Luca Paglialunga is the latest addition to the ranks of Gioiella Prisma Taranto: hammer from Gioia born in 2004 for 192 cm won the title of champion of Italy (regional trophy) in 2019, then in the 2019/2020 season he disputed the Serie B championship with Materdomini Castellana, from 2020 to 23 he played in Serie B in Gioia del Colle. At the same time he faces the last u19 season, finishing third with Materdomini in the national teams.

Son “in art” of Danilo Paglialunga, new third coach of the Ionian team, Luca is very young and is facing his maturity in these days at the social economic high school, his great enthusiasm pushes him to follow in his father’s footsteps and accept this captivating challenge by approaching the top Italian championship following the rossoblù team.

His statements:

“I am very happy with the opportunity to be part of this new project and I thank the president Bongiovanni and all the managers as well as the coach Vincenzo Mastrangelo who have given me this possibility. I hope to be able to restore this trust to the club by giving my best at each training session to ensure that the team obtains the pre-established results. Furthermore, I hope to be able to learn the best from my teammates in order to be able to grow from all points of view, starting from the technical to the professional ones”.

“Luca Paglialunga is the latest young addition to the team – said Vice President Elisabetta Zelatore – who will be part of the new Gioiella Prisma project aimed at growing budding talents from the Apulian territory together with international excellence from which to learn and train in the daily training as well as in his performances in the championship: we wish him our best wishes for his serene inclusion in the Superlega and for the state exam he is carrying out, we are sure he will be able to do himself honor both in the studio and on the court”