese ones.

For the Prisma jewel, the President Bongiovanni, the director of the Prisma board of directors, avv. Di Ponzio, and mister Mastrangelo.

Statements by President Bongiovanni:

“These are events that represent moments of growth of the territory not only of Taranto. A way to form the consciences of young people, we are honored to host international, Dutch, Tunisian, Japanese athletes in an atmosphere of affection and participation in agreement with the whole Apulian and national territory”.

On the newly concluded Prisma Jewel Marketplace:

“We have a great coach who knows his humble and polite job and a group of guys who came to Taranto smiling, we have people who love us and love this sport, we want to do the best we can. The people of the area appreciate the Gioiella Prisma and we expect the public to arrive, even from the neighboring regions, we have made sacrifices for a good team with an excellent technician and our Elisabetta Zelatore excels in the organization, who is the thinking mind of the whole machine Prisma therefore we hope great participation”.

“I was here during collegiate school to watch some training sessions – declares coach Mastrangelo, who will comment on the matches during the event with live streaming commentary on the YouTube channel of the Italian Volleyball Federation: https://www.youtube.com/@OvertheblockIt- Volleyball/featured – it is certainly an important event for volleyball, for the territory and for movement. We as Gioiella Prisma absolutely could not miss it, there is no way to talk about volleyball at a high level, therefore we collaborate with the Federation taking advantage of any input that comes to us from this international event.