Great success for the first edition of the Champions’ Eve, held on Saturday 17 February at the Clover Disco in Selci Lama organized by Pallavolo San Giustino together with the Coni Center and in collaboration with the Fondazione Progetto Valtiberina. A success signed by the realization of the three components underlying the container event: sport, charity and joy. The members of the biancazzurra club were almost completely present, including the boys from the youth team and the athletes from the senior team and also authoritative exponents of the Tuscan-Umbrian Upper Tiber Valley, plus four mayors of the district: Luca Secondi from Città di Castello , Fabrizio Innocenti from Sansepolcro, Alfredo Romanelli from Monterchi and Paolo Fratini from San Giustino. To inaugurate the schedule of the pleasant and flowing evening, after the greetings of the president Elena Gragnoli and the managing director Claudio Bigi, the long-awaited meeting with the former champion Giacomo “Jack” Sintini, who in the presence of a religious silence (indication of great attention) and stimulated by Gabrio Possenti and the former international referee Simone Santi, he recounted his life experience: his beginnings with football, his approach to volleyball and his competitive career which went quickly until 2011, year in which the lymphatic system tumor appeared. The difficult period of treatment, the battle for recovery, then the return to the gym and on the pitch with Itas Trentino, topped off by the scudetto won in 2013 as the starting setter (and best player of the match) in the “beautiful” team in place of the injured player Raphael. “How nice it was to be able to speak in front of so many kids – said Sintini – because sharing your experience is rewarding. I hope it will be useful to those who have to face similar situations and it takes great teamwork: none of us achieves great results alone, because it takes skills and diversity of experience.” Sintini then recalled the aims of the association that bears his name: above all practical support for those who receive a diagnosis with the need for a second opinion, for those who need to recover after an operation, for those who need a very long therapeutic period and for those He’s looking for people to talk to so he doesn’t feel alone. Secondly, concrete projects for the oncology departments of Italian hospitals, through the purchase of tools to support the activity and finally aid for medical research, in particular in the field of hematology in Perugia with the staff of Professor Brunangelo Falini, who treated Sintini.
